Take that, Futurama: Worlds of Tomorrow
In the race for those all important Oscars, the guilds are where avid followers of the awards circuit look to as all-important indicators. The Shape of Water took home the gold in both the Producers Guild and Directors Guild Awards, but Jordan Peele’s Get Out stole the thunder this time around.
Get Out won the category of Original Screenplay in a competitive race, beating out The Big Sick, I, Tonya, Lady Bird and the aforementioned The Shape of Water. This line-up closely resembles the nominees for the Academy Award for Best Original Screenplay, with the one inconsistency being Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri taking the place of I, Tonya. Three Billboards, along with other awards contenders such as Coco and Darkest Hour, were rendered ineligible for the awards for not adhering to the guild’s “Minimum Basic Agreement.”
Meanwhile, in the Adapted Screenplay category, Call Me By Your Name was the big winner here, triumphing over The Disaster Artist, Logan, Molly’s Game and Mudbound, a line-up that is identical to its Oscars counterpart. Jane, a documentary about Jane Goodall, took home the prize for Documentary Screenplay.
On the television side, The Handmaid’s Tale won both the awards for Drama Series and New Series, beating out the likes of Better Call Saul, Game of Thrones and Stranger Things. Perennial winner Veep once again nabbed the award for Comedy Series.
Once you scroll past the litany of other awards winners, you’ll see that PlayStation 4 hit Horizon Zero Dawn won in the category of Outstanding Achievement in Videogame Writing. It’s worth to keep in mind that a good number of video games are not eligible for this award, as many game writers are not part of the Writers Guild of America. The competition consisted of Dishonored: Death of the Outsider, mobile game Futurama: Worlds of Tomorrow, and the script for story mode Madden NFL 18: Longshot.
Still, Horizon is in good company, with previous winners including The Last of Us (and its DLC story), Rise of the Tomb Raider, Assassin’s Creed: Brotherhood and essentially every Uncharted game since Uncharted 2.
Check out the (way too long) full list of winners below.
FILM
ORIGINAL SCREENPLAY
Get Out
Written by Jordan Peele; Universal Pictures
ADAPTED SCREENPLAY
Call Me by Your Name
Screenplay by James Ivory; Based on the Novel by André Aciman; Sony Pictures Classics
DOCUMENTARY SCREENPLAY
Jane
Written by Brett Morgen; National Geographic
TELEVISION
DRAMA SERIES
The Handmaid’s Tale
Written by Ilene Chaiken, Nina Fiore, Dorothy Fortenberry, Leila Gerstein, John Herrera, Lynn Renee Maxcy, Bruce Miller, Kira Snyder, Wendy Straker Hauser, Eric Tuchman; Hulu
COMEDY SERIES
Veep
Written by Gabrielle Allan, Rachel Axler, Ted Cohen, Jennifer Crittenden, Alex Gregory, Steve Hely, Peter Huyck, Erik Kenward, Billy Kimball, David Mandel, Ian Maxtone-Graham, Dan Mintz, Lew Morton, Georgia Pritchett, Will Smith; HBO
NEW SERIES
The Handmaid’s Tale
Written by Ilene Chaiken, Nina Fiore, Dorothy Fortenberry, Leila Gerstein, John Herrera, Lynn Renee Maxcy, Bruce Miller, Kira Snyder, Wendy Straker Hauser, Eric Tuchman; Hulu
LONG FORM ORIGINAL
Flint
Written by Barbara Stepansky; Lifetime
LONG FORM ADAPTED
Big Little Lies
Teleplay by David E. Kelley, Based on the Novel by Liane Moriarty; HBO
COMEDY/VARIETY TALK SERIES
Last Week Tonight with John Oliver
Writers: Tim Carvell, Josh Gondelman, Dan Gurewitch, Geoff Haggerty, Jeff Maurer, John Oliver, Scott Sherman, Will Tracy, Jill Twiss, Juli Weiner, Ben Silva, Seena Vali; HBO
COMEDY/VARIETY SKETCH SERIES
Saturday Night Live
Head Writers: Chris Kelly, Sarah Schneider, Bryan Tucker; Writers: James Anderson, Kristen Bartlett, Jeremy Beiler, Neal Brennan, Zack Bornstein, Joanna Bradley, Megan Callahan, Michael Che, Anna Drezen, Fran Gillespie, Sudi Green, Steve Higgins, Colin Jost, Erik Kenward, Rob Klein, Nick Kocher, Michael Koman, Dave McCary, Brian McElhaney, Dennis McNicholas, Drew Michael, Lorne Michaels, Josh Patten, Katie Rich, Pete Schultz, Streeter Seidell, Will Stephen, Kent Sublette, Julio Torres; NBCUniversal
EPISODIC DRAMA
“Chicanery” (Better Call Saul)
Written by Gordon Smith; AMC
EPISODIC COMEDY
“Rosario’s Quinceanera” (Will & Grace)
Written by Tracy Poust & Jon Kinnally; NBC
DOCUMENTARY SCRIPT – CURRENT EVENTS
“Confronting ISIS” (Frontline)
Written by Martin Smith; PBS
DOCUMENTARY SCRIPT – OTHER THAN CURRENT EVENTS
“The Great War” Part II (American Experience)
Written by Stephen Ives; PBS
SHORT FORM NEW MEDIA ADAPTED
“Starboy” (Zac & Mia)
Teleplay by Allen Clary and Andrew Rothschild, based on the novel Zac & Mia by A.J. Betts; go90.com
ANIMATION
“Time’s Arrow” (BoJack Horseman)
Written by Kate Purdy; Netflix
DAYTIME DRAMA
General Hospital
Head Writers: Shelly Altman, Jean Passanante
Writers: Anna Theresa Cascio, Suzanne Flynn, Charlotte Gibson, Lucky Gold, Kate Hall, Elizabeth Korte, Daniel James O’Connor, Dave Rupel, Katherine Schock, Scott Sickles, Christopher Van Etten, Christopher Whitesell; ABC
