The award season continued at a brisk pace on Sunday with the first bicastal Writers’ Guild Awards, presented by the newly coined WGA member Kal Penn. “I am very proud to host the first WGA ceremony being presented jointly by Writers ‘Guild East and Writers’ Guild West,” he said in his monologue. “We combined the two shows, because, despite all of our differences, the only thing we can agree on is: the world doesn’t need another extra award. So, instead of having multiple programs, we just thought it would be more efficient to combine them into one. Who said we are against packaging? “
As for the night’s prizes, Emerald Fennell’s Promising young woman received the Original Screenplay award, while Borat Subsequent MoviefilmSacha Baron Cohen and his many collaborators received the same for Adapted Script. In the television categories, Ted Lasso took home Best Comedy Series and Best New Series, while this year’s Drama Series Award went to The crown. You can check out the other projects that received the WGA 2021 Award and the writers behind them below.
Palm Springs (Screenplay by Andy Siara; Story by Andy Siara and Max Barbakow)
Promising young woman (Emerald Fennell)
Metal sound (Screenplay by Darius Marder and Abraham Marder; Story by Darius Marder and Derek Cianfrance)
The Chicago Trial 7 (Aaron Sorkin)
Judas and the Black Messiah (Screenplay by Will Berson and Shaka King; Story by Will Berson and Shaka King and Kenny Lucas and Keith Lucas)
Borat Subsequent Moviefilm (Screenplay by Sacha Baron Cohen & Anthony Hines & Dan Swimer & Peter Baynham & Erica Rivinoja & Dan Mazer & Jena Friedman & Lee Kern; Story by Sacha Baron Cohen & Anthony Hines & Dan Swimer & Nina Pedrad, based on characters created by Sacha Baron Cohen)
Black Bottom by Ma Rainey (Screenplay by Ruben Santiago-Hudson, based on the play written by August Wilson)
World News (Screenplay by Paul Greengrass and Luke Davies, based on the novel by Paulette Jiles Paul)
One night in miami (Screenplay by Kemp Powers, based on the play by Kemp Powers)
The white tiger (Screenplay by Ramin Bahrani, based on the book by Aravind Adiga)
All In: The struggle for democracy (Jack Youngelson)
The dissident (Mark Monroe and Bryan Fogel)
Herb Alpert is … (John Scheinfeld)
Red Penguins (Gabe Polsky)
Totally under control (Alex Gibney)
Better to call Saul (Ann Cherkis, Vince Gilligan, Peter Gould, Ariel Levine, Heather Marion, Thomas Schnauz, Gordon Smith, Alison Tatlock)
The boys (Eric Kripke, Ellie Monahan, Anslem Richardson, Craig Rosenberg, Michael Saltzman, Rebecca Sonnenshine)
The crown (Peter Morgan and Jonathan Wilson)
The Mandalorian (Rick Famuyiwa, Jon Favreau, Dave Filoni)
Ozark (Laura Deeley, Bill Dubuque, Paul Kolsby, Miki Johnson, Chris Mundy, John Shiban, Ning Zhou, Martin Zimmerman)
Curb Your Enthusiasm (Larry David, Justin Hurwitz, Steve Leff, Carol Leifer, Jeff Schaffer)
The big (Vanessa Alexander, Tony McNamara, Tess Morris, Amelia Roper, Gretel Vella, James Wood)
PEN15 (Alyssa DiMari, Maya Erskine, Anna Konkle, Josh Levine, Gabe Liedman, Rachele Lynn, Vera Santamaria, Diana Tay, Sam Zvibleman)
Ted Lasso (Jane Becker, Leann Bowen, Brett Goldstein, Brendan Hunt, Joe Kelly, Bill Lawrence, Jamie Lee, Jason Sudeikis, Phoebe Walsh, Bill Wrubel)
What we do in the shadows (Jake Bender, Jemaine Clement, Zach Dunn, Joseph Furey, Shana Gohd, Sam Johnson, Chris Marcil, William Meny, Sarah Naftalis, Stefani Robinson, Marika Sawyer, Paul Simms)
Ted Lasso (Jane Becker, Leann Bowen, Brett Goldstein, Brendan Hunt, Joe Kelly, Bill Lawrence, Jamie Lee, Jason Sudeikis, Phoebe Walsh, Bill Wrubel)
Dave (Dave Burd, Vanessa McGee, Saladin Patterson, Luvh Rakhe, Alex Russell, Jeff Schaffer, Max Searle, Yamara Taylor)
The flight attendant (Kara Lee Corthron, Michael Foley, Ryan Jennifer Jones, Ticona S. Joy, Meredith Lavender, Jess Meyer, Daniele Nathanson, Marcie Ulin, Ian Weinreich, Steve Yockey)
The big (Vanessa Alexander, Tony McNamara, Tess Morris, Amelia Roper, Gretel Vella, James Wood)
Lovecraft Country (Misha Green, Shannon Houston, Jonathan Kidd, Kevin Lau, Ihuoma Ofordire, Wes Taylor, Sonya Winton)
Lady america (Tanya Barfield, Joshua Griffith, Sharon Hoffman, Boo Killebrew, Micah Schraft, April Shih, Dahvi Waller)
Dirty John: the story of Betty Broderick (Aaron Carew, Alexandra Cunningham, Lex Edness, Kevin J. Hynes, Juliet Lashinsky-Revene, Stacy A. Littlejohn, Katherine B. McKenna)
Hollywood (Ian Brennan, Janet Mock, Ryan Murphy, Reilly Smith)
Safety (Nick Santora)
Uncle frank (Alan Ball)
The Queen’s Gambit (Scott Frank, Allan Scott, based on the novel by Walter Tevis)
Bad Education (Mike Makowsky, based on the New York Magazine article “The Bad Superintendent” by Robert Kolker)
Clouds (Screenplay by Kara Holden; Story by Casey La Scala & Patrick Kopka and Kara Holden, based on the book Fly a little higher by Laura Sobiech)
The good lord bird (Jeff Augustin, Ethan Hawke, Erika L. Johnson, Mark Richard, Kristen SaBerre, Lauren Signorino, based on the James McBride novel)
Small fires everywhere (Harris Danow, Rosa Handelman, Shannon Houston, Attica Locke, Raamla Mohamed, Amy Talkington, Liz Tigelaar, Nancy Won, based on the novel by Celeste Ng)
“Xerox from a Xerox,” BoJack Horseman (Nick Adams)
“A Springfield Summer Christmas For Christmas”, The Simpsons (Jessica Conrad)
“Bart the bad guy”, The Simpsons (Dan Vebber)
“Me, Carumbus,” The Simpsons (Cesar Mazariegos)
“Play with you for being a friend”, Bob burgers (Katie Crown)
“Three dreams denied”, The Simpsons (Danielle Weisberg)
“Fire Pink,” Ozark (Miki Johnson)
“Bad Choice Road,” Better to call Saul (Thomas Schnauz)
“JMM,” Better to call Saul (Alison Tatlock)
“Created by wolves,” Created by wolves (Peter Gould and Ariel Levine)
“Problems don’t always last”, Euphoria (Sam Levinson)
“The big,” The big (Tony McNamara)
“Grandma & Chill,” Awkwafina Is Nora From Queens (Kyle Lau)
“It’s not you, it’s Me,” Dead to me (Liz Feldman and Kelly Hutchinson
“Pilot,” Ted Lasso (Jason Sudeikis and Bill Lawrence teleplay; Jason Sudeikis and Bill Lawrence and Brendan Hunt and Joe Kelly story)
“The tank,” Grace and Frankie (Alex Kavallierou)
“Trick,” High maintenance (Isaac Oliver)
Desus and Mero (Daniel “Desus Nice” Baker, Claire Friedman, Ziwe Fumudoh, Josh Gondelman, Robert Kornhauser, Joel “The Kid Mero” Martinez, Heben Nigatu, Mike Pielocik, Julia Young)
Complete front with Samantha Bee (Kristen Bartlett, Samantha Bee, Pat Cassels, Sean Crespo, Mike Drucker, Mathan Erhardt, Joe Grossman, Miles Kahn, Sahar Rizvi, Chris Thompson, Holly Walker, Alison Zeidman)
Last week tonight with John Oliver (Johnathan Appel, Ali Barthwell, Tim Carvell, Liz Hynes, Greg Iwinski, Mark Kramer, Daniel O’Brien, John Oliver, Owen Parsons, Charlie Redd, Joanna Rothkopf, Chrissy Shackelford, Ben Silva, Seena Vali)
Late night with Seth Meyers, (Principal editor: Alex Baze; Writing supervised by Seth Reiss; Writing of the closest look supervised by Sal Gentile; Writers: Jermaine Affonso, Karen Chee, Bryan Donaldson, Matt Goldich, Dina Gusovsky, Jenny Hagel, Allny Hord, Mike Karnell, John Lutz, Seth Meyers, Ian Morgan, John Mulaney, Amber Ruffin, Mike Scollins, Mike Shoemaker, Ben Warheit, Jeff Wright)
The last show with Stephen Colbert (Lead writers: Ariel Dumas, Jay Katsir; Writers: Delmonte Bent, Michael Brumm, River Clegg, Aaron Cohen, Nicole Conlan, Stephen T. Colbert, Paul Dinello, Glenn Eichler, Django Gold, Gabe Gronli, Barry Julien, Michael Cruz Kayne , Eliana Kwartler, Matt Lappin, Felipe Torres Medina, Opus Moreschi, Asher Perlman, Tom Purcell, Kate Sidley, Brian Stack, John Thibodeaux, Steve Waltien)
Stephen Colbert’s election night in 2020: the last resistance of democracy: rebuilding America again, better in 2020 (Main editors: Ariel Dumas, Jay Katsir; Writers: Delmonte Bent, Michael Brumm, River Clegg, Aaron Cohen, Stephen T. Colbert, Nicole Conlan, Paul Dinello, Glenn Eichler, Django Gold, Gabe Gronli, Barry Julien, Michael Cruz Kayne, Eliana Kwartler, Matt Lappin, Felipe Torres Medina , Opus Moreschi, Asher Perlman, Tom Purcell, Kate Sidley, Brian Stack, John Thibodeaux, Steve Waltien)
30 Rock: a unique special (Tina Fey and Robert Carlock)
Father of the Bride Part 3 (ish) (Nancy Meyers)
Parties Annually (Principal editor: Bess Kalb; Writers: Karen Chee, Akilah Green, Franchesca Ramsey, Jocelyn Richard)
At home with Amy Sedaris (Jeremy Beiler, Cole School, Peter Grosz, Amy Sedaris)
How to do with John Wilson (Michael Koman, John Wilson)
The Amber Ruffin Show (Principal writer: Jenny Hagel; Writers: Demi Adejuyigbe, Shantira Jackson, Dewayne Perkins, Amber Ruffin; Additional material by John Lutz)