Moonlight and Arrival land top prizes at Writers Guild awards
Barry Jenkins' coming of age tale won best original screenplay while Eric Heisserer's Sci-Fi drama took best adapted screenplay at the WGAs.
TV, radio, new media and video games
Best comedy/variety sketch series:
Saturday Night Live
Best comedy/variety
talk series: Last Week Tonight With John Oliver
Best drama series: The
Americans
Best children’s episode:
Gortimer Gibbon’s Life on Normal Street (Mel v The Night Mare of Normal Street)
Best children’s
long form: Once Upon a Sesame Street Christmas
Best daytime
drama: General Hospital
Best on-air
promotion (television, new media or radio): CBS
On-Air Reel
Best TV
news script – analysis, feature or commentary: CBS
Sunday Morning Almanac
Best TV
news script – regularly scheduled, bulletin or breaking report: Muhammad
Ali: Remembering a Legend
Best television
graphic art and animation: The Real History of Cinco de Mayo
Best comedy/variety
special: Triumph’s Election Special
Outstanding achievement in video game writing:
Uncharted 4: A Thief’s End
Best original
short form new media: The Commute (The Party)
Best quiz
and audience participation: Hollywood Game Night
Best radio
documentary: Chernobyl: 30 Years Later
Best 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
Best animation: BoJack Horseman (Stop the Presses)
Best documentary
script – current events: Frontline, The
Choice & Inside Assad’s Syria
Best documentary
script – other than current events: Jackie Robinson,
Part One
Best adapted
short form new media: Fear the Walking
Dead
Best adapted
long form: The People v OJ Simpson:
American Crime Story
Best original
long form: Confirmation
Best new
series: Atlanta
Best comedy
series: Atlanta
Best episodic
comedy: Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt
(Kimmy Goes on a Play Date)
Best episodic
drama: This Is Us (The Trip)
International
screenwriting achievement: Abbas Kiarostami
Morgan Cox award: Dan Wilcox
Paul Selvin award: Susannah Grant
Screenwriting
achievement: Oliver Stone
Animation writing
award for lifetime achievement: Mike Judge
Television writing
achievement: Aaron Sorkin
Humanitarian
service: Richard Curtis
