Writers’ List: ‘Schindler’s’ and ‘Piano’ Among Nods : Movies: ‘Age of Innocence’ and ‘Short Cuts’ are not among 10 films nominated for original and adapted screenplays.

The screenplays for Oscar front-runners “Schindler’s List,” “The Piano,” “The Fugitive,” “The Remains of the Day” and “In the Name of the Father” were among the 10 films nominated on Tuesday for Writers Guild honors.

Overlooked, however, were “The Age of Innocence,” adapted by Jay Cocks and Martin Scorsese from the Edith Wharton period novel, and Robert Altman’s “Short Cuts,” based on Raymond Carver’s short stories, which are considered to be among Academy Award screenwriting contenders.

The Writers Guild nominations are the last hint to which movies will likely do well in the Academy Awards nominations, which will be revealed this morning. “Schindler’s List” and “Piano” have the most buzz, based on a succession of pre-Oscar awards.

In the original screenplay category, the nominees are:

The political satire “Dave,” by Gary Ross; the Clint Eastwood thriller “In the Line of Fire,” by Jeff Maguire; the first major studio movie concerning AIDS, “Philadelphia,” by Ron Nyswaner; the period romantic drama “The Piano,” by Jane Campion, and the romantic comedy “Sleepless in Seattle,” by Nora Ephron and David S. Ward and Jeff Arch.

In the category of screenplays based on material previously produced or published, the nominees are:

The action drama “The Fugitive,” by Jeb Stuart and David Twohy, with story by Twohy, based on the characters created by Roy Huggins; the political father-son drama “In the Name of the Father,” by Terry George and Jim Sheridan, based on the book “Proved Innocent” by Gerry Conlon; the generational drama of Chinese-born mothers and American-born daughters, “The Joy Luck Club,” by Amy Tan and Ronald Bass, based on the novel by Tan; the melancholy romantic drama “The Remains of the Day,” by Ruth Prawer Jhabvala, based on the novel by Kazuo Ishiguro, and the drama of a German businessman who saves 1,100 Jews from a Nazi-run concentration camp in occupied Poland, “Schindler’s List,” by Steven Zaillian, based on the novel by Thomas Keneally.

Four of the screenwriters have received nominations from the guild previously: Ephron for “Silkwood” and also for “When Harry Met Sally . . . ,” Sheridan for “My Left Foot,” Jhabvala for “Howards End” and “A Room With a View,” and Zaillian for “Awakenings.” Jhabvala won the award for “A Room With a View.”

The nomination for “Philadelphia” comes at a time when there is legal action pending on the story’s origins. Last week, the family of a lawyer who fought a discrimination case similar to the one depicted in the movie sued the filmmakers and independent producer Scott Rudin for breach of contract. The family contends the movie is based on the case of the late Geoffrey Bowers, but the film’s distributor, TriStar Pictures, maintains that the lawyer portrayed in the movie by Tom Hanks is fictional.

The Writers Guild will hand out prizes for film, television and radio categories on March 13. The TV and radio nominations were previously announced.