Writers Guild Awards 2025 Winners List: ‘Anora,’ ‘Nickel Boys’ Score Screenplay Wins (Updating Live)
variety.comBreaking Bad” creator Vince Gilligan was tapped to receive the Paddy Chayefsky Laurel Award for Television Writing Achievement, while the late David Lynch was honored with the Laurel Award for Screenwriting Achievement.
Also, RaMell Ross and Joslyn Barnes received the Paul Sevlin Award, “presented to that member whose script best embodies the spirit of the constitutional and civil rights and liberties which are indispensable to the survival of free writers everywhere.” In his speech, Ross lamented the current drive by the Trump administration to roll back decades of Civil Rights advances. “The imagination is the most powerful form of resistance,” he said from the stage in L.A. “Let’s take courage from one another.” In New York, Scott Frank was set to be presented with the Ian McLellan Hunter Award for Career Achievement by Marielle Heller, while Bill Lawrence was to be presented with the Herb Sargent Award for Comedy Excellence.
Kathy McGee was selected to be honored with the Richard B. Jablow Award for Devoted Service to the Guild by Penelope Koechl.
Among key nominations, Oscar original screenplay nominees Sean Baker (“Anora”) and Jesse Eisenberg (“A Real Pain”) are in the hunt, alongside Justin Kuritzkes for “Challengers,” Alex Garland for “Civil War” and Megan Park for “My Old Ass.” All are first-time WGA nominees.
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