Writers Guild of America Award
The Writers Guild of America Award is an award from the US Writers Guild of America , more precisely: the two areas Writers Guild of America, East and Writers Guild of America, West . It has been awarded in various categories for outstanding achievements in film, television, radio and others since 1949. The WGA Laurel Awards for the life's work of screenwriters are also presented. The 69th award ceremony took place on February 19, 2017 in Los Angeles and New York.
Categories (selection)
Movie
- Original screenplay
- Adapted screenplay
- Documentary screenplay
watch TV
- Drama Series
- Comedy Series
- New Series
- Episodic drama
- Episodic Comedy
- animation
- Long Form (full-length feature films)
radio
- Documentary
- News - Regularly Scheduled or Breaking
- News - Analysis, Feature or Commentary
Award winners (selection)
- Best original script
- 2010: Fatal Command - The Hurt Locker - Mark Boal
- 2011: Inception - Christopher Nolan
- 2012: Midnight in Paris - Woody Allen
- 2013: Zero Dark Thirty - Mark Boal
- 2014: Her - Spike Jonze
- 2015: Grand Budapest Hotel - Wes Anderson and Hugo Guinness
- 2016: Spotlight - Tom McCarthy and Josh Singer
- 2017: Moonlight - Barry Jenkins and Tarell Alvin McCraney
- 2018: Get Out - Jordan Peele
- 2019: Eighth Grade - Bo Burnham
- 2020: Parasite - Bong Joon-ho and Han Jin-won
- Best adapted script
- 2010: Up in the Air - Jason Reitman
- 2011: The Social Network - Aaron Sorkin
- 2012: The Descendants - Family and Other Affairs - Alexander Payne , Nat Faxon, and Jim Rash
- 2013: Argo - Chris Terrio
- 2014: Captain Phillips - Billy Ray
- 2015: The Imitation Game - A Top Secret Life - Graham Moore
- 2016: The Big Short - Adam McKay and Charles Randolph
- 2017: Arrival - Eric Heisserer
- 2018: Call Me by Your Name - James Ivory
- 2019: Can You Ever Forgive Me? - Nicole Holofcener and Jeff Whitty
- 2020: Jojo Rabbit - Taika Waititi
Web links
- Official website (English)
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b orf.at: Script award for “Can You Ever Forgive Me?” And “Eighth Grade” . Article dated February 18, 2019, accessed February 20, 2019.
- ↑ a b “Parasite” wins award from screenwriters , “Kulturnachrichten” on deutschlandfunkkultur.de on February 2, 2020, accessed on February 3, 2020