SCREEN WINNERS
ORIGINAL SCREENPLAY
Milk, Written by Dustin Lance Black, Focus Features
ADAPTED SCREENPLAY
Slumdog Millionaire, Screenplay by Simon Beaufoy, Based on the Novel Q and A by Vikas Swarup, Fox Searchlight Pictures
DOCUMENTARY SCREENPLAY
Waltz with Bashir, Written by Ari Folman, Sony Pictures Classics
TELEVISION WINNERS
DRAMATIC SERIES
Mad Men, Written by Lisa Albert, Jane Anderson, Rick Cleveland, Kater Gordon,
David Isaacs, Andre Jacquemetton, Maria Jacquemetton, Marti Noxon, Robin Veith, Matthew Weiner; AMC
COMEDY SERIES
30 Rock, Written by Jack Burditt, Kay Cannon, Robert Carlock, Tina Fey, Donald Glover, Andrew Guest, Matt Hubbard, Jon Pollack, John Riggi, Tami Sagher, Ron Weiner; NBC
NEW SERIES
In Treatment, Written by Rodrigo Garcia, Bryan Goluboff, Davey Holmes, William Merritt Johnson, Amy Lippman, Sarah Treem; HBO
EPISODIC DRAMA – any length – one airing time
“Pilot” (Breaking Bad), Written by Vince Gilligan; AMC
EPISODIC COMEDY – any length – one airing time
“Succession” (30 Rock), Written by Andrew Guest & John Riggi; NBC
LONG FORM – ORIGINAL – over one hour – one or two parts, one or two airing times
Recount, Written by Danny Strong; HBO
LONG FORM – ADAPTATION – over one hour – one or two parts, one or two airing times
John Adams, “Episode 1, Join or Die,” Teleplay by Kirk Ellis, Based on the book by
David McCullough; “Episode 2, Independence,” Teleplay by Kirk Ellis, Based on the book by David McCullough; HBO
ANIMATION – any length – one airing time
“Apocalypse Cow” (The Simpsons), Written by Jeff Westbrook; Fox
COMEDY/VARIETY – (INCLUDING TALK) SERIES
Saturday Night Live, Head Writers Seth Meyers, Andrew Steele, Paula Pell, Writers
Doug Abeles, James Anderson, Alex Baze, Jessica Conrad, James Downey,
Charlie Grandy, Steve Higgins, Colin Jost, Erik Kenward, Rob Klein, John Lutz,
Seth Meyers, Lorne Michaels, John Mulaney, Paula Pell, Simon Rich, Marika Sawyer, Akiva Schaffer, Robert Smigel, John Solomon, Emily Spivey, Andrew Steele, Kent Sublette, Jorma Taccone, Bryan Tucker, Additional Sketches by Robert Carlock; NBC
COMEDY/VARIETY – MUSIC, AWARDS, TRIBUTES – SPECIALS
2008 Film Independent Spirit Awards, Written by Billy Kimball, Aaron Lee, Jennifer Celotta, Rainn Wilson; IFC/AMC
DAYTIME SERIALS
As the World Turns, Written by Jean Passanante, Leah Laiman, Courtney Simon, Lisa Connor, David A. Levinson, Peter Brash, Richard Culliton, Susan Dansby, Cheryl Davis, Leslie Nipkow; CBS
CHILDREN’S EPISODIC & SPECIALS
“Elmo’s Christmas Countdown” (Sesame Workshop), Written by Joey Mazzarino; ABC
CHILDREN’S SCRIPT – LONG FORM OR SPECIAL
“Polar Bears” (The Naked Brothers Band), Written by Polly Draper; Nickelodeon
DOCUMENTARY – CURRENT EVENTS
“Bush’s War: Part One” (Frontline), Written by Michael Kirk; PBS
DOCUMENTARY – OTHER THAN CURRENT EVENTS
“Secrets of the Parthenon” (NOVA), Written by Gary Glassman; PBS
34 Responses for "Full List of WGA Winners"
Yay for Milk and Waltz with Bashir! – Two of my faves this year.
I hope the Oscars take note.
My friend who belongs to the WGA voted for Milk and Slumdog.
Great for “Milk”’s writer. Glad to see this picture get some love.
Yeah, Slumdog across the board! I’ve seen aroound 60 contemporary Indian films, and Slumdog Millionaire, primarily because of Boyle’s direction, is fresh, fast paced and ultimately satisfying, not typical of the usual Bollywood fare which tend to languish in limbo and last 3 hours long.
(carried over from the other thread. re: movies sweeping awards:
As for the other big winners,Return of the King didnt win WGA or Scripter. Beauty didnt win the scripter because its an original screenplay.
Gump didnt win the BAFTA (no SAG ensemble or Critics Choice that year) and Chicago didnt win the BAFTA either.
And I dont see I problem with the FIRST TIME EVER statement. Not saying that Schindlers List would NOT have won the SAG or BFCA, just that SLumdog is the first to do so
Of course its subjective what you include, and I take j’s point about the scripter (which a film with an original screenplay cant win).
I think the “best picture” awards that count (regardless of Academy membership, and my understanding is that there some BAFTA members are also Academy menmbers) should include:
Oscar, Globe, BAFTA and PGA. DGA is a directors award, SAG is really ensemble (but functions as a BP) WGA is a writers award and critics choice I guess aint all that prestigious.
So if we use this top 4 scenario, then Schindlers List, Return of the king and American Beauty form the elite club that Slumdog would join
Yay for slumdog! It should win adaptated screenplay at the Oscars too!
Yay, Dustin Lance Black!!!
Very deserving. Great script. And that’s some dedication.
He’s no stripper, but it’s a great story to his arrival. And a cameo to boot!
No surprises here. These wins increase the already good chances for Slumdog and Milk to take the screenplay Oscars and gives Bashir enhanced credibility as a foreign film victor despite its animated content.
I still think Waltz might be left out, but the other two look pretty close to locks in their writing categories.
Yay Milk! I’m happy for Dustin Lance Black.
Who won the video game award?
Of course, I’m serious! Who?!
FALLOUT 3 FOR THE WIN
Justice is served. Nuff said.
“COMEDY/VARIETY – MUSIC, AWARDS, TRIBUTES – SPECIALS
2008 Film Independent Spirit Awards, Written by Billy Kimball, Aaron Lee, Jennifer Celotta, Rainn Wilson; IFC/AMC”
Cool.
Woo! Congrats to Slumdog Millionaire and Milk! My two favorite films of the year. Awesome.
No guts no glory – for best foreign language film, France’s The Class will beat Waltz with Bashir
HELLO!!!! this movie: http://www.awardsdaily.com/?p=4082 , deserves buzz. Write a post about it!!!
I’m not crazy about either “Slumdog” or “Milk”, but I don’t want to be grumpy, so: yay, “Waltz with Bashir”!
Yay for Milk! I love that the movie is an average 2ish hours, but feels like it covers sooo much ground (w/o ever getting boring, lol).
[...] Slumdog Millionaire, at this point, is a gross understatement. Last night, it picked up the WGA award for Best Adapted Screenplay beating Frost-Nixon, The Dark Knight, The Curious Case of Benjamin Button and Doubt. Dustin Lance Black’s script for “Milk” rightfully snatched the Best Original Screenplay award. Seeing as “Milk” is the only film from the WGA nominees for Original Screenplay that went on to score an Oscar nomination, I guess we could have seen that coming too. As much as I would love to see “Happy-Go-Lucky” and “In Bruges” getting Oscar attention – their only chance sadly – if/when “Milk” beats them both, you won’t see me displeased. Important winners below, everything else at Awards Daily. [...]
Fantastic stuff. Does this mean Beaufoy and Black won’t be at the BAFTA’s though ?
Flying from LA to London in time is gonna be hard ?
I find it hilarious that a movie adapted from real life won Original Screenplay, and a movie with a story as seemingly original as Slumdog won Adapted :p
Yey for Milk and SNL.
Enough Slumdog please, I’m starting to resent the film now
T.
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I am constantly amazed at the support for Slumdog Millionaire considering that no American was involved in it. It has not let Benjamin Button have a look in at all not even once during the Guild awards season. This will be a year when the film with the most nominations does not win Best Picture. If Button does not get a look in at the Baftas as well then it is all over. It will just have a few technical wins at the Oscars. Slumdog will win for picture, director, script and music.
Milk will win Original screenplay at the Oscars as it is the only best picture nominee in that category. I doubt Wall E will win here.
Yes Ashwin, part of the appeal of the whole Slumdog story is that it is such an atypical BP frontrunner. If Button had of won at least one or two precursors it may have positioned itself as a contender but it has failed every time (although almost every time we read that a commentator “feels” it will win THIS time)
Apart from being a fan of Slumdog, Im glad Button is being shut out. Button IMO the most boring and most overrated film I’ve ever seen
extremely easy calls this year.
this year’s race is becoming more and more boring. probably the baftas will kill any expectations of surprises.
well, happy for milk (the only one who deserves to win in its cartegory; the oscars is different story), waltz with bashir and some tv winners (in treatment, breaking bad and mad men).
is it just me or was there not so much whineging and whining when other films such as Return of the King, Schindlers List or American Beauty swept the awards?? What is it about Slumdog that irriates so much? The fact that it is a small “indie” film?? That it is British?? I dont get it
B O R I N G
what a shitty awards year…
why shitty?? because your fave film isnt winning. Show some maturity…
good thing those voting didn’t watch last night’s SNL …
(again, yeah for “Milk”)
I’m rather happy Benjamin Button has been thus overlooked. It’s really rather tedious.
In a way I’m glad too, Rob, because if it won it would face the “winner” backlash and THAT would become tedious. This way it will be a film that lives on strong and comes back in the future as the masterpiece it always was. Think “2001.”
Goldie Hawn hot mess, lol. That woman just said to Kate Winslet “I want to lick your shoulder.” And Kate said, “Thank you!”
andrew it’s not my favourite movie not to win! it’s good cinema, slumdog is merely nice, and again…you’ll wake up one morning years from now and you’ll all realize it…every other movie nominated here or at the oscar is more deserving…not counting the best movies cut out!
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