Writers Guild Awards 2024: Top Winners Revealed – See the Full List

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The major film winners of the strike-affected 2024 Writers Guild Awards were Cord Jefferson’s American Fiction and Alexander Payne’s The Holdovers, which were announced on Sunday in New York and Los Angeles.

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Following his Oscar victory for adapted screenplay, Jefferson received the Paul Selvin Award from the WGA West. The bizarre, extravagant, and extended awards season concluded with concurrent ceremonies on both coasts for the WGA. After Justine Triet and Arthur Harari won the Original Screenplay Academy Award for Anatomy of a Fall, Payne exacted a little measure of revenge.

But the later script was not a Writers Guild Award contender. That’s because, in contrast to other guilds, the WGA considers any scripts for motion pictures that aren’t prepared in accordance with its Minimum Basic Agreement or a legitimate collective bargaining agreement with different affiliated nations to be disqualified.

Errol Morris later won the documentary prize for his Apple film, The Pigeon Tunnel.

Following the conclusion of the Oscars last month, the WGA will be the final organization to offer 2023–24 honors.

The Bear on FX, Succession on HBO, and Beef on Netflix concluded their respective awards-season sweepstakes in the categories of drama series, comedy series, and limited series. all won awards at the SAG Awards, Critics’ Choice, Golden Globes, and Emmys in the past few months.

Following Peacock’s Poker Face’s victory in the Episodic Comedy category, Succession was awarded the prize for Episodic Drama for the “Living+” episode.

HBO’s The Last of Us took home the WGA Award for New Series, while The Simpsons from Fox took home the Animation trophy for the episode “Carl Carlson Rides Again.”

On Sunday night, the guild honored and paid tribute to several people.

The leadership and members of IATSE, the Teamsters, SAG-AFTRA, and the American Federation of Musicians received the WGA East’s Richard B. Jablow Award in an unexpected celebration in recognition of their dedication and support during the 148-day WGA strike last year.

The WGA East also awarded the Ian McLellan Hunter Award for Career Achievement to Tony Gilroy, honored Philadelphia author Ron Nyswaner with the Walter Bernstein Award, and honored Wanda Sykes with the Herb Sargent Award for Comedy Excellence.

Creator of Designing Women and Evening Shade Linda Bloodworth Thomason received the highest prize from the WGA West, the Paddy Chayefsky Laurel Award for Television Writing Achievement. The WGAW Morgan Cox Award awarded to Chris Keyser and David A. Goodman, while Walter Hill, who wrote, directed, and/or produced a number of films, including 48 Hours, The Warriors, The Getaway, and many more, was given the Laurel Award for lifetime achievement.

Josh Gondelman emceed the New York ceremony in the Edison Ballroom in Manhattan, while Niecy Nash-Betts hosted the Los Angeles ceremony from the Hollywood Palladium. The 2024 Writers Guild Awards winners are as follows:

Original Screenplay

The Remainders, David Hemingson wrote the article; Focus Features

Adapted Screenplay

Based on Percival Everett’s novel Erasure, Cord Jefferson wrote the American fiction screenplay, which Amazon MGM Studios produced.

Documentary Screenplay

The Pigeon Tunnel, Written by Errol Morris; Apple Original Films

Animation

Loni Steele Sosthand wrote “Carl Carlson Rides Again” for The Simpsons; Fox

Episodic Drama

“Living+” (Succession), Written by Georgia Pritchett & Will Arbery; HBO | Max

Episodic Comedy

Nora and Lilla Zuckerman’s “Escape From Shit Mountain” (Poker Face); Peacock

Drama Series

Following, Written by Ted Cohen, Nate Elston, Francesca Gardiner, Callie Hersheway, Lucy Prebble, Georgia Pritchett, Tony Roche, Susan Soon He Stanton, Will Tracy, Jesse Armstrong, Miriam Battye, Jon Brown, Jamie Carragher, and Will Tracy; HBO | Max

Comedy Series

The Bear, Written by Karen Joseph Adcock, Joanna Calo, Kelly Galuska, Rene Gube, Sofya Levitsky-Weitz, Stacy Osei-Kuffour, Alex Russell, Catherine Schetina, and Christopher Storer; FX Networks

Limited Series

Conflict, Joanna Calo, Bathsheba Doran, Jean Kyoung Frazier, Niko Gutierrez-Kovner, Lee Sung Jin, Alice Ju, Carrie Kemper, Mike Makowsky, Marie Hanhnhon Nguyen, Kevin Rosen, and Alex Russell wrote the screenplay; Netflix

New Series

The Last of Us, Written by Neil Druckmann, Halley Gross, Craig Mazin, and Bo Shim; HBO | Max

Comedy/Variety Talk Series

Jonathon Appel, Ali Barthwell, Tim Carvell, Liz Hynes, Ryan Ken, Mark Kramer, Sofia Manfredi, John Oliver, Taylor Kay Phillips, and Chrissy Shackelford are the senior writers for Last Week Tonight with John Oliver, Senior Writers Daniel O’Brien, Owen Parsons, Charlie Redd, Joanna Rothkopf, and Seena Vali ; HBO | Max

Children’s Episodic, Long Form and Specials

“Romance Dawn” (One Piece), Written by Matt Owens & Steven Maeda; Netflix

Daytime Drama

Days in Our Lives, Creative Consultant Ryan Quan, Head Writer Ron Carlivati, Creative Consultant Sonja Alar, Jazmen Darnell Brown, Joanna Cohen, Carolyn Culliton, Richard Culliton, Christopher Dunn, Kirk Doering, Jamey Giddens, David Kreizman, Henry Newman, Dave Ryan, Katherine D. Schock, and Peacock are among the writers.

Comedy/Variety Specials

Sarah Silverman: A Person You Care About, Written by HBO | Max and Sarah Silverman

Comedy/Variety Sketch Series

I Think You Should Leave with Tim Robinson, Writers Tim Robinson, Zach Kanin, John Solomon, Gary Richardson, Reggie Henke, Brendan Jennings, and Patti Harrison; Netflix

Quiz and Audience Participation

The Pursuit, Writer in Chief David Levinson Wilk Writers: Ari Yolkut; NBC; Erik Agard; Kyle Beakley; Micki Boden; Megan Broussard; Jonathan Daly; Brian Greene; Robert King; Jason Lundell; Sierra Mannie; Amy Ozols; Bobby Patton; Ellen Teitel;