Valentine Davies Award

The Valentine Davies Award, named after Valentine Davies, is a special award given to a member of the Writers Guild of America, West whose contributions to the entertainment industry and the community-at-large have brought dignity and honor to writers everywhere.

Recipients

Year	Person(s)
1962	Mary McCall, Jr.
1963	Allen Rivkin
1964	Morgan Cox
1965	James R. Webb
1966	Leonard Spigelgass
1967	Edmund H. North
1968	George Seaton
1969	Dore Schary
1970	Richard Murphy
1971	Dan Taradash
1972	Michael Blankfort & Norman Corwin
1973	William Ludwig
1974	Ray Bradbury & Philip Dunne
1975	Fay Kanin
1976	Winston Miller
1977	Carl Foreman
1978	Norman Lear
1979	Melville Shavelson
1980	David W. Rintels
1981	Arthur Orloff
1982	Mort R. Lewis
1983	Hal Kanter
1984	Jerome Lawrence & Robert E. Lee
1985	Charles Champlin
1986	Ronald Austin
1987	William Froug
1988	Lois Peyser
1989	Michael Kanin & Garson Kanin
1990	John Furia, Jr.
1991	Frank Pierson
1992	Allan Burns
1993	True Boardman
1994	Phil Alden Robinson
1995	Garry Marshall
1996	Mike Farrell
1997	Jonathan Estrin & Shelley List (posthumously)
1998	Gary David Goldberg
1999	Barry Kemp
2000	Alan Alda
2001	Paul Haggis
2002	David Angell (posthumously)
2003	Aaron Ruben
2004	Neal Baer
2005	Irma Kalish
2006	Not presented
2007	Larry Gelbart
2008	Tom Schulman
2009	Carl Reiner & Victoria Riskin
2010	Not presented
2011	Seth Freeman & Susannah Grant
2012	Philip Rosenthal
2013	Sam Simon
2014	Ben Affleck
2016	John August