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American screenwriter-director Woody Allen won the Writers Guild of America award for the best original screenplay for "Midnight in Paris," while Alexander Payne, Nat Faxon and Jim Rash were honored for the best adapted screenplay for the family drama “The Descendants,” at the WGA Award night at Hollywood Palladium, Los Angeles, Sunday.
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Hypothetically, the black-and-white silent film “The Artist,” which is on top of the list of most Awards, including Oscars, had a good chance to win at WGA; however, it was declared ineligible for the Guild awards as it was produced by French film director Michel Hazanavicius.
WGA announced the winners of 2012 WGA, West, and WGA, East, for outstanding achievement in writing for screen, television, radio, news, promotional, videogames and new media, according to the press release.
The Laurel Award for Television for lifetime achievement in television writing (WGA, West) was presented to Marshall Herskovitz and Edward Zwick; the Laurel Award for Screen for lifetime achievement in screenwriting went to Eric Roth. Other awards by WGA, West, were the Paul Selvin Award for written work which embodies constitutional rights and civil liberties that went to Tate Taylor; and the Morgan Cox Award for exemplary service to the Guild to the ex-WGAW President (2005-2009) Patric M. Verrone.
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The WGA, East, presented the Herb Sargent Award for Comedy Excellence to Judd Apatow; Ian McLellan Hunter Award for Lifetime Achievement in writing to Claire Labine; John Merriman Award for Study of Broadcast Journalism at American University to David Shultz; Richard E. Jablow Award for devoted service to the Guild went to Susan Kim. It also presented a special Michael Collyer Memorial Fellowship in Screenwriting to Hailey O’Brien.
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Other winning series included ABC’s “Modern Family,” “General Hospital,” HBO's “Too Big to Fail,” “Cinema Verite” and “Breaking Bad."
Check out the complete list of winners in all the categories:
SCREEN WINNERS
Original Screenplay: Midnight in Paris, Written by Woody Allen; Sony Pictures Classics
Adapted Screenplay:The Descendants, Screenplay by Alexander Payne and Nat Faxon & Jim Rash; Based on the novel by Kaui Hart Hemmings; Fox Searchlight
Documentary Screenplay: Better This World, Written by Katie Galloway & Kelly Duane de la Vega; Loteria Films
TELEVISION WINNERS
Drama Series: Breaking Bad, Written by Sam Catlin, Vince Gilligan, Peter Gould, Gennifer Hutchison, George Mastras, Thomas Schnauz, Moira Walley-Beckett; AMC
Comedy Series: Modern Family, Written by Cindy Chupack, Paul Corrigan, Abraham Higginbotham, Ben Karlin, Elaine Ko, Carol Leifer, Steven Levitan, Christopher Lloyd, Dan O’Shannon, Jeffrey Richman, Brad Walsh, Ilana Wernick, Bill Wrubel, Danny Zuker; ABC
