DGA, PGA, and WGA Announce Nominees

That's right, I'm hitting you with more acronyms and, this time, I mean business. The nominations for the 2008 awards from the Directors, Producers, and Writers Guilds of America were all announced this week, and they're the surest indicators of what the big Oscar races will look like. Not many surprises here, except maybe some inevitable snubs for original screenplay. Your Movie Buddy's Oscar nomination predictions are looking preeeetty good right about now, and January 22 can't come soon enough.

DIRECTORS GUILD NOMINATIONS:

Danny Boyle, Slumdog Millionaire
David Fincher, The Curious Case of Benjamin Button
Ron Howard, Frost/Nixon
Christopher Nolan, The Dark Knight
Gus Van Sant, Milk

PRODUCERS GUILD NOMINATIONS:
THEATRICAL MOTION PICTURES:
The Curious Case of Benjamin Button (Kathleen Kennedy, Frank Marshall, and Cean Chaffin)
The Dark Knight (Christopher Nolan, Charles Roven, and Emma Thomas)
Frost/Nixon (Brian Grazer, Ron Howard, and Eric Fellner)
Milk (Dan Jinks and Bruce Cohen)
Slumdog Millionaire (Christian Colson)

DOCUMENTARY THEATRICAL MOTION PICTURES:

Man on Wire (Simon Chinn)
Standard Operating Procedure (Julie Bilson Ahlberg and Errol Morris)
Trouble the Water (Carl Deal and Tia Lessin)

ANIMATED THEATRICAL MOTION PICTURES:

Bolt (Clark Spencer)
Kung Fu Panda (Melissa Cobb)
Wall-E (Jim Morris)

WRITERS GUILD NOMINATIONS:

ADAPTED SCREENPLAY:
The Curious Case of Benjamin Button
Screenplay by Eric Roth; Screen Story by Eric Roth and Robin Swicord; Based on the Short Story by F. Scott Fitzgerald, Paramount Pictures and Warner Bros. Pictures
The Dark Knight
Screenplay by Jonathan Nolan and Christopher Nolan; Story by Christopher Nolan & David S. Goyer; Based on Characters Appearing in Comic Books Published by DC Comics; Batman Created by Bob Kane, Warner Bros. Pictures
Doubt
Screenplay by John Patrick Shanley, Based on his Stage Play, Miramax Films
Frost/Nixon
Screenplay by Peter Morgan, Based on his Stage Play, Universal Pictures
Slumdog Millionaire
Screenplay by Simon Beaufoy, Based on the Novel Q and A by Vikas Swarup, Fox Searchlight Pictures

ORIGINAL SCREENPLAY:
Burn After Reading
Written by Joel Coen & Ethan Coen, Focus Features
Milk
Written by Dustin Lance Black, Focus Features
Vicky Cristina Barcelona
Written by Woody Allen, The Weinstein Company
The Visitor
Written by Tom McCarthy, Overture Films
The Wrestler
Written by Robert Siegel, Fox Searchlight Pictures