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Writers Guild Awards (WGA) - Movies from 2019

Highlights

Best Original Screenplay: Bong Joon-ho, Jin Won Han
Best Adapted Screenplay: Taika Waititi
Best Documentary Screenplay: Alex Gibney
Best Dramatic Series: Jesse Armstrong, Alice Birch, Jon Brown, Jonathan Glatzer, Cord Jefferson, Mary Laws, Lucy Prebble, Georgia Pritchett, Tony Roche, Gary Shteyngart, Susan Soon He Stanton, Will Tracy
Best Comedy Series: Alec Berg, Duffy Boudreau, Bill Hader, Emily Heller, Jason Kim, Taofik Kolade, Elizabeth Sarnoff
Best New Series: Lila Byock, Nick Cuse, Christal Henry, Branden Jacobs-Jenkins, Cord Jefferson, Jeff Jensen, Claire Kiechel, Damon Lindelof, Janine Nabers, Stacy Osei-Kuffour, Tom Spezialy, Carly Wray
Best Screenplay in TV - Animation: “Thanksgiving of Horror”. Dan Vebber
Best Screenplay (Long Form - Original): Craig Mazin

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Best Screenplay (Long Form - Adaptation): Debora Cahn, Joel Fields, Ike Holter, Thomas Kail, Steven Levenson, Charlotte Stoudt, Tracey Scott Wilson
Best Episodic Drama: “Tern Haven”. Will Tracy
Best Episodic Comedy: “Pilot”. Liz Feldman

Most awarded films

Most nominated films

Best Original Screenplay -

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Winner

Bong Joon-ho, Jin Won Han

Parasite (Gisaengchung)
Bong Joon-ho

Song Kang-ho, Lee Sun-Kyun, Jang Hye-jin ...

Nominees

Sam Mendes, Krysty Wilson-Cairns for 1917
Emily Halpern, Sarah Haskins, Katie Silberman, Susanna Fogel for Booksmart
Rian Johnson for Knives Out
Noah Baumbach for Marriage Story

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Winner

Taika Waititi

Jojo Rabbit
Taika Waititi

Roman Griffin Davis, Scarlett Johansson, Thomasin McKenzie ...

Nominees

Micah Fitzerman-Blue, Noah Harpster for A Beautiful Day in the Neighborhood
Steven Zaillian for The Irishman
Todd Phillips, Scott Silver for Joker
Greta Gerwig for Little Women

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Winner

Alex Gibney

The Inventor: Out for Blood in Silicon Valley
Alex Gibney

Documentary, Self: Elizabeth Holmes

Nominees

Alex Gibney for Citizen K
Mark Jonathan Harris for Foster
Robert Seidman, Oren Rudavsky for Joseph Pulitzer: Voice of the People
Lauren Greenfield for The Kingmaker

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Winner

Jesse Armstrong, Alice Birch, Jon Brown, Jonathan Glatzer, Cord Jefferson, Mary Laws, Lucy Prebble, Georgia Pritchett, Tony Roche, Gary Shteyngart, Susan Soon He Stanton, Will Tracy

Succession (TV Series)
Jesse Armstrong (Creator), Adam McKay ...

Brian Cox, Jeremy Strong, Sarah Snook ...

2 nominations - 2 awards

Nominees

James Graham, David Hancock, Peter Morgan for The Crown (TV Series)
Marissa Jo Cerar, Yahlin Chang, Nina Fiore, Dorothy Fortenberry, Jacey Heldrich, John Hererra, Lynn Renee Maxcy, Bruce Miller, Kira Snyder, Eric Tuchman for The Handmaid's Tale (TV Series)
Pamela Cederquist, Joshua Donen, Marcus Gardley, Shaun Grant, Liz Hannah, Phillip Howze, Jason Johnson, Doug Jung, Colin J. Louro, Alex Metcalf , Courtenay Miles, Dominic Orlando, Joe Penhall for Mindhunter (TV Series)
Lila Byock, Nick Cuse, Christal Henry, Branden Jacobs-Jenkins, Cord Jefferson, Jeff Jensen, Claire Kiechel, Damon Lindelof, Janine Nabers, Stacy Osei-Kuffour, Tom Spezialy, Carly Wray for Watchmen (TV Miniseries)

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Winner

Alec Berg, Duffy Boudreau, Bill Hader, Emily Heller, Jason Kim, Taofik Kolade, Elizabeth Sarnoff

Barry (TV Series)
Alec Berg (Creator), Bill Hader (Creator) ...

Bill Hader, Henry Winkler, Stephen Root ...

Nominees

Kate Fodor, Noah Gardenswartz, Daniel Goldfarb, Alison Leiby, Dan Palladino, Sono Patel, Amy Sherman-Palladino, Jordan Temple for The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel (TV Series)
Jeff Chan, Maya Erskine, Anna Konkle, Gabe Liedman, Stacy Osei-Kuffour, Andrew Rhymer, Jessica Watson, Sam Zvibleman for PEN15 (TV Series)
Jocelyn Bioh, Flora Birnbaum, Cirocco Dunlap, Leslye Headland, Natasha Lyonne, Amy Poehler, Tami Sagher, Allison Silverman for Russian Doll (TV Series)
Gabrielle Allan-Greenberg, Rachel Axler, Emilia Barrosse, Ted Cohen, Jennifer Crittenden, Alex Gregory, Steve Hely, Peter Huyck, Erik Kenward, Billy Kimball, David Mandel for Veep (TV Series)

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Winner

Lila Byock, Nick Cuse, Christal Henry, Branden Jacobs-Jenkins, Cord Jefferson, Jeff Jensen, Claire Kiechel, Damon Lindelof, Janine Nabers, Stacy Osei-Kuffour, Tom Spezialy, Carly Wray

Watchmen (TV Miniseries)
Damon Lindelof (Creator), Steph Green ...

Regina King, Jeremy Irons, Yahya Abdul-Mateen II ...

2 nominations - 1 award

Nominees

Rebecca Addelman, Njeri Brown, Liz Feldman, Kelly Hutchinson, Anthony King, Emma Rathbone, Kate Robin, Abe Sylvia for Dead to Me (TV Series)
Jeff Chan, Maya Erskine, Anna Konkle, Gabe Liedman, Stacy Osei-Kuffour, Andrew Rhymer, Jessica Watson, Sam Zvibleman for PEN15 (TV Series)
Jocelyn Bioh, Flora Birnbaum, Cirocco Dunlap, Leslye Headland, Natasha Lyonne, Amy Poehler, Tami Sagher, Allison Silverman for Russian Doll (TV Series)
Jesse Armstrong, Sam Bain, Jemaine Clement, Josh Lieb, Iain Morris, Stefani Robinson, Duncan Sarkies, Marika Sawyer, Tom Scharpling, Paul Simms,Taika Waititi for What We Do in the Shadows (TV Series)

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Winner

“Thanksgiving of Horror”. Dan Vebber

The Simpsons (TV Series)
Matt Groening (Creator), Sam Simon (Creator) ...

Animation

3 nominations - 1 award

Nominees

“Bed, Bob & Beyond". Kelvin Yu for Bob's Burgers (TV Series)
“The Gene Mile”. Steven Davis for Bob's Burgers (TV Series)
“Go Big or Go Homer”. John Frink for The Simpsons (TV Series)
“A Horse Walks Into A Rehab”.y Elijah Aron for BoJack Horseman (TV Series)
“Livin’ La Pura Vida”. Brian Kelley for The Simpsons (TV Series)

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Winner

Craig Mazin

Chernobyl (TV Miniseries)
Craig Mazin (Creator), Johan Renck

Jared Harris, Stellan Skarsgård, Emily Watson ...

Nominees

Max Borenstein, Alessandra DiMona, Shannon Goss, Steven Hanna, Naomi Iizuka, Benjamin Klein, Danielle Roderick, Tony Tost, Alexander Woo for The Terror: Infamy (TV Miniseries)
Tom Flynn for Togo
Alessandra DiMona, Graham Gordy, Gabriel Hobson, David Milch, Nic Pizzolatto for True Detective III (TV Miniseries)

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Winner

Debora Cahn, Joel Fields, Ike Holter, Thomas Kail, Steven Levenson, Charlotte Stoudt, Tracey Scott Wilson

Fosse/Verdon (TV Miniseries)
Thomas Kail (Creator), Steven Levenson (Creator), Thomas Kail

Sam Rockwell, Michelle Williams, Kelli Barrett ...

Nominees

Vince Gilligan for El Camino: A Breaking Bad Movie
John Harrington Bland, Laura Eason , Tom McCarthy, Alex Metcalf , Gabriel Sherman, Jennifer Stahl for The Loudest Voice (TV Miniseries)
Michael Chabon, Susannah Grant, Becky Mode, Jennifer Schuur, Ayelet Waldman for Unbelievable (TV Miniseries)

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Winner

“Tern Haven”. Will Tracy

Succession (TV Series)
Jesse Armstrong (Creator), Adam McKay ...

Brian Cox, Jeremy Strong, Sarah Snook ...

2 nominations - 2 awards

Nominees

“407 Proxy Authentication Required”. Sam Esmail for Mr. Robot (TV Series)
“A Good Man is Hard to Find”. Joshua Marston for Ray Donovan (TV Series)
“Mirror Mirror”. Dominic Orlando & Claire Kiechel for The OA (TV Series)
“Moondust”. Peter Morgan for The Crown (TV Series)
“Our Little Island Girl”. Eboni Freeman for This Is Us (TV Series)

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Winner

“Pilot”. Liz Feldman

Dead to Me (TV Series)
Liz Feldman (Creator), Geeta Patel ...

Christina Applegate, Linda Cardellini, James Marsden ...

2 nominations - 1 award

Nominees

“Here’s Where We Get Off”. Jenji Kohan for Orange Is the New Black (TV Series)
“It’s Comedy or Cabbage”. Amy Sherman-Palladino for The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel (TV Series)
“Nice Knowing You”. Timothy Greenberg for Living with Yourself (TV Series)
“The Stinker Thinker”. Robert F. Funke & Matt Lutsky for On Becoming a God in Central Florida (TV Miniseries)
“Veep”. David Mandel for Veep (TV Series)

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