62nd Writers Guild of America Awards

The 62nd Writers Guild of America Awards honored the best film, television, and videogame writers of 2009. Winners were announced on February 20, 2010.^[1]

62nd WGA Awards
Date	February 20, 2010
Organized by	Writers Guild of America, East and the Writers Guild of America, West
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Nominees

Names in bold denote the winners.^[2]

Film

Best Adapted Screenplay

• Crazy Heart
• Julie & Julia
• Precious: Based on the novel "Push" by Sapphire †
• Star Trek
• Up in the Air

Best Original Screenplay

• (500) Days of Summer
• Avatar
• The Hangover
• The Hurt Locker †
• A Serious Man

Best Documentary Feature Screenplay

• Against the Tide – Richard Trank; based on original material written by Richard Trank and Rabbi Marvin Hier
• Capitalism: A Love Story – Michael Moore
• The Cove – Mark Monroe
• Earth Days – Robert Stone
• Good Hair – Chris Rock, Jeff Stilson, Lance Crouther, and Chuck Sklar
• Soundtrack for a Revolution – Bill Guttentag and Dan Sturman

Television

Dramatic Series

Title	Writers	Network
Breaking Bad	Sam Catlin, Vince Gilligan, Peter Gould, George Mastras, J. Roberts, John Shiban, and Moira Walley-Beckett	AMC
Dexter	Scott Buck, Charles H. Eglee, Lauren Gussis, Clyde Phillips, Scott Reynolds, Melissa Rosenberg, Timothy Schlattman, and Wendy West	Showtime
Friday Night Lights	Bridget Carpenter, Kerry Ehrin, Ron Fitzgerald, Brent Fletcher, Etan Frankel, Jason Gavin, Elizabeth Heldens, David Hudgins, Rolin Jones, Jason Katims, Patrick Massett, Derek Santos Olson, and John Zinman	NBC
Lost	Carlton Cuse, Adam Horowitz, Melinda Hsu Taylor, Edward Kitsis, Damon Lindelof, Greggory Nations, Kyle Pennington, Elizabeth Sarnoff, Brian K. Vaughan, and Paul Zbyszewski	ABC
Mad Men	Lisa Albert, Andrew Colville, Kater Gordon, Cathryn Humphris, Andre Jacquemetton, Maria Jacquemetton, Brett Johnson, Erin Levy, Marti Noxon, Frank Pierson, Robin Veith, Dahvi Waller, and Matthew Weiner	AMC

Comedy Series

Title	Writers	Network
30 Rock	Jack Burditt, Kay Cannon, Robert Carlock, Tom Ceraulo, Vali Chandrasekaran, Tina Fey, Donald Glover, Steve Hely, Matt Hubbard, Dylan Morgan, Paula Pell, Jon Pollack, John Riggi, Tami Sagher, Josh Siegal, Ron Weiner, and Tracey Wigfield	NBC
Curb Your Enthusiasm	Larry David	HBO
Glee	Ian Brennan, Brad Falchuk, and Ryan Murphy	Fox
Modern Family	Paul Corrigan, Sameer Gardezi, Joe Lawson, Steven Levitan, Christopher Lloyd, Dan O'Shannon, Brad Walsh, Caroline Williams, Bill Wrubel, and Danny Zuker	ABC
The Office	Jennifer Celotta, Danny Chun, Greg Daniels, Lee Eisenberg, Anthony Q. Farrell, Brent Forrester, Dan Goor, Charlie Grandy, Mindy Kaling, Ryan Koh, Lester Lewis, Paul Lieberstein, Warren Lieberstein, B. J. Novak, Michael Schur, Aaron Shure, Justin Spitzer, Gene Stupnitsky, and Halsted Sullivan	NBC

New Series

Title	Writers	Network
Glee	Ian Brennan, Brad Falchuk, and Ryan Murphy	Fox
The Good Wife	Angela Amato Velez, Corinne Brinkerhoff, Ted Humphrey, Dee Johnson, Todd E. Kessler, Michelle King, and Robert King	CBS
Hung	Colette Burson, Ellie Herman, Emily Kapnek, Brett C. Leonard, Dmitry Lipkin, and Angela Robinson	HBO
Modern Family	Paul Corrigan, Sameer Gardezi, Joe Lawson, Steven Levitan, Christopher Lloyd, Dan O'Shannon, Brad Walsh, Caroline Williams, Bill Wrubel, and Danny Zuker	ABC
Nurse Jackie	Taii K. Austin, Liz Brixius, Rick Cleveland, Evan Dunsky, Nancy Fichman, Liz Flahive, Jennifer Hoppe, Mark Hudis, John Hilary Shepherd, Linda Wallem, and Christine Zander	Showtime

Episodic Drama

Title	Series	Writers	Network
"Broken"	House	David Foster, Russel Friend, Garrett Lerner, and David Shore	Fox
"Come, Ye Saints"	Big Love	Melanie Marnich	HBO
"The Grown-Ups"	Mad Men	Brett Johnson and Matthew Weiner	AMC
"Guy Walks Into an Advertising Agency"		Robin Veith and Matthew Weiner
"I Will Rise Up"	True Blood	Nancy Oliver	HBO
"Phoenix"	Breaking Bad	John Shiban	AMC

Episodic Comedy

Title	Series	Writers	Network
"Apollo, Apollo"	30 Rock	Robert Carlock	NBC
"Broke"	The Office	Charlie Grandy
"Chapter 1"	Eastbound & Down	Jody Hill, Ben Best, and Danny R. McBride	HBO
"Gossip"	The Office	Paul Lieberstein	NBC
"Pilot"	Modern Family	Steven Levitan and Christopher Lloyd	ABC
"Reunion"	30 Rock	Matt Hubbard	NBC

Long Form – Original

Title	Writers	Network
Georgia O'Keeffe	Michael Cristofer	Lifetime
Grey Gardens	Teleplay by Michael Sucsy and Patricia Rozema; Story by Michael Sucsy	HBO
Pedro	Screenplay by Dustin Lance Black; Story by Paris Barclay and Dustin Lance Black	MTV

Long Form – Adaptation

Title	Writers	Network
America	Teleplay by Joyce Eliason and Rosie O'Donnell, Based upon the novel by E.R. Frank	Lifetime
Taking Chance	Teleplay by Lieutenant Colonel Michael R. Strobl, USMC (Ret.) and Ross Katz, Based on the short story by Lieutenant Colonel Michael R. Strobl, USMC (Ret.)	HBO

Animation

Title	Series	Writers	Network
"The Burns and the Bees"	The Simpsons	Stephanie Gillis	Fox
"Eeny Teeny Maya Moe"		John Frink
"Gone Maggie Gone"		Billy Kimball and Ian Maxtone-Graham
"Take My Life, Please"		Don Payne
"Wedding for Disaster"	The Simpsons	Joel H. Cohen

Comedy/Variety (Including Talk) Series

Title	Writers	Network
The Colbert Report	Head Writers Barry Julien, Thomas Purcell, Writers Michael Brumm, Stephen Colbert, Richard Dahm, Rob Dubbin, Glenn Eichler, Peter Grosz, Peter Gwinn, Jay Katsir, Frank Lesser, Opus Moreschi, Meredith Scardino, Allison Silverman, and Max Werner	Comedy Central
The Daily Show with Jon Stewart	Head Writer Steve Bodow, Writers Rory Albanese, Rachel Axler, Kevin Bleyer, Rich Blomquist, Tim Carvell, Wyatt Cenac, Hallie Haglund, J.R. Havlan, DJ Javerbaum, J. R. Havlan, David Javerbaum, Elliott Kalan, Josh Lieb, Sam Means, Jo Miller, John Oliver, Daniel Radosh, Jason Ross, and Jon Stewart
Real Time with Bill Maher	Head writer: Billy Martin, Writers: Scott Carter, Adam Felber, Matt Gunn, Brian Jacobsmeyer, Jay Jaroch, Chris Kelly, Bill Maher, Jonathan Schmock, and Danny Vermont	HBO
Saturday Night Live	Head Writer: Seth Meyers, Writers: Doug Abeles, James Anderson, Alex Baze, Jessica Conrad, James Downey, Steve Higgins, Colin Jost, Erik Kenward, Rob Klein, John Lutz, Lorne Michaels, John Mulaney, Paula Pell, Simon Rich, Marika Sawyer, Akiva Schaffer, John Solomon, Emily Spivey, Kent Sublette, Jorma Taccone, and Bryan Tucker; Additional Sketches by Adam McKay and Andrew Steele	NBC
The Tonight Show with Conan O'Brien	Head Writer: Mike Sweeney, Writers Chris Albers, Jose Arroyo, Josh Comers, Dan Cronin, Kevin Dorff, Andres du Bouchet, Michael Gordon, Berkley Johnson, Brian Kiley, Rob Kutner, Todd Levin, Brian McCann, Guy Nicolucci, Conan O'Brien, Matt O'Brien, Andy Richter, Brian Stack, and Andrew Weinberg

Comedy/Variety – Music, Awards, Tributes – Specials

Title	Writers	Network
25th Independent Spirit Awards	Billy Kimball and Neal MacLennan	AMC / IFC
We Are One: The Obama Inaugural Celebration at the Lincoln Memorial	George Stevens Jr., Michael Stevens, and Sara Lukinson	HBO

Daytime Serials

Title	Writers	Network
All My Children	Jeff Beldner, Joanna Cohen, Kate Hall, Chip Hayes, Michelle Patrick, Charles Pratt Jr., Rebecca Taylor, Tracey Thomson, and Addie Walsh	ABC
As the World Turns	Peter Brash, Lisa Connor, Susan Dansby, Cheryl L. Davis, Leah Laiman, David A. Levinson, Leslie Nipkow, Jean Passanante, Gordon Rayfield, and Courtney Simon	CBS
One Life to Live	Shelly Altman, Ron Carlivati, Anna Theresa Cascio, Aida Croal, Carolyn Culliton, Janet Iacobuzio, Frederick Johnson, Sharon Lennon, Elizabeth Page, Melissa Salmons, Katherine Schock, Scott Sickles, and Chris Van Etten	ABC
The Young and the Restless	Amanda L. Beall, Tom Casiello, Lisa Connor, Janice Ferri Esser, Eric Freiwald, Jay Gibson, Scott Hamner, Marla Kanelos, Beth Milstein, Natalie Minardi Slater, Melissa Salmons, Linda Schreiber, James Stanley, Sandra Weintraub, and Teresa Zimmerman	CBS

Children's

Episodic and Specials

Title	Series	Writers	Network
"A Monster Problem"	Imagination Movers	Randi Barnes, Rick Gitelson, and Scott Gray	Disney Channel
"Frankly, It's Becoming a Habitat"	Sesame Street	Joseph Mazzarino	PBS
"Mouse and Home"	Imagination Movers	Michael G. Stern, Randi Barnes, Rick Gitelson, and Scott Gray	Disney Channel
"The Rival"	True Jackson, VP	Dan Kopelman	Nickelodeon
"Welcome to the Jungle"	The Troop	Max Burnett
"Wild Nature Survivor Guy"	Sesame Street	Christine Ferraro	PBS

Long Form or Special

Title	Writers	Network
Another Cinderella Story	Written by Erik Patterson and Jessica Scott	ABC Family

Documentary

Current events

Title	Series	Writers	Network
"Black Money"	Frontline	Lowell Bergman and Oriana Zill de Granados	PBS
"Heat"		Martin Smith
"The Hugo Chávez Show"		Ofra Bikel
"Inside the Meltdown"		Michael Kirk
"The Madoff Affair"	Frontline	Marcela Gaviria and Martin Smith
"Poisoned Waters"	Frontline	Hedrick Smith and Rick Young

Other than Current Events

Title	Series	Writers	Network
"The Assassination of Abraham Lincoln"	American Experience	Written by Barak Goodman	PBS
"Episode Two: 1890–1915: The Last Refuge"	The National Parks: America's Best Idea	Written by Dayton Duncan
"The Trials of J. Robert Oppenheimer"	American Experience	Written by David Grubin
Soul of a People: Writing America's Story		Written by David A. Taylor, Olive Emma Bucklin, and Andrea Kalin	Smithsonian Channel
"We Shall Remain: Episode Three: Trail of Tears"	American Experience	Written by Mark Zwonitzer	PBS
"We Shall Remain: Episode Two: Tecumseh's Vision"		Written by Ric Burns

News

Regularly scheduled, bulletin, or breaking report

Title	Series	Writers	Network
CBS Evening News		Joe Clines, Jerry Cipriano, and Jared Crawford	CBS
Recession Candy		R. Polly Leider
World News with Charles Gibson		Lee Kamlet, Julia Kathan, and Joel Siegel	ABC

Analysis, Feature, or Commentary

Title	Series	Writers	Network
"All Night Long"	Good Morning America	Mary Pflum	ABC
"A Private War: Expose: America's Investigative Reports"	Bill Moyers Journal	Thomas M. Jennings	PBS
"Election Day"	Bill Moyers Journal	Bill Moyers and Michael Winship
"Financial Fingers"	CBS News	R. Polly Leider	CBS
"The Words That Won the White House"	Good Morning America	Lisa Ferri	ABC

Radio

Documentary

• 2008 Year in Review – Written by Gail Lee; CBS

News – Regularly Scheduled or Breaking

• So Many Goodbyes – Written by Gail Lee; CBS Radio
• WCBS News Radio – Written by Robert Hawley; CBS Radio
• World News This Week − July 11, 2009 – Written by Darren Reynolds; ABC Radio

News – Analysis, Feature or Commentary

• Black History Month – Written by Arleen Lebe; CBS Radio
• End of Summer – Written by Duane Tollison; CBS Radio
• Farewells – Written by Gail Lee; CBS Radio
• Paul Harvey: An American Life – Written by Stu Chamberlain; ABC Radio

Promotional Writing and Graphic Animation

On-Air Promotion (Radio or Television)

• How I Learned To Stop Worrying and Love the Promo Process – Written by Michelle Straebler; WNBC
• "Vegas" (Dateline), "The Wanted" Promo, NBC Nightly News Promo, "Iran" (Dateline), "Cheat" (Dateline) – Written by Barry Fitzsimmons; NBC

Television Graphic Animation

• "Hudson Splashdown" (CBS Evening News with Katie Couric) – Written by David M. Rosen and Shannon L. Toma; CBS

Video games

Videogame Writing

• Assassin's Creed II – Story by Corey May, Script Writers Corey May, Joshua Rubin, Jeffrey Yohalem; Ubisoft
• Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2 – Written by Jesse Stern; Additional Writing Steve Fukuda; Story by Todd Alderman, Steve Fukuda, Mackey McCandlish, Zied Rieke, Jesse Stern, Jason West, Battlechatter Dialogue, and Sean Slayback; Activision
• Uncharted 2: Among Thieves – Written by Amy Hennig; Sony Computer Entertainment
• Wet – Written by Duppy Demetrius and Bethesda Softworks
• X-Men Origins: Wolverine – Written by Marc Guggenheim; Activision