The strike by the Writers Guild of America isn't preventing the guild from announcing its annual award nominees for film screenplays.

Up for Best Original Screenplay are Diablo Cody for "Juno," Tony Gilroy for "Michael Clayton," Tamara Jenkins for "The Savages," Judd Apatow for "Knocked Up" and Nancy Oliver for "Lars and the Real Girl."

Vying for the Best Adapted Screenplay award are Ethan Cohen and Joel Cohen for "No Country for Old Men," Paul Thomas Anderson for "There Will Be Blood," Ronald Harwood for "The Diving Bell and the Butterfly," Sean Penn for "Into the Wild" and James Vanderbuilt for "Zodiac."

Also announced were the nominations for best documentary screenplay, including "Sicko," "Nanking," "No End in Sight," "Taxi to the Dark Side," "The Rape of Europa" and "The Camden 28."

The nominations were announced Thursday on the WGA's Web site.

The awards ceremony is set for Feb. 9, although the guild's western branch said that there would not be a ceremony for now.

The writers would not have picketed their own awards show and it's not televised. But, because of the strike, the western branch of the guild will just release a list of winners on the day they would've had their ceremony.

The guild's eastern branch hasn't said if it will hold its ceremony.

Meanwhile, the studio that produced "The Great Debaters," "I'm Not There," "Grace is Gone," "Sicko" and "Grindhouse" said that it's close to reaching a deal with the WGA.

The Weinstein Co. said that it expects it to happen by Friday.

The deal with Weinstein would be the second reached with big-screen producers. United Artists made an agreement with the guild Monday to resume production.

The union has also agreed to a deal with David Letterman's company, Worldwide Pants, to allow Letterman's "Late Show" and Craig Ferguson's "Late, Late Show" to return to the air with writers.

The WGA began its strike against the Alliance of Motion Picture and Television Producers for, among other things, compensation for work that appears on the Internet.