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The Writers Guild of America Awards is an award for film, television, and radio writing including both fiction and non-fiction categories given by the Writers Guild of America, East and Writers Guild of America West since 1949.
| Writers Guild Awards | |
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| Current: 76th Writers Guild of America Awards | |
 The trophy | |
| Awarded for | Writing achievements in film and other media |
| Country | United States |
| Presented by | |
| First awarded | 1949 |
| Website | awards |
Eligibility
editThe screen awards are for films that were exhibited theatrically during the preceding calendar year. The television awards are for series that were produced and aired between December 1 and November 30, regardless of how many episodes aired during this time period.
Additionally, scripts must be produced under the jurisdiction of the WGA or under a collective bargaining agreement in Canada, Ireland, New Zealand, or the United Kingdom.[1]
Lifetime achievement awards
editEach year at the awards, two lifetime achievement awards are presented. One is for screenwriting, and the other is for TV writing:
Categories
edit(As of 2023)
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History
editIn 2004, the awards show was broadcast on television for the first time.
In the years 2008 through 2018, the awards also included video game writing.
Discontinued categories
edit- Best Written Musical (1949–1969)
- Best Written Western (1949–1951)
- Best Written Film Concerning American Scene (1949–1952)
- Best Written Drama (1949–1969)
- Best Drama Written Directly for the Screenplay (1970–1984)
- Best Drama Adapted from Another Media (1970–1984)
- Best Written Comedy (1949–1969)
- Best Comedy Written Directly for the Screenplay (1970–1984)
- Best Comedy Adapted from Another Media (1970–1984)
- Best Videogame Writing (2008–2018)
Ceremonies
editWinners
editA * denotes a film that also went on to win an Academy Award.
Films
editCurrent awards
edit- Best Original Screenplay
- 1967: Bonnie and Clyde – David Newman and Robert Benton
- 1968: The Producers – Mel Brooks *
- 1984: Broadway Danny Rose – Woody Allen
- 1985: Witness – Pamela Wallace, William Kelley, and Earl W. Wallace *
- 1986: Hannah and Her Sisters – Woody Allen *
- 1987: Moonstruck – John Patrick Shanley *
- 1988: Bull Durham – Ron Shelton
- 1989: Crimes and Misdemeanors – Woody Allen
- 1990: Avalon – Barry Levinson
- 1991: Thelma & Louise – Callie Khouri *
- 1992: The Crying Game – Neil Jordan *
- 1993: The Piano – Jane Campion *
- 1994: Four Weddings and a Funeral – Richard Curtis
- 1995: Braveheart – Randall Wallace
- 1996: Fargo – Joel Coen and Ethan Coen *
- 1997: As Good as It Gets – Mark Andrus and James L. Brooks
- 1998: Shakespeare in Love – Marc Norman and Tom Stoppard *
- 1999: American Beauty – Alan Ball *
- 2000: You Can Count on Me – Kenneth Lonergan
- 2001: Gosford Park – Julian Fellowes *
- 2002: Bowling for Columbine – Michael Moore
- 2003: Lost in Translation – Sofia Coppola *
- 2004: Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind – Charlie Kaufman, Michael Gondry, and Pierre Bismuth *
- 2005: Crash – Paul Haggis and Bobby Moresco *
- 2006: Little Miss Sunshine – Michael Arndt *
- 2007: Juno – Diablo Cody *
- 2008: Milk – Dustin Lance Black *
- 2009: The Hurt Locker – Mark Boal *
- 2010: Inception – Christopher Nolan
- 2011: Midnight in Paris – Woody Allen *
- 2012: Zero Dark Thirty – Mark Boal
- 2013: Her – Spike Jonze *
- 2014: The Grand Budapest Hotel – Wes Anderson and Hugo Guinness
- 2015: Spotlight – Tom McCarthy and Josh Singer *
- 2016: Moonlight – Barry Jenkins; story by Tarell Alvin McCraney *
- 2017: Get Out – Jordan Peele *
- 2018: Eighth Grade – Bo Burnham
- 2019: Parasite – Bong Joon-ho and Han Jin-won; story by Bong Joon-ho *
- 2020: Promising Young Woman — Emerald Fennell *
- 2021: Don't Look Up — Adam McKay and David Sirota
- 2022: Everything Everywhere All at Once — Daniel Kwan and Daniel Scheinert *
- 2023: The Holdovers — David Hemingson
- Best Adapted Screenplay
- 1984: The Killing Fields – Bruce Robinson
- 1985: Prizzi's Honor – Richard Condon and Janet Roach
- 1986: A Room with a View – Ruth Prawer Jhabvala *
- 1987: Roxanne – Steve Martin
- 1988: Dangerous Liaisons – Christopher Hampton *
- 1989: Driving Miss Daisy – Alfred Uhry *
- 1990: Dances with Wolves – Michael Blake *
- 1991: The Silence of the Lambs – Ted Tally *
- 1992: The Player – Michael Tolkin
- 1993: Schindler's List – Steven Zaillian *
- 1994: Forrest Gump – Eric Roth *
- 1995: Sense and Sensibility – Emma Thompson *
- 1996: Sling Blade – Billy Bob Thornton *
- 1997: L.A. Confidential – Brian Helgeland and Curtis Hanson *
- 1998: Out of Sight – Scott Frank
- 1999: Election – Alexander Payne and Jim Taylor
- 2000: Traffic – Stephen Gaghan *
- 2001: A Beautiful Mind – Akiva Goldsman *
- 2002: The Hours – David Hare
- 2003: American Splendor – Shari Springer Berman and Robert Pulcini
- 2004: Sideways – Alexander Payne and Jim Taylor *
- 2005: Brokeback Mountain – Larry McMurty and Diana Ossana *
- 2006: The Departed – William Monahan *
- 2007: No Country for Old Men – Joel Coen and Ethan Coen *
- 2008: Slumdog Millionaire – Simon Beaufoy *
- 2009: Up in the Air – Jason Reitman
- 2010: The Social Network – Aaron Sorkin *
- 2011: The Descendants – Alexander Payne, Nat Faxon, and Jim Rash *
- 2012: Argo – Chris Terrio *
- 2013: Captain Phillips – Billy Ray
- 2014: The Imitation Game – Graham Moore *
- 2015: The Big Short – Adam McKay and Charles Randolph *
- 2016: Arrival – Eric Heisserer
- 2017: Call Me by Your Name — James Ivory *
- 2018: Can You Ever Forgive Me? – Nicole Holofcener and Jeff Whitty
- 2019: Jojo Rabbit – Taika Waititi *
- 2020: Borat Subsequent Moviefilm — Screenplay by Sacha Baron Cohen & Anthony Hines & Dan Swimer & Peter Baynham & Erica Rivinoja & Dan Mazer & Jena Friedman & Lee Kern; story by Sacha Baron Cohen & Anthony Hines & Dan Swimer & Nina Pedrad; based on characters created by Sacha Baron Cohen
- 2021: CODA – Sian Heder *
- 2022: Women Talking – Sarah Polley *
- 2023: American Fiction – Cord Jefferson; based on the novel Erasure by Percival Everett *
- Best Documentary Screenplay
- 2004: Super Size Me – Morgan Spurlock
- 2005: Enron: The Smartest Guys in the Room – Alex Gibney
- 2006: Deliver Us from Evil – Amy J. Berg
- 2007: Taxi to the Dark – Alex Gibney
- 2008: Waltz with Bashir – Ari Folman
- 2009: The Cove – Mark Monroe
- 2010: Inside Job – Charles Ferguson
- 2011: Better This World – Katie Galloway, and Kelly Duane de la Vega
- 2012: Searching for Sugar Man – Malik Bendjelloul
- 2013: Stories We Tell – Sarah Polley
- 2014: The Internet's Own Boy: The Story of Aaron Swartz – Brian Knappenberger
- 2015: Going Clear: Scientology and the Prison of Belief – Alex Gibney
- 2016: Command and Control – Robert Kenner, Brian Pearle, Kim Roberts, and Eric Schlosser
- 2017: Jane – Brett Morgen
- 2018: Bathtubs Over Broadway – Ozzy Inguanzo, and Dava Whisenant
- 2019: The Inventor: Out for Blood in Silicon Valley – Alex Gibney
- 2020: The Dissident — Mark Monroe and Bryan Fogel
- 2021: Exposing Muybridge – Marc Shaffer
- 2022: Moonage Daydream – Brett Morgen
- 2023: The Pigeon Tunnel – Errol Morris
Discontinued categories
edit- Best Written Drama
- 1949: The Snake Pit – Frank Partos and Millen Brand
- 1950: All the King's Men – Robert Rossen
- 1951: Sunset Boulevard – Charles Brackett, Billy Wilder, and D. M. Marshman Jr. *
- 1952: A Place in the Sun – Michael Wilson and Harry Brown *
- 1953: High Noon – Carl Foreman
- 1954: From Here to Eternity – Daniel Taradash *
- 1955: On the Waterfront – Budd Schulberg *
- 1956: Marty – Paddy Chayefsky *
- 1957: Friendly Persuasion – Michael Wilson
- 1958: 12 Angry Men – Reginald Rose
- 1959: The Defiant Ones – Nedrick Young and Harold Jacob Smith *
- 1960: The Diary of Anne Frank – Frances Goodrich and Albert Hackett
- 1961: Elmer Gantry – Richard Brooks *
- 1962: The Hustler – Sidney Carroll and Robert Rossen
- 1963: To Kill a Mockingbird – Horton Foote *
- 1964: Hud – Harriet Frank Jr. and Irving Ravetch
- 1965: Becket – Edward Anhalt *
- 1966: The Pawnbroker – Edward Lewis Wallant, Morton Fine, and David Friedkin
- 1967: Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? – Ernest Lehman
- 1968: Bonnie and Clyde – David Newman and Robert Benton
- 1969: The Lion in Winter – James Goldman *
- Best Original Drama
- 1970: Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid – William Goldman *
- 1971: Patton – Francis Ford Coppola and Edmund H. North *
- 1972: Sunday Bloody Sunday – Penelope Gilliatt
- 1973: The Candidate – Jeremy Larner *
- 1974: Save the Tiger – Steve Shagan
- 1975: Chinatown – Robert Towne *
- 1976: Dog Day Afternoon – Frank Pierson *
- 1977: Network – Paddy Chayefsky *
- 1978: The Turning Point – Arthur Laurents
- 1979: Coming Home – Nancy Dowd, Robert C. Jones, and Waldo Salt *
- 1980: The China Syndrome – Mike Gray, T. S. Cook and James Bridges
- 1981: Melvin and Howard – Bo Goldman *
- 1982: Reds – Warren Beatty and Trevor Griffiths
- 1983: E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial – Melissa Mathison
- 1984: Tender Mercies – Horton Foote *
- Best Adapted Drama
- 1970: Midnight Cowboy – Waldo Salt *
- 1971: I Never Sang for My Father – Robert Anderson
- 1972: The French Connection – Ernest Tidyman *
- 1973: The Godfather – Mario Puzo and Francis Ford Coppola *
- 1974: Serpico – Waldo Salt and Norman Wexler
- 1975: The Godfather Part II – Francis Ford Coppola and Mario Puzo *
- 1976: One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest – Bo Goldman and Lawrence Hauben *
- 1977: All the President's Men – William Goldman *
- 1978: Islands in the Stream – Denne Bart Petitclerc
- 1979: Midnight Express – Oliver Stone *
- 1980: Kramer vs. Kramer – Robert Benton *
- 1981: Ordinary People – Alvin Sargent *
- 1982: On Golden Pond – Ernest Thompson *
- 1983: Missing – Costa-Gavras and Donald E. Stewart *
- 1984: Reuben, Reuben – Julius J. Epstein
- Best Written Comedy
- 1949: Sitting Pretty – F. Hugh Herbert
- 1950: A Letter to Three Wives – Joseph L. Mankiewicz *
- 1951: All About Eve – Joseph L. Mankiewicz *
- 1952: Father's Little Dividend – Albert Hackett and Frances Goodrich
- 1953: The Quiet Man – Frank Nugent
- 1954: Roman Holiday – Ian McLellan Hunter, Dalton Trumbo, and John Dighton *
- 1955: Sabrina – Billy Wilder, Samuel Taylor, and Ernest Lehman
- 1956: Mister Roberts – Joshua Logan and Frank Nugent
- 1957: Around the World in 80 Days – James Poe, John Farrow, and S. J. Perelman *
- 1958: Love in the Afternoon – Billy Wilder and I. A. L. Diamond
- 1959: Me and the Colonel – S. N. Behrman and George Froeschel
- 1960: Some Like It Hot – Billy Wilder and I. A. L. Diamond
- 1961: The Apartment – Billy Wilder and I. A. L. Diamond *
- 1962: Breakfast at Tiffany's – George Axelrod
- 1963: That Touch of Mink – Stanley Shapiro and Nate Monastar
- 1964: Lilies of the Field – James Poe
- 1965: Dr. Strangelove – Stanley Kubrick, Terry Southern, and Peter George
- 1966: A Thousand Clowns – Herb Gardner
- 1967: The Russians Are Coming, the Russians Are Coming – William Rose
- 1968: The Graduate – Calder Willingham and Buck Henry
- 1969: The Odd Couple – Neil Simon
- Best Original Comedy
- 1970: Bob & Carol & Ted & Alice – Paul Mazursky and Larry Tucker
- 1971: The Out-of-Towners – Neil Simon
- 1972: The Hospital – Paddy Chayefsky *
- 1973: What's Up, Doc? – Peter Bogdanovich, Buck Henry, David Newman, and Robert Benton
- 1974: A Touch of Class – Melvin Frank and Jack Rose
- 1975: Blazing Saddles – Mel Brooks, Norman Steinberg, Andrew Bergman, Richard Pryor, and Alan Uger
- 1976: Shampoo – Robert Towne and Warren Beatty
- 1977: The Bad News Bears – Bill Lancaster
- 1978: Annie Hall – Woody Allen and Marshall Brickman *
- 1979: Movie Movie – Larry Gelbart and Sheldon Keller
- 1980: Breaking Away – Steve Tesich *
- 1981: Private Benjamin – Nancy Meyers, Harvey Miller, and Charles Shyer
- 1982: Arthur – Steve Gordon
- 1983: Tootsie – Don McGuire, Larry Gelbart and Murray Schisgal
- 1984: The Big Chill – Lawrence Kasdan and Barbara Benedek
- Best Adapted Comedy
- 1970: Goodbye, Columbus – Arnold Schulman
- 1971: MASH – Ring Lardner Jr. *
- 1972: Kotch – John Paxton
- 1973: Cabaret – Jay Presson Allen
- 1974: Paper Moon – Alvin Sargent
- 1975: The Apprenticeship of Duddy Kravitz – Lionel Chetwynd and Mordecai Richler
- 1976: The Sunshine Boys – Neil Simon
- 1977: The Pink Panther Strikes Again – Blake Edwards and Frank Waldman
- 1978: Oh, God! – Larry Gelbart
- 1979: Heaven Can Wait – Elaine May and Warren Beatty and Same Time, Next Year – Bernard Slade
- 1980: Being There – Jerzy Kosiński
- 1981: Airplane! – Jim Abrahams, David Zucker and Jerry Zucker
- 1982: Rich and Famous – Gerard Ayres
- 1983: Victor/Victoria – Blake Edwards
- 1984: Terms of Endearment – James L. Brooks *
- Best Written Musical
- 1949: Easter Parade – Frances Goodrich, Albert Hackett, and Sidney Sheldon
- 1950: On the Town – Adolph Green and Betty Comden
- 1951: Annie Get Your Gun – Sidney Sheldon
- 1952: An American in Paris – Alan Jay Lerner *
- 1953: Singin' in the Rain – Betty Comden and Adolph Green
- 1954: Lili – Helen Deutsch and Paul Gallico
- 1955: Seven Brides for Seven Brothers – Albert Hackett, Frances Goodrich, and Dorothy Kingsley
- 1956: Love Me or Leave Me – Daniel Fuchs and Isobel Lennart *
- 1957: The King and I – Ernest Lehman
- 1958: Les Girls – Vera Caspary and John Patrick
- 1959: Gigi – Alan Jay Lerner *
- 1960: The Five Pennies – Robert Smith, Jack Rose, and Melville Shavelson
- 1961: Bells Are Ringing – Betty Comden and Adolph Green
- 1962: West Side Story – Ernest Lehman
- 1963: The Music Man – Meredith Willson, Franklin Lacey, and Marion Hargrove
- 1964: Not awarded
- 1965: Mary Poppins – Bill Walsh and Don DaGradi
- 1966: The Sound of Music – Maria Augusta Trapp, Howard Lindsay, Russel Crouse, and Ernest Lehman
- 1967: Not awarded
- 1968: Thoroughly Modern Millie – Richard Morris
- 1969: Funny Girl – Isobel Lennart
- Best Written Film Concerning Problems with the American Scene
- 1949: The Snake Pit – Frank Partos and Millen Brand
- 1950: All the King's Men – Robert Rossen
- 1951: The Men – Carl Foreman
- 1952: Bright Victory – Robert Buckner
- Best Written Western
- 1949: The Treasure of the Sierra Madre – John Huston *
- 1950: Yellow Sky – W. R. Burnett and Lamar Trotti
- 1951: Broken Arrow – Albert Maltz
Television
editVideo games
editThe video game category was first added in 2008, but discontinued after the 2019 awards.[2][3]
- Outstanding Achievement in Video Game Writing
- 2008: Dead Head Fred – Dave Ellis, Adam Cogan
- 2009: Star Wars: The Force Unleashed – Haden Blackman, Shawn Pitman, John Stafford, and Cameron Suey
- 2010: Uncharted 2: Among Thieves – Amy Hennig
- 2011: Assassin's Creed: Brotherhood – Patrice Désilets, Jeffrey Yohalem, and Corey May
- 2012: Uncharted 3: Drake's Deception – Amy Hennig
- 2013: Assassin's Creed III: Liberation – Richard Farrese and Jill Murray
- 2014: The Last of Us – Neil Druckmann
- 2015: The Last of Us: Left Behind – Neil Druckmann
- 2016: Rise of the Tomb Raider – John Stafford, Cameron Suey, Rhianna Pratchett, and Philip Gelatt
- 2017: Uncharted 4: A Thief's End – Neil Druckmann, Josh Scherr, Tom Bissell, and Ryan James
- 2018: Horizon Zero Dawn – John Gonzalez, Benjamin McCaw, Ben Schroder, Anne Toole, Dee Warrick, and Meg Jayanth
- 2019: God of War – Matt Sophos, Richard Zangrande Gaubert, and Cory Barlog
See also
editReferences
edit- ^ McNary, Dave (December 3, 2013). "'12 Years a Slave,' 'Fruitvale Station' Excluded From WGA Awards". Variety. Retrieved December 3, 2013.
- ^ "Videogame Writers Caucus". www.wga.org. Retrieved 2021-03-27.
- ^ Blake, Vikki (October 6, 2019). "The Writers Guild of America drops games writing category from its 2020 awards". Eurogamer. Retrieved 2021-03-27.