Writers Guild of America Award for Television: Documentary Script – Other Than Current Events
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Writers Guild of America Award for Television: Documentary Script – Other Than Current Events | |
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Awarded for | Outstanding Writing in Documentaries – Other Than Current Events |
Country | United States |
Presented by | Writers Guild of America |
First awarded | 1987 |
Currently held by | Gene Tempest for "Citizen Hearst, Part One" (American Experience) - 2021 |
Website | www |
The Writers Guild of America Award for Television: Documentary Script – Other Than Current Events is an award presented by the Writers Guild of America to the best writing in a documentary about topics other than current events. It was first awarded at the 40th Writers Guild of America Awards, being the program The Grizzlies the inaugural winner of the category.
Winners and nominees
[edit]1980s
[edit]Year | Program | Episode | Writer(s) | Network | Ref. |
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1987
(40th) |
The Grizzlies | Theodore Thomas | PBS | ||
1988
(41st) |
George Stevens: A Filmmaker's Journey | George Stevens Jr. | ABC | ||
1989
(42nd) |
American Experience | "Mr. Sears' Catalogue" | Edward Gray and Mark Obenhaus | PBS |
1990s
[edit]Year | Program | Episode | Writer(s) | Network | Ref. |
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1990
(43rd) |
No award given | ||||
1991
(44th) | |||||
1992
(45th) |
American Experience | "LBJ" | David Grubin | PBS | |
American Experience | "Duke Ellington: Reminiscing in Tempo" | Robert Levi and Geoffrey C. Ward | PBS | ||
1993
(46th) |
Degenerate Art | David Grubin | PBS | ||
American Experience | "The Donner Party" | Ric Burns | |||
1994
(47th) |
American Experience | "America and the Holocaust: Deceit and Indifference" | Marty Ostrow | PBS | |
1995
(48th) |
American Experience | "The Way West" | Ric Burns | PBS | |
Frederick Douglas: When the Lion Wrote History | Steve Fayer and Theodore Thomas | PBS | |||
American Experience | "FDR: Part 1" | David Grubin | |||
"The Battle of the Bulge: World War II's Deadliest Battle" | Thomas Lennon and Mark Zwonitzer | ||||
1996
(49th) |
Paving the Way | Susan Kim | PBS | [1] | |
Idols of the Game | "Inventing the All-American" | Robert Lipsyte | TBS | ||
American Experience | "The Battle Over Citizen Kane" | Thomas Lennon and Richard Ben Cramer | PBS | ||
"Chicago 1968" | Chana Gazit | ||||
American Masters | "Rod Serling: Submitted for Your Approval" | John F. Goff and Thomas Wagner | |||
Frontline | "Angel on Death Row" | Ben Loeterman | |||
1997
(50th) |
Investigative Reports | "The Secret White House Tapes" | Carol L. Fleisher and William Doyle | A&E | [2] |
American Experience | "New York Underground" | Elena Mannes and L. Franklin DeVine | PBS | ||
The West | "One Sky Above Us" | Geoffrey C. Ward and Dayton Duncan | |||
The Real Las Vegas | "Las Vegas: Gamble in the Desert" | Susan Berman, Jim Milio, Melissa Jo Peltier and Paul S. Kaufman | A&E | ||
1998
(51st) |
American Experience | "Truman" | David Grubin | PBS | [3] |
Lusitania | "Murder on the Atlantic" | Kelly McPherson and Melissa Jo Peltier | |||
American Experience | "Reagan: Part I" | Adriana Bosch | PBS | ||
"Surviving the Dust Bowl" | Chana Gazit | ||||
A Science Odyssey | "In Search of Ourselves" | Alice Markowitz | |||
Sea Tales | "The Doomed Voyage of the St. Louis" | Christopher Meindl and Melissa Jo Peltier | |||
The Irish in America: Long Journey Home | "Long Journey Home" | Thomas N. Brown and Thomas Lennon | |||
1999
(52nd) |
American Experience | "Hoover Dam" | Stephen Stept | PBS | [4] |
American Experience | "Meltdown at Three Mile Island" | Chana Gazit | PBS | ||
Nova | "Lost at Sea - The Search for Longitude" | ||||
Founding Fathers | Melissa Jo Peltier and Max M. Fletcher | History Channel | |||
Margaret Sanger | Bruce Alfred and Michelle Ferrari | ||||
War Dogs: America's Forgotten Heroes | Tim Prokop | Discovery Channel |
2000s
[edit]Year | Program | Episode | Writer(s) | Network | Ref. |
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2000
(53rd) |
American Experience | "George Wallace: Settin' the Woods on Fire" | Steve Fayer and Daniel McCabe and Paul Stekler | PBS | [5] |
Without Lying Down: Frances Marion and the Power of Women in Hollywood | Bridget Terry and Cari Beauchamp | TMC | |||
Frontline | "Apocalypse!" | William Cran and Ben Loeterman | PBS | ||
Culture Shock | "Born to Trouble: Adventures of Huckleberry Finn" | Jill Janows and Leslie Lee | |||
American Masters | "Hitchcock, Selznick & the End of Hollywood" | Michael Epstein | |||
2001
(54th) |
American Experience | "Scottsboro: An American Tragedy" | Barak Goodman | PBS | [6] |
Nova | "Hitler's Lost Sub" | Rushmore DeNooyer | PBS | ||
American Experience | "Stephen Foster" | Ken Emerson and Randy MacLowry | PBS | ||
American Masters | "Finding Lucy" | Thomas Wagner | |||
Frontline | "Medicating Kidgs" | Martin Smith | |||
Jazz | "Dedicated to Class" | Geoffrey C. Ward | |||
2002
(55th) |
American Experience | "Monkey Trial" | Christine Lesiak | PBS | [7] |
A Day in their Lives | "Empire State Building Ironworker" | Peter Hankoff | History Channel | ||
Founding Fathers | "Evolution of a Revolution" | Kelly McPherson, Melissa Jo Peltier and Allison MacEwan | |||
America’s First River | "Part One" | Tom Spain | PBS | ||
2003
(56th) |
American Experience | "The Murder of Emmett Till" | Marcia Smith | PBS | [8] |
Nova: The Elegant Universe | "Welcome To the 11th Dimension" | Julia Cort and Joseph McMaster | PBS | ||
"The String's the Thing" | Joseph McMaster | ||||
American Experience | "Seabiscuit" | Michelle Ferrari | |||
Becoming American: The Chinese Experience | "Part II" | Thomas Lennon, Mi Ling Tsui and Bill Moyers | |||
Frontline | "Cyber War!" | Michael Kirk | |||
2004
(57th) |
American Experience | "The Fight" | Barak Goodman | PBS | [9] |
Broadway: The American Musical | "Oh, What a Beautiful Morning" | JoAnn Young | PBS | ||
American Experience | "Reconstruction" | Llewellyn M. Smith and Elizabeth Deane | |||
"RFK" | David Grubin | ||||
"Emma Goldman" | Mel Bucklin | ||||
They Made America | "Revolutionaries" | Carl Charlson and Harold Evans | |||
2005
(58th) |
Unforgivable Blackness: The Rise and Fall of Jack Johnson | Geoffrey C. Ward | PBS | [10] | |
Shot from the Sky | Tim Prokop | A&E | |||
American Experience | "Kinsey" | Barak Goodman | PBS | ||
"The Massie Affair" | Mark Zwonitzer | ||||
"Fidel Castro" | Adriana Bosch | ||||
2006
(59th) |
Marie Antoinette | David Grubin | PBS | [11] | |
American Experience | "The Boy in the Bubble" | Barak Goodman | PBS | ||
"The Alaska Pipeline" | Mark Davis | ||||
"John & Abigail Adams" | Elizabeth Deane | ||||
"Eugene O'Neill: A Documentary Film" | Arthur Gelb, Barbara Gelb and Ric Burns | ||||
2007
(60th) |
Independent Lens | "Billy Strayhorn: Lush Life" | Robert Levi and Robert Seidman | PBS | [12] |
Nova | "Forgotten Genius" | Stephen Lyons and Llewellyn M. Smith | PBS | ||
American Experience | "Alexander Hamilton" | Ronald Blumer | |||
The War | "Episode Four: Pride of Our Nation" | Geoffrey C. Ward | |||
2008
(61st) |
Nova | "Secrets of the Parthenon" | Gary Glassman | PBS | [13] |
Andrew Jackson: Good, Evil, and the Presidency | Carl Byker | PBS | |||
American Experience | "Kit Carson" | Michelle Ferrari | |||
The Truth about Cancer | Linda Garmon | ||||
The Jewish Americans | "The Best of Times, The Worst of Times (1924-1945)" | David Grubin | |||
2009
(62nd) |
American Experience | "The Trials of J. Robert Oppenheimer" | Marcela Gaviria and Martin Smith | PBS | [14] |
Soul of a People: Writing America's Story | David A. Taylor, Olive Emma Bucklin and Andrea Kalin | Smithsonian Channel | |||
American Experience | "The Assassination of Abraham Lincoln" | Barak Goodman | PBS | ||
"We Shall Remain: Trail of Tears" | Mark Zwonitzer | ||||
"We Shall Remain: Tecumseh's Vision" | Ric Burns | ||||
The National Parks: America's Best Idea | Dayton Duncan |
2010s
[edit]Year | Program | Episode | Writer(s) | Network | Ref. |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
2010
(63rd) |
American Experience | "Wyatt Earp" | Ron Rapley | PBS | [15] |
Baseball: The Tenth Inning | "Episode 1" | David McMahon, Lynn Novick and Ken Burns | PBS | ||
American Experience | "Dolley Madison" | Ronald H. Blumer | |||
Nova | "Hubble’s Amazing Rescue" | Rushmore DeNooyer | |||
"Riddles of the Sphinx" | Gary Glassman | ||||
Bill Moyers Journal | "LBJ’s Path to War" | Bill Moyers and Michael Winship | |||
2011
(64th) |
Frontline | "Wiki Secrets" | Marcela Gaviria and Martin Smith | PBS | [16] |
American Experience | "Triangle Fire" | Mark Zwonitzer | PBS | ||
“Dinosaur Bone War” | Mark Davis | ||||
“The Great Famine” | Austin Hoyt | ||||
Nova | “Making Stuff Smarter” | Daniel McCabe | |||
God in America | “A New Adam, a New Eden” | David Belton | |||
Prohibition | "A Nation of Scofflaws" | Geoffrey C. Ward | |||
2012
(65th) |
Nova | "The Fabric of the Cosmos: The Illusion of Time" | Randall MacLowry, Joseph McMaster and Randall MacLowry | PBS | [17] |
American Experience | "The Amish" | David Belton | PBS | ||
"Clinton" | Barak Goodman | ||||
"Death and the Civil War" | Ric Burns | ||||
Nova | "The Fabric of the Cosmos: Quantum Leap" | Josh Rosen, Julia Cort and Joseph McMaster | |||
American Masters | "Johnny Carson: King of Late Night" | Peter T. Jones | |||
2013
(66th) |
American Experience | "Silicon Valley" | Randall MacLowry and Michelle Ferrari | PBS | [18] |
Frontline | "The Choice 2012" | Michael Kirk | |||
American Experience | "The Abolitionists" | Rob Rapley | PBS | ||
The Dust Bowl | "The Great Plow-Up"" | Dayton Duncan | |||
2014
(67th) |
Frontline | "League of Denial: The NFL's Concussion Crisis" | Michael Kirk and Mike Wiser | PBS | [19] |
Cosmos: A Spacetime Odyssey | "Standing Up in the Milky Way" | Ann Druyan and Steven Soter | Fox | ||
The Roosevelts: An Intimate History | "The Rising Road (1933–1939)" | Geoffrey C. Ward | PBS | ||
2015
(68th) |
Nova | "The Great Math Mystery" | Daniel McCab | PBS | [20] |
Frontline | "Firestone and the Warlord" | Marcela Gaviria | PBS | ||
"Secrets, Politics and Torture" | Michael Kirk and Mike Wiser | ||||
American Experience | "The Forgotten Plague" | Chana Gazit | |||
2016
(69th) |
Jackie Robinson | "Part One" | David McMahon and Sarah Burns | PBS | [21] |
American Reds | Richard Wormser | WPTS Dayton | |||
Frontline | "Netanyahu at War" | Michael Kirk and Mike Wiser | PBS | ||
2017
(70th) |
American Experience | "The Vietnam War: Episode 2" | Stephen Ives | PBS | [22] |
Frontline | "Divided States of America: Part One" | Michael Kirk and Mike Wiser | PBS | ||
American Experience | "The Vietnam War: Episode 6" | Geoffrey C. Ward | |||
"Rachel Carson" | Michelle Ferrari | ||||
"The Great War: Part III" | Rob Rapley | ||||
2018
(71st) |
American Experience | "The Eugenics Crusade" | Michelle Ferrari | PBS | [23] |
Frontline | "Bitter Rivals: Iran and Saudi Arabia – Part 1" | David Fanning, Linda Hirsch and Martin Smith | PBS | ||
American Experience | "The Circus, Part One" | Sharon Grimberg | |||
"Into the Amazon" | John Maggio | ||||
2019
(72nd) |
American Experience | "Chasing The Moon Part One: A Place Beyond The Sky" | Robert Stone | PBS | [24] |
Frontline | "Right to Fail" | Tom Jennings | PBS | ||
"Supreme Revenge" | Michael Kirk and Mike Wiser |
2020s
[edit]Year | Program | Episode | Writer(s) | Network | Ref. |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
2020
(73rd) |
Frontline | "Opioids, Inc." | Tom Jennings | PBS | [25] |
American Experience | "The Poison Squad" | John Maggio | PBS | ||
Nova | "The Violence Paradox" | Michael Bicks and Anna Lee Strachan | |||
2021
(74th) |
American Experience | "Citizen Hearst, Part One" | Gene Tempest | PBS | [26] |
Amend: The Fight for America | "Citizen" | Sasha Stewart and Robe Imbriano | Netflix | ||
Hemingway | "A Writer" | Geoffrey C. Ward | PBS | ||
Muhammad Ali | "Round One" | David McMahon and Sarah Burns |
Programs with multiple wins
[edit]- 18 awards
- 4 awards
Programs with multiple nominations
[edit]- 59 nominations
- 15 nominations
- 13 nominations
- 4 nominations
- 2 nominations
- Founding Fathers (History Channel)
See also
[edit]References
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- ^ "Writers Guild of America 1998 Awards". IMDb. Retrieved 8 March 2019.
- ^ "Writers Guild of America 1999 Awards". IMDb. Retrieved 8 March 2019.
- ^ "Writers Guild of America 2000 Awards". IMDb. Retrieved 8 March 2019.
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- ^ DiOrio, Carl (13 December 2007). "HBO tops WGA Award noms with five". The Hollywood Reporter. Retrieved 23 February 2019.
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