Award ceremony for writing of 2009
The 62nd Writers Guild of America Awards honored the best film , television , and videogame writers of 2009. Winners were announced on February 20, 2010.[1]
Nominees [ edit ] Names in bold denote the winners.[2]
Best Adapted Screenplay [ edit ] Best Original Screenplay [ edit ] Best Documentary Feature Screenplay [ edit ] Television [ edit ] Dramatic Series [ edit ] Title Writers Network Breaking Bad Sam Catlin , Vince Gilligan , Peter Gould , George Mastras , J. Roberts , John Shiban , and Moira Walley-Beckett AMC Dexter Scott Buck , Charles H. Eglee , Lauren Gussis , Clyde Phillips , Scott Reynolds , Melissa Rosenberg , Timothy Schlattman , and Wendy West Showtime Friday Night Lights Bridget Carpenter , Kerry Ehrin , Ron Fitzgerald , Brent Fletcher , Etan Frankel , Jason Gavin , Elizabeth Heldens , David Hudgins , Rolin Jones , Jason Katims , Patrick Massett , Derek Santos Olson , and John Zinman NBC Lost Carlton Cuse , Adam Horowitz , Melinda Hsu Taylor , Edward Kitsis , Damon Lindelof , Greggory Nations , Kyle Pennington , Elizabeth Sarnoff , Brian K. Vaughan , and Paul Zbyszewski ABC Mad Men Lisa Albert , Andrew Colville , Kater Gordon , Cathryn Humphris , Andre Jacquemetton , Maria Jacquemetton , Brett Johnson , Erin Levy , Marti Noxon , Frank Pierson , Robin Veith , Dahvi Waller , and Matthew Weiner AMC
Comedy Series [ edit ] Title Writers Network 30 Rock Jack Burditt , Kay Cannon , Robert Carlock , Tom Ceraulo , Vali Chandrasekaran , Tina Fey , Donald Glover , Steve Hely , Matt Hubbard , Dylan Morgan , Paula Pell , Jon Pollack, John Riggi , Tami Sagher , Josh Siegal , Ron Weiner , and Tracey Wigfield NBC Curb Your Enthusiasm Larry David HBO Glee Ian Brennan , Brad Falchuk , and Ryan Murphy Fox Modern Family Paul Corrigan , Sameer Gardezi , Joe Lawson , Steven Levitan , Christopher Lloyd , Dan O'Shannon , Brad Walsh , Caroline Williams , Bill Wrubel , and Danny Zuker ABC The Office Jennifer Celotta , Danny Chun , Greg Daniels , Lee Eisenberg , Anthony Q. Farrell , Brent Forrester , Dan Goor , Charlie Grandy , Mindy Kaling , Ryan Koh , Lester Lewis , Paul Lieberstein , Warren Lieberstein , B. J. Novak , Michael Schur , Aaron Shure , Justin Spitzer , Gene Stupnitsky , and Halsted Sullivan NBC
New Series [ edit ] Title Writers Network Glee Ian Brennan , Brad Falchuk , and Ryan Murphy Fox The Good Wife Angela Amato Velez , Corinne Brinkerhoff , Ted Humphrey , Dee Johnson , Todd E. Kessler , Michelle King , and Robert King CBS Hung Colette Burson , Ellie Herman , Emily Kapnek , Brett C. Leonard , Dmitry Lipkin , and Angela Robinson HBO Modern Family Paul Corrigan , Sameer Gardezi , Joe Lawson , Steven Levitan , Christopher Lloyd , Dan O'Shannon , Brad Walsh , Caroline Williams , Bill Wrubel , and Danny Zuker ABC Nurse Jackie Taii K. Austin , Liz Brixius , Rick Cleveland , Evan Dunsky , Nancy Fichman , Liz Flahive , Jennifer Hoppe , Mark Hudis , John Hilary Shepherd , Linda Wallem , and Christine Zander Showtime
Episodic Drama [ edit ] Episodic Comedy [ edit ] Long Form – Original [ edit ] Long Form – Adaptation [ edit ] Animation [ edit ] Comedy/Variety (Including Talk) Series [ edit ] Title Writers Network The Colbert Report Head Writers Barry Julien , Thomas Purcell , Writers Michael Brumm , Stephen Colbert , Richard Dahm , Rob Dubbin , Glenn Eichler , Peter Grosz , Peter Gwinn , Jay Katsir , Frank Lesser , Opus Moreschi , Meredith Scardino , Allison Silverman , and Max Werner Comedy Central The Daily Show with Jon Stewart Head Writer Steve Bodow , Writers Rory Albanese , Rachel Axler , Kevin Bleyer , Rich Blomquist , Tim Carvell , Wyatt Cenac , Hallie Haglund , J.R. Havlan , DJ Javerbaum , J. R. Havlan , David Javerbaum , Elliott Kalan , Josh Lieb, Sam Means , Jo Miller , John Oliver , Daniel Radosh , Jason Ross , and Jon Stewart Real Time with Bill Maher Head writer: Billy Martin , Writers: Scott Carter , Adam Felber , Matt Gunn , Brian Jacobsmeyer , Jay Jaroch , Chris Kelly , Bill Maher , Jonathan Schmock , and Danny Vermont HBO Saturday Night Live Head Writer: Seth Meyers , Writers: Doug Abeles , James Anderson , Alex Baze , Jessica Conrad , James Downey , Steve Higgins , Colin Jost , Erik Kenward , Rob Klein , John Lutz , Lorne Michaels , John Mulaney , Paula Pell , Simon Rich , Marika Sawyer , Akiva Schaffer , John Solomon , Emily Spivey , Kent Sublette , Jorma Taccone , and Bryan Tucker ; Additional Sketches by Adam McKay and Andrew Steele NBC The Tonight Show with Conan O'Brien Head Writer: Mike Sweeney , Writers Chris Albers , Jose Arroyo , Josh Comers , Dan Cronin , Kevin Dorff , Andres du Bouchet , Michael Gordon , Berkley Johnson , Brian Kiley , Rob Kutner , Todd Levin , Brian McCann , Guy Nicolucci , Conan O'Brien , Matt O'Brien, Andy Richter , Brian Stack , and Andrew Weinberg
Comedy/Variety – Music, Awards, Tributes – Specials [ edit ] Daytime Serials [ edit ] Title Writers Network All My Children Jeff Beldner , Joanna Cohen , Kate Hall , Chip Hayes , Michelle Patrick , Charles Pratt Jr. , Rebecca Taylor , Tracey Thomson , and Addie Walsh ABC As the World Turns Peter Brash , Lisa Connor , Susan Dansby , Cheryl L. Davis , Leah Laiman , David A. Levinson , Leslie Nipkow , Jean Passanante , Gordon Rayfield , and Courtney Simon CBS One Life to Live Shelly Altman , Ron Carlivati , Anna Theresa Cascio , Aida Croal , Carolyn Culliton , Janet Iacobuzio , Frederick Johnson , Sharon Lennon , Elizabeth Page , Melissa Salmons , Katherine Schock , Scott Sickles , and Chris Van Etten ABC The Young and the Restless Amanda L. Beall , Tom Casiello , Lisa Connor , Janice Ferri Esser , Eric Freiwald , Jay Gibson , Scott Hamner , Marla Kanelos , Beth Milstein , Natalie Minardi Slater , Melissa Salmons , Linda Schreiber , James Stanley , Sandra Weintraub , and Teresa Zimmerman CBS
Children's [ edit ] Episodic and Specials [ edit ] Long Form or Special [ edit ] Documentary [ edit ] Current events [ edit ] Other than Current Events [ edit ] Regularly scheduled, bulletin, or breaking report [ edit ] Documentary [ edit ] News – Regularly Scheduled or Breaking [ edit ] Promotional Writing and Graphic Animation [ edit ] On-Air Promotion (Radio or Television) [ edit ] How I Learned To Stop Worrying and Love the Promo Process – Written by Michelle Straebler ; WNBC "Vegas" (Dateline), "The Wanted" Promo, NBC Nightly News Promo, "Iran" (Dateline), "Cheat" (Dateline) – Written by Barry Fitzsimmons ; NBC Television Graphic Animation [ edit ] Video games [ edit ] Videogame Writing [ edit ] Assassin's Creed II Corey May , Script Writers Corey May, Joshua Rubin , Jeffrey Yohalem ; Ubisoft Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2 Jesse Stern ; Additional Writing Steve Fukuda ; Story by Todd Alderman , Steve Fukuda, Mackey McCandlish , Zied Rieke , Jesse Stern, Jason West, Battlechatter Dialogue , and Sean Slayback ; Activision Uncharted 2: Among Thieves Amy Hennig ; Sony Computer Entertainment Wet Duppy Demetrius and Bethesda Softworks X-Men Origins: Wolverine Marc Guggenheim ; ActivisionReferences [ edit ] External links [ edit ]
Film Awards Television/ Special Awards Former Awards Ceremonies Years are of film release; ceremonies are held the following year
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