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UPI
04-06-2025
- Entertainment
- UPI
Writers Guild Awards to return in March
"Anora" writer and director Sean Baker holds his Oscar for Best Director as he arrives for the Vanity Fair Oscar Party in March. He was also honored by the Writers Guild of America this year. File Photo by Chris Chew/UPI | License Photo June 4 (UPI) -- The Writers Guild Awards will return in March. The Writers Guild of America announced Wednesday that the 78th annual ceremony will take place March 8, 2026, in New York City and Los Angeles, to represent the guild's East and West chapters. The event will be broadcast live. The awards ceremony in New York City will be held in the Edison Ballroom, while the Los Angeles event will take place at the JW Marriott. We are excited to announce our 2026 #WritersGuildAwards Los Angeles show will be on Sunday, March 8 at the JW Marriott Los Angeles L.A. Live! Writers Guild of America West (@WGAWest) June 4, 2025 The Anora screenplay won Sean Baker an award this year, while the adaptation of Nickel Boys earned nods for RaMell Ross and Joslyn Barnes, a press release states. Nominations for next year's winners will be announced during the summer.
Yahoo
16-02-2025
- Entertainment
- Yahoo
Vince Gilligan Calls for Writers to Cut Back on Villain Stories Amid Current Political Climate: 'They've Become Aspirational'
While accepting a special honor at the Writers Guild Awards on Saturday night, Vince Gilligan warned the crowd that he was going to 'go political' before calling on Hollywood to give more attention to good guys than the villains. Presented with the Paddy Chayefsky Laurel Award for Television Writing Achievement at the Los Angeles ceremony, Gilligan acknowledged he was being honored because of Breaking Bad and writing 'one of the all-time great bad guys' in Walter White. More from The Hollywood Reporter 2025 Writers Guild Awards: Winners List Hollywood Flashback: When a Spanish-Language Song First Won at the Academy Awards What Were Bob Dylan and Joan Baez Like in Bed? Ask James Mangold 'But all things being equal, I think I'd rather be celebrated for creating someone a bit more inspiring. In 2025, it's time to say that out loud, because we are living in an era where bad guys, the real-life kind, are running amuck,' he said from the stage at the Beverly Hilton. 'Bad guys who make their own rules, bad guys who no matter what they tell you, are only out for themselves. Who am I talking about? Well this is Hollywood, so guess. But here's the weird irony, in our profoundly divided country, everybody seems to agree on one thing: there are too many real-life bad guys, it's just we're living in different realities so we've all got different lists.' Gilligan added that while he didn't know the solution to that, 'As a writer, speaking to a room full of writers, I have a proposal; it certainly won't fix everything but I think it's a start. I say we write more good guys,' to big applause from the crowd. 'For decades we made the villains too sexy,' with Darth Vader and Hannibal Lecter as examples, and 'viewers everywhere, all around the world, pay attention. They say here's this badass, I want to be that cool. When that happens, fictional bad guys stop being the precautionary tales they were intended to be. God help us, they've become aspirational.' 'Maybe what the world needs now are some good, old-fashioned, greatest generation types who give more than they take,' Gilligan continued, musing how nice it was to hear about heroes and acts of kindness during the recent L.A. wildfires. Though he advised writers to keep focusing on what they believe in and what excites them, he asked scribes to 'give this some thought. Made-up bad guys are fun and they're easier to write well, but maybe we could use a few more George Baileys and Andy Taylors. I think characters like that make our country a little bit better during some other tough times in our history; if I created them, I'd be proud, indeed.' Best of The Hollywood Reporter 'Yellowstone' and the Sprawling Dutton Family Tree, Explained A 'Star Wars' Timeline: All the Movies and TV Shows in the Franchise What the 'House of the Dragon' Cast Starred in Before the 'Game of Thrones' Spinoff
Yahoo
16-02-2025
- Entertainment
- Yahoo
WGA Awards: ‘Anora' Wins For Original Screenplay
The 77th annual Writers Guild Awards are being handed out tonight over concurrent ceremonies in Los Angeles and New York, and Deadline is posting the winners live as they are announced. See the winners list below. The guild's nominations honoring the year's best in film, TV, new media, news, radio and promotional writing were revealed January 15 after being postponed twice due to the L.A. wildfires. More from Deadline 2025 Awards Season Calendar: Dates For Oscars, Spirits, Tonys, Guilds & More Guy Pearce Reveals Talks With Original Creative Team And Cast For 'Priscilla Queen Of The Desert' Sequel As He And Adrien Brody Receive Santa Barbara Film Festival Tribute Artios Awards: 'Wicked', 'Complete Unknown' & 'Emilia Pérez' Among Casting Society Winners At last year's strike-delayed WGA Awards, the top film prizes for Original Screenplay and Adapted Screenplay to The Holdovers and American Fiction, respectively. The latter already had won the Academy Award for Cord Jefferson, but Justine Triet and Arthur Harari's Anatomy of a Fall beat Alexander Payne's Holdovers for the Original Screenplay Oscar. The Writers Guild top TV winners in 2024 were Succession, The Bear Beef and The Last of Us. RELATED: The WGA West and East also are giving special honors to several folks tonight. David Lynch, who died in January, has been named the recipient of the WGA West's 2025 Laurel Award for Screenwriting Achievement. Breaking Bad and Better Call Saul creator Vince Gilligan is set for the WGAW's Paddy Chayefsky Laurel Award for Television Writing Achievement, and Nickel Boys screenwriters RaMell Ross and Joslyn Barnes will receive its 2025 Paul Selvin Award. WGAE will honor Scott Frank with the Ian McLellan Hunter Award for Career Achievement, Bill Lawrence (Herb Sargent Award for Comedy Excellence) and Kathy McGee (Richard B. Jablow Award). RELATED: The WGA Awards often exclude several top films due to eligibility rules. If a film is produced outside the WGA collective bargaining agreement or written by a non-union member, it is not eligible for the guild's awards. This holds true again this year, which means such awards-season favorites as Golden Globe winner Conclave, Emilia Pérez, I'm Still Here, Inside Out 2, The Room Next Door, Sing Sing and The Wild Robot are out of the Adapted race. Among those ineligible for Original Screenplay are All We Imagine as Light, The Brutalist, Hard Truths, Gotham Awards winner His Three Daughters, I Saw the TV Glow, The Seed of the Sacred Fig, September 5 and The Substance. Joel Kim Booster is hosting the Los Angeles ceremony from the Beverly Hilton, and Roy Wood Jr. is emceeing the New York show at Edison Ballroom in Manhattan. Here are the winners so far at the 2025 Writers Guild Awards: ADAPTED SCREENPLAY Nickel Boys, Screenplay by RaMell Ross & Joslyn Barnes, Based on the Book The Nickel Boys by Colson Whitehead; Orion Pictures/Amazon MGM Studios Erik Pedersen contributed to this report. Best of Deadline How To Watch The 'SNL50' Anniversary Concert And Three-Hour Special This Weekend Everything We Know About Christopher Nolan's Next Film – 'The Odyssey': Release Date, Cast And More 'Bridgerton' Season 4: Everything We Know So Far
Yahoo
07-02-2025
- Entertainment
- Yahoo
FX renews 'English Teacher' for Season 2
Feb. 7 (UPI) -- FX renewed its comedy series English Teacher on Friday for a second season. A new 10 episodes will premiere later this year. Brian Jordan Alvarez created the show and plays Evan Marquez, a high school English teacher navigating his students, their parents and the school administration. Enrico Colantoni plays the principal, Grant Moretti. Stephanie Koenig, Sean Patton and Carmen Christopher play other teachers. In an interview with UPI for the first season, Alvarez said the students teach Evan as much as he teaches them. Colantoni said Principal Moretti is just exhausted trying to keep the peace. "It doesn't mean he doesn't care," Colantoni told UPI. "The simple version is: Why can't we all just get along?" Season 1 has earned nominations from the Critics Choice Association, Independent Spirit Awards and Writers Guild Awards. The first season is streaming on Hulu.
