Alexander Payne’s The Holdovers and Wire Jefferson’s American Fiction had been the massive movie winners on the strike-delayed 2024 Writers Guild Awards, which had been handed out Sunday in Los Angeles and New York.
Jefferson — who additionally was honored with the WGA West’s Paul Selvin Award — adopted his Oscar win for Tailored Screenplay because the WGA‘s bizarre, wild and elongated Awards season wrapped with simultaneous ceremonies on each coasts. Payne scored a modicum of revenge for shedding the Authentic Screenplay Academy Award to Justine Triet and Arthur Harari for Anatomy of a Fall.
The latter script, nonetheless, isn’t eligible for a Writers Guild Award as a result of, in contrast to different guilds, the WGA deems ineligible any scripts for films not produced underneath its Minimal Primary Settlement or a bona fide collective bargaining settlement with numerous affiliated nations.
Later, the Documentary prize went to Errol Morris for his Apple movie The Pigeon Tunnel.
The Oscars got here and went final month, leaving the WGA because the final entity to current 2023-24 awards.
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On the small display screen, HBO’s Succession, FX’s The Bear and Netflix’s Beef accomplished their awards-season sweeps with respective wins for Drama Sequence, Comedy Sequence and Restricted Sequence. All grabbed trophies from the Emmys, SAG Awards, Golden Globes and Critics Alternative in latest months.
Succession additionally took the prize for Episodic Drama for the “Dwelling+” episode after Peacock’s Poker Face took the Episodic Comedy trophy.
The WGA Award for New Sequence went to HBO’s The Final of Us, and Fox’s The Simpsons once more received the Animation prize, this time for the episode “Carl Carlson Rides Once more.”
The guild introduced a slew of honors and tributes Sunday evening. The WGA West gave its highest honor — the Paddy Chayefsky Laurel Award for Tv Writing Achievement — to Designing Ladies and Night Shade creator Linda Bloodworth Thomason. Chris Keyser and David A. Goodman picked up the the WGAW Morgan Cox Award, and its Laurel Award for lifetime achievement went to Walter Hill, who wrote and/or directed and produced such movies as 48 Hrs., The Warriors, The Getaway and plenty of extra.
The WGA East honored Philadelphia scribe Ron Nyswaner will obtain its Walter Bernstein Award, introduced Wanda Sykes with its Herb Sargent Award for Comedy Excellence and handed the Ian McLellan Hunter Award for Profession Achievement will go to Tony Gilroy.
Niecy Nash-Betts hosted the Los Angeles ceremony from the Hollywood Palladium, and Josh Gondelman emceed the New York present at Edison Ballroom in Manhattan.
Listed here are the winners on the 2024 Writers Guild Awards:
ORIGINAL SCREENPLAY
The Holdovers, Written by David Hemingson; Focus Options
ADAPTED SCREENPLAY
American Fiction, Screenplay by Wire Jefferson, Based mostly upon the novel Erasure by Percival Everett; Amazon MGM Studios
DOCUMENTARY SCREENPLAY
The Pigeon Tunnel, Written by Errol Morris; Apple Authentic Movies
DRAMA SERIES
Succession, Written by Will Arbery, Jesse Armstrong, Miriam Battye, Jon Brown, Jamie Carragher, Ted Cohen, Nate Elston, Francesca Gardiner, Callie Hersheway, Lucy Prebble, Georgia Pritchett, Tony Roche, Susan Quickly He Stanton, Will Tracy; HBO | Max
COMEDY SERIES
The Bear, Written by Karen Joseph Adcock, Joanna Calo, Kelly Galuska, Rene Gube, Sofya Levitsky-Weitz, Stacy Osei-Kuffour, Alex Russell, Catherine Schetina, Christopher Storer; FX Networks
LIMITED SERIES
Beef, Written by Joanna Calo, Bathsheba Doran, Jean Kyoung Frazier, Niko Gutierrez-Kovner, Lee Sung Jin, Alice Ju, Carrie Kemper, Mike Makowsky, Marie Hanhnhon Nguyen, Kevin Rosen, Alex Russell; Netflix
NEW SERIES
The Final of Us, Written by Neil Druckmann, Halley Gross, Craig Mazin, Bo Shim; HBO | Max
ANIMATION
“Carl Carlson Rides Once more” (The Simpsons), Written by Loni Steele Sosthand; Fox
EPISODIC DRAMA
“Dwelling+” (Succession), Written by Georgia Pritchett & Will Arbery; HBO | Max
EPISODIC COMEDY
“Escape From Shit Mountain” (Poker Face), Written by Nora Zuckerman & Lilla Zuckerman; Peacock
COMEDY/VARIETY TALK SERIES
Final Week Tonight with John Oliver, Senior Writers Daniel O’Brien, Owen Parsons, Charlie Redd, Joanna Rothkopf, Seena Vali Writers Johnathan Appel, Ali Barthwell, Tim Carvell, Liz Hynes, Ryan Ken, Mark Kramer, Sofia Manfredi, John Oliver, Taylor Kay Phillips, Chrissy Shackelford; HBO | Max
COMEDY/VARIETY SPECIALS
Sarah Silverman: Somebody You Love, Written by Sarah Silverman; HBO | Max
COMEDY/VARIETY SKETCH SERIES
I Assume You Ought to Depart with Tim Robinson, Writers Tim Robinson, Zach Kanin, John Solomon, Gary Richardson, Reggie Henke, Brendan Jennings, Patti Harrison; Netflix
QUIZ AND AUDIENCE PARTICIPATION
The Chase, Head Author David Levinson Wilk Writers Erik Agard, Kyle Beakley, Micki Boden, Megan Broussard, Jonathan Daly, Brian Greene, Robert King, Jason Lundell, Sierra Mannie, Amy Ozols, Bobby Patton, Ellen Teitel, Ari Yolkut; NBC
CHILDREN’S EPISODIC, LONG FORM AND SPECIALS
“Romance Daybreak” (One Piece), Written by Matt Owens & Steven Maeda; Netflix
DAYTIME DRAMA
Days of Our Lives, Head Author Ron Carlivati Inventive Advisor Ryan Quan Writers Sonja Alar, Jazmen Darnell Brown, Joanna Cohen, Carolyn Culliton, Richard Culliton, Cheryl Davis, Kirk Doering, Christopher Dunn, Jamey Giddens, David Kreizman, Henry Newman, Dave Ryan, Katherine D. Schock; Peacock
TV & NEW MEDIA MOTION PICTURES
Quiz Woman, Written by Jen D’Angelo; Hulu
SHORT FORM NEW MEDIA
Carpool Karaoke, Written by Casey Stewart, David Younger; Apple TV+
NEWS SCRIPT – ANALYSIS, FEATURE, OR COMMENTARY
“Therapeutic and Hope” (60 Minutes), Written by Scott Pelley, Nicole Younger, Kristin Steve; CBS Information
NEWS SCRIPT – REGULARLY SCHEDULED, BULLETIN, OR BREAKING REPORT
“Shock Assault!” (CBS Weekend Information), Written by J. Craig Wilson, Ambrose Raferty; CBS Information
DIGITAL NEWS
“The Persuaders: A 5-Half Investigation into the Union-Busting Business,” Written by Dave Jamieson; HuffPost
RADIO/AUDIO DOCUMENTARY
“The Name” (This American Life), Written by Mary Harris; Slate
RADIO/AUDIO NEWS SCRIPT – REGULARLY SCHEDULED, BULLETIN, OR BREAKING REPORT
“World Information This Week – Week of March 17, 2023,” Written by Pleasure Piazza; ABC Information Radio
RADIO/AUDIO NEWS SCRIPT – ANALYSIS, FEATURE, OR COMMENTARY
“The Prognosis Was Deadly. She Couldn’t Get an Abortion” (What Subsequent), Written by Madeline Ducharme and Mary Harris; Slate
ON AIR PROMOTION
“WCBS AM Promos,” Written by Invoice Tynan; WCBS Newsradio 880
Katie Campione and Anthony D’Alessandro in Los Angeles and Jill Goldstein in New York contributed to this report.
