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	Writers Guild of America - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The Writers Guild of America (WGA) is the collective bargaining representative, or labor union, for writers in the motion picture and television industries in the United States.
		Generally, a writer who lives east of the Mississippi River belongs to the east branch, while a writer who lives to the west of it belongs to the west.
		However, under the terms of the affiliation agreement between the two Guilds, any writer who works in theatrical films is automatically a member of the Writers Guild of America, west no matter where he or she lives.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Writers_Guild_of_America (828 words)

	Encyclopedia: Writers Guild of America (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
		The Writers Guild of America (WGA) is the collective bargaining representative, or labor union, for writers in the motion picture and television industries.
		Guilds are sometimes said to be the precursors of modern trade unions, and also, paradoxically, of some aspects of the modern corporation.
		Guilds, however, were groups of self-employed skilled craftsmen with ownership and control over the materials and tools they needed to produce their goods: they were small business associations, in other words, had very little in common with unions.
	www.nationmaster.com /encyclopedia/Writers-Guild-of-America (472 words)

	Read about Writers Guild of America at WorldVillage Encyclopedia. Research Writers Guild of America and learn about ... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
		Today, the Guild also provides health and pension benefits for its members, issues the Writers' Guild of America Awards, and runs a script-registration service to help writers prove authorship of their works.
		Mississippi River belongs to the east branch, while a writer who lives to the west of it belongs to the west.
		Writers' Guild of America, west no matter where he or she lives.
	encyclopedia.worldvillage.com /s/b/Writers_Guild_of_America (447 words)

	Writers Guild News - Writers Guild of America, East, AFL-CIO, WGAE, WGA East, Movie Scripts
		The Writers Guild of America, East and the Writers Guild of America, west are pleased to announce a partnership with Premiere magazine to unveil the 101 Greatest Screenplays this spring, spotlighting the best of screenwriting in the history of film.
		The Council of the Writers Guild of America East (WGAE) and the Board of Writers Guild of America, west (WGAw) announced today the first low-budget contract for writers of theatrical documentaries budgeted under 1.2 million dollars.
		The Writers Guild of America, East and west met with Federal Communications Commissioner Jonathan Adelstein and Congressional offices to discuss Viacom/CBS' recent actions that seek to consolidate news operations for radio stations operating in New York and Los Angeles.
	wgaeast.org (544 words)

	Writers Guild Awards - Writers Guild of America, East, AFL-CIO, WGAE, WGA East (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
		The award is given "in honor of a lifetime body of work as a writer in motion pictures or television." Legendary film director Stanley Donen will present the award.
		The prestigious award is given in recognition of contributions that have brought honor and dignity to writers everywhere.
		The board and council of the Writers Guild of America, west and East have announced the creation of three new categories of awards that will recognize overall excellence in writing of episodic series.
	scriptregistration.org /awards (462 words)

	Better For All Concerned: The Writers Guild of America's Animation Writers Caucus
		For those writers who have, they and their families may be eligible for the no-cost WGA Health Plan.
		This award honors a writer for their entire career, for the work itself and/or the writer's contribution to the field of animation.
		Over the years, radio writers and television writers became included in the membership until 1954, when the Writers Guild of America was formally established as a Collective Bargaining Agent, a union representing writers in the entertainment industry.
	www.awn.com /mag/issue3.6/3.6pages/3.6millerwga.html (2165 words)

	Playbill News: Writers Guild of America Honors David Mamet with Screen Laurel Award
		The Screen Laurel Award is bestowed upon "a guild member who has advanced the literature of the motion picture and made outstanding contributions to the profession of the screenwriter," according to a release.
		Tony Kushner's teleplay for "Angels in America," The 58th Annual Tony Awards and part of the "Broadway: The American Musical" documentary were among the nominees announced for The Writers Guild Awards.
		The 57th Annual Writers Guild Awards are set for simultaneous Feb. 19 ceremonies at Los Angeles' Hollywood Palladium and in New York's Pierre Hotel.
	www.playbill.com /news/article/90581.html (447 words)

	Dennis Miller Live - Encyclopedia, History, Geography and Biography
		The show ran 215 episodes from 1994 to 2002, and received five Emmy awards, plus an additional 11 Emmy nominations.
		It was also nominated six times for the Writers Guild of America Award for "Best Writing For A Comedy/Variety Series", and won three of those times.
		The show was directed by Debbie Palacio for most of its run, and head writers were first Jeff Cesario and then Eddie Feldmann.
	www.arikah.net /encyclopedia/Dennis_Miller_Live (319 words)

	USATODAY.com - 'Super Size Me' wins Writers Guild award (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
		The prize, the guild's first in that category, recognized writer Morgan Spurlock, who also starred in the film and became ill after a month-long experiment eating McDonald's fast food three times a day.
		The Writers Guild award honors nonfiction writers who "collect images from reality and shape them into a story, not only to document the human condition, but to illuminate and inspire the world we live in."
		Nominees for the award included: Ross McElwee, for Bright Leaves ; Julia Bacha and Jehane Noujaim, Control Room ; Paola di Florio, Home of the Brave ; Harry Thomason and Nickolas Perry, The Hunting of the President ; and Jessica Yu, In the Realms of the Unreal.
	www.usatoday.com /life/movies/2005-02-16-writers-guild-spurlock_x.htm (332 words)

	LouisaBio
		She has trained Russian professional writers in the techniques of dramatic series for Moscow-based NTV and delivered a 20 week series on schedule and on budget.
		She has designed series writing workshops for Western Connecticut University and for the Writer's Guild of America East, special programs at the New York Museum of Broadcasting.
		She is a member of the Writers Guild of America East, the Dramatist Guild and the Society of Stage Directors and Choreographers.
	members.aol.com /penwrt/LouisaBioPage.htm (296 words)

	BBC NEWS \| Entertainment \| Film \| Anti-gun film wins top award
		The Academy Awards are announced on 23 March.
		Screenplays honoured by the Writers Guild often go on to win at the Oscars as well, not least because many of the same people vote for both sets of awards.
		The Writers Guild of America represents writers in the movie, TV and new media worlds.
	news.bbc.co.uk /1/hi/entertainment/film/2833677.stm (295 words)

	Horton Foote Playwright-in-Residence 1994-1995 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
		He received an Academy Award for Best Screenplay and the Writers Guild of America Screen Award for his 1962 screenplay adaptation of Harper Lee’s To Kill a Mockingbird.
		Other honors include The William Inge Lifetime Achievement Award at the William Inge Festival, the Evelyn Burkey Award and the Screen Laurel Award from the Writers Guild of America.
		Foote was awarded the Ian McLellan Hunter Memorial Award for Lifetime Achievement from the Writers Guild of America, East.
	www.signaturetheatre.org /playwrights/hfoote/hfoote.html (395 words)

	No Doors, No Windows (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
		Sixteen stories of mayhem and panic, fear and fantasy by the writer the Louisville Courier-Journal & Times says "is currently the leading craftsman in the literature of terror and dread": Harlan Ellison winner of the Mystery Writers of America award for Best Short Story (included here).
		In a career spanning more than 50 years, he has won more awards for the 74 books he has written or edited, the more than 1700 stories, essays, articles, and newspaper columns, the two dozen teleplays and a dozen motion pictures he has created, then any other living fantasist.
		He is also the only author in Hollywood ever to win the Writers Guild of America award for Outstanding teleplay (solo work) four times, most recently for “Paladin of the Lost Hour” his Twilight Zone episode that was Danny Kaye’s final role, in 1987.
	www.ereads.com /book.asp?bookid=323 (275 words)

	TV Week
		CBS programs received more awards than those of any other network during simultaneous Writers Guild of America award ceremonies Feb. 19 in New York and Hollywood.
		Writers were Mike Sweeney, Chris Albers, Jose Arroyo, Andy Blitz, Kevin Dorff, Dan Goor, Michael Gordon, Brian Kiley, Michael Koman, Demetri Martin, Brian McCann, Guy Nicolucci, Conan O'Brien, Allison Silverman, Robert Smigel, Brian Stack and Andrew Weinberg.
		Writers were George Stevens Jr., who received his fifth consecutive award, and Sara Lukinson.
	www.tvweek.com /news.cms?newsId=7337 (737 words)

	Claire Labine To Receive Writers Guild Of America, East Evelyn F. Burkey Award - Writers Guild of America, East, ... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
		In 1993 she returned to daytime television as headwriter of GENERAL HOSPITAL and during her three-year tenure, the show won the Emmy for Best Daytime Serial; the writing team was awarded two Emmys and two Writers Guild Awards.
		She served on the WGA East Council for nineteen years with 3 terms as Vice President and is a recipient of the Jablow Award for devoted service to the Guild.
		Evelyn F. Burkey helped writers found the WGAE in 1954 as the union of film, television and radio writers, independent of its precursor organizations.
	www.wgaeast.org /awards/2005/02/08/labine (499 words)

	Destination America . The Filmmakers \| PBS
		David Grubin is the executive producer of the Destination America series and he produced the second and third episodes, The Art of Departure and The Earth is the Lord's.
		A director, writer, and cinematographer, his many films for television range across a wide variety of disciplines: science — The Secret Life of the Brain; poetry — The Language of Life; psychology — Young Dr. Freud, art — Degenerate Art; world history — Napoleon; public affairs — Kofi Annan: Center of the Storm.
		He is member of the Directors Guild and the Writers Guild, and is a former chairman of the board of directors of The Film Forum.
	www.pbs.org /destinationamerica/prog_filmmakers.html (666 words)

	55th Annual Writers Guild Of America Award Winners--AllYourTV.com
		The Writers Guild of America, west and East announced the winners of the 55th Annual Writers Guild Awards for outstanding achievement in writing for the screen, television, and radio in ceremonies at the Beverly Hilton Hotel in Beverly Hills and at the Pierre Hotel in New York on Saturday, March 8, 2003.
		Honorary awards were previously announced and were presented to the recipients at the Los Angeles ceremony.
		Founded in 1933, the Writers Guild of America, East and west represent writers in the motion picture, broadcast, cable, and new-media industries in both entertainment and news.
	www.allyourtv.com /awards/awardswga55thwinners.html (720 words)

	The Simpsons Archive: The Springfield Times - News Archive
		Writers Guild of America announced nominees for this year's awards.
		The Simpsons received four out of five nominations in the animation category when The Writers Guild of America announced nominees for its 2004 TV awards yesterday.
		Last year Matt Selman won the Writers Guild of America Award for the 14th season episode "The Dad Who Knew Too Little." The WGA Award winners of 2004 will be announced February 19, 2005 in ceremonies held in Los Angeles and New York.
	www.snpp.com /news/102704.html (2713 words)

	"Scrubs" Star Snags Scribe Nod - Jan 13, 2005 - E! Online News (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
		Zach Braff, Ethan Hawke and Julie Delpy were among the feature film nominees for the 57th annual Writers Guild Awards, yet another of the Oscar time trials.
		The Writers Guild Awards are not the predictor of Oscar success that the Directors Guild of America Awards are, but they're not that far off, especially in calling the nominee field.
		The 57th annual Writers Guild Awards, which also honor TV, are scheduled to be presented Feb. 19 in bicoastal ceremonies from New York and Los Angeles.
	www.eonline.com /News/Items/0,1,15707,00.html (523 words)

	The Caucus
		Academy Award and Emmy Award Nominated filmmaker Lionel Chetwynd was born in London, England, and moved to Canada at the age of eight.
		He was then awarded a scholarship to McGill University Law School, Montreal, where he received his law degree.
		He is also the recipient of the 2003 Lifetime Achievement Award presented by The Caucus for Television Producers, Writers and Directors and Columbia College - Hollywood conferred upon him a Doctor of Humane Letters degree in the same year.
	www.caucus.org /members/Chetwynd.html (953 words)

	Urbanworld Film Festival Launches Inaugural MECCA Movie Awards - Writers Guild of America, East, AFL-CIO, WGAE, WGA ... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
		The first Minority Entertainment for the Cinematic and Creative Arts Awards will be presented at the Directors Guild of America on Saturday, August 10, prior to the Closing Night Special Screening of MGM's "Barbershop," marking the conclusion of the annual five-day film festival in New York City.
		The Theatrical Excellence Award will be presented to the cast and creative team of the award winning "Topdog/Underdog." The darkly comic fable of brotherly love and family identity stars Mos Def and Jeffrey Wright who both won the Outer Critics Circle Special Achievement Award.
		The MECCA Movie Awards will be an evening honoring emerging and legendary individuals alike in the entertainment industry who have broken barriers, made strides, and led the way for the next generation of filmmakers.
	www.wgae.org /news/general/1027978178.html (617 words)

	Reuters: Writers Guild Taps 'Enron' for Documentary Award :: Hollywood.com
		LOS ANGELES - The writer/director of Enron: The Smartest Guys in the Room is the second winner of the Writers Guild of America's award for best documentary writing, the union said Wednesday.
		The WGA's documentary award was awarded for the first time last year to Morgan Spurlock for Super Size Me.
		The guild has been working to organize nonfiction writing, most recently by establishing a first-ever contract for low-budget documentaries just two weeks ago.
	www.hollywood.com /news/detail/id/3478567 (327 words)

	BBC NEWS \| Entertainment \| Film \| Super Size Me wins writers' award
		Spurlock was given the award at a special ceremony at the Roosevelt Hotel in Hollywood on Tuesday.
		Spurlock was given his award on the same day the European Court of Human Rights ruled that two UK activists should have been given legal aid in their long fight against a McDonald's libel action.
		At the end of the case the High Court in London ruled McDonald's had been libelled and awarded the company £60,000 in damages, later reduced to £40,000 on appeal.
	news.bbc.co.uk /1/hi/entertainment/film/4269913.stm (297 words)

	American Valor . About the Broadcast . Production Biographies . Lionel Chetwynd \| PBS
		Chetwynd recently wrote and produced DC 9/11: Time of Crisis, a docudrama for Showtime Networks recounting the nine days in the Bush administration between the time of the September 11, 2001 attacks on the World Trade Center and the Pentagon and the president’s televised address to the nation before Congress.
		For his film Varian’s War on Showtime Networks, Chetwynd received a Writer’s Guild of America nomination for Outstanding Screenplay, with the film itself a Gold Jury Award winner at the Houston Film Festival.
		As an award-winning documentarian, Chetwynd created and was an executive producer of the highly acclaimed series of National Desk public affairs specials, garnering four Telly Awards, and a Gold Medal at the New York Film Festival for the Children of Divorce episode, and before that, Reverse Angle, both on PBS.
	www.pbs.org /weta/americanvalor/broadcast/chetwynd.html (409 words)

	2006 screen nominees
		LOS ANGELES, NEW YORK -- The Writers Guild of America, west and The Writers Guild of America, East have announced nominations for outstanding achievement in writing for the screen during the 2005 season.
		Films eligible for a Writers Guild Award were produced signatory to the Writers Guild minimum basic agreement, and released in the year 2005 under the jurisdiction of Writers Guild of America, East and west and affiliate guilds in Australia, Canada, French Canada, Great Britain, Ireland, and New Zealand.
		The 2006 Writers Guild Awards will take place Saturday, February 4, 2006, in Los Angeles at The Hollywood Palladium and simultaneously in New York at The Waldorf=Astoria.
	www.wga.org /subpage_newsevents.aspx?id=1537 (330 words)

	FilmStew.com • Six Docus Up for First WGA Award
		Six documentaries from 2004 have been selected as the nominees for the first-ever Writers Guild of America Award for writing in a feature documentary.
		Moore took home the award in the original screenplay category in 2003 for his docu Bowling for Columbine.
		The winner in the category will be announced at the annual WGA Awards ceremony, to be held on Feb. 15 at the Hollywood Roosevelt Hotel.
	www.filmstew.com /Content/Article.asp?ContentID=10697 (234 words)

	Levinson, Richard
		They received two Emmys, two Golden Globe Awards, two Edgar Allan Poe Awards from the Mystery Writers of America, the Writers Guild of America Award, and the Peabody Award.
		In 1959 their drama of army life, Chain of Command, was produced as an installment of Desilu Playhouse, then chosen by TV Guide as one of the best programs of the season.
		Long and intense conversations between the writers on such issues regularly led to that same conclusion: "We don't have to have the answers, we just raise the questions." For Levinson those posed questions, though, set his personal direction as a dramatist.
	www.museum.tv /archives/etv/L/htmlL/levinsonric/levinsonric.htm (1222 words)

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