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"The Descendants and Midnight in Paris have been honoured with awards from the Writers Guild of America.  Midnight in Paris screenwriter Woody Allen triumphed over films including Bridesmaids and Young Adult to take the &amp;#039;Original Screenplay&amp;#039; award, while The Descendants won the accolade for &amp;#039;Adapted Screenplay&amp;#039; at Sunday night&amp;#039;s ceremonies, held simultaneously in New York and Los Angeles. Both movies are also nominated for screenwriting prizes at next week&amp;#039;s Academy Awards. The Help screenwriter and director Tate Taylor was given the Paul Selvin Award for special achievement, while Eric Roth (Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close, Forrest Gump) was honoured with the Laurel Award for Screen, a lifetime achievement award. Judd Apatow was presented with the Herb Sargent Award for Comedy Excellence at the East Coast ceremony. &amp;gt; &amp;#039;Homeland&amp;#039;, &amp;#039;Breaking Bad&amp;#039;, &amp;#039;Modern Family&amp;#039; share WGA&amp;#039;s top TV honours The list of winners and nominees in the WGA awards movie categories: Original Screenplay Will Reiser, 50/50 Annie Mumolo and Kristen Wiig, Bridesmaids Woody Allen, Midnight in Paris - WINNER! Tom McCarthy and Joe Tiboni, Win Win Diablo Cody, Young Adult Adapted Screenplay Alexander Payne, Nat Faxon and Jim Rash, The Descendants - WINNER! Steven Zaillian, The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo Tate Taylor, The Help John Logan, Hugo Steven Zaillian, Aaron Sorkin and Stan Chervin, Moneyball Documentary Katie Galloway and Kelly Duane de la Vega, Better This World - WINNER! Marshall Curry and Matthew Hamachek, If a Tree Falls: A Story of the Earth Liberation Front Patricio Guzm\u00C3\u00A1n, Nostalgia for the Light Wim Wenders, Pina Hetty Naaijkens-Retel Helmrich, Leonard Retel Helmrich, Position Among the Stars Manish Pandey, Senna "^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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