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New York and Los Angeles – The Writers Guild of America, East (WGAE) and the Writers Guild of America, West (WGAW) tonight announced the winners of the 2009 Writers Guild Awards for outstanding achievement in writing for screen, television, radio, news, promotional, and videogame writing at simultaneous ceremonies at the Hudson Theatre at the Millennium Broadway Hotel in New York City and the Hyatt Regency Century Plaza Hotel in Los Angeles.
SCREEN WINNERS
ORIGINAL SCREENPLAY
Milk, Written by Dustin Lance Black, Focus Features
ADAPTED SCREENPLAY
Slumdog Millionaire, Screenplay by Simon Beaufoy, Fox Searchlight
(Based on the Novel Q and A by Vikas Swarup)
DOCUMENTARY SCREENPLAY
Waltz with Bashir, Written by Ari Folman, Sony Pictures Classics
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, HBO
(Based on the book by David McCullough)
“Episode 2, Independence,” Teleplay by Kirk Ellis, HBO
(Based on the book by David McCullough)
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 Doug Abeles, James Anderson, Alex Baze, Jessica Conrad, James Downey, Charlie Grandy, Steve Higgins, Colin Jost, Erik Kenward, Rob Klein, John Lutz, Seth Meyers, Lorne Michaels, John Mulaney, Paula Pell, Simon Rich, Marika Sawyer, Akiva Schaffer, Robert Smigel, John Solomon, Emily Spivey, Andrew Steele, Kent Sublette, Jorma Taccone, Bryan Tucker, Additional Sketches by Robert Carlock; NBC
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
CHILDREN'S EPISODIC & SPECIALS
“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 & Michael Winship; PBS
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
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: Evelyn F. Burkey Award
Chris Albers and Tom Fontana: Jablow Award for devoted service to the Guild
Sarah Tobianski - John Merriman Award for Study of Broadcast Journalism at American University
Sara Van Acker of NYU: WGAE's first-ever Michael Collyer Memorial Fellowship in Screenwriting
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
Suso D’Amico: WGAW’s first-ever Jean Renoir Award for Screenwriting Achievement.
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A few things:
1 – They only nominated 2 daytime serials for this year’s awards. Yes, the soap opera industry is getting it’s budgets slashed and major stars are getting pay cuts or outright fired (Deirdre Hall & Drake Hogestyn for example), sets are fewer and smaller BUT if you write a great story with interesting characters and put them sitting at a table, people would wathc. It is all about the writing. I know that most of the soaps do not belong in this category for the past year’s worth of work BUT only “AS The World Turns (ATWT) and One LIfe To Live (OLTL) got nominated. Meanhwile, The Young and the Restless (Y&R) had one of it’s strongest years in at least 3-4 years and The Bold and the Beautiful also had some stand-out moments.
2 – Of the only 2 shows nominated, ATWT had one of their worst written years with the exec-prod, Chris Goutman, telling an interview that he thinks soaps should scale back to 3 times a week instead of 5 and they have turned what used to be a long-term arc genre into a 3 week arc mess. Everything is rushed and over before it began. Meanwhile, besides some very few weak moments, head writer Ron Carlivati and team, have revived and revitalized this show into an amazing, psychologically complex set of stories and characters filled with unpredictability and witty, intelligent dialogue that uses the show’s history and strengths of it’s actors.
ATWT winning just tells me that whomever voted has either no interest in daytime serials and do not watch them and just went with the longer-airing, more name familiar show because they don’t know about soaps. I can guarantee that if they do get the Daytime Emmy Awards on air this year that, there is no way in hell that ATWT will win it’s Best Writing award.
Fuck you Jimmy Kimmel! You lost to a boring award show and it was only the two of you nominated in the category???? HAHAHHAHAHA!!!!! Funniest thing you’ve ever done. You’ll never be nominated for anything ever again you disgusting hack fuck!!!!
This was cyber-bullying and didn’t need to be said. A person who is so inarticulate that they have to drop an “F-Bomb” in a critique shows ignorance and should be ignored as a waste of time and a cyber-bully.
I don’t watch Jimmy Kimmel, but I do read DeadlineHollywoodDaily. Koppy, you should be ashamed of yourself.
Thank you hal, I hadn’t thought of Milton Berle for a long time. I really liked Uncle Miltie and he could really turn a phrase.
Is this Kimmel person really a racist? I suspect that “Political Correctness” is getting a whole new meaning these days, and any true racist is soon going to be out of work. There are only two white women that you can make fun of these days, and that’s only if you are female.
“just_a_guy_says”
You are so right. It’s a disgrace and shows what a piece of shit bunch of hypocrites our guild is.
So true Dave. It is more than just my own opinion (my friends feel similarly) that Kimmel seethes with disdain for anybody darker than he is. I have a former roommate who now works on his show and she says he painstakingly avoids hiring African Americans. He marginalizes the Mexican community on-air on a regular basis and let’s not even get into his simian looking “girl” friend’s brutal racial rants. (Sarah Silverman). I wish I found either of them remotely funny! Stewart, Colbert, even Conan…good, smart stuff.
Kimmel IS an unoriginal hack. I’m sure ABC wants to get rid of him, but can’t as yet figure out what to plop in his place.