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.
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Awarded for | Writing achievements in film and other media |
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Country | United States |
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First awarded | 1949; 75 years ago (1949) |
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Website | awards.wga.org |
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The 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]
Each year at the awards, two lifetime achievement awards are presented. One is for screenwriting, and the other is for TV writing:
In 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.
A * denotes a film that also went on to win an Academy Award.
Films
Current awards
- Best Original Screenplay
- Best Adapted Screenplay
- Best Documentary Screenplay
Discontinued categories
- Best Written Drama
- Best Original Drama
- Best Adapted Drama
- Best Written Comedy
- 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
- 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
- Best Written Western
Video games
The 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