Deadline Editor-in-Chief Nikki Finke is writing from on-scene reports:
NEW YORK CITY… Refresh for latest… The 65th Annual Writers Guild Awards New York Ceremony tonight honors outstanding achievement in writing in film, television, radio, new media, and other awards categories. The presentation at the B.B. King Blues Club is going on simultaneously with the Los Angeles ceremony. 
The WGAE is paying tribute to the late legendary author, screenwriter and director Nora Ephron as well as presenting several honorary and service awards. Screenwriter and director David Koepp will be the recipient of the Ian McClellan Hunter Award for Career Achievement. The award, established in 1992, honors a WGA member for his/her body of work as a writer in motion pictures or television. And current Secretary-Treasurer Bob Schneider will receive the WGAE’s annual Richard B. Jablow Award, named after the Guild's first counsel who helped found the organization and authored its constitution, for devoted service to the Guild. Actor Richard Kind, who recently appeared in the Academy Award-nominated film Argo as screenwriter Max Klein, is hosting. (When approached, Kind reportedly remarked, “I am a vapid, empty actor with nothing to say, but on this night, with these great writers writing my material, I will be witty, pithy and even more handsome than I already am.") Tonight on the red Carpet, emcee Kind said about glammed-up nominee Lena Dunham (Girls): ”She looks great. But my boobs are bigger.”
Bored To Death writer Jonathan Ames, who nearly brought the house down with his Dean Martin–inspired monologue at last year’s awards, is returning as a presenter along with Girls' Lena Dunham and Alex Karpovsky, Louie's Louis C.K., Boardwalk Empire's Bobby Cannavale, Beasts Of The Southern Wild writer Lucy Alibar, The Simpsons' Mike Reiss, actress Gina Gershon, Sesame Street's Sonia Manzano, Life Of Pi writer David Magee, Minority Report writer Scott Frank, CBS Sunday Morning's Nancy Giles, Not Fade Away actress Lisa Lampanelli, comedian W. Kamau Bell, Sleepwalk With Me's Mike Birbiglia, as well as writers from television shows Saturday Night Live, The Daily Show and The Colbert Report. MORE
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