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News Updates:
February 8, 2009 |
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Writers Guild of America
The Writers Guild of America (West and East) announced the winners of the 2009 Writers Guild Awards for Outstanding achievement in Writing for Screen, Television, Radio, News, Promotional, and Videogames at simultaneous ceremonies at the Hyatt Regency Century Plaza Hotel in Los Angeles and the Hudson Theatre at the Millennium Broadway Hotel in New York, Saturday night, February 6, 2009. And the winners are: SCREEN WINNERS ORIGINAL SCREENPLAY Milk, Written by Dustin Lance Black, Focus Features ADAPTED SCREENPLAY Slumdog Millionaire, Screenplay by Simon Beaufoy, Based on the Novel Q & A by Vikas Swarup, Fox Searchlight Pictures DOCUMENTARY SCREENPLAY Waltz with Bashir, Written by Ari Folman, Sony Pictures Classic TELEVISION WINNERS DRAMATIC SERIES Mad Men, Written by Lisa
Albert, Jane Anderson, Rick Cleveland, Kater Gordon, David Isaacs,
Andre Jacquemetton, Maria Jacquemetton, Marti Noxon, Robin Veith,
Matthew Weiner; AMC COMEDY SERIES 30 Rock, Written by Jack Burditt, Kay Cannon, Robert Carlock, Tina Fey, Donald Glover, Andrew Guest, Matt Hubbard, Jon Pollack, John Riggi, Tami Sagher, Ron Weiner; NBC NEW SERIES In Treatment, Written by Rodrigo Garcia, Bryan Goluboff, Davey Holmes, William Merritt Johnson, Amy Lippman, Sarah Treem; HBO EPISODIC DRAMA – any length – one airing time “Pilot” (Breaking Bad), Written by Vince Gilligan; AMC EPISODIC COMEDY – any length – one airing time “Succession” (30 Rock), Written by Andrew Guest & John Riggi; NBC LONG FORM – ORIGINAL – over one hour – one or two parts, one or two airing times Recount, Written by Danny Strong; HBO LONG FORM – ADAPTATION – over one hour – one or two parts, one or two airing times John Adams, “Episode 1, Join or
Die,” Teleplay by Kirk Ellis, Based on the book
by ANIMATION – any length – one airing time “Apocalypse Cow” (The Simpsons), Written by Jeff Westbrook; Fox COMEDY/VARIETY – (INCLUDING TALK) SERIES Saturday Night Live, Head Writers Seth
Meyers, Andrew Steele, Paula Pell, Writers COMEDY/VARIETY – MUSIC, AWARDS, TRIBUTES – SPECIALS 2008 Film Independent Spirit Awards, Written by Billy Kimball, Aaron Lee, Jennifer Celotta, Rainn Wilson; IFC/AMC DAYTIME SERIALS As the World Turns, Written by Jean
Passanante, Leah Laiman, Courtney Simon, Lisa Connor, David A.
Levinson, Peter Brash, Richard Culliton, Susan Dansby, Cheryl Davis,
Leslie Nipkow; CBS “Elmo's Christmas Countdown” (Sesame Workshop), Written by Joey Mazzarino; ABC CHILDREN’S SCRIPT – LONG FORM OR SPECIAL “Polar Bears” (The Naked Brothers Band), Written by Polly Draper; Nickelodeon DOCUMENTARY – CURRENT EVENTS “Bush's War: Part One” (Frontline), Written by Michael Kirk; PBS DOCUMENTARY – OTHER THAN CURRENT EVENTS “Secrets of the Parthenon” (NOVA), Written by Gary Glassman; PBS NEWS – REGULARLY SCHEDULED, BULLETIN, OR BREAKING REPORT ABC Weekend News, Written by Joel Siegel, Karen Mooney, David Muir; ABC NEWS – ANALYSIS, FEATURE, OR COMMENTARY “Yankee Stadium and the New Gilded Age”
(Bill Moyers Journal), Writers Bill Moyers
& RADIO WINNERS DOCUMENTARY Black History Month, Written by Anthony J. McHugh; CBS NEWS – REGULARLY SCHEDULED OR BREAKING World News This Week, Written by Marianne J. Pryor; ABC NEWS – ANALYSIS, FEATURE, OR COMMENTARY Tributes, Written by Gail Lee; CBS PROMOTIONAL WRITING AND GRAPHIC ART WINNERS ON-AIR PROMOTION (RADIO OR TELEVISION) Jericho: Two-Minute Drills, Written by Eric Jacobson; CBS TELEVISION GRAPHIC ANIMATION “Medical Animations” (CBS Evening News), David Rosen; CBS VIDEOGAME WINNERS VIDEOGAME WRITING Star Wars: The Force Unleashed, Writers Haden Blackman, Shawn Pitman, John Stafford and Cameron Suey, LucasArts Neil Patrick Harris (How I Met Your Mother) hosted the West Coast show., John Oliver of The Daily Show with Jon Stewart hosted the East Coast show. The Writers Guild of America, West presented special honors to: William Blinn – Paddy Chayefsky Laurel Award for Television; Dustin Lance Black (Milk) – Paul Selvin Award; Carl Reiner and Victoria Riskin – Valentine Davies Award; Larry DiTillio – Morgan Cox Award; and Suso D’Amico for the WGAW’s first-ever Jean Renoir Award for Screenwriting Achievement. The Writers Guild of America, East presented special honors to: John Patrick Shanley - Ian McLellan Hunter Lifetime Achievement Award; Norman Stiles – Herb Sargent Award for Comedy Excellence; The Committee To Protect Journalists accepted by Board Chairman Paul Steiger and Executive Director Joel Simon – Evelyn F. Burkey Award for contributions bringing honor and dignity to writers everywhere; Chris Albers and Tom Fontana - Jablow Award for devoted service to the Guild; and Sarah Tobianski - John Merriman Award for Study of Broadcast Journalism at American University. In addition, the Writers Guild of America, East Foundation presented the first Michael Collyer Memorial Fellowship in Screenwriting to Sara Van Acker of New York University. For more information about the 2009 Writers Guild Awards, please visit www.wga.org or www.wgaeast.org .
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