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10 unusual facts about Writers Guild of America


Beverly Hills Film Festival

The venues for screening include premier spots like the AMPAS, Writers Guild, Chinese Theater and The Clarity Theatre.

Colin Jost

He won the Peabody Award in 2009 and three Writers Guild (WGA) awards (2007, 2009, 2010) for his work on Saturday Night Live.

Financial core

Similarly, in the Writers Guild of America, financial core members are able to remain working during labor strikes.

Gordon Kahn

Kahn joined several leftist and liberal causes and helped found the Writers Guild.

I, Don Quixote

I, Don Quixote was highly acclaimed, but, oddly enough, did not win any Emmy nominations, although Dale Wasserman received a Writers Guild of America award for his work.

Judy Lewis

In 1985, she shared a Writers Guild of America award for several episodes of CBS's Search For Tomorrow.

Riverside Brookfield High School

He received two awards from the Writers Guild of America for his work on the television series Frasier, and later he became a producer for the series Desperate Housewives.

Ruben Santiago-Hudson

He adapted it for a highly acclaimed, award-winning 2005 HBO film, in which the parts would be played by different people, that won him the Humanitas Prize and earned Emmy and Writers Guild of America Award nominations.

Ruth Livier

Ms. Livier was featured on the cover of the WGA's Written By magazine for being the first person to become a member of the Writers Guild of America through her work in New Media.

Writers Guild of America, East

On August 27, 2006, WGAE reached an agreement with the producers of The Daily Show with Jon Stewart, allowing writers on the show to become guild members.


A New Leaf

WGA Award (Screen) for Best Comedy Adapted from Another Medium (Elaine May) - lost to John Paxton for Kotch (1971)

Albert Mannheimer

Albert Mannheimer (9 March 1913, New York City, New York - 19 March 1972, Los Angeles County, California) was an American writer, principally of screenplays, including the Academy Award nominated screenplay for Born Yesterday, which screenplay also received the Writers Guild of America award for Best Written American Comedy Award.

Arnold Schulman

He also received three Writers Guild nominations for Best Screenplay for Wild Is the Wind, A Hole in the Head and Love with the Proper Stranger, and a Writers Guild award for Goodbye, Columbus.

Charles Edward Pogue

From 1997-2001, Pogue served on the Board of Directors of the Writers Guild of America, west.

City of Lights, City of Angels

COLCOA was created in 1996 by The Franco-American Cultural Fund, a unique collaborative effort of the Directors Guild of America, the Motion Picture Association of America, the Writers Guild of America, West, France’s Société des Auteurs, Compositeurs et Éditeurs de Musique.

Dorian Blues

The film won a special jury award at the Fort Lauderdale Film Festival, the audience award at the Lake Placid Film Festival and best screenplay award at the New York Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, & Transgender Film Festival, which was sponsored by the Writers Guild East.

Jeffrey Alan Schechter

Jeffrey Alan Schechter (usually credited as Jeff Schechter) is a screenwriter whose work has been nominated for two Emmy awards, a Writers Guild of America award, and a Writers Guild of Canada award.

John Tintori

John holds the membership of the Directors Guild of America, the Writers Guild of America, the IATSE, member the Tisch/Kanbar faculty(since 1997), Chairperson, the Graduate Film Program, NYU (since 2005), and ex-chair, the Graduate Film Program at TischAsia in Singapore.

Melissa Salmons

Salmons has been nominated for eight Writers Guild of America awards in the Daytime Serials category, for her work on As the World Turns and Guiding Light.

Tim Schlattmann

In 2007, he garnered two Writers Guild of America award nominations: one for best dramatic series and an individual nod for his episode of Dexter entitled "The Dark Defender".

Tony Grisoni

Gilliam and Grisoni went to WGA arbitration to get credit for Fear and Loathing; initially only Tod Davies and Alex Cox (who had written a previous version of the screenplay) were credited, despite Gilliam and Grisoni rewriting the entire film from scratch.