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The 61st Writers Guild of America Awards honored the best film , television , and videogame writers of 2008. Winners were announced on February 7, 2009.[ 1]
Nominees
Names in bold denote the winners.
Film
Best Adapted Screenplay
Best Original Screenplay
Best Documentary Feature Screenplay
Television
Dramatic Series
Title
Writers
Network
Dexter
Scott Buck , Daniel Cerone , Charles H. Eglee , Drew Greenberg , Adam E. Fierro , Lauren Gussis , Clyde Phillips , Scott Reynolds , Melissa Rosenberg , and Timothy Schlattman
Showtime
Friday Night Lights
Bridget Carpenter , Kerry Ehrin , Brent Fletcher , Jason Gavin , Carter Harris , Elizabeth Heldens , David Hudgins , Jason Katims , Patrick Massett , Aaron Rahsaan Thomas , and John Zinman
NBC
Lost
Carlton Cuse , Drew Goddard , Adam Horowitz , Christina M. Kim , Edward Kitsis , Damon L. Lindelof , Greggory Nations , Kyle Pennington , Elizabeth Sarnoff , and Brian K. Vaughan
ABC
Mad Men
Lisa Albert , Jane Anderson , Rick Cleveland , David Isaacs , Andre Jacquemetton , Maria Jacquemetton , Marti Noxon , Robin Veith , and Matthew Weiner
AMC
The Wire
Ed Burns , Chris Collins , Dennis Lehane , David Mills , George Pelecanos , Richard Price , David Simon , and William F. Zorzi
HBO
Comedy Series
Title
Writers
Network
30 Rock
Jack Burditt , Kay Cannon , Robert Carlock , Tina Fey , Donald Glover , Andrew Guest , Matt Hubbard , Jon Pollack, John Riggi , Tami Sagher , and Ron Weiner
NBC
Entourage
Doug Ellin , Jeremy Miller , Ally Musika , Steve Pink , and Rob Weiss
HBO
The Office
Steve Carell , Jennifer Celotta , Greg Daniels , Lee Eisenberg , Brent Forrester , Dan Goor [1] , Charlie Grandy [2] , Mindy Kaling , Ryan Koh , Lester Lewis , Paul Lieberstein , Warren Lieberstein [3] , B.J. Novak , Michael Schur , Aaron Shure , Gene Stupnitsky , and Halsted Sullivan
NBC
The Simpsons
J. Stewart Burns , Daniel Chun , Joel H. Cohen , Kevin Curran , John Frink , Tom Gammill , Stephanie Gillis , Dan Greaney , Reid Harrison , Al Jean , Billy Kimball , Tim Long , Ian Maxtone-Graham , Bill Odenkirk , Carolyn Omine , Don Payne , Michael Price , Max Pross , Mike Reiss , Mike Scully , Matt Selman , Matt Warburton , Jeff Westbrook , Marc Wilmore , and William Wright
Fox
Weeds
Roberto Benabib , Mark A. Burley, Ron Fitzgerald , David Holstein, Rolin Jones , Brendan Kelly , Jenji Kohan , Victoria Morrow , and Matthew Salsberg
Showtime
New Series
Title
Writers
Network
Breaking Bad
Vince Gilligan , Peter Gould , Patty Lin , and George Mastras
AMC
Fringe
J. J. Abrams , Jason Cahill , Julia Cho , David H. Goodman , Felicia Henderson , Brad Caleb Kane , Alex Kurtzman , Darin Morgan , J. R. Orci , Roberto Orci , Jeff Pinkner , and Zack Whedon
Fox
In Treatment
Rodrigo García , Bryan Goluboff, Davey Holmes , William Meritt Johnson, Amy Lippman , and Sarah Treem
HBO
Life On Mars
Josh Appelbaum , Andre Nemec , Scott Rosenberg , Becky Hartman Edwards , David Wilcox , Adele Lim, Bryan Oh, Tracy McMillan , Sonny Postiglione, Phil M. Rosenberg, and Meredith Averill
ABC
True Blood
Alan Ball , Brian Buckner , Raelle Tucker , Alexander Woo , Nancy Oliver , and Chris Offutt
HBO
Episodic Drama
Episodic Comedy
Animation
Comedy/Variety (Including Talk) Series
Title
Writers
Network
Late Night with Conan O'Brien
Writers Mike Sweeney , Chris Albers , Jose Arroyo , Dan Cronin , Kevin Dorff , Daniel J. Goor , Michael Gordon , Berkley Johnson , Brian Kiley , Michael Koman , Brian McCann , Guy Nicolucci , Conan O'Brien , Matt O'Brien, Robert Smigel , Brian Stack , and Andrew Weinberg
NBC
Late Show with David Letterman
Head Writers Eric Stangel , Justin Stangel , Writers Michael Barrie , Jim Mulholland , Steve Young , Tom Ruprecht , Lee Ellenberg , Matt Roberts, Jeremy Weiner , Joe Grossman , Bill Scheft , Bob Borden , Frank Sebastiano , and David Letterman
CBS
Real Time with Bill Maher
Written by Scott Carter , Adam Felber , Matt Gunn , Brian Jacobsmeyer , Jay Jaroch , Chris Kelly , Bill Maher , Billy Martin , and 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 , Rob Klein , John Lutz , Lorne Michaels , John Mulaney , Simon Rich , Marika Sawyer , Akiva Schaffer , Robert Smigel , John Solomon , Emily Spivey , Kent Sublette , Jorma Taccone , Bryan Tucker , Additional Sketches by Robert Carlock
NBC
The Colbert Report
Head Writers Allison Silverman , Tom Purcell , and Rich Dahm , Writers Bryan Adams , Michael Brumm , Stephen Colbert , Rob Dubbin , Glenn Eichler , Peter Grosz , Peter Gwinn , Barry Julien , Laura Krafft , Jay Katsir , Frank Lesser , and Meredith Scardino
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 , J.R. Havlan , DJ Javerbaum , Rob Kutner , Josh Lieb, Sam Means , John Oliver , Jason Ross and Jon Stewart
Comedy Central
Comedy/Variety – Music, Awards, Tributes – Specials
Title
Writers
Network
2008 Film Independent Spirit Awards
Written by Billy Kimball , Aaron Lee , Jennifer Celotta , and Rainn Wilson
IFC/AMC
Jimmy Kimmel's Big Night of Stars
Written by Jimmy Kimmel , Gary Greenberg , Molly McNearney , Bryan Paulk , Ned Rice , Jon Bines , Will Burke , Rick Rosner , Jake Lentz, Sal Iacono , and Tony Barbieri
ABC
Daytime Serials
Title
Writers
Network
As the World Turns
Written by Jean Passanante , Leah Laiman , Courtney Simon , Lisa Connor , David A. Levinson , Peter Brash , Richard Culliton , Susan Dansby , Cheryl Davis , and Leslie Nipkow
CBS Daytime
One Life to Live
Written by Ron Carlivati , Carolyn Culliton , Elizabeth Page , Aida Croal , Shelly Altman , Janet Iacobuzio , Chris Van Etten , Anna Theresa Cascio
ABC Daytime
Children's
Episodic & Specials
Documentary
Current events
Other than current events
News
Regularly scheduled, bulletin, or breaking report
Video games
Videogame Writing
Star Wars: The Force Unleashed - Haden Blackman, Shawn Pitman, John Stafford and Cameron Suey
Command & Conquer: Red Alert 3 - Writer Haris Orkin, story producer Mical Pedriana
Dangerous High School Girls in Trouble! - Writing Keith Nemitz, additional writing Adrianne Ambrose
Fallout 3 - Lead Writer Emil Pagliarulo, quest writing Erik J. Caponi, Brian Chapin, Jon Paul Duvall, Kurt Kuhlmann, Alan Nanes, Bruce Nesmith and Fred Zeleny, additional quest writing Nate Ellis, William Killeen, Mark Nelson and Justin McSweeney
Tomb Raider: Underworld - Story Eric Lindstrom and Toby Gard, screenplay Eric Lindstrom
Paul Selwin Civil Rights Award
Dustin Lance Black , "to the member whose script best embodies the spirit of constitutional and civil rights and liberties."
References
External links
Film Awards Television/ New Media Awards Special Awards Former Awards Ceremonies
Years are of film release; ceremonies are held the following year