Writers Guild of America (WGA) issued a press release to announce the winners of this year’s WGA Awards. The awards ceremony was cancelled because the writers were still on strike at the time.
The film and television award winners are:
ORIGINAL SCREENPLAY
JUNO, Diablo Cody
ADAPTED SCREENPLAY
NO COUNTRY FOR OLD MEN, Ethan Coen & Joel Coen, based on the novel
by Cormac McCarthy
DOCUMENTARY SCREENPLAY
TAXI TO THE DARK SIDE, Alex Gibney
DRAMATIC SERIES
THE WIRE, Ed Burns, Chris Collins, Dennis Lehane, David Mills, George
Pelecanos, Richard Price, David Simon, William F. Zorzi
COMEDY SERIES
30 ROCK, Brett Baer, Jack Burditt, Kay Cannon, Robert Carlock, Tina Fey, Dave
Finkel, Daisy Gardner, Donald Glover, Matt Hubbard, Jon Pollack, John Riggi, Tami
Sagher, Ron Weiner
NEW SERIES
MAD MEN, Lisa Albert, Bridget Bedard, Andre Jacquemetton, Maria
Jacquemetton, Tom Palmer, Chris Provenzano, Robin Veith, Matthew Weiner
EPISODIC DRAMA
THE SECOND COMING (THE SOPRANOS), Terence Winter
EPISODIC COMEDY
THE JOB (THE OFFICE), Paul Lieberstein & Michael Schur
LONG FORM
PANDEMIC, Bryce Zabel & Jackie Zabel
LONG FORM – ADAPTATION
THE COMPANY: A STORY OF THE CIA, teleplay by Ken Nolan, based on the novel by Robert Littell
ANIMATION
KILL GIL VOLUMES 1&2 (THE SIMPSONS), Jeff Westbrook
COMEDY/VARIETY
THE COLBERT REPORT, Bryan Adams, Michael Brumm, Stephen Colbert, Rich
Dahm, Eric Drysdale, Rob Dubbin, Glenn Eichler, Peter Grosz, Peter Gwinn, Barry Julien,
Jay Katsir, Laura Krafft, Frank Lesser, Tom Purcell, Allison Silverman
DAYTIME SERIALS
THE YOUNG & THE RESTLESS, Lynn Marie Latham, Scott Hamner, Jeff
Gottesfeld & Cherie Bennet, Bernard Lechowick, James Stanley, Natalie Minardi Slater,
Lynsey Dufour, Marina Alburger, Sara Bibel, Janice Ferri Esser, Eric Freiwald & Linda
Schreiber, Joshua McCaffrey, Sandra Weintraub
CHILDREN’S SCRIPT – EPISODIC & SPECIALS
LOOK WHOSE NOT TALKING (FLIGHT 29 DOWN), D. J. MacHale
CHILDREN’S SCRIPT- LONG FORM OR SPECIAL
JOHNNY KAPAHALA: BACK ON BOARD, teleplay by Ann Austen & Douglas Sloan and Max
Enscoe & Annie deYoung, story by Ann Austen & Douglas Sloan
VIDEOGAME WRITING
DEAD HEAD FRED, Dave Ellis and Adam Cogan
DOCUMENTARY – CURRENT EVENTS
RETURN OF THE TALIBAN (FRONTLINE), Martin Smith
DOCUMENTARY – OTHER THAN CURRENT EVENTS
BILLY STRAYHORN: LUSH LIFE (INDEPENDENT LENS), Robert Levi and Robert
Seidman
TELEVISION NEWS – REGULARLY SCHEDULED, BULLETIN OR BREAKING
REPORT
AMISH SCHOOL SHOOTING (WORLD NEWS WITH CHARLES GIBSON), Josh
Landis, Joel Siegel, Julia Kathan, Charles Gibson
TELEVISION NEWS – ANALYSIS, FEATURE, OR COMMENTARY
TO BEE OR NOT TO BEE (GOOD MORNING, AMERICA), Mary Pflum
RADIO AWARD WINNERS
RADIO DOCUMENTARY
GO WIRELESS, GET CONNECTED! ABC’S TECHNOLOGY SURVIVAL GUIDE, Andrea Smith
RADIO NEWS – REGULARLY SCHEDULED OR BREAKING
WORLD NEWS THIS WEEK, Marianne J. Pryor
RADIO NEWS – ANALYSIS, FEATURE OR COMMENTARY
PASSAGES, Gail Lee
PROMOTION WRITING AND GRAPHIC ART AWARD WINNERS
TELEVISION ON-AIR PROMOTION
DAYS OF OUR LIVES: MINI-SERIES, THE BRADYS VS. THE DIMERAS, Judie Henninger
TELEVISION GRAPHIC ART
ONE PRICEY PANTS SUIT, William J. Hennessy Jr.
TELEVISION GRAPHIC ANIMATION
WHERE IN THE WORLD IS . . . MATT LAUER?: TEASE CAMPAIGN 2007, Joe Strobino and Miranda Patterson