News Release: February 13, 2003. John Gay to Receive Edmund H. North Award. 2003 Award Recipient....The award will be presented at the 55th Annual Writers Guild Awards ceremony on Saturday, March 8, 2003...The last person to receive the North Award was Christopher Knopf, in 2002.

News Release: November 10, 2008....Linda Woolverton Receives AWC Animation Writing Award for Lifetime Achievement. 2008 Award Recipient....The musical production of Beauty and the Beast ran for 5,464 performances between 1994 and 2007, becoming

star Hugh Jackman, who portrayed the iconic Wolverine character in blockbuster superhero movies from 2000...found time to edit Alan Moore’s seminal Watchmen comic book series, which was later adapted into a 2009...In 2008, Wein was inducted into the Will Eisner Comic Book Hall of Fame.

News Release: January 07, 2005....Watch The Speech. 2004 Award Recipient. © 2026 Writers Guild of America West. All rights reserved.

News Release: January 22, 2002. Television Writer D.C....Fontana to Receive Morgan Cox Award for Service. 2002 Award Recipient....year’s recipient of the Morgan Cox Award, at the Guild’s 54th awards ceremony on Saturday, March 2, 2002...recipient of the Morgan Cox Award, at the Guild’s 54th awards ceremony on Saturday, March 2, 2002

News Release: January 28, 2009....Italian Screenwriter Suso D’amico to Receive WGAW’s Inaugurual Jean Renoir Award. 2009 Award Recipient...Along with other honorees, D’Amico will be feted at the 2009 Writers Guild Awards’ West Coast ceremony

politics, received a record-breaking 16 Emmy nominations and won the Emmy for Outstanding TV Movie in 2005...Nagle a Writers Guild Award (Long Form – Original), as well as Humanitas and Pen Award nominations in 2006...She also received the 2007 The Academy Honors Award from the Television Academy of Arts and Sciences

News Release: February 25, 2002....David Angell to be Awarded WGAw's Valentine Davies Award Posthumously. 2002 Award Recipient....posthumously from the Writers Guild of America, west at the Guild’s 54th awards ceremony on Saturday, March 2, 2002

News Release: December 11, 2006....Acclaimed Screenwriter-Director Robert Benton to Receive Screen Laurel Award at 2007 Writers Guild Awards.... 2007 Award Recipient.

News Release: February 18, 2003. David E....Kelley to Receive WGAw's Paddy Chayefsky Television Laurel Award. 2003 Award Recipient....for Television from the Writers Guild of America, west at the annual WGA Awards ceremony, March 8, 2003

News Release: November 07, 2005....Animation Writers Caucus Honors Scribes Al Jean and Michael Reiss with Lifetime Achievement Award. 2005...veteran animation writers Al Jean and Michael Reiss at its annual reception held Wednesday, November 9, 2005

In recent years, he has directed telefilms such as Coast to Coast (2003) and Winchell (1998), as well...nominated for a Golden Berlin Bear Award at the 1996 Berlin Film Festival, and the documentary Yippee (2006...Designer Guild’s Distinguished Director Award in 1999, and the Cinema Audio Society’s Filmmaker Award in 2009

News Release: January 18, 2018....Liz Hannah and Josh Singer to Receive WGAW’S 2018 Paul Selvin Award for The Post. Liz Hannah....Watch The Speech. 2018 Award Recipient.

screenwriter and director David Lynch—writer of Blue Velvet (1986), Wild at Heart (1990), Mulholland Drive (2001...In 2006, Lynch wrote and directed his final film, 2006’s Inland Empire.

News Release: November 12, 2009....Berkowitz to Receive WGAW’s 12th Annual Animation Writers Caucus Writing Award for Lifetime Achievement. 2009...A two-time Daytime Emmy winner (shared for Batman Beyond in 2001 and The New Batman/Superman Adventures

News Release: December 01, 2003. James D....Buchanan to Receive Morgan Cox Award from Writers Guild of America, west. 2004 Award Recipient....be presented at the Guild's first-annual Honorary Service Award Luncheon on Wednesday, December 3, 2003...presented at the Guild's first-annual Honorary Service Award Luncheon on Wednesday, December 3, 2003

for Elaine May and Warren Beatty, Based Upon a Play by Harry Segall), which was remade years later as 2001...California Suite (1978), In the Spirit (1990), and co-starring opposite Woody Allen in Small Time Crooks (2000...In 2000, she shared the U.S.

News Release: November 17, 2005. Veteran Writer/Producer Stephen J....Cannell to Receive Paddy Chayefsky Television Laurel at 2006 Writers Guild Awards....Watch The Speech. 2006 Award Recipient. Award-winning television writer/producer Stephen J.

News Release: February 03, 2003. Mel Brooks to Receive Screen Laurel Award. 2003 Award Recipient....1950s; shortly after, he teamed up with Carl Reiner to write and perform the Grammy Award-winning "2000

Massimo De Rita & director Guiseppe Tornatore, was recently adapted by writer-director Kirk Jones for the 2009...In addition, Guerra adapted his own children’s book, Il generale e Buonaparte, for the 2003 animated...In 2009, the WGAW’s inaugural Jean Renoir Award honoree was fellow Italian screenwriter Suso D'Amico,