Gangs of New York was also beaten in the best original screenplay category, which was taken by Almodovar, who went on to win the award for film not in the English language.

The other best-film nominee was "Sense and Sensibility," for which Emma Thompson was nominated in both best actress and best adapted screenplay categories.

As well as being behind Atonement, it was responsible for Elizabeth: The Golden Age, with 13 nominations, and Hot Fuzz, which is nominated in the best original screenplay category.

Sydney Boehm's script for the film version was nominated for an Edgar in the screenplay category.

In the nominees list of the 30th Gawad Urian (an award-giving body composed on film critics), Vergara was cited along with Dinno Erece in the screenplay category.

Toy Story 3 is included in the adapted screenplay category because it uses characters and situations created in the previous films.

Furthermore, his first screenplay, Buyong, about a Katipunero revolutionary from Aklan won third prize in the screenplay category of the Centennial Literary Prize.

I have to keep reminding myself that Sorkin was not a contender in the "original" screenplay category - an irony, because this script was the most spectacularly original piece of work, a motormouth masterpiece.

Paul Weitz, who was one of three people nominated for "About a Boy" in the best adapted screenplay category, joked that "everyone in Hollywood, I hear, is overpaid anyway, so I don't think it will help us."

Two of the films she wrote were official selections in the Berlin International Film Festival, another one was nominated in the screenplay category in the Golden Horse Awards.