Sideways and Eternal Sunshine win Writers Guild awards

In an important pre-Oscar test, wine-country comedy Sideways was named best adapted screenplay, and comedy fantasy Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind won for best original screenplay at the Writers Guild of America awards at the weekend.

Sideways features the unlikely star Paul Giamatti as Miles Raymond, a failed writer and divorcee who teaches junior high school English. He takes his best friend, former hot actor Jack (Thomas Haden Church), on a weeklong drive up to California's wine country.

The awards are considered predictors of who will win in the writing categories at the Oscars.

In television, the award for best TV movie or miniseries adapted screenplay went to Angels in America.