Oscar frontrunners nominated for Writers Guild Awards

The movies Avatar, The Hurt Locker , Precious and Up in the Air were all nominated for screenwriting awards by the Writers Guild of America on Monday, cementing their status as front runners at the Oscars and the Golden Globe Awards.

The movies

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Avatar

,

The Hurt Locker

,

Precious

and

Up in the Air

were all nominated for screenwriting awards by the Writers Guild of America Monday, cementing their status as front runners at the Oscars and the Golden Globe Awards.

Also nominated by the Screenwriters' Organization were

(500) Days of Summer, The Hangover, Crazy Heart

,

Julie and Julia

,

Star Trek

and

A Serious Man.

The WGA awards will be handed out Feb 20 in Los Angeles and New York.