WGA AWARDS

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WGA Award (Screen)

Adapted Screenplay

Winner
CODA
8.0 (179K)
Sian Heder
Dune: Première partie
8.0 (962K)
Jon Spaihts
Denis Villeneuve
Eric Roth
Nightmare Alley
7.0 (176K)
Guillermo del Toro
Kim Morgan
tick, tick... Boom!
7.5 (125K)
Steven Levenson
West Side Story
7.1 (102K)
Tony Kushner

Documentary Screenplay

Winner
Exposing Muybridge
6.8 (217)
Marc Shaffer
Becoming Cousteau
7.1 (1.6K)
Mark Monroe
Pax Wassermann
Like a Rolling Stone: The Life & Times of Ben Fong-Torres
7.3 (493)
Suzanne Joe Kai

Original Screenplay

Winner
Don't Look Up : Déni cosmique
7.2 (642K)
Adam McKay
David Sirota
Being the Ricardos
6.5 (46K)
Aaron Sorkin
The French Dispatch
7.1 (160K)
Wes Anderson
Roman Coppola
Hugo Guinness
Jason Schwartzman
La Méthode Williams
7.5 (148K)
Zach Baylin
Licorice Pizza
7.1 (149K)
Paul Thomas Anderson

WGA Award (TV)

Adapted Short Form New Media

Winner
Debunking Borat
5.6 (1.2K)
Robyn Adams
Paul Hogan
Jack Youngelson
Calls
7.7 (7.9K)
Fede Alvarez
Nick Cuse
Aidan Fitzgerald
Noah Gardner
Rodo Sayagues
The Expanse: One Ship
7.8 (506)
Wes Chatham
Julianna Damewood
Glenton Richards

Animation

Winner
Tuca & Bertie
7.4 (8.9K)
Lisa Hanawalt
For episode "Planteau (2021)".
Bob's Burgers
8.2 (98K)
Dan Fybel
For episode "An Incon-wheelie-ent Truth (2021)".
Bob's Burgers
8.2 (98K)
Jameel Saleem
For episode "Loft in Bedslation (2021)".
Les Griffin
8.1 (379K)
Dan Peck
For episode "Must Love Dogs (2021)".
Les Simpson
8.6 (455K)
Rob LaZebnik
Johnny LaZebnik
For episode "Portrait of a Lackey on Fire (2021)".
Les Simpson
8.6 (455K)
Elisabeth Kiernan Averick
For episode "The Star of the Backstage (2021)".

Children’s Episodic, Long Form and Specials

Winner
Fais-moi peur !
7.1 (3K)
JT Billings
Alex Ebel
For episode "The Tale of the Midnight Madness (1993)".
Donkey Hodie
7.2 (178)
Adam Rudman
David Rudman
Joey Mazzarino
For episode "A Big Favor for Grampy/A Fair Way to Bounce (2021)".
Helpsters
6.8 (248)
Annabeth Bondor-Stone
Connor White
Liz Hara
For episode "Park Ranger Percy/Lizard Lizzy (2021)".
Gaufrette et Mochi
7.2 (612)
Lyric Lewis
For episode "Rice (2021)".
De l'autre côté
6.1 (2.2K)
Mitali Jahagirdar
For episode "Which Witch? (2021)".

Comedy Series

Comedy/Variety Sketch Series

Digital News

Winner
Aaron Mak
For "Men’s Rights Asians” Think This Is Their Moment", Slate.com
Madeleine Ducharme
For "An Oral History of the Longest-Ever Broadway Shutdown", Slate.com
Jeremy Stahl
For "What if the Unorthodox Arizona Audit Declares Trump Won?", Slate.com
Christina Cauterucci
For "We Get to Hear Them Training to Kill Us", Slate.com
Katie Baker
For "Knives Out: Why ‘Hacks’ Works", TheRinger.com

Documentary Script – Current Events

Winner
Frontline
8.6 (2.5K)
Rick Young
For episode "The Healthcare Divide (2021)".
Frontline
8.6 (2.5K)
Marcela Gaviria
Martin Smith
For episode "The Jihadist (2021)".

Documentary Script – Other Than Current Events

Winner
Gene Tempest
Hemingway
8.1 (1.8K)
Geoffrey C. Ward
For episode "A Writer (1899-1929) (2021)".
Le Droit d'être américain: Histoire d'un combat
8.0 (1.6K)
Sasha Stewart
Robe Imbriano
For episode "Citizen (2021)".
Muhammad Ali
8.6 (1.5K)
David McMahon
Sarah Burns

Episodic Comedy

Winner
The Great
8.1 (60K)
Tony McNamara
For episode "Alone at Last (2021)".
Superstore
7.9 (78K)
Jonathan Green
Gabe Miller
Justin Spitzer
For episode "All Sales Final (2021)".
Dave (aka Lil Dicky)
8.2 (27K)
Luvh Rakhe
Lee Sung Jin
For episode "Enlightened Dave (2021)".
Only Murders in the Building
8.1 (187K)
Steve Martin
John Hoffman
For episode "True Crime (2021)"
Reservation Dogs
8.3 (27K)
Sterlin Harjo
Taika Waititi
For episode "F*ckin' Rez Dogs (2021)".
The Wonder Years
6.6 (5.9K)
Saladin K. Patterson
For episode "Pilot (2021)".

Episodic Drama

Winner
Succession
8.8 (320K)
Tony Roche
Susan Soon He Stanton
For episode "Retired Janitors of Idaho (2021)".
1883
8.7 (145K)
Taylor Sheridan
For episode "1883 (2021)".
This Is Us
8.7 (169K)
Eboni Freeman
Kay Oyegun
For episode "Birth Mother (2021)".
The Morning Show
8.1 (140K)
Kerry Ehrin
Scott Troy
For episode "La Amara Vita (2021)".
New Amsterdam
7.9 (54K)
David Schulner
For episode "The New Normal (2021)".
The Handmaid's Tale: La Servante écarlate
8.3 (283K)
Kira Snyder
For episode "Testimony (2021)".

News Script – Analysis, Feature, or Commentary

Winner
60 Minutes
7.4 (4.7K)
Katie Kerbstat
Scott Pelley
Nicole Young
For episode "Handcuffed to the Truth, Robots to the Rescue, Colson Whitehead (2021)".
The Unstudied Link Between the COVID Vaccine and Periods
Caitlin Bladt
Unpacking How Child Welfare and Foster Care Fails Black Children
Felice Leon
Joel Kahn
Woman in Motion: Star Trek's Nichelle Nichols and the Transformation of NASA
Dan Elias
Michelle Miller
The Fall of Kandahar
Ben C. Solomon
Amel Guettatfi

News Script – Regularly Scheduled, Bulletin, or Breaking Report

Winner
60 Minutes
7.4 (4.7K)
Katie Kerbstat
Scott Pelley
Nicole Young
For episode "The Unusual Recession/The Long Shot/Back to the Moon (2021)".
60 Minutes
7.4 (4.7K)
Oriana Zill de Granados
Sharyn Alfonsi
For episode "Democracy Lost/A New Model/The Future of Sapiens (2021).
60 Minutes
7.4 (4.7K)
Katie Kerbstat
Scott Pelley
Nicole Young
For episode "Presidential Inauguration Security/Siege on the US Capitol/Alex Smith's Comeback (2021)"

Original Long Form

Winner
Mare of Easttown
8.4 (206K)
Brad Ingelsby
American Horror Story
7.9 (355K)
Brad Falchuk
Manny Coto
Ryan Murphy
Kristen Reidel
Reilly Smith
Sermons de minuit
7.7 (159K)
Jamie Flanagan
Mike Flanagan
Elan Gale
Jeff Howard
Dani Parker
Them
7.5 (32K)
Christina Ham
Little Marvin
David Matthews
Dominic Orlando
Seth Zvi Rosenfeld
Francine Volpe
The White Lotus
8.0 (283K)
Mike White

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