The 2024 Writers Guild Awards honored films and TV shows, with The Holdovers and American Fiction winning big in the film category. Succession, The Bear, and Beef completed their awards-season sweeps in the TV category. The event also presented various honors and tributes, with Alexander Payne's The Holdovers and Cord Jefferson's American Fiction taking the top film awards.
The 2024 Writers Guild Awards took place in simultaneous ceremonies in New York and Los Angeles, with American Fiction winning best adapted screenplay and The Last of Us and Beef winning best writing for a new series and best limited series writing, respectively. The ceremonies come after a 148-day writers strike in 2023, with the union and the Alliance of Motion Picture and Television Producers reaching a new three-year deal in September. The awards also honored members and leadership of various unions for their support during the strike, and presented honorary awards to industry figures.
The Writers Guild of America is set to celebrate its upcoming Writers Guild Awards following a new contract, with Emmy-winning actress and producer Niecy Nash-Betts hosting the event. The awards show will feature categories spanning film, television, news media, and radio/audio, and will take place at the Hollywood Palladium. The event aims to create an irreverent, hip, and loose-limbed tone, with a focus on enforcing gains made in the negotiated settlement and closely monitoring ongoing negotiations between other industry unions and the Alliance of Motion Picture and Television Producers.
The nominations for the 2024 Writers Guild Awards have been revealed, with a delayed ceremony scheduled for April 14. The list includes a mix of original and adapted screenplay nominees, as well as nominees for television, new media, and news categories. Notable nominees include "The Crown," "The Last of Us," and "Succession" for drama series, and "Abbott Elementary," "Barry," and "Only Murders in the Building" for comedy series. The Writers Guild of America has different eligibility requirements than the Academy Awards, resulting in some awards-season favorite scripts missing from the nominations.
