2012 Writers’ Guild of Great Britain awards – winners

The Writers’ Guild of Great Britain presented the winners for the 2012 Writers’ Guild Awards tonight at the Tabernacle in Notting Hill. The ceremony was hosted by comedy writers Jane Bussmann and David Quantick.

The award for Best Screenplay was presented by Academy Award-winner David Seidler to Lynne Ramsay and Rory Stewart Kinnear for We Need to Talk About Kevin. It won against Paddy Considine for Tyrannosaur and Paul Laverty for Even the Rain. Danny King and Dexter Fletcher won Best First Feature Film for Wild Bill.

The Writers' Guild Special Award for Outstanding Writing was presented to television writer Stephen Moffat, who has worked on shows such as Dr. Who and Sherlock.


Complete list of winners for the 2012 WGGB Awards

Best Continuing Drama Series
Hollyoaks: A Little Film About Love by Jason Costello - Nick Leather

Best Play for Children and Young People
Hare & Tortoise - Brendan Murray

Best Videogame Script
Batman: Arkham City - Paul Crocker

Best First Feature Film
Wild Bill - Danny King, Dexter Fletcher

Best Children’s TV Script
The Sarah Jane Adventures: The Curse of Clyde Langer - Phil Ford

Best Radio Drama
Pandemic - John Dryden

Best Screenplay
We Need to Talk About Kevin - Lynne Ramsay, Rory Stewart Kinnear

Best Fiction Book
The Last Hundred Days - Patrick McGuinness

Best Short-Form TV Drama
Appropriate Adult - Neil McKay

Best Theatre Play
The Westbridge - Rachel De-lahay

Best Radio Comedy
I, Regress - Matt Berry

Best TV Comedy
Holy Flying Circus - Tony Roche

Best TV Drama Series
Being Human - Toby Whithouse, Tom Grieves, John Jackson, Lisa McGee, Jamie Mathieson

Writers' Guild Special Award for outstanding writing
Stephen Moffat

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Nominations for the 2012 WGGB Awards

Best Continuing Drama Series
Casualty: Saturday Night Fever - Sasha Hails
Coronation Street: Becky’s Final Farewell - Debbie Oates
Hollyoaks: A Little Film About Love by Jason Costello - Nick Leather

Best Play for Children and Young People
Angel - Kevin Dyer
Hare & Tortoise - Brendan Murray
Holloway Jones - Evan Placey

Best Videogame Script
Batman: Arkham City - Paul Crocker
Risen 2: Dark Waters - Gordon Rennie, Alan Barnes, Emma Beeby
Zombies, Run! - Naomi Alderman

Best First Feature Film
Black Pond - Will Sharpe, Tom Kingsley
Resistance - Owen Sheers, Amit Gupta
Wild Bill - Danny King, Dexter Fletcher

Best Children’s TV Script
4 O'Clock Club: Maths - Dan Berlinka
Horrible Histories - Dave Cohen, Ali Crockatt, Gerard Foster, Giles Pilbrow, Laurence Rickard, David Scott, George Sawyer, Ben Ward, Steve Punt
The Sarah Jane Adventures: The Curse of Clyde Langer - Phil Ford

Best Radio Drama
Life and Fate - Jonathan Myerson, Mike Walker
Pandemic - John Dryden
The Diary of Samuel Pepys - Hattie Naylor

Best Screenplay
Even the Rain - Paul Laverty
Tyrannosaur - Paddy Considine
We Need to Talk About Kevin - Lynne Ramsay, Rory Stewart Kinnear

Best Fiction Book
Alys, Always – Harriet Lane
The Last Hundred Days - Patrick McGuinness
Then - Julie Myerson

Best Short-Form TV Drama
Appropriate Adult - Neil McKay
Sherlock - Mark Gatiss, Steven Moffat, Stephen Thompson
This is England '88 - Shane Meadows, Jack Thorne

Best Theatre Play
Grief - Mike Leigh
The Kitchen Sink - Tom Wells
The Westbridge - Rachel De-lahay

Best Radio Comedy
I, Regress - Matt Berry
Another Case of Milton Jones - Milton Jones, James Cary
In and Out of the Kitchen - Miles Jupp

Best TV Comedy
Holy Flying Circus - Tony Roche
PhoneShop - Phil Bowker
Grandma's House - Simon Amstell, Dan Swimer

Best TV Drama Series
Being Human - Toby Whithouse, Tom Grieves, John Jackson, Lisa McGee, Jamie Mathieson
Scott & Bailey - Sally Wainwright, Nicole Taylor, Amelia Bullmore
Prisoners Wives - Julie Gearey, James Graham and Chloe Moss