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Writers Guild of America Award for Television: Documentary Script – Other Than Current Events
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.
| Writers Guild of America Award for Television: Documentary Script – Other Than Current Events | |
|---|---|
| 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 |
Winners and nominees edit
1980s edit
| Year | Program | Episode | Writer(s) | Network | Ref. |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
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. |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
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. |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
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 edit
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- ^ "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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- ^ McNary, Dave (15 December 2004). "'Wing' still has the write stuff". Variety. Retrieved 23 February 2019.
- ^ McNary, Dave (14 December 2005). "Peacock laffers have the write stuff". Variety. Retrieved 23 February 2019.
- ^ DiOrio, Carl (14 December 2006). "HBO, NBC dominate WGA noms". The Hollywood Reporter. Retrieved 23 February 2019.
- ^ DiOrio, Carl (13 December 2007). "HBO tops WGA Award noms with five". The Hollywood Reporter. Retrieved 23 February 2019.
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- ^ Fernandez, Jay A. (19 February 2012). "Writers Guild Awards: Complete Winners List". The Hollywood Reporter. Retrieved 23 February 2019.
- ^ Kim, Wook (18 February 2013). "2013 WGA Awards: The Complete List Of Winners". Time. Retrieved 23 February 2019.
- ^ "WGA Awards 2014: Complete list of winners and nominees". Los Angeles Times. 30 January 2014. Retrieved 7 March 2019.
- ^ McNary, Dave (14 February 2015). "'Grand Budapest Hotel,' 'True Detective' Top WGA Awards". Variety. Retrieved 23 February 2019.
- ^ McNary, Dave (13 February 2016). "WGA Honors 'Big Short,' 'Spotlight,' 'Mad Men' at 68th Awards". Variety. Retrieved 23 February 2019.
- ^ Littleton, Cynthia; McNary, Dave (19 February 2017). "WGA Awards: 'Moonlight,' 'Arrival' Win For Best Screenplay, 'Atlanta' Wins Twice". Variety. Retrieved 23 February 2019.
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- ^ McNary, Dave (17 February 2019). "WGA Awards 2019 Winners: 'Can You Ever Forgive Me?,' 'Eighth Grade' Win Screenplay Awards". Variety. Retrieved 23 February 2019.
- ^ Lindhal, Chris (1 February 2020). "Writers Guild Awards 2020: 'Parasite' and 'JoJo Rabbit' Win Screenplay Awards". IndieWire. Retrieved 3 February 2020.
- ^ Hipes, Patrick (February 3, 2021). "WGA Awards TV Nominations: 'Better Call Saul', 'Ted Lasso' & 'The Great' Lead Way". Deadline. Retrieved February 4, 2021.
- ^ Hipes, Patrick (January 13, 2022). "WGA Awards TV Nominations: 'Yellowjackets', 'Hacks', 'Loki', 'Only Murders In The Building' Join Usual Suspects On List". Deadline. Retrieved January 14, 2022.
External links edit
- Official website