The award winner is used to waiting for the end of each prize show to see the big movie categories awarded, but Saturday’s authors Guild Awards threw everyone for a loop by making the movie Awards into the first two categories at night in simultaneous ceremonies in Los Angeles and New York.
“Nickel Boys” won the first award at night, for best adapted script, and “Anora” won the second, for best original script. The prices led by the exhibitions because the BAFTA Awards take place in London on Sunday, with categories’ early placement that gave “Nickel Boys” author Ramell Ross and Joslyn Barnes and “Anora” author Sean Baker more time to come to London.
Thewrap will update the list of winners that they will be announced.
The script for “Jim Henson Idea Man” won in the final category for functional film for documentary functions.
In the TV categories, “The Penguin” won in the category with a limited series. “Shōgun” won the award for best new series. “The Great Lillian Hall” won for TV and streaming films.
In addition to the categories that cover the entire season of a series, WGA also gives awards for specific episodes of a series. The section “Bulletproof” by “Hacks” won the Episodic Comedy Award, while the “Anjin” section of “Shōgun” won the episodic drama.
“Nikki Glaser: One day you will die” won in the category comedy/variety.
In the categories for film films, eligibility for the Writers Guild Awards is limited to the script which was signed under the Guild’s smallest basic agreement or according to related agreements from affiliated international guilder. That rule made most of this year’s Oscar -nominated not entitled to the author’s Guild nominations, with the original scripts “The Brutalist”, “September 5” and “The Substance” and the adaptations “Conclave”, “Sing Sing” and “Emilia Pérez “All disqualified.
Despite the difference in justification, the WGA winner has in recent years won Oscar about two-thirds of the time in the adapted manuscript category and a little more than half of the time in the original script category.
“Anora” has now won three of the big Guild Awards, after taking The Producers Guild and Director Guild Awards last weekend. Of the 11 previous films that have won all these awards, 10 Oscar won for best picture. (The only one who was not “Brokeback Mountain” – but the movie it lost to, “Crash”, won in the original manuscript category at WGA while “Brokeback” won in the custom category.)
The last major guild ceremony, Screen Actors Guild Awards, will take place on Sunday 23 February.
The Writers Guild of America, West Ceremony took place at Beverly Hilton Hotel in Beverly Hills and hosted by Joel Kim Booster, while WGA, East Ceremony took place at Edison Ballroom in New York City and hosted Roy Wood Jr.
At the WGAW ceremony, David Lynch will be greeted with a postum presentation of the Laurel Award for screenwriting, which he could accept personally before he died in January. In other honorary awards, Vince Gilligan will receive the Paddy Chayfsky Laurel Award for TV -Jusid performance and “Nickel Boys” writer Ramell Ross and Joslyn Barnes got Paul Selvin Award.
Wgae gives honorary awards to Scott Frank “Ian McLellan Hunter Award for Career Performance”, Bill Lawrence “The Herb Sargent Award for Comedy Excellence” and Kathy McGee “Richard B. Jablow Award for Devoted Service to Guild”.
Here is the complete list of nominees. Winners are noted with *WINNER.
Movie categories
Original script
“Anora” *Winner
“Challengers ”
“Civil war”
“My old ass”
“A real pain”
Custom script
“A complete unknown”
“Dune: Part two”
“Hit man”
“Nickel Boys” *Winner
“Evil”
Documentary script
“Jim Henson: Idea Man” *Winner
“Kiss the future”
“Martha”
“War Game”
TV, streaming and news categories
Drama series
“The boys”
“Diplomat”
“Fall-out”
“Mr. & Mrs Smith”
“Shōgun”
Comedy series
“Abbott Elementary”
“The bear”
“TURNG Your Enthusiasm”
“Hacks”
“What we do in the shadows”
New series
“English teacher”
“Fall-out”
“Mr. & Mrs Smith”
“No one wants this”
“Shōgun” *winner
Limited series
“Penguin” *The winner
“Assumed innocent”
“Ripley”
“Say nothing”
“True Detective: Night Country”
TV & Streaming Motion Pictures
“The Great Lillian Hall” *WINNER
“PROM -DATE”
“Rebel Ridge”
“Terry McMillan presents forever”
Animation
“Simpsons ”: “Bottle Episode”
“The Simpsons”: “Today’s Kremer”
“The Simpsons”: “Night of the Living Salary”
“Bob’s Burgers”: “Save Favorite Drive-in” *Winner
“Bob’s Burgers”: “The Tina table: The tables have Tina-Ed”
“Zeus Blood”: “Winter is born”
Episodic drama
“Shōgun”: “Anjin” *winner
“Fallout”: “Beginning”
“Evil”: “fear of the end”
“Mr. & Mrs. Smith”: “First date”
“Sugar”: “Olivia”
“ELBeth”: “Pilot”
Episodic comedy
“Someone somewhere:” Agg “
“Hacks”: “Bulletproof” *Winner
“English teacher”: “Linda”
“The Bear”: “Serneper”
“Only murder in the building”: “Once in the West”
“The Sticky”: “Petiole”
Comedy/Suming series – Talk or sketch
“The Daily Show ”
“John Mulanay presents: Everyone is in LA”
“Kelly Clarkson -Show”
“Last week tonight with John Oliver”
“The late show with Stephen Colbert”
“Saturday Night Live”
Comedy/Variation Special Offers
“The 77th annual Tony Awards”
“A closer look with Seth Meyers: Primetime Live Election Special”
“Nikki Glaser: One day you will die” *winner
“Ramy Youssef: More feelings”
Quiz and the participation of the audience
“Danger!”
“Pop culture Jeopardy!” *WINNER
Daydrams
“Days of our lives”
“General Hospital”
“The young and the restless” *WINNER
Children’s episodic, long form and special offers
“Percy Jackson and the Olympians”: “A God buys us cheese burger”
“FRGGLE ROCK: BACK TO THE ROCK”: “I’m Pogey”
“Out of my mind”
“Sesame Street”: “Sign Language ABCS”
“The Spiderwick Chronicles”: “Welcome to Spiderwick” * Winner
Short -shaped streaming
“Die Hart 3: Hart To Kill” *Winner
“Tiny Time Travel”
Documentary
“American Experience”: “The US Vice President”
“American Experience”: “The Cancer Detectives”
“Dante”: “Part one: Inferno to Paradise” *Winner
“American Experience”: “Poisone Ground: The Tragedy at Love Canal”
“Space Race”
News script – regularly scheduled, bulletin or break report ”
“CBS Evening News”: “Alabama IVF control sends shock waves all over America”
“CBS Evening News – Special Weekend Edition”: “Murder Tryd
“CBS Newspath”: “Willie Mays Tribute” *Winner
News script – analysis, function or comment
“Find Cillian Murphy” “60 minutes”
“Fine pressure: Carl Hiaasen” “CBS Sunday morning”
“History repeats itself in northern Gaza a year later” “Ayman”
“The resistance” “60 minutes ” *WINNER
“Understand travel advice” “ABC NEWSONE ”
Digital news
“The food that makes you gay”
“Mise-en-Seine: In Paris Olympics Diary”
“Sent by God”
“The resolution of Nancy Mace”
“What is Hamas thinking now?” *WINNER
Radio/sound categories
Radio/sound documentary
“Art on trial” “One year: 1990 ”Slate *Winner
“Deadly Exes: Domestic Violence Audity with Annie Elise”
“Serial Killers” Spotify Studios
“A legacy of homosexuality” “Slow Burn” slate
“If you give a mouse a cake … does he want a welfare check?” “Decoder ring” slate
Radio/Audio News script – regular scheduled, bulletin or Breaking Report
“06:40 News – November 6, 2023”; 1010 WINNING AM & FM
“12-15-2023, World News this week”; ABC News Radio
“Inside a Gaza Hospital” “What now? “; Slate
“Passages: Three women who made a difference”; CBS News Radio *Winner
“World News in the year 2023”; ABC News Radio
Radio/Audio News -Script – Analysis, Function or Comment
“The athletics and empathy of the horses” “Press Play 2024”; ABC News Radio
“The Bleeding Edge” “Inexplicable ”; Vox
“Charles Osgood remembered”; CBS News Radio *Winner
Promotion category
Marketing
“Wealth benefits the bold. Campaigns for Tracker and King & Conqueror, “CBS
“LC Vote ads”, Youtube *Winner
“NCIS: Season 21 Heritage, launch and beyond trailers”, CBS
“The gigs amc campaign”, youtube
Joe McGovern contributed to this report.
