The 69th edition of Writers’ Guild Awards had some surprises in store for the audience this year. For starters, the event was held in two separate places. Patton Oswalt hosted the one in Los Angeles, while a separate event was conducted in New York.
Also, in a surprising ng) turn of events, Moonlight edged out Damian Chazelle’s La La Land to win the Writers’ Guild Awards most coveted title – ‘Best Screenplay’. The film’s writer-director Barry Jenkins accepted the award and said, “A lot of people back home are watching this and they see me doing these things and they get inspired. But what I want to say is, I can’t say that writing will get you from where you are to this stage, but my experience is that it will get you closer to who you are.”
Among the TV award winners, The Americans bagged the Best Drama Series award while Atlanta took home the award for Best Comedy series.
Here is the complete list of winners:
Original Screenplay: Moonlight
Comedy/Variety Sketch Series: Saturday Night Live
Comedy/Variety Talk Series: Last Week Tonight With John Oliver
Drama Series: The Americans
Documentary Screenplay: Command and Control
Children’s Episodic: Gortimer Gibbon’s Life on Normal Street, “Mel vs. The Night Mare of Normal Street”
Children’s Long Form: Once Upon a Sesame Street Christmas
Daytime Drama: General Hospital
On-Air Promotion (Television, New Media or Radio): “CBS On-Air Reel”
TV News Script – Analysis, Feature or Commentary: “CBS Sunday Morning Almanac”
TV News Script – Regularly Scheduled, Bulletin or Breaking Report: “Muhammad Ali: Remembering a Legend”
Television Graphic Art and Animation: “The Real History of Cinco de Mayo”
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Comedy/Variety Specials: Triumph’s Election Special
Outstanding Achievement in Video Game Writing: Uncharted 4: A Thief’s End
Original Short Form New Media: The Commute, “The Party”
Quiz and Audience Participation: Hollywood Game Night
Radio Documentary: “Chernobyl: 30 Years Later”
Radio News Script – Regularly Scheduled, Bulletin or Breaking Report: “World News This Week”
Radio News Script – Analysis, Feature or Commentary: “Morley Safer: A Journalist’s Life”
Animation: BoJack Horseman, “Stop the Presses”
Documentary Script – Other Than Current Events: Jackie Robinson, Part One
Documentary Script – Current Events: Frontline, “The Choice” & “Inside Asaad’s Syria”
Comedy Series: Atlanta
Adapted Screenplay: Arrival
Episodic Comedy: Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt, “Kimmy Goes on a Play Date”
Episodic Drama: This Is Us, “The Trip”
Laurel Award for Screenwriting Achievement: Oliver Stone
Animation Writing Award for Lifetime Achievement: Mike Judge
Paddy Chayefsky Laurel Award for Television Writing Achievement: Aaron Sorkin
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