'The Grand Budapest Hotel' wins original screenplay at 2015 WGA Awards

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Last Updated : Feb 15 2015 | 10:05 AM IST

Wes Anderson has grabbed the Writer's Guild of America (WGA) Award of Original Screenplay for the movie 'The Grand Budapest Hotel'.

The writers of 'Tonight with John Oliver' namely Kevin Avery, Tim Carvell, Dan Gurewitch, Geoff Haggerty, Jeff Maurer, John Oliver, Scott Sherman, Will Tracy, Jill Twiss, and Juli Weiner won the award for Comedy / Variety (Including Talk) - Series, Deadline.com reported.

HBO's 'True Detective' penned by Nic Pizzolatto grabbed the award for Best Drama Series.

'The Last of Us: Left Behind' written by Neil Druckmann for Sony Computer Entertainment won the award for Videogame Writing.

The list of other winners is as follows:

LONG FORM ADAPTED

Olive Kitteridge, Teleplay by Jane Anderson, Based on the novel by Elizabeth Strout; HBO

LONG FORM ORIGINAL

Deliverance Creek, Written by Melissa Carter; Lifetime

DOCUMENTARY SCREENPLAY

The Internet's Own Boy: The Story of Aaron Swartz

Written by Brian Knappenberger; FilmBuff

Array

DOCUMENTARY SCRIPT - OTHER THAN CURRENT EVENTS

"League of Denial: The NFL's Concussion Crisis" (Frontline), Written by Michael Kirk and Mike Wiser; PBS

ON-AIR PROMOTION (TELEVISION, NEW MEDIA OR RADIO)

'How I Met Your Mother', Written by Dan Greenberger; CBS

SHORT FORM NEW MEDIA

'Episode 113: Rachel' (High Maintenance), Written by Katja Blichfeld and Ben Sinclair; helpingyoumaintain.com

ADAPTED SCREENPLAY

The Imitation Game

Written by Graham Moore; Based on the book Alan Turing: The Enigma by Andrew Hodges; The Weinstein Company

COMEDY SERIES

Louie, Written by Louis CK; FX

NEW SERIES

True Detective, Written by Nic Pizzolatto; HBO

Array

QUIZ AND AUDIENCE PARTICIPATION

Hollywood Game Night, Head Writer: Grant Taylor; Writers: Alex

Chauvin, Ann Slichter; NBC

ANIMATION

'Brick Like Me' (The Simpsons), Written by Brian Kelley; Fox

EPISODIC COMEDY

'So Did the Fat Lady' (Louie), Written by Louis C.K.; FX

DAYTIME DRAMA

General Hospital, Written by Ron Carlivati, Anna Theresa Cascio,

Suzanne Flynn, Kate Hall, Elizabeth Korte, Daniel James O'Connor, Elizabeth

Page, Katherine Schock, Scott Sickles, Chris Van Etten; ABC

CHILDREN'S SCRIPT - EPISODIC AND SPECIALS

'Haunted Heartthro' (Haunted Hathaways), Written by Bob Smiley; Nickelodeon

EPISODIC DRAMA

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First Published: Feb 15 2015 | 9:54 AM IST

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