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Writers Guild Of America Award For Best Screenplay - Dramatic Series
The Writers Guild of America Award for Television: Dramatic Series is an award presented by the Writers Guild of America to the writers of the best dramatic television series of the season. It has been awarded since the 58th Annual Writers Guild of America Awards in 2006. The year indicates when each season aired. The winners are highlighted in gold. Winners and nominees 2000s 2010s 2020s Total awards by network * AMC – 7 * HBO – 5 * FX – 2 * ABC – 1 * Hulu – 1 * Netflix - 1 Total nominations by network * HBO – 25 * AMC – 19 * Netflix - 12 * Showtime - 10 * ABC – 6 * FX – 4 * The 101 Network - 3 * CBS - 3 * Hulu – 4 * Disney+ - 3 * NBC - 2 *Apple TV+ - 2 * Fox - 1 * Prime Video - 1 * USA - 1 Programs with multiple awards ;4 awards *''Mad Men'' (AMC) ;3 awards *''Breaking Bad'' (AMC) ;2 awards *''The Americans'' (FX) *''Succession'' (HBO) Programs with multiple nominations ;8 nominations *''Mad Men'' (AMC) ;6 nominations *''Better Call Saul'' (AMC) ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Writers Guild Of America Award
The Writers Guild of America Awards is an award for film, television, and radio writing including both fiction and non-fiction categories given by the Writers Guild of America, East and Writers Guild of America West since 1949. Eligibility The screen awards are for films that were exhibited theatrically during the preceding calendar year. The television awards are for series that were produced and aired between December 1 and November 30, regardless of how many episodes aired during this time period. Additionally, scripts must be produced under the jurisdiction of the WGA or under a collective bargaining agreement in Canada, Ireland, New Zealand, or the United Kingdom. Lifetime achievement awards Each year at the awards, two lifetime achievement awards are presented. One is for screenwriting, and the other is for TV writing: * Laurel Award for TV Writing Achievement * Laurel Award for Screenwriting Achievement Categories (As of 2022.) ;Film * Best Adapted Screen ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jeffrey Lieber
Jeffrey Michael Lieber is an American screenwriter for both television and film. He is credited as a co-creator of the television series '' Lost''. In addition to writing for television and film, Lieber also blogs at the website dailykos. His blog posts, which appear as "diaries" rather than front-page posts, typically have a satirical take on the news. Early life He was born in Evanston, Illinois, United States and attended Evanston Township High School. He attended the University of Illinois at Urbana–Champaign and earned a BFA in acting from the Department of Theatre. Career Lieber is credited on the films ''Tuck Everlasting'' and ''Tangled'', as well as having been creator/executive producer for unaired TV pilots for Fox Broadcasting Company (2004) and Sony Television in (2008). ABC hired Lieber, based on his pitch with studio Spelling Television, to write a pilot for ''Lost''. Lieber's initial pitch for the series, then titled ''Nowhere'', was a realistic drama series ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Rick Cleveland
Rick Cleveland is an American television writer, playwright, and monologist, best known for writing on the HBO original series '' Six Feet Under'' and NBC's ''The West Wing ''The West Wing'' is an American serial political drama television series created by Aaron Sorkin that was originally broadcast on NBC from September 22, 1999, to May 14, 2006. The series is set primarily in the West Wing of the White Hous ...''. His 2011 play ''The Rail Splitter'' premiered at Carthage College and traveled to the Kennedy Center American College Theatre Festival (Region 3) in 2012. Education Cleveland, a graduate of the Playwrights Workshop at the University of Iowa, is also a founding member of Chicago's American Blues Theater. Career Film Cleveland, Brian Koppelman, David Levien, and Matthew Chapman (author), Matthew Chapman co-wrote the 2003 film ''Runaway Jury'' based on the book by John Grisham. He also wrote a 1998 screenplay for the independent film ''Jerry and Tom''. Telev ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Alan Ball (screenwriter)
Alan Erwin Ball (born May 13, 1957) is an American writer, director, and producer for television, film, and theater. Ball wrote the screenplay for '' American Beauty,'' for which he earned an Academy Award for Best Original Screenplay. He also created the series '' Six Feet Under'' and ''True Blood'', works for which he earned an Emmy as well as awards from the Writers, Directors, and Producers Guilds of America. He was an executive producer on the Cinemax television series ''Banshee''. He also wrote and directed the film '' Uncle Frank''. Early life Ball was born in Marietta, Georgia, to Frank and Mary Ball, respectively an aircraft inspector and a homemaker. His older sister, Mary Ann, was killed in a car accident when Ball was 13; he was in the passenger seat at the time. He attended high school in Marietta before going to college at the University of Georgia and Florida State University. Ball graduated from Florida State in 1980 with a degree in theater arts. After college ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Six Feet Under (TV Series)
''Six Feet Under'' is an American drama television series created and produced by Alan Ball. It premiered on the premium network HBO in the United States on June 3, 2001, and ended on August 21, 2005, spanning 63 episodes across five seasons. It depicts the lives of the Fisher family, who run a funeral home in Los Angeles, along with their friends and lovers. The ensemble drama stars Peter Krause, Michael C. Hall, Frances Conroy, Lauren Ambrose, Freddy Rodriguez, Mathew St. Patrick, and Rachel Griffiths as the central characters. It was produced by Actual Size Films and The Greenblatt/Janollari Studio, and was shot on location in Los Angeles and in Hollywood studios. ''Six Feet Under'' received widespread critical acclaim, particularly for its writing and acting, and consistently drew high ratings for the HBO network. It is widely regarded as one of the greatest television series of all time. The show's finale has also been described as one of the greatest television ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jody Worth
Jody Worth is an American television writer and producer. He has worked in both capacities on '' Deadwood'' and has been nominated for an Emmy Award and a Writers Guild of America Award for his work on the series. He is the son of producer and screenwriter Marvin Worth. Biography 1980s Worth worked as a music supervisor for the film ''Up the Academy'' in 1980. He made his television writing debut on the NBC police drama ''Hill Street Blues''. He wrote the seventh season episode "The Runner Falls on His Kisser" in 1987. The series was created by Steven Bochco and Michael Kozoll. It marked Worth's first collaboration with David Milch - then an executive producer on ''Hill Street Blues''. 1990s He was a music supervisor for the film '' Flashback'' in 1990. Worth became a writer for the first season of ABC police procedural ''NYPD Blue'' in 1994. The series was created by Steven Bochco and David Milch and centered on a homicide unit in New York. Worth wrote the story and co-wrote ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Elizabeth Sarnoff
Elizabeth "Liz" Sarnoff is an American television writer and producer. She has written episodes of ''NYPD Blue'', ''Crossing Jordan'', '' Deadwood'' and ''Lost''. She is the co-creator of the Fox crime/ mystery series ''Alcatraz''. Career Sarnoff joined the crew of ''Deadwood'' as an executive story editor and writer for the first season in 2004. Sarnoff wrote the episodes "Here Was a Man" and "Suffer the Little Children". She was promoted to producer for the second season in 2005. She wrote the episodes "New Money" and "Amalgamation and Capital". Sarnoff and the writing staff were nominated for the Writers Guild of America (WGA) Award for Best Dramatic Series at the February 2006 ceremony for their work on the second season. She joined the crew of ''Lost'' as a producer and writer for the series second season in fall 2005. Sarnoff and the ''Lost'' writing staff won the WGA Award for Best Dramatic Series at the February 2006 ceremony for their work on the first and second ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
David Milch
David Sanford Milch (born March 23, 1945) is an American writer and producer of television series. He has created several television shows, including ABC's ''NYPD Blue'' (1993-2005), co-created with Steven Bochco, and HBO's '' Deadwood'' (2004-2006). Early life and education Milch graduated with a B.A. ''summa cum laude'' from Yale University, where he won the Tinker Prize in English, was elected to Phi Beta Kappa, and was a member of the Delta Kappa Epsilon chapter, along with future US President George W. Bush. Milch earned a Master of Fine Arts with distinction from the Iowa Writers' Workshop at the University of Iowa. To avoid the draft during the Vietnam War, Milch enrolled in Yale Law School, but he was expelled for allegedly shooting out a police car siren with a shotgun. Career Milch worked as a writing teacher and lecturer in English literature at Yale. During his teaching career, he assisted Robert Penn Warren and Cleanth Brooks in the writing of several colleg ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ted Mann (writer)
Ted Mann is a Canadian born television writer and producer. He has worked in both capacities on the series ''NYPD Blue'', '' Deadwood'' and ''Crash''. In 1995 he won the Emmy award for Best Drama Series for his work on the second season of ''NYPD Blue''. Career 1970s Mann was an editor of '' National Lampoon''. He began working in the television industry with ''National Lampoon'' and HBO as a writer on the short film ''Disco Beaver from Outer Space'' in 1978. In 1979 he worked as a writer on ''Delta House'' – a short lived television variation on Lampoon's film ''Animal House''. 1980s In 1980 he worked as a writer on the animated series '' Drawing Power''. He was the writer for '' O.C. and Stiggs'' a theatrical film based on characters he created with Tod Carrol for ''National Lampoon'' and directed by Robert Altman. Mann worked as a writer on the crime drama ''The Street,'' Universal TV's innovative half-hour syndicated faux verite cop show, as well as Stephen J. Cannell's ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sara Hess
Sara Hess is a television writer and producer. She has worked in both capacities on the drama series ''House'' and ''Orange Is the New Black''. Career Hess joined the crew of the HBO western drama '' Deadwood'' as a writer for the second season in 2005. She wrote the episode " Advances, None Miraculous". From 2005 to 2012, Hess worked on the medical drama series ''House'', for which she wrote 17 episodes. Since 2013, she has been working on ''Orange Is the New Black''. More recently, she worked for ''House of the Dragon'', and signed a HBO overall deal. Filmography * '' Deadwood'' (Writer) ** Advances, None Miraculous (S2E10) * ''House'' (Supervising Producer, Co-Producer, Producer) Writer for following episodes: ** Spin (S2E6) ** Sleeping Dogs Lie (S2E18) ** Finding Judas (S3E9) ** Act Your Age (S3E19) ** You Don't Want To Know (S4E8) ** Living the Dream (S4E14) ** Lucky Thirteen (S5E5) ** The Greater Good (S5E14) ** Epic Fail (S4E3) ** The Down Low (S4E11) ** O ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Deadwood (TV Series)
''Deadwood'' is an American Western television series that aired on the premium cable network HBO from March 21, 2004, to August 27, 2006, spanning three seasons and 36 episodes. The series is set in the 1870s in Deadwood, South Dakota, before and after the area's annexation by the Dakota Territory, and charts Deadwood's growth from camp to town. The show was created, produced, and largely written by David Milch. ''Deadwood'' features a large ensemble cast headed by Timothy Olyphant and Ian McShane, playing the real-life Deadwood residents Seth Bullock and Al Swearengen, respectively. Many other historical figures appear as characters, including George Crook, Wyatt Earp, E. B. Farnum, George Hearst, Wild Bill Hickok, Calamity Jane, Sol Star, A. W. Merrick, Jack McCall, and Charlie Utter. The plot lines involving these characters include historical truths as well as substantial fictional elements. Milch used actual diaries and newspapers from 1870s Deadwood residents a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
American Broadcasting Company
The American Broadcasting Company (ABC) is an American commercial broadcast television network. It is the flagship property of the ABC Entertainment Group division of The Walt Disney Company. The network is headquartered in Burbank, California, on Riverside Drive, directly across the street from Walt Disney Studios and adjacent to the Roy E. Disney Animation Building. The network's secondary offices, and headquarters of its news division, are in New York City, at its broadcast center at 77 West 66th Street on the Upper West Side of Manhattan. Since 2007, when ABC Radio (also known as Cumulus Media Networks) was sold to Citadel Broadcasting, ABC has reduced its broadcasting operations almost exclusively to television. It is the fifth-oldest major broadcasting network in the world and the youngest of the American Big Three television networks. The network is sometimes referred to as the Alphabet Network, as its initialism also represents the first three letters of th ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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