News Release: April 21, 2008....On The Waterfront Screenwriter Budd Schulberg to Receive WGAW's 2008 Screen Laurel Award. 2008 Award...Acclaimed screenwriter Budd Schulberg will receive the Writers Guild of America West's prestigious 2008

Affleck made his directorial debut in 2007 with the feature film Gone Baby Gone, for which he earned...Additionally, he won the Breakthrough Director of the Year Award at the 2007 Hollywood Film Festival....In 2000, Affleck partnered with Matt Damon, Chris Moore and Sean Bailey to form LivePlanet, Inc.

News Release: December 15, 2005....Night, and Good Luck Screenwriters George Clooney and Grant Heslov to Receive Paul Selvin Award at 2006...Writers Guild Awards. 2006 Award Recipient.

Screenwriter and LGBTQ Activist Dustin Lance Black to Receive WGAW’s 2018 Valentine Davies Award for...Watch The Speech. 2018 Award Recipient....Black will be honored at the 2018 Writers Guild Awards West Coast ceremony on Sunday, February 11, at

News Release: October 05, 2004....Veteran TV Writer Irma Kalish to Receive Valentine Davies Award From Writers Guild of America, west. 2005...Guild of America, west at the Guild's second-annual Honorary Service Awards luncheon held November 16, 2004

In 2002, Levinson received the ACE Golden Eddie Filmmaker of the year award honoring his filmmaking career...With the release of the dark comedy Man of the Year in 2006, Levinson returned to the theme of politics...In 2008, Levinson directed the adaptation of Art Linson’s Hollywood tell-all book, What Just Happened

Kaufman’s 2001 screenplay, Human Nature, marked his first pairing with surrealist director Michel Gondry...In 2002 Kaufman wrote two high-profile adaptations: Confessions of a Dangerous Mind, based on Chuck Barris...His second collaboration with Michel Gondry, 2004’s Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind won Kaufman

In addition to garnering a 2006 Writers Guild Award for Episodic Comedy for her Weeds episode, “You Can...2014 and 2015; New Series, 2014; Episodic Comedy for the show’s pilot, 2014), Weeds (Comedy Series, 2009...Comedy Series and Outstanding Writing for a Comedy Series, 2014), Weeds (Outstanding Comedy Series, 2009

Stone’s additional directing credits include World Trade Center (2006), depicting the true story of our...nation’s few 9/11 survivors; 2008’s no-holds-barred political biopic W., his satirical skewering of...His documentaries include a trio of films focusing on late Cuban leader Fidel Castro (2003’s Comandante

News Release: January 10, 2007. Former WGAW Board Member Daryl G....Nickens Named Morgan Cox Honoree at 2007 Writers Guild Awards. 2007 Award Recipient....Nickens is slated to receive the Morgan Cox Honorary Service Award at the upcoming 2007 Writers Guild...Nickens is slated to receive the Morgan Cox Honorary Service Award at the upcoming 2007 Writers Guild...Awards ceremony on Sunday, February 11, 2007, recognizing Nickens' decades of dedicated service

Meyers’ unparalleled run of hit comedies she has written, directed, and produced includes: 2003’s Something...Musical or Comedy), as well as an Academy Award nomination; perennial seasonal favorite The Holiday (2006...Winslet, Cameron Diaz, Jude Law, and Jack Black; life-after-divorce romantic comedy It’s Complicated (2009

AWC’s 2011 meeting, reception, and awards ceremony held tonight at WGAW headquarters in Los Angeles. 2003...in 1999 (Outstanding Special Class Animated Program, the other for Pinky, Elmyra, and the Brain in 2000...He also co-authored the 2009 autobiography of voiceover legend June Foray, “Did You Grow Up with Me,

In 2001, he traveled to Kampala, Uganda under the auspices of the United Nations International Fund for...The following year, he wrote and directed 2002’s unconventional Ten, which largely abandoned screenwriting...In 2004, he made 10 on Ten, a kind of personal journal-cum-meta-documentary in which he shares ten lessons

News Release: January 03, 2007....Acclaimed Screen and TV Writer Larry Gelbart to Receive Valentine Davies Honor at 2007 Writers Guild...Awards. 2007 Award Recipient.

Selvin Award, honoring scripts which embody constitutional and civil rights, and the Humanitas Prize in 2000...In 2006, he shared Oscar, Golden Globe, and Writers Guild Award nominations for the adapted screenplay...(screenplay by Tony Kushner and Eric Roth, based on the novel “Vengeance” by George Jonas) and, in 2009

News Release: October 07, 2004. Hollywood Icon Fay Kanin to Receive Edmund H....North Award at Writers Guild's Second Annual Honorary Service Awards. 2005 Award Recipient....Guild of America, west at the WGAw's second-annual Honorary Service Awards reception held November 16, 2004

creative collaboration: the playwright-screenwriter and director-producer first worked together on 2005...after its original theatrical run as a major HBO miniseries directed by Mike Nichols, earning Kushner a 2004...Guild Award for Long Form Adapted for “Millennium Approaches – Part I,” “Perestroika – Part II,” and a 2004

News Release: April 15, 2008....Oscar-Winning Writer-Director Brad Bird to Receive WGAW's AWC Animation Writing Award. 2007 Award Recipient...Bird's two-decade career and craft will be feted at the WGA West's 2008 Honorary Awards Luncheon on April

a remake of Jimmy Stewart’s classic comedy Harvey for Netflix, and have Disenchanted, the sequel to 2007...1990, Weiss has served the Guild extensively over the years, serving on the Board of Directors from 2004...-05, as Vice President for two terms from 2005-2009, and as Secretary-Treasurer from 2009-2011.

career, from Go to Frankenweenie, August first launched his own screenwriting blog, johnaugust.com , in 2003...Beginning with his acclaimed screenplay adaption for 2003's Big Fish (Based on the Novel by Daniel Wallace...followed by writing or co-writing both films in the Charlie's Angels blockbuster action franchise, 2000