'Looper,' 'Argo,' 'Moonrise' up for top writing awards

LOS ANGELES, Jan. 4 (UPI) -- The Writers Guild of America has nominated "Flight," "Looper," "The Master," "Moonrise Kingdom" and "Zero Dark Thirty" for its Best Original Screenplay award.

Up for the Best Adapted Screenplay honor are "Argo," "Life of Pi," "Lincoln," "The Perks of Being a Wallflower" and "Silver Linings Playbook."

Shortlisted for the Best Documentary Screenplay prize are "The Central Park Five," "The Invisible War," "Mea Maxima Culpa: Silence in the House of God," "Searching for Sugar Man," "We Are Legion: The Story of the Hacktivists" and "West of Memphis."

Winners will be honored at the 2013 Writers Guild Awards Feb. 17, during simultaneous ceremonies in Los Angeles and New York.