‘Midnight in Paris,’ The Descendants’ win Writers Guild awards
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Woody Allen won the original screenplay award for ‘Midnight in Paris’ and Alexander Payne and Jim Rash & Nat Faxon won adapted screenplay for ‘The Descendants’ at the Writers Guild of America awards Sunday. Katie Galloway & Kelly Duane de la Vega received the documentary screenplay award for ‘Better This World.’
In television, ‘Modern Family’ came away with two awards -- for best comedy and best comedy episode -- as did ‘Homeland’ -- for new series and a tie for episodic drama -- and ‘Breaking Bad’ -- for drama series and a tie for episodic drama.
The awards were handed out simultaneously in Los Angeles at the Hollywood Palladium and in New York at the B.B. King Blues Club. Awards were also given for TV and new media writing. Here’s a look at the top film and television winners:
Film
Original Screenplay
‘Midnight in Paris,’ Woody Allen
Adapted Screenplay
‘The Descendants,’ screenplay by Alexander Payne and Nat Faxon & Jim Rash; based on the novel by Kaui Hart Hemmings
Documentary Screenplay
‘Better This World,’ written by Katie Galloway & Kelly Duane de la Vega
Television
Drama Series
‘Breaking Bad,’ Sam Catlin, Vince Gilligan, Peter Gould, Gennifer Hutchison, George Mastras, Thomas Schnauz, Moira Walley-Beckett
Comedy Series
‘Modern Family,’ 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
New Series
‘Homeland’ Henry Bromell, Alexander Cary, Alex Gansa, Howard Gordon, Chip Johannessen, Gideon Raff, Meredith Stiehm
Episodic Drama -- tie
“Box Cutter” (‘Breaking Bad’), written by Vince Gilligan
“The Good Soldier” (‘Homeland’), written by Henry Bromell
Episodic Comedy
“Caught in the Act” (‘Modern Family’), written by Steven Levitan & Jeffrey Richman
Long Form - Original
‘Cinema Verite,’ David Seltzer
Long Form - Adapted
‘Too Big to Fail,’ written by Peter Gould, based on the book written by Andrew Ross Sorkin
Animation
“Homer the Father” (‘The Simpsons’), written by Joel H. Cohen
Comedy/Variety (Including Talk) Series
‘The Colbert Report,’ writers: Michael Brumm, Stephen Colbert, Rich Dahm, Paul Dinello, Eric Drysdale, Rob Dubbin, Glenn Eichler, Dan Guterman, Peter Gwinn, Jay Katsir, Barry Julien, Frank Lesser, Opus Moreschi, Tom Purcell, Meredith Scardino, Scott Sherman, Max Werner; Comedy Central
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