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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