Come per i registi, i direttori della fotografia e gli attori, anche gli sceneggiatori a Hollywood hanno nominato i loro candidati per i WGA Awards 2022. Ecco tutte le nomination:
Original Screenplay
- “Being the Ricardos” (Amazon Studios) – Screenplay by Aaron Sorkin
 - “Don’t Look Up” (Netflix) – Screenplay by Adam McKay, Story by David Sirota
 - “The French Dispatch of the Liberty, Kansas Evening Sun” (Searchlight Pictures) – Screenplay by Wes Anderson, Story by Wes Anderson & Roman Coppola & Hugo Guinness & Jason Schwartzman
 - “King Richard” (Warner Bros) – Screenplay by Zach Baylin
 - “Licorice Pizza” (MGM/United Artists Releasing) – Screenplay by Paul Thomas Anderson
 
Adapted Screenplay
- “CODA” (Apple Original Films) – Siân Heder
 - “Dune” (Warner Bros) – Jon Spaihts, Denis Villeneuve, Eric Roth
 - “Nightmare Alley” (Searchlight Pictures) – Guillermo del Toro, Kim Morgan
 - “Tick, Tick … Boom!” (Netflix) – Steven Levenson
 - “West Side Story” (20th Century Studios) – Screenplay by Tony Kushner
 
Documentary Screenplay
- “Becoming Cousteau” (National Geographic) – Written by Mark Monroe & Pax Wasserman; National Geographic
 - “Exposing Muybridge” (Inside Out Media) – Written by Marc Shaffer; Inside Out Media
 - “Like a Rolling Stone: The Life & Times of Ben Fong-Torres” (StudioLA.TV) – Written by Suzanne Joe Kai; StudioLA.TV
 

