The 2024 Writers Guild Awards is taking location in synchronised events in New York and Los Angeles.
The veryfirst award handed out in L.A. was for finest adjusted moviescript, which was offered to the Oscars’ adjusted moviescript winner, American Fiction.
The Last of UnitedStates won the award for finest composing for a brand-new series, while Beef won finest restricted series writing.
The L.A. event is being hosted by Niecy Nash-Betts, while the N.Y. edition is hosted by Josh Gondelman.
In an uncommon relocation this year, the WGA Awards events are being held more than a month after the 2024 Oscars, with the event coming after 2023’s months-long authors strike. The union and the Alliance of Motion Picture and Television Producers reached a brand-new three-year offer in September, which supplies defenses versus the usage of AI, information openness and residuals connected to streaming success and assurances for the minimum size of authors spaces.
Early in the New York event, it was exposed that the 2024 receivers of the WGA East’s Richard B. Jablow Award were the members and management of IATSE, International Brotherhood of Teamsters, SAG-AFTRA and American Federation of Musicians, for “demonstrating unwavering assistance and sacrifice throughout the WGA’s 148-day strike.” Jablow, for whom the award is called, assisted discovered the WGAE, composed its constitution and served as its veryfirst counsel.
WGAE Phomeowner Lisa Takeuchi Cullen, who got the Jablow Award in 2020, provided this year’s award, stating: “To me, the most essential minutes of the WGA strike of 2023 were each and every time we were signedupwith by our sis unions. Each and every time Local 802 of the American Federation of Musicians revealed up to play honky tonk on the pathways of New York City. Each and every time a Teamster truck motorist declined to cross our line. Each and every time an IATSE team member compromised their day’s pay for our cause. Each and every time a SAG-AFTRA star got a loudspeaker out of our hands and shouted chants that did not rhyme. Thank you for your uniformity. We are one union, and we stand by your side, permanently.”
Nash-Betts likewise resolved the strikes in her monologue to start the L.A. event. “Last year, 312 union strikes occurred in America,” she stated. “Hollywood made it through 2, for a record-breaking 148 days. We battled for equivalent pay, equivalent state and our right to make it to the end of a 10-episode season. And thank goodness, since how else was The Crown going to inform us what occurred to Diana and her kids?”
She likewise wanted everybody a “happy rainy Sunday” duetothefactthat it was drizzling quite excellent outdoors (the carpet was tented however it was still getting damp). She alerted all winners that they would be restricted to 30-second speeches, and if they went over would be played off by a manufacturer playing “Smoke on the Water” live in the space.
In New York, host Gondelman called for an instant ceasefire in Gaza and the release of captives. “No one needto have to suffer for anybody else’s flexibility,” Gondelman stated.
In addition to the competitive awards, the WGA provided a number of honorary awards: In New York, Andor developer and the author of the Bourne movies and Michael Clayton amongst other titles, Tony Gilroy, got the Ian McLellan Hunter Award for Career Achievement, and Fellow Travelers developer and Philadelphia author Ron Nyswaner got the Walter Bernstein Award.
In Los Angeles, the 2024 Oscars adjusted moviescript winner Cord Jefferson (American Fiction) got the Paul Selvin Award, writer-director-producer Walter Hill (The Getaway, The Warriors, 48 Hrs.) got the Laurel Award for Screenwriting Achievement, writer-director-producer Linda Bloodworth Thomason (Designing Women, Evening Shade) got the Paddy Chayefsky Laurel Award for Television Writing Achievement and 2023 WGA workingout committee co-chairs Chris Keyser and David A. Goodman got the Morgan Cox Award for their management throughout last year’s labor settlements and strike.
“Don’t forget what it felt like last year,” Keyser stated in accepting the Cox Award. “Don’t forget what it felt like to have a typical function, make a typical pledge, march side by side, for yourself of course, however mainly, for everybody else. Don’t forget it’s constantly a battle, that absolutelynothing is offered to labor … that though we have lotsof allies from time to time, we are our just champs.” He likewise called for authors to appearance out for each other, especially the most susceptible.
Added Goodman: “Do you keepinmind last year when they stated if we went on strike, the banners wouldn’t care duetothefactthat they have their libraries and they’d simply program rereuns and we’d neverever get their viewership information or a success-based recurring? They stated if we went on strike, they’d simply change us with foreign authors, and they didn’t. Or they stated when we were on strike, that’s what the business desired. … These were lies and there lotsof more of them. They’re kind of worthless tonight, however by summerseason they were actually frightening. I dream I might state we puton’t have to concern about them anylonger.” But, he included, the dangers haveactually been around for numerous years, and are mostlikely to return.
A total list of candidates for the 2024 WGA Awards follows. Winners will be upgraded as they’re revealed live. Refresh for the newest.
Original Screenplay
Air, Written by Alex Convery; Amazon MGM Studios
Barbie, Written by Greta Gerwig & Noah Baumbach; Warner Bros. Pictures
The Holdovers, Written by David Hemingson; Focus Features
May December, Screenplay by Samy Burch, Story by Samy Burch & Alex Mechanik; Netflix
Past Lives, Written by Celine Song; A24
Adapted Screenplay
American Fiction, Screenplay by Cord Jefferson, Based upon the unique Erasure by Percival Everett; Amazon MGM Studios (WINNER)
Are You There God? It’s Me, Margaret., Screenplay by Kelly Fremon Craig, Based on the book by Judy Blume; Lionsgate
Killers of the Flower Moon, Screenplay by Eric Roth and Martin Scorsese, Based on the book by David Grann; Apple Original Films
Nyad, Screenplay by Julia Cox, Based on the book Find a Way by Diana Nyad; Netflix
Oppenheimer, Screenplay by Christopher Nolan, Based on the book American Prometheus: The Triumph and Tragedy of J. Robert Oppenheimer by Kai Bird and Martin J. Sherwin; Universal Pictures
Documentary Screenplay
Bella!, Written by Jeff L. Lieberman; Re-Emerging Films
It Ain’t Over, Written by Sean Mullin; Sony Pictures Classics
The Pigeon Tunnel, Written by Errol Morris; Apple Original Films
Stamped from the Beginning, Written by David Teague, Based on the book Stamped From the Beginning by Dr. Ibram X. Kendi; Netflix
What the Hell Happened to Blood, Sweat & Tears?, Written by John Scheinfeld; Abramorama
Drama Series
The Crown, Written by Peter Morgan; Netflix
The Curse, Written by Carmen Christopher, Nathan Fielder, Alex Huggins, Carrie Kemper, Benny Safdie; Showtime
The Diplomat, Written by Eli Attie, Debora Cahn, Mia Chung, Anna Hagen, Amanda Johnson-Zetterstrom, Peter Noah; Netflix
The Last of UnitedStates, Written by Neil Druckmann, Halley Gross, Craig Mazin, Bo Shim; HBO | Max
Succession, Written by Will Arbery, Jesse Armstrong, Miriam Battye, Jon Brown, Jamie Carragher, Ted Cohen, Nate Elston, Francesca Gardiner, Callie Hersheway, Lucy Prebble, Georgia Pritchett, Tony Roche, Susan Soon He Stanton, Will Tracy; HBO | Max
Comedy Series
Abbott Elementary, Written by Quinta Brunson, Ava Coleman, Riley Dufurrena, Justin Halpern, Joya McCrory, Morgan Murphy, Brittani Nichols, Kate Peterman, Brian Rubenstein, Patrick Schumacker, Justin Tan, Jordan Temple, Garrett Werner; ABC
Barry, Written by Emma Barrie, Alec Berg, Duffy Boudreau, Bill Hader, Nicky Hirsch, Taofik Kolade, Liz Sarnoff; HBO | Max
The Bear, Written by Karen Joseph Adcock, Joanna Calo, Kelly Galuska, Rene Gube, Sofya Levitsky-Weitz, Stacy Osei-Kuffour, Alex Russell, Catherine Schetina, Christopher Storer; FX Networks
Jury Duty, Written by Tanner Bean, Lee Eisenberg, Marcos Gonzalez, Cody Heller, Mekki Leeper, Katrina Mathewson, Kerry O’Neill, Ese Shaw, Gene Stupnitsky, Andrew Weinberg, Evan Williams; Amazon Freevee
Only Murders in the Building, Written by Matteo Borghese, Madeleine George, Sas E. Goldberg, Joshua Allen Griffith, John Hoffman, Elaine Ko, Noah Levine, Tess Morris, J.J. Philbin, Ben Philippe, Jake Schnesel, Ben Smith, Siena Streiber, Pete Swanson, Rob Turbovsky; Hulu
New Series
The Diplomat, Written by Eli Attie, Debora Cahn, Mia Chung, Anna Hagen, Amanda Johnson-Zetterstrom, Peter Noah; Netflix
Jury Duty, Written by Tanner Bean, Lee Eisenberg, Ma