60th Writers Guild of America Awards

60th WGA Awards
Date	February 9, 2008
Organized by	Writers Guild of America, East and the Writers Guild of America, West

The 60th Writers Guild of America Awards honored the best film, television, and videogame writers of 2007. Winners were announced on February 9, 2008.

Winners and nominees

Film

Best Adapted Screenplay

No Country for Old Men - Joel Coen and Ethan Coen (screenplay); Cormac McCarthy (author)

• Into the Wild - Sean Penn (screenplay); Jon Krakauer (author)
• Le scaphandre et le papillon (The Diving Bell and the Butterfly) - Ronald Harwood (screenplay); Jean-Dominique Bauby (author)
• There Will Be Blood - Paul Thomas Anderson (screenplay); Upton Sinclair (author)
• Zodiac - James Vanderbilt (screenplay); Robert Graysmith (author)

Best Original Screenplay

Juno - Diablo Cody

• Knocked Up - Judd Apatow
• Lars and the Real Girl - Nancy Oliver
• Michael Clayton - Tony Gilroy
• The Savages - Tamara Jenkins

Best Documentary Feature Screenplay

Taxi to the Dark Side - Alex Gibney

• The Camden 28 - Anthony Giacchino
• Nanking - Elisabeth Bentley, Bill Guttentag, Dan Sturman, and Elisabeth Bentley; story by Bill Guttentag and Dan Sturman
• No End in Sight - Charles Ferguson
• The Rape of Europa - Richard Berge, Nicole Newnham, and Bonni Cohen
• Sicko - Michael Moore

Television

Dramatic Series

Title	Writers	Network
Dexter	Scott Buck, Daniel Cerone, Drew Greenberg, Lauren Gussis, Kevin Maynard, Clyde Phillips, Melissa Rosenberg, and Timothy Schlattman	Showtime
Friday Night Lights	Bridget Carpenter, Kerry Ehrin, Carter Harris, Elizabeth Heldens, David Hudgins, Jason Katims, Patrick Massett, Andy Miller, Aaron Rahsaan Thomas, and John Zinman	NBC
Mad Men	Lisa Albert, Bridget Bedard, Andre Jacquemetton, Maria Jacquemetton, Tom Palmer, Chris Provenzano, Robin Veith, and Matthew Weiner	AMC
The Sopranos	David Chase, Diane Frolov, Andrew Schneider, Matthew Weiner, and Terence Winter	HBO
The Wire	Ed Burns, Chris Collins, Dennis Lehane, David Mills, Eric Overmyer, George Pelecanos, Richard Price, David Simon, and William F. Zorzi	HBO

Comedy Series

Title	Writers	Network
30 Rock	Brett Baer, Jack Burditt, Kay Cannon, Robert Carlock, Tina Fey, Dave Finkel, Daisy Gardner, Donald Glover, Matt Hubbard, Jon Pollack, John Riggi, Tami Sagher, and Ron Weiner	NBC
Curb Your Enthusiasm	Larry David	HBO
Entourage	Marc Abrams, Lisa Alden, Michael Benson, Brian Burns, Doug Ellin, Alex Gansa, Tim Griffin, Dusty Kay, Stephen Levinson, Ally Musika, Wes Nickerson, and Rob Weiss	HBO
Flight of the Conchords	Damon Beesley, James Bobin, Jemaine Clement, Eric Kaplan, Bret McKenzie, Iain Morris, Duncan Sarkies, Pauls Simms, and Taika Waititi	HBO
The Office	Steve Carell, Jennifer Celotta, Greg Daniels, Lee Eisenberg, Anthony Farrell, Brent Forrester, Ricky Gervais, Mindy Kaling, Ryan Koh, Lester Lewis, Paul Lieberstein, Stephen Merchant, B. J. Novak, Michael Schur, Justin Spitzer, Gene Stupnitsky, Caroline Williams, and Larry Wilmore	NBC

New Series

Title	Writers	Network
Damages	Jeremy Doner, Mark Fish, Davey Holmes, Glenn Kessler, Todd A. Kessler, Willie Reale, Adam Stein, Aaron Zelman, and Daniel Zelman	FX
Flight of the Conchords	Damon Beesley, James Bobin, Jemaine Clement, Eric Kaplan, Bret McKenzie, Iain Morris, Duncan Sarkies, Pauls Simms, and Taika Waititi	HBO
Mad Men	Lisa Albert, Bridget Bedard, Andre Jacquemetton, Maria Jacquemetton, Tom Palmer, Chris Provenzano, Robin Veith, and Matthew Weiner	AMC
Pushing Daisies	Chad Gomez Creasey, Dara Resnik Creasey, Bryan Fuller, Abby Gewanter, Jim Danger Gray, Lisa Joy, Kath Lingenfelter, Rina Mimoun, Jack Monaco, Scott Nimerfro, and Peter Ocko	ABC
The Sarah Silverman Program	Dan Fybel, Rich Rinaldi, Rob Schrab, Jon Schroeder, Sarah Silverman, Dan Sterling, and Harris Wittels	Comedy Central

Episodic Drama

Title	Series	Writers	Network
"The Dark Defender"	Dexter	Tim Schlattmann	Showtime
"Final Grades"	The Wire	Teleplay by David Simon; Story by David Simon & Ed Burns	HBO
"Flashes Before Your Eyes"	Lost	Damon Lindelof & Drew Goddard	ABC
"The Hobo Code"	Mad Men	Chris Provenzano	AMC
"The Round File"	The Closer	Michael Alaimo	TNT
"The Second Coming"	The Sopranos	Terence Winter	HBO

Episodic Comedy

Title	Series	Writers	Network
"The Job"	The Office	Paul Lieberstein & Michael Schur	NBC
"Local Ad"	The Office	B. J. Novak	NBC
"Hard Ball"	30 Rock	Matt Hubbard	NBC
"Pie-lette"	Pushing Daisies	Bryan Fuller	ABC
"Phyllis' Wedding"	The Office	Caroline Williams	NBC
"Sally Returns"	Flight of the Conchords	James Bobin & Jemaine Clement & Bret McKenzie	HBO

Long Form - Original

Title	Writers	Network
Pandemic	Bryce Zabel & Jackie Zabel	Hallmark Channel
The Lost Room	"Night One" Teleplay by Laura Harkcom & Christopher Leone; Story by Christopher Leone & Paul Workman. "Night Two" and "Night Three" written by Laura Harkcom & Christopher Leone	Sci-Fi

Long Form - Adaptation

Title	Writers	Network
Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee	Teleplay by Daniel Giat, based on the book by Dee Alexander Brown	HBO
The Company: A Story of the CIA	Teleplay by Ken Nolan, based on the novel by Robert Littell	TNT
The Starter Wife	Teleplay by Sara Parriott & Josann McGibbon, based on the book by Gigi Levangie Grazer	USA

Animation

Title	Series	Writers	Network
"The Haw-Hawed Couple"	The Simpsons	Matt Selman	Fox
"The Homer of Seville"	The Simpsons	Carolyn Omine	Fox
"Kill Gil, Volumes I & II"	The Simpsons	Jeff Westbrook	Fox
"Stop! Or My Dog Will Shoot"	The Simpsons	John Frink	Fox
"The Passion of Dauterive"	King of the Hill	Tony Gama-Lobo & Rebecca May	Fox
"Lucky's Wedding Suit"	King of the Hill	Jim Dauterive	Fox

Comedy/Variety (Including Talk) Series

Title	Writers	Network
The Daily Show with Jon Stewart	Head Writer Steve Bodow, Written by Rachel Axler, Kevin Bleyer, Rich Blomquist, Tim Carvell, J. R. Havlan, Scott Jacobson, D.J. Javerbaum, Rob Kutner, Josh Lieb, Sam Means, Jason Reich, Jason Ross and Jon Stewart	Comedy Central
The Colbert Report	Written by Bryan Adams, Michael Brumm, Stephen Colbert, Rich Dahm, Eric Drysdale, Rob Dubbin, Glenn Eichler, Peter Grosz, Peter Gwinn, Barry Julien, Jay Katsir, Laura Krafft, Frank Lesser, Tom Purcell, and Allison Silverman	Comedy Central
Late Night with Conan O'Brien	Writers Mike Sweeney, Chris Albers, Jose Arroyo, Dan Cronin, Kevin Dorff, Daniel J. Goor, Michael Gordon, Tim Harrod, Berkley Johnson, Brian Kiley, Michael Koman, Brian McCann, Guy Nicolucci, Conan O'Brien, Robert Smigel, Brian Stack, and Andrew Weinberg	NBC
Penn & Teller: Bullshit!	Written by Penn Jillette, Teller, David Weiss, Jon Hotchkiss, Michael Goudeau, Star Price, Sheryl Zohn, Cliff Schoenberg	Showtime
Real Time with Bill Maher	Written by Scott Carter, David Feldman, Lance Crouther, Adam Felber, Matt Gunn, Brian Jacobsmeyer, Jay Jaroch, Chris Kelly, Bill Maher, Billy Martin, Jonathan Schmock, Danny Vermont	HBO
Saturday Night Live	Head Writers Seth Meyers, Paula Pell, Andrew Steele, Writers Doug Abeles, James Anderson, Alex Baze, James Downey, Charlie Grandy, Steve Higgins, Colin Jost, Erik Kenward, John Lutz, Seth Meyers, Lorne Michaels, Matt Murray, Paula Pell, Marika Sawyer, Akiva Schaffer, Robert Smigel, John Solomon, Emily Spivey, Andrew Steele, Jorma Taccone, Bryan Tucker, Additional Sketch By Jim Cashman	NBC

Daytime Serials

Title	Writers	Network
All My Children	James Harmon Brown, Barbara Esensten, Megan McTavish, Addie Walsh, Chip Hayes, Stephen Demorest, Michelle Patrick, Amanda L. Beall, Jeff Beldner, Karen Lewis, Rebecca Taylor, Marla Kanelos, Courtney Bugler, Joanna Cohen, Kate Hall	ABC
As the World Turns	Jean Passanante, Leah Laiman, Christopher Whitesell, Courtney Simon, Anna Cascio, Lisa Connor, David A. Levinson, Gary Sunshine, Bettina F. Bradbury, Richard Culliton, Susan Dansby, Judith Donato, Mimi Leahey, Elizabeth Page Judy Tate	CBS
General Hospital	Robert Guza Jr., Elizabeth Korte, Michael Conforti, Garin Wolf, David Goldschmid, Michele Val Jean, Mary Sue Price, Karen Harris, Susan Wald, Tracey Thompson	ABC
The Young and the Restless	Lynn Marie Latham, Scott Hamner, Jeff Gottesfeld, Cherie Bennett, Bernard Lechowick, James Stanley, Natalie Minardi Slater, Lynsey DuFour, Marina Alburger, Sara A. Bibel, Paula Cwikly, Janice Ferri Esser, Eric Freiwald, Linda Schreiber, Joshua S. McCaffrey, Sandra Weintraub	CBS

Children's

Episodic & specials

Title	Series	Writers	Network
"Look Whose Not Talking"	Flight 29 Down	D. J. MacHale	Discovery Kids
"Nat is a Stand Up Guy"	The Naked Brothers Band	Polly Draper	Nickelodeon

Script - long form or special

Title	Writers	Network
The Haunting Hour: Don't Think About It	Billy Brown, and Dan Angel	Cartoon Network
Johnny Kapahala: Back on Board	Teleplay by Ann Austen & Douglas Sloan and Max Enscoe & Annie DeYoung, story by Ann Austen & Douglas Sloan	Disney Channel

Documentary

Current events

Title	Series	Writers	Network
"The Enemy Within"	Frontline	Lowell Bergman & Oriana Zill De Granados	PBS
"News War Part 1: Secrets Sources and Spin"	Frontline	Written by Raney Aronson-Rath and Lowell Bergman & Seth Bomse	PBS
"News War Part 3: What's Happening to the News?"	Frontline	Stephen Talbot & Lowell Bergman	PBS
"Return of the Taliban"	Frontline	Martin Smith	PBS
"Security vs. Liberty: The Other War"	America at a Crossroads	Edward Gray	PBS
"Spying on the Home Front"	Frontline	Hedrick Smith & Rick Young	PBS

Other than current events

Title	Series	Writers	Network
"Alexander Hamilton"	American Experience	Ronald Blumer	PBS
"Billy Strayhorn: Lush Life"	Independent Lens	Robert Levi and Robert Seidman	PBS
"Forgotten Genius"	Nova	Stephen Lyons & Llewellyn M. Smith	PBS
"Episode Four: Pride of Our Nation"	The War	Geoffrey C. Ward	PBS

News

Regularly scheduled, bulletin or breaking report

Title	Series	Writers	Network
"Amish School Shooting"	World News with Charles Gibson	Josh Landis, Joel Siegel, Julia Kathan, and Charles Gibson	ABC
"The Battle for Iraq: Four Years After the Invasion"	Up to the Minute	J. Craig Wilson	CBS

Analysis, feature, or commentary

Title	Series	Writers	Network
"The 7 New Wonders of the World: The Internet"	Good Morning America	Laura Zaccaro	ABC
"To Bee or Not To Bee"	Good Morning America	Mary Pflum	ABC

Video games

Videogame Writing

Dead Head Fred - Dave Ellis and Adam Cogan

• Crash of the Titans - Christopher Mitchell
• The Simpsons Game - Lead writer Matt Selman, written by Tim Long and Matt Warburton, dialogue by Jeff Poliquin
• The Witcher - Lead story designer Artur Ganszyniec, dialogue by Sebastian Stepien, additional dialogue by Marcin Blacha, writers Sande Chen and Anne Toole
• World in Conflict - Story design by Christofer Emgard, story consultant Larry Bond, script consultant Ed Zuckerman

References

• "2008 Writers Guild Awards Television & Radio Nominees Announced". WGA. 2007. Archived from the original on 2007-12-19. Retrieved 2007-12-13.
• Perry, Byron (2007-12-12). "WGA announce TV, radio nominees". Variety. Archived from the original on 2007-12-18. Retrieved 2007-12-13.
• "HBO tops WGA awards list with five noms". The Hollywood Reporter. 2007. Archived from the original on 2008-07-06. Retrieved 2007-12-13.
• "WGA Announces First-Ever Videogame Writing Award Nominees". WGA. 2008. Archived from the original on 2008-04-23. Retrieved 2008-01-26.