Here are some of the films revealed not to be eliguible for WGA nominations this year:

Rush
12 Years a Slave
Philomena
Blue is the Warmest Color
Ain't Them Bodies Saints
Short Term 12
Mandela: Long Walk to Freedom
Fruitvale Station
The World's End
In a World...

Oh, right, this happens every year. I know why they do it (they are the Writers Guild of America at the end of the day, not a simple critical body honoring fine film writing), yet it always annoys me a tad.

Fruitvale Station, Philomena, and particularly 12 Years a Slave are obviously the ones which could have contended if eligible.

So Best Adapted will be between Captain Phillips and The Wolf of Wall Street, I assume.

I have a hard time seeing Captain Phillips winning a top writing award. It is such a detail and procedure oriented screenplay. Very journalistic. It is not full of juicy dialogue and flair.

I wonder if Before Midnight is eligible.

I agree. But so was Zero Dark Thirty and it was a bunch of screenplay awards, I think.