The WGA West and WGA East said today that it is accepting submissions beginning today for its WGA Documentary Screenplay Award, with applications due by 5:30 PM PST on Nov. 18. Nominations are set to be announced Jan. 5 alongside the guild’s Original and Adapted Screenplay nominees, with the winner revealed at the 2012 Writers Guild Awards on Feb. 19 in Los Angeles and New York.


I’m going to sound like an idiot, I’m sure, but can someone please explain how you can have a “screenplay” for a Doc? Do they mean a “transcript” of a Doc?