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The authors and screenwriters of "The Big Short," "Brooklyn," "The End of the Tour," "The Martian" and "Room" were nominated Thursday morning for the 28th USC Libraries Scripter Award.

The Scripter Award is unique in that it honors the screenwriter or screenwriters of an adaptation as well as the authors of the original material on which the script was based.

"Brooklyn," "Cinderella," "Mad Max: Fury Road" and "Crimson Peak" were among the nominees announced Thursday morning for the 18th Costume Designers Guild Awards, which celebrate excellence in feature film, television and short form costume design.

The feature film nominations are divided into three categories: excellence in contemporary film, period film and fantasy film.

The Writers Guild of America announced its nominations today for original and adapted screenplay. It's a strong and varied list of titles, including an actual comedy (Amy Schumer's "Trainwreck," yes!) and a movie that, at least for Golden Globes purposes, is said to be a comedy ("The Martian").

The cinematographers of "Sicario," "Carol," "Bridge of Spies," "The Revenant" and "Mad Max: Fury Road" were nominated Wednesday morning for the 30th American Society of Cinematographers Awards for Outstanding Achievement.

Roger Deakins, who won the ASC honor for 2012's "Skyfall," 1994's "The Shawshank Redemption" and 2001's "The Man Who Wasn't There," picked up his 14th ASC nomination for "Sicario."

The early 20th century suffragettes were many things — determined, brave, committed. But they were also brilliant marketers with a highly particular visual look in their sashes, badges, hats and medals — even down to the colors for the women in the U.K. (purple, white and green) versus the American women (purple, white and gold).

For Oliver Tarney, sound designer and supervising sound editor of "The Martian," the Red Planet was more than a landscape. It was a monster.

"There's no human that's a baddie or a villain in this piece, so Mars becomes the villain," said Tarney, whose job encompassed collecting or creating the sounds heard in the film.