Writers Guild Makes Room for ‘Pretty Woman’ Author : Movies: Group announces screenplay award nominees. With one exception, the chosen few are a reflection of last week’s Oscar list.

With only one exception, the Writers Guild of America’s nominees for the best feature film screenplays of 1990 mirrored those announced last week for Academy Awards.

The Oscar-nominated writer left out of his guild’s finals was Whit Stillman, who wrote the original script for “Metropolitan.” His spot was filled by J. F. Lawton, whose screenplay for the hit comedy “Pretty Woman” was ignored by the academy.

The other best original screenplays nominated for both Oscars and guild awards were: Bruce Joel Rubin, for “Ghost”; Woody Allen, for “Alice”; Barry Levinson, for “Avalon”; and Peter Weir, for “Green Card.”

Writers Guild nominees for best adapted screenplay were: Michael Blake, for “Dances With Wolves,” which he adapted from his own novel; Martin Scorsese and Nicholas Pileggi, for “GoodFellas,” adapted from Pileggi’s best-selling “Wiseguys”; Steven Zaillian, for “Awakenings,” based on the book by Dr. Oliver Sacks; Donald E. Westlake, for “The Grifters,” based on a Jim Thompson novel; and Nicholas Kazan, for “Reversal of Fortune,” taken from the book by Alan Dershowitz.

“The Godfather Part III” is the only best picture Academy Award nominee not to receive a screenplay nomination from either the academy or the Writers Guild.

Tuesday’s 43rd annual Writers Guild nominations follow TV writing nominations announced two weeks ago. The winners will be named March 20 in Los Angeles and New York.