Martin McDonagh is notably absent from WGA’s top screenplay category nominations

Martin McDonagh was notably absent from the Writers Guild of America (WGA) list for best original screenplay.

The British-Irish director’s main awards season rivals Steven Spielberg, Daniel Kwan and Daniel Scheinert, and Todd Field were all nominated in the top WGA category.

It comes after all five directors were nominated for the Academy Award for best original screenplay on Tuesday, along with Triangle Of Sadness writer Ruben Ostlund.

Spielberg was nominated for the WGA Best Original Screenplay award for Fabelmans, Field for Tar, and Kwan and Scheinert for Everything Everywhere All At Once.

McDonagh’s The Banshees Of Inisherin won a Golden Globe for best screenplay and was also nominated in the same category at the Critics Choice Awards (CCA).

But the film was rejected by the WGA on Wednesday.

The surprise contender for WGA’s best original screenplay is The Menu, written by Seth Reiss and Will Tracy; and No by Jordan Peele.

Neither the screenplay of the film was nominated at the Golden Globe or the CCA.

Snubs also starred in the nine-time Oscar-nominated German films All Quiet On The Western Front and Living – starring Bill Nighy – neither of which made it to the WGA’s best adapted screenplay category. .