2014 Writers Guild of America Awards – Best Adapted Screenplay Winner and Nominees

Captain Phillips

Billy Ray

The true story of Captain Richard Phillips and the 2009 hijacking by Somali pirates of the U.S.-flagged MV Maersk Alabama, the first American cargo ship to be hijacked in two hundred years.

August: Osage County

Tracy Letts

Before Midnight

Richard Linklater

Lone Survivor

Peter Berg

The Wolf of Wall Street

Terence Winter