With Settlement Looming, WGA Bestows Annual Awards
Writers for 'The Wire,' 'Mad Men' and 'The Sopranos' Among Those Honored
By Mike Reynolds -- Multichannel News, 2/9/2008 4:29:00 PM
As reports indicated that Writers Guild of America members were looking favorably on the tentative accord its leaders have reached with the Alliance of Motion Picture and Television Producers to end the three-month-old strike, the scribes hailed their own Saturday with the 60th anniversary of their annual awards.
WGA East members, who were apprised of the proposed contract at the Crowne Plaza in Manhattan Saturday afternoon held a reception at the Broadway Millennium Hotel that evening in New York. Meanwhile, the WGA West had previously decided to forego the awards ceremony in deference to the work stoppage. Instead, members gathered Saturday night for a meeting in the Shrine Auditorium in downtown Los Angeles.
Variety reported that the WGA West’s board of directors and the WGA East Council will convene Sunday to officially endorse the proposed contract and then set a 48-hour ratification window. Under that scenario, WGA members wouldn’t officially return to their gigs on Monday as has been reported.
Meanwhile on Saturday, the 2008 Writers Guild Awards gave laurels to writer’s for HBO’s The Wire as the top drama and NBC’s The Office for comedy, which also won an award for best comed
ic episode for “The Job." Terence Winter scored the best drama episode award for “The Second Coming” installment of HBO’s The Sopranos, while AMC’s Mad Men was honored as the best new series.
Other WGA awards went to Bryce and Jackie Zabel in the long-form original category for H
allmark Channel’s Pandemic. Long-form adaptation merit went to Ken Nolan for TNT’s miniseries The Company, while Comedy Central’s The Colbert Report registered in the comedy/variety arena.
Among the big screen-winners were Diablo Cody's
original screenplay for Fox Searchlight's Juno and Ethan and Joel Coen for their adapted screenplay for Miramax’s No Country for Old Men.
Find a complete list of Writers Guild Awards winners here.
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