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Award ceremony for writing of 2009
The 62nd Writers Guild of America Awards honored the best film , television , and videogame writers of 2009. Winners were announced on February 20, 2010.[ 1]
Names in bold denote the winners.[ 2]
Best Adapted Screenplay [ edit ]
Best Original Screenplay [ edit ]
Best Documentary Feature Screenplay [ edit ]
Title
Writers
Network
Breaking Bad
Sam Catlin , Vince Gilligan , Peter Gould , George Mastras , J. Roberts , John Shiban , and Moira Walley-Beckett
AMC
Dexter
Scott Buck , Charles H. Eglee , Lauren Gussis , Clyde Phillips , Scott Reynolds , Melissa Rosenberg , Timothy Schlattman , and Wendy West
Showtime
Friday Night Lights
Bridget Carpenter , Kerry Ehrin , Ron Fitzgerald , Brent Fletcher , Etan Frankel , Jason Gavin , Elizabeth Heldens , David Hudgins , Rolin Jones , Jason Katims , Patrick Massett , Derek Santos Olson , and John Zinman
NBC
Lost
Carlton Cuse , Adam Horowitz , Melinda Hsu Taylor , Edward Kitsis , Damon Lindelof , Greggory Nations , Kyle Pennington , Elizabeth Sarnoff , Brian K. Vaughan , and Paul Zbyszewski
ABC
Mad Men
Lisa Albert , Andrew Colville , Kater Gordon , Cathryn Humphris , Andre Jacquemetton , Maria Jacquemetton , Brett Johnson , Erin Levy , Marti Noxon , Frank Pierson , Robin Veith , Dahvi Waller , and Matthew Weiner
AMC
Title
Writers
Network
30 Rock
Jack Burditt , Kay Cannon , Robert Carlock , Tom Ceraulo , Vali Chandrasekaran , Tina Fey , Donald Glover , Steve Hely , Matt Hubbard , Dylan Morgan , Paula Pell , Jon Pollack, John Riggi , Tami Sagher , Josh Siegal , Ron Weiner , and Tracey Wigfield
NBC
Curb Your Enthusiasm
Larry David
HBO
Glee
Ian Brennan , Brad Falchuk , and Ryan Murphy
Fox
Modern Family
Paul Corrigan , Sameer Gardezi , Joe Lawson , Steven Levitan , Christopher Lloyd , Dan O'Shannon , Brad Walsh , Caroline Williams , Bill Wrubel , and Danny Zuker
ABC
The Office
Jennifer Celotta , Danny Chun , Greg Daniels , Lee Eisenberg , Anthony Q. Farrell , Brent Forrester , Dan Goor , Charlie Grandy , Mindy Kaling , Ryan Koh , Lester Lewis , Paul Lieberstein , Warren Lieberstein , B. J. Novak , Michael Schur , Aaron Shure , Justin Spitzer , Gene Stupnitsky , and Halsted Sullivan
NBC
Title
Writers
Network
Glee
Ian Brennan , Brad Falchuk , and Ryan Murphy
Fox
The Good Wife
Angela Amato Velez , Corinne Brinkerhoff , Ted Humphrey , Dee Johnson , Todd E. Kessler , Michelle King , and Robert King
CBS
Hung
Colette Burson , Ellie Herman , Emily Kapnek , Brett C. Leonard , Dmitry Lipkin, and Angela Robinson
HBO
Modern Family
Paul Corrigan , Sameer Gardezi , Joe Lawson , Steven Levitan , Christopher Lloyd , Dan O'Shannon , Brad Walsh , Caroline Williams , Bill Wrubel , and Danny Zuker
ABC
Nurse Jackie
Taii K. Austin , Liz Brixius , Rick Cleveland , Evan Dunsky , Nancy Fichman , Liz Flahive , Jennifer Hoppe , Mark Hudis , John Hilary Shepherd , Linda Wallem , and Christine Zander
Showtime
Comedy/Variety (Including Talk) Series[ edit ]
Title
Writers
Network
The Colbert Report
Head Writers Barry Julien , Thomas Purcell , Writers Michael Brumm , Stephen Colbert , Richard Dahm , Rob Dubbin , Glenn Eichler , Peter Grosz , Peter Gwinn , Jay Katsir , Frank Lesser , Opus Moreschi , Meredith Scardino , Allison Silverman , and Max Werner
Comedy Central
The Daily Show with Jon Stewart
Head Writer Steve Bodow , Writers Rory Albanese , Rachel Axler , Kevin Bleyer , Rich Blomquist , Tim Carvell , Wyatt Cenac , Hallie Haglund , J.R. Havlan , DJ Javerbaum , J. R. Havlan , David Javerbaum , Elliott Kalan , Josh Lieb, Sam Means , Jo Miller , John Oliver , Daniel Radosh , Jason Ross , and Jon Stewart
Real Time with Bill Maher
Head writer: Billy Martin , Writers: Scott Carter , Adam Felber , Matt Gunn , Brian Jacobsmeyer , Jay Jaroch , Chris Kelly , Bill Maher , Jonathan Schmock , and Danny Vermont
HBO
Saturday Night Live
Head Writer: Seth Meyers , Writers: Doug Abeles , James Anderson , Alex Baze , Jessica Conrad , James Downey , Steve Higgins , Colin Jost , Erik Kenward , Rob Klein , John Lutz , Lorne Michaels , John Mulaney , Paula Pell , Simon Rich , Marika Sawyer , Akiva Schaffer , John Solomon , Emily Spivey , Kent Sublette , Jorma Taccone , and Bryan Tucker ; Additional Sketches by Adam McKay and Andrew Steele
NBC
The Tonight Show with Conan O'Brien
Head Writer: Mike Sweeney , Writers Chris Albers , Jose Arroyo , Josh Comers , Dan Cronin , Kevin Dorff , Andres du Bouchet , Michael Gordon , Berkley Johnson , Brian Kiley , Rob Kutner , Todd Levin , Brian McCann , Guy Nicolucci , Conan O'Brien , Matt O'Brien, Andy Richter , Brian Stack , and Andrew Weinberg
Comedy/Variety – Music, Awards, Tributes – Specials[ edit ]
Title
Writers
Network
All My Children
Jeff Beldner , Joanna Cohen , Kate Hall , Chip Hayes , Michelle Patrick , Charles Pratt Jr. , Rebecca Taylor , Tracey Thomson , and Addie Walsh
ABC
As the World Turns
Peter Brash , Lisa Connor , Susan Dansby , Cheryl L. Davis , Leah Laiman , David A. Levinson , Leslie Nipkow , Jean Passanante , Gordon Rayfield , and Courtney Simon
CBS
One Life to Live
Shelly Altman , Ron Carlivati , Anna Theresa Cascio , Aida Croal , Carolyn Culliton , Janet Iacobuzio , Frederick Johnson , Sharon Lennon , Elizabeth Page , Melissa Salmons , Katherine Schock , Scott Sickles , and Chris Van Etten
ABC
The Young and the Restless
Amanda L. Beall , Tom Casiello , Lisa Connor , Janice Ferri Esser , Eric Freiwald , Jay Gibson , Scott Hamner , Marla Kanelos , Beth Milstein , Natalie Minardi Slater , Melissa Salmons , Linda Schreiber , James Stanley , Sandra Weintraub , and Teresa Zimmerman
CBS
Episodic and Specials [ edit ]
Other than Current Events [ edit ]
Regularly scheduled, bulletin, or breaking report[ edit ]
News – Regularly Scheduled or Breaking[ edit ]
How I Learned To Stop Worrying and Love the Promo Process – Written by Michelle Straebler ; WNBC
"Vegas" (Dateline), "The Wanted" Promo, NBC Nightly News Promo, "Iran" (Dateline), "Cheat" (Dateline) – Written by Barry Fitzsimmons ; NBC
Television Graphic Animation [ edit ]
Assassin's Creed II – Story by Corey May , Script Writers Corey May, Joshua Rubin , Jeffrey Yohalem ; Ubisoft
Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2 – Written by Jesse Stern ; Additional Writing Steve Fukuda ; Story by Todd Alderman , Steve Fukuda, Mackey McCandlish , Zied Rieke , Jesse Stern, Jason West, Battlechatter Dialogue , and Sean Slayback ; Activision
Uncharted 2: Among Thieves – Written by Amy Hennig ; Sony Computer Entertainment
Wet – Written by Duppy Demetrius and Bethesda Softworks
X-Men Origins: Wolverine – Written by Marc Guggenheim ; Activision
Film Awards Television/ New Media Awards Special Awards Former Awards Ceremonies
Years are of film release; ceremonies are held the following year