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Writers Guild of America Awards

Best Adapted Screenplay

2024
Cord Jefferson
American Fiction

Best Animation

2023
Elijah Aron
Undone

Best Children's Episodic, Long Form and Specials

2023
Life by Ella

Best Comedy Series

2023
The Bear

Best Comedy/Variety – Sketch Series

2023
Daniel Powell
Inside Amy Schumer

Best Comedy/Variety — Talk Series

2024
Last Week Tonight with John Oliver

Best Daytime Drama

2024
Days of our Lives

Best Documentary Screenplay

2024
Errol Morris
The Pigeon Tunnel

Best Episodic Drama

2023
Thomas Schnauz
Better Call Saul

Best Original Screenplay

2024
David Hemingson
The Holdovers

Best Quiz and Audience Participation

2024
The Chase (US) (2021)

Previous Categories

Best Best Comedy/Variety – Specials

2021
The Late Show with Stephen Colbert

Best Comedy Adapted from Another Media

1984
James L. Brooks
Terms of Endearment

Best Comedy Written Directly for the Screenplay

Best Documentary Script – Current Events

2021
Agents of Chaos

Best Documentary Script – Other Than Current Events

2021
Frontline

Best Drama Adapted from Another Media

2022
Burnt man

Best Drama Series

2020
Succession

Best Drama Written Directly for the Screenplay

1976
Frank Pierson
Dog Day Afternoon

Best Episodic Comedy

2019
Alec Berg
Barry

Best Long Form – Adapted

2022
Ramin Namdar

Best Long Form – Original

1996
Michael Crichton
ER

Best New Series

2021
Ted Lasso

Best Original Short Form New Media

2017
The Commute (2016)

Best Written Comedy

1971
Ring Lardner Jr.
M*A*S*H

Best Written Drama

1970
William Goldman
Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid

Best Written Musical

1965
Mary Poppins

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