There are about 8,000 professional award shows every year, ranging in importance from Grammy to Oscar, but there’s only one that truly matters: The Writers Guild Awards. Obviously, writers are some of the most important people in the entire world, and that’s especially true for the entertainment industry. Without writers, we’d all just be filthy animals, grunting at each other in the mud. We would have no drama to be shocked by, no comedy to laugh at, and no stories to pass down to our children. Writers are literally modern-day gods, with the awe-inspiring ability to create worlds and—just as easily—destroy them.
Writers also happen to be profoundly intelligent, which is why so many of the TV shows and movies that the Writers Guild Of America chose to honor during its annual award ceremony are absolutely the most-deserving. The Grand Budapest Hotel took home Best Original Screenplay, The Imitation Game took Best Adapted Screenplay, and The Internet’s Own Boy: The Story Of Aaron Swartz won Best Documentary Screenplay, all of which were probably the right pick. Even if they weren’t, writers said they are, and that makes it true.
The rest of the winners are equally impossible to argue with: True Detective won Best Drama Series and Best New Series, Louie won for Best Comedy Series and Louis C.K. himself won the Episodic Comedy award for “So Did The Fat Lady,” and The Simpsons’ “Brick Like Me” episode won the Animation award. Even the Outstanding Achievement In Video Game Writing award (which usually goes to an Assassin’s Creed game by default, since not too many game writers are guild members) went to a worthy nominee: The Last Of Us: Left Behind. Basically, the writers got it right, as they always do.
The full list of winners is below:
Film Winners
Original Screenplay: The Grand Budapest Hotel, Screenplay by Wes Anderson; Story by Wes Anderson & Hugo Guinness; Fox Searchlight
Adapted Screenplay: The Imitation Game, Written by Graham Moore; Based on the book Alan Turing: The Enigma by Andrew Hodges; The Weinstein Company
Documentary Screenplay: The Internet’s Own Boy: The Story of Aaron Swartz, Written by Brian Knappenberger; FilmBuff
Television And New Media Winners