At tonight's WGA Awards, both Midnight in Paris and The Descendants won the feature awards for original and adapted screenplays, respectively. Woody Allen, of course, wrote and directed the former, while the latter was adapted from the Kaui Hart Hemmings novel by director Alexander Payne, Nat Faxon, and Jim Rash, who you'll recognize as comedic tornado Dean Pelton on NBC's dearly-missed-at-the-moment Community.
The Artist, which has emerged as the heavy favorite over the course of this awards cycle, was not eligible for a WGA nomination, but Midnight in Paris beat out the likes of 50/50, Bridesmaids, Young Adult, and Win Win. The Descendants, meanwhile, was up against Hugo, The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo, The Help, and Moneyball.
The Help screenwriter and director Tate Taylor received the Paul Selvin Special Achievement Award tonight. Forrest Gump, Munich, and The Curious Case of Benjamin Button scripter Eric Roth was honored with Laurel award for Screen.
Here's the full list of winners in all categories, thanks to The Wrap:
Screen categories:
Original Screenplay: "Midnight in Paris," Woody Allen
Adapted Screenplay: "The Descendants," written by Alexander Payne and Nat Faxon & Jim Rash
Documentary Screenplay: "Better This World," Katie Galloway and Kelly Duane de la Vega
Television categories:
Drama Series:
Comedy Series: "Modern Family," written by Cindy Chupack, Paul Corrigan, Abraham Higginbotham, Ben Karlin, Elaine Ko, Carol Leifer, Steven Levitan, Christopher Lloyd, Dan O'Shannon, Jeffrey Richman, Brad Walsh, Ilana Wernick, Bill Wrubel, Danny Zuker
New Series: "Homeland," written by Henry Bromell, Alexander Cary, Alex Gansa, Howard Gordon, Chip Johannessen, Gideon Raff, Meredith Stiehm
Episodic Drama:
Episodic Comedy: "Caught in the Act" ("Modern Family"), written by Steven Levitan and Jeffrey Richman
Long Form – Original: "Cinema Verite," written by David Seltzer
Long Form – Adapted: "Too Big to Fail," written by Peter Gould
Animation: "Homer the Father" ("The Simpsons"), written by Joel H. Cohen
Comedy/Variety (Including Talk) Series: "The Colbert Report," written by Michael Brumm, Stephen Colbert, Rich Dahm, Paul Dinello, Eric Drysdale, Rob Dubbin, Glenn Eichler, Dan Guterman, Peter Gwinn, Jay Katsir, Barry Julien, Frank Lesser, Opus Moreschi, Tom Purcell, Meredith Scardino, Scott Sherman and Max Werner
Comedy/Variety – Music, Awards, Tributes – Specials: "After the Academy Awards," Jimmy Kimmel, written by Gary Greenberg, Molly McNearney, Tom Barbieri, Jonathan Bines, John N. Huss, Sal Iacono, Eric Immerman, Jimmy Kimmel, Jonathan Kimmel, Jacob Lentz, Danny Ricker and Richard G. Rosner.
Daytime Drama: "General Hospital," written by Meg Bennett, Nathan Fissell, David Goldschmid, Robert Guza, Jr., Karen Harris, Elizabeth Korte, Mary Sue Price, Michele Val Jean, Susan Wald and Tracey Thomson
Children's – Episodic and Specials: "Hero of the Shadows" ("Supah Ninjas"), written by Leo Chu and Eric S. Garcia
Documentary – Current Events:
Documentary – Other Than Current Events:
News – Regularly Scheduled, Bulletin or Breaking Report
News – Analysis, Feature or Commentary:
Radio categories:
Documentary: "2010 Year in Review," written by Gail Lee
News – Regularly Scheduled or Breaking Report: "Portraits of a Terrorist: Who Is Osama Bin Laden?," written by Gail Lee
News – Analysis, Feature or Commentary:
Promotional Writing and Graphic Adaptation categories:
On-Air Promotion (Radio or Television): "Fairytale" ("Today Show"), written by Carol M. Sullivan
Television Graphic Animation: "CBS News Aninmations" ("CBS News"), graphic animation by David Rosen
New Media and Videogame categories:
Outstanding Achievement in Writing New Media: "Aim High," episodes 1, 2, 4, 5 and 6, written by Heath Corson and Richie Keen
Outstanding Achievement in Writing Derivative New Media: "The Walking Dead" webseries, written by John Esposito and Greg Nicotero
Outstanding Achievement in Videogame Writing: "Uncharted 3: Drake's Deception," written by Amy Hennig
