title: Valentine Davies Award
text: # Valentine Davies Award
  
  The Valentine Davies Award, named after Valentine Davies, is a special award given to a member of the Writers Guild of America, West whose contributions to the entertainment industry and the community-at-large have brought dignity and honor to writers everywhere.
  
  ## Recipients
  
  | Year | Person(s) |
  | - | - |
  | 1962 | Mary C. McCall Jr. |
  | 1963 | Allen Rivkin |
  | 1964 | Morgan Cox |
  | 1965 | James R. Webb |
  | 1966 | Leonard Spigelgass |
  | 1967 | Edmund H. North |
  | 1968 | George Seaton |
  | 1969 | Dore Schary |
  | 1970 | Richard Murphy |
  | 1971 | Dan Taradash |
  | 1972 | Michael Blankfort & Norman Corwin |
  | 1973 | William Ludwig |
  | 1974 | Ray Bradbury & Philip Dunne |
  | 1975 | Fay Kanin |
  | 1976 | Winston Miller |
  | 1977 | Carl Foreman |
  | 1978 | Norman Lear |
  | 1979 | Melville Shavelson |
  | 1980 | David W. Rintels |
  | 1981 | Arthur Orloff |
  | 1982 | Mort R. Lewis |
  | 1983 | Hal Kanter |
  | 1984 | Jerome Lawrence & Robert E. Lee |
  | 1985 | Charles Champlin |
  | 1986 | Ronald Austin |
  | 1987 | William Froug |
  | 1988 | Lois Peyser |
  | 1989 | Michael Kanin & Garson Kanin |
  | 1990 | John Furia Jr. |
  | 1991 | Frank Pierson |
  | 1992 | Allan Burns |
  | 1993 | True Boardman |
  | 1994 | Phil Alden Robinson |
  | 1995 | Garry Marshall |
  | 1996 | Mike Farrell |
  | 1997 | Jonathan Estrin & Shelley List (posthumously) |
  | 1998 | Gary David Goldberg |
  | 1999 | Barry Kemp |
  | 2000 | Alan Alda |
  | 2001 | Paul Haggis |
  | 2002 | David Angell (posthumously) |
  | 2003 | Aaron Ruben |
  | 2004 | Neal Baer |
  | 2005 | Irma Kalish |
  | 2006 | Not presented |
  | 2007 | Larry Gelbart |
  | 2008 | Tom Schulman |
  | 2009 | Carl Reiner & Victoria Riskin |
  | 2010 | Not presented |
  | 2011 | Seth Freeman & Susannah Grant |
  | 2012 | Philip Rosenthal |
  | 2013 | Sam Simon |
  | 2014 | Ben Affleck |
  | 2016 | John August |
  | 2017 | Richard Curtis |
  | 2018 | Dustin Lance Black |
  | 2020 | Brad Falchuk |
  