Woody Allen won the Original Screenplay award for Midnight in Paris against four other comedy scripts, Will Reiser's 50/50, Annie Mumolo and Kristen Wiig's Bridesmaids Tom McCarthy and Joe Tiboni's Win Win, and Diablo Cody's Young Adult. Ineligible screenplays, however, included the awards-season frontrunner The Artist. This was Woody Allen's 20th WGA nomination and his fifth win.
For Adapted Screenplay, the winner was The Descendants by Alexander Payne and Nat Faxon & Jim Rash. It emerged victorious against The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo by Steven Zaillian, The Help by Tate Taylor, Hugo by John Logan, and Moneyball by Steven Zaillian, Aaron Sorkin and Stan Chervin. This caps a very successful weekend for The Descendants in which also won the Scripter Award and at the ACE Eddie Awards.
The Documentary winner was Better This World written by Katie Galloway and Kelly Duane de la Vega. Is competitors had been If a Tree Falls: A Story of the Earth Liberation Front, Nostalgia for the Light, Pina, Position Among the Stars, and Senna.
On the television side, Breaking Bad and Modern Family won Drama Series and Comedy Series respectively. The Long Form winners were Cinema Verite and Too Big to Fail.
The PBS show Frontline picked up four awards for Documentary and News categories.
Special Awards were presented to Patric M. Verrone (Morgan Cox Award), writer-director of The Help Tate Taylor (Paul Selvin Award), Dwayne McDuffie and Earl Kress (Animation Writers Caucus Animation Award), Marshall Herskovitz and Ed Zwick (Paddy Chayevsky Laurel Award – Television) and Eric Roth (Paddy Chayevsky Laurel Award – Screen).
Complete nominations for the 2012 Writers Guild Awards
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Complete list of winners for the 64th Annual Writers Guild Awards
SCREEN WINNERS
ORIGINAL SCREENPLAY
Midnight in Paris, Written by Woody Allen; Sony Pictures Classics
ADAPTED SCREENPLAY
The Descendants, Screenplay by Alexander Payne and Nat Faxon & Jim Rash; Based on the novel by Kaui Hart Hemmings; Fox Searchlight
DOCUMENTARY SCREENPLAY
Better This World, Written by Katie Galloway & Kelly Duane de la Vega; Loteria Films
TELEVISION WINNERS
DRAMA SERIES
Breaking Bad, Written by Sam Catlin, Vince Gilligan, Peter Gould, Gennifer Hutchison, George Mastras, Thomas Schnauz, Moira Walley-Beckett; AMC
COMEDY SERIES
Modern Family, Written by Cindy Chupack, Paul Corrigan, Abraham Higginbotham, Ben Karlin, Elaine Ko, Carol Leifer, Steven Levitan, Christopher Lloyd, Dan O’Shannon, Jeffrey Richman, Brad Walsh, Ilana Wernick, Bill Wrubel, Danny Zuker; ABC
NEW SERIES
Homeland, Written by Henry Bromell, Alexander Cary, Alex Gansa, Howard Gordon, Chip Johannessen, Gideon Raff, Meredith Stiehm; Showtime
EPISODIC DRAMA - *TIE*
“Box Cutter” (Breaking Bad), Written by Vince Gilligan; AMC
“The Good Soldier” (Homeland), Written by Henry Bromell; Showtime
EPISODIC COMEDY
“Caught in the Act” (Modern Family), Written by Steven Levitan & Jeffrey Richman; ABC
LONG FORM – ORIGINAL
Cinema Verite, Written by David Seltzer; HBO
LONG FORM – ADAPTED
Too Big to Fail, Written by Peter Gould, Based on the book written by Andrew Ross Sorkin; HBO
ANIMATION
“Homer the Father” (The Simpsons), Written by Joel H. Cohen; Fox
COMEDY / VARIETY – (INCLUDING TALK) SERIES
The Colbert Report, Writers: Michael Brumm, Stephen Colbert, Rich Dahm, Paul Dinello, Eric Drysdale, Rob Dubbin, Glenn Eichler, Dan Guterman, Peter Gwinn, Jay Katsir, Barry Julien, Frank Lesser, Opus Moreschi, Tom Purcell, Meredith Scardino, Scott Sherman, Max Werner; Comedy Central
COMEDY / VARIETY – MUSIC, AWARDS, TRIBUTES – SPECIALS
After the Academy Awards, Head Writers: Gary Greenberg, Molly McNearney; Writers: Tony Barbieri, Jonathan Bines, John N. Huss, Sal Iacono, Eric Immerman, Jimmy Kimmel, Jonathan Kimmel, Jacob Lentz, Danny Ricker, Richard G. Rosner; ABC
DAYTIME DRAMA
General Hospital, Written by Meg Bennett, Nathan Fissell, David Goldschmid, Robert Guza, Jr., Karen Harris, Elizabeth Korte, Mary Sue Price, Michele Val Jean, Susan Wald, Tracey Thomson; ABC
CHILDREN'S EPISODIC & SPECIALS
“Hero of the Shadows” (Supah Ninjas), Written by Leo Chu, Eric S. Garcia; Nickelodeon
DOCUMENTARY – CURRENT EVENTS
“Top Secret America” (Frontline), Written by Michael Kirk, Mike Wiser; PBS
DOCUMENTARY – OTHER THAN CURRENT EVENTS
“Wiki Secrets” (Frontline), Written by Marcela Gaviria & Martin Smith; PBS
NEWS – REGULARLY SCHEDULED, BULLETIN OR BREAKING REPORT
“Educating Sergeant Pantzke” (Frontline), Written by John Maggio, Martin Smith; PBS
NEWS – ANALYSIS, FEATURE, OR COMMENTARY
“Doctor Hot Spot” (Frontline), Written by Thomas Jennings; PBS
RADIO WINNERS
DOCUMENTARY
2010 Year in Review, Written by Gail Lee; CBS Radio News
NEWS – REGULARLY SCHEDULED OR BREAKING
Portraits of a Terrorist: Who is Osama Bin Laden?, Written by Gail Lee; CBS Radio News
NEWS – ANALYSIS, FEATURE OR COMMENTARY
Justice in a Time of Terror, Written by Andrew Cohen & Rob Mank; CBS Radio News
PROMOTIONAL WRITING AND GRAPHIC ANIMATION WINNERS
ON-AIR PROMOTION (RADIO OR TELEVISION)
“Fairytale” (Today Show), Written by Carol M. Sullivan; NBC News
TELEVISION GRAPHIC ANIMATION
“CBS News Animations” (CBS News), Graphic Animation by David Rosen; CBS News
VIDEOGAME WRITING WINNER
OUTSTANDING ACHIEVEMENT IN VIDEOGAME WRITING
Uncharted 3: Drake's Deception, Written by Amy Hennig; Sony Computer Entertainment
NEW MEDIA WRITING WINNERS
OUTSTANDING ACHIEVEMENT IN WRITING – ORIGINAL NEW MEDIA
“Episode 1,” “Episode 2,” “Episode 4,” “Episode 5,” “Episode 6” (Aim High), Written by Heath Corson & Richie Keen; cambio.com/aim-high
OUTSTANDING ACHIEVEMENT IN WRITING – DERIVATIVE NEW MEDIA
“A New Day,” “Family Matters,” “Neighborly Advice,” “Step Mom,” “Everything Dies” (The Walking Dead), Teleplay by John Esposito, Story by John Esposito and Greg Nicotero; amc.com
SPECIAL AWARDS
Morgan Cox Award
Patric M. Verrone
Paul Selvin Award
Tate Taylor
Animation Writers Caucus Animation Award
Dwayne McDuffie and Earl Kress
Paddy Chayevsky Laurel Award – Television
Marshall Herskovitz and Ed Zwick
Paddy Chayevsky Laurel Award – Screen
Eric Roth
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