Writers Guild of America Paul Selvin Award | |
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Country | United States |
Presented by | Writers Guild of America |
First awarded | 1990 |
Currently held by | Cord Jefferson for American Fiction (2023) |
Website | http://www.wga.org/ |
The Paul Selvin Award is a special award presented by the Writers Guild of America. It is given to the script that "best embodies the spirit of the constitutional and civil rights and liberties which are indispensable to the survival of free writers everywhere and to whose defense Paul Selvin [1] committed his professional life." [2] With the exception of 2007 in which no award was given, it has been presented annually since the 42nd Writers Guild of America Awards in 1990. [3] No writer has won more than one award.
Year | Film | Writer(s) |
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1989 (42nd) | Roe vs. Wade | Alison Cross |
Year | Film | Writer(s) |
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1990 (43rd) | Heat Wave | Michael Lazarou |
1991 (44th) | Separate But Equal (Miniseries, Episodes "Part I" and "Part II") | George Stevens Jr. |
1992 (45th) | Guilty Until Proven Innocent | Cynthia Whitcomb |
1993 (46th) | Dave | Gary Ross |
1994 (47th) | Witness to the Execution | Thomas Baum, Priscilla Prestwidge & Keith Pierce |
1995 (48th) | Picket Fences (Episode "Final Judgement") | David E. Kelley |
1996 (49th) | The People vs. Larry Flynt | Scott Alexander and Larry Karaszewski |
1997 (50th) | Rosewood | Gregory Poirier |
1998 (51st) | Blind Faith | Frank Military |
1999 (52nd) | The Insider | Eric Roth and Michael Mann |
Year | Film | Writer(s) |
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2000 (53rd) | Quills | Doug Wright |
2001 (54th) | For Love or Country: The Arturo Sandoval Story | Timothy J. Sexton |
2002 (55th) | The Matthew Shepard Story | John Wierick and Jacob Krueger |
2003 (56th) | The Pentagon Papers | Jason Horwitch |
2004 (57th) | The Simpsons (Episode "Fraudcast News") | Don Payne |
2005 (58th) | Good Night, and Good Luck | George Clooney and Grant Heslov |
2006 (59th) | No award given | |
2007 (60th) | The Great Debaters | Robert Eisele and Jeffrey Porro |
2008 (61st) | Milk | Dustin Lance Black |
2009 (62nd) | Invictus | Anthony Peckham |
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