Deadline Editor in Chief Nikki Finke is writing from on-scene coverage by Deadline’s Awards Columnist, Awardsline’s Anthony D’Alessandro, and contributor Ray Richmond. The 2013 WGA award winners will be named here:
LOS ANGELES… Refresh for latest… The 65th Annual Writers Guild Awards Los Angeles ceremony tonight honors outstanding achievement in writing in film, television, radio, new media, and other awards categories. The presentation at the JW Marriott LA Live is going on simultaneously with the New York City ceremony. (WGA East Awards 2013 Ceremony - LIVE) The WGA nominations for theatrical motion pictures are in 3 categories: Original 
Screenplay, Adapted Screenplay and Documentary Screenplay. Missing include Django Unchained, Les Miserables, Amour, Beasts Of The Southern Wild and The Best Exotic Marigold Hotel which were excluded from the nomination ballots for not being produced under guild jurisdiction or under a collective bargaining agreement in Canada, Ireland, New Zealand or the UK. (Oscar guidelines are less restrictive.) But those nominees out of the 112 eligible screenplays include for Original Screenplay the films Flight, Looper, The Master, Moonrise Kingdom, and Zero Dark Thirty,and for Adapted Screenplay the films Argo, Life Of Pi, Lincoln, The Perks Of Being A Wallflower, and Silver Linings Playbook. Those honors bestowed include the prestigious Laurel Awards. The Screen Laurel Award to Tom Stoppard is given to that member of the Guild who, in the opinion of the current Board of Directors, has advanced the literature of the motion picture through the years, and who has made outstanding contributions to the profession of the screenwriter. The Paddy Chayefsky Laurel Award to Joshua Brand & John Falsey is given to those members of the Guild who, in the opinion of the current Board of Directors, have advanced the literature of television through the years, and who have made outstanding contributions to the profession of the television writer. Other honors are the Valentine Davies Award to Phil Rosenthal, the Morgan Cox Award to Daniel Petrie Jr, the Paul Selvin Award to Tony Kushner, the Animation Writers Caucus Award to Matt Groening. Tonight’s ceremony is being hosted by Castle‘s Nathan Fillion:
2013 WRITERS GUILD OF AMERICA AWARDS
MOTION PICTURES
TELEVISION
EPISODIC COMEDY
Modern Family – "Virgin Territory", Written by Elaine Ko (ABC)
NEW MEDIA
OUTSTANDING ACHIEVEMENT IN WRITING DERIVATIVE NEW MEDIA
The Walking Dead: Cold Storage, Written by John Esposito (amctv.com) – "Hide And Seek," "Keys to the Kingdom," "The Chosen Ones," "Parting Shots"
OUTSTANDING ACHIEVEMENT IN WRITING ORIGINAL NEW MEDIA
Jack In A Box, Written by Michael Cyril Creighton (jackinaboxsite.com) – "The Compromises, Episode 1," "The Pest, Episode 3," The Snake, Episode 4," "The Bonding, Episode 6," "The Future, Episode 7/Series Finale"
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