Writers Guild awards 2017: Moonlight and Arrival land top prizes

Moonlight and Arrival land top prizes at Writers Guild awards

Courtesy of https://www.theguardian.com/film/2017/feb/20/moonlight-arrival-writers-guild-of-america-awards-barry-jenkins-eric-heisserer

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