Winners WGA 2019: Complete list

It was a great evening at the West Coast Ceremony for the Writers Guild of America Awards for the movies Can you ever forgive me? and Eigth year, the television series The wonderful Mrs. Maisel, the Americans and The assassination of Gianni Versace; and, although he was not nominated in any category, actor-director Ron Howard.

One week before the end of the Oscars, Nicole Holofcener and Jeff Whitty won the WGA Trophy for the adapted screenplay. Can you ever forgive me? based on the memoirs of the author Lee Israel, while the drama of college-director Bo Burnham Eigth year took the honors for the original screenplay.

The TV trophies have been rewarded with a series of series that have been frequently honored over the last few months, including the drama of the FX Spying family. Americans, winning the honor of the drama series for his swan season; Retro darling from Amazon The wonderful Mrs Maisel for humorous series; The limited series of FX crime The assassination of Gianni Versace: the history of American crime for adapted long series; and thriller inspired Stephen King by Hulu Castle Rock for original series longfo. HBO hitman comedy has also worked well Barry, winning both the new series and the trophies of episodic comedy.

When actress, comedian and screenwriter Chelsea Peretti took up the podium to host the awards, she opened the ceremony with the kind of self-deprecating scribes in Hollywood, characterizing the gala as having, she offered, "all the pomp and glamor of the Oscars without the pressure of the public interest".

"I've been to so many parties in Hollywood, it's refreshing to just watch and remember what normal people look like," Peretti joked. Indeed, even the biggest winners of the evening respected the reputation a little left behind by the writers, with a litany of laureates, including Bill Hader Adam McKay, shouting on stage to Howard, sitting on the side of the stage. In turn, he looks forward to paying tribute to his frequent duo of screenwriters Lowell Ganz and Babaloo Mandel (Happy Days, night work, Splash, parenting as well as movies like A league apart and City Slickers), who received the Laurel Award for Writing Writers.

"It's very flattering, I must admit," said Howard finally taking the stage. He compared his experience to that of seeing many leading actors filmed under the cameras of the Oscars audience.[But] it's the WGA – you get Ron Howard. "

In addition to Ganz and Mandel, the other winners of the evening were screenwriter-director McKay, recipient of the Paul Selvin Award for his satirical but socially relevant work on Vice; French director Agnès Varda, recipient of the Jean Renoir Prize for the production of international writers; Joan Meyerson, the writer who regularly attends the concert commemorating National Remembrance Day, televised each year by PBS, who received the Morgan Cox Award for his guild service; and star Jenji Kohan, recipient of the Paddy Chayefsky Laurel Award for writing television scripts for her shocking work in the series, including Weeds, Orange is the new black and GLOW.

WGAW President David Goodman addressed the audience at the mid-point of the LA ceremony, noting that "50%" of WGAW's board members were women. and recognized the #MeToo movement, saying, "Our cynicism should temper our hope, but not replace it."

Prizes were awarded at simultaneous ceremonies on both coasts. The East WGA held its ceremony at the Edison Ballroom in New York, with Roy Wood Jr. as host, while WGA West hosted its own ceremony at the Beverly Hilton in Los Angeles.

In New York, Tom Fontana received the Ian McLellan Hunter Award for Career, Franklin Leonard received the Evelyn F. Burkey Award for "The Honor and Dignity of Writers" and Randall Jansta received the Richard B. Award Jablow for dedicated service to the guild.

A complete list of winners follows.