With the Academy Awards next week, all of the smaller organizations are giving out as many trophies as they can before returning to their relative irrelevance. Tonight it’s the Writers Guild Association Awards, which highlights the best writing in TV, movies, and video games, and though the big winners in the movie-related categories don’t necessarily foreshadow what will happen next Sunday, at least La La Land was only eligible for the one prize—a prize that it did not end up winning, with Best Original Screenplay going to Moonlight instead.
For the other movie awards, Arrival won Best Adapted Screenplay and Command And Control won Best Documentary screenplay. It was a good night for Atlanta on the TV side of things, with Donald Glover’s baby picking up Best Comedy Series and Best New Series. Elsewhere, The Americans won Best Drama Series and Saturday Night Live won for Best Comedy/Variety Sketch Series.
The full list of winners is below.
Best Episodic Drama
“The Trip,” This Is Us, written by Vera Herbert
Best Children’s Script—Episodic And Specials
“Mel Vs. The Night Mare Of Normal Street,” Gortimer Gibbon’s Life On Normal Street
Best Children’s Script—Long Form Or Special
Once Upon A Sesame Street Christmas
Best Daytime Drama
General Hospital
Best On-Air Promotion
“CBS On-Air Reel”
Best Episodic Comedy
“Kimmy Goes On A Playdate!,” Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt, written by Robert Carlock
Best Comedy/Variety
Triumph’s Election Special
Best Long Form Adapted
American Crime Story: The People Vs. O.J. Simpson
Best Adapted Screenplay
Arrival, written by Eric Heisserer
Outstanding Achievement In Video Game Writing
Uncharted 4: A Thief’s End
Best Short From New Media—Original
“The Party,” The Commute
Quiz And Audience Participation
Hollywood Game Night
Best Comedy Series
Atlanta
Best Radio Documentary
Chernobyl: 30 Years Later
Best Radio News Script—Regularly Scheduled
“World News This Week,” ABC News Radio
Best Radio News Script—Analysis, Feature, Or Commentary
“Morley Safer: A Journalist’s Life,” CBS Radio Network
Best Long Form Original
Confirmation, written by Susannah Grant
Best New Series
Atlanta
Short Form New Media—Adapted
“Passage Part 4,” Fear The Walking Dead
Animation
“Stop The Presses,” BoJack Horseman, written by Joe Lawson
Documentary Script—Non-Current Events
“Part One,” Jackie Robinson
Documentary Script—Current Events (tie)
“The Choice 2016,” Frontline and “Inside Assad’s Syria,” Frontline
Best Documentary Screenplay
Command And Control
Best Drama Series
The Americans
Best Comedy/Variety Series
Last Week Tonight With John Oliver
Best Comedy/Variety Sketch Series
Saturday Night Live
Original Screenplay
Moonlight, written by Barry Jenkins