The writers of "The Crying Game" and "The Player" took top screenplay awards at the 45th annual Writers Guild Awards.
The award for "The Player," Michael Tolkin's satirical peek inside Hollywood, came a day after the script was honored in London with a British Academy of Film and Television Arts Award.Tolkin won the Writers Guild award for best screenplay based on material previously published or produced. He wrote the novel on which the film was based.
Neil Jordan was honored for his original screenplay for "The Crying Game."
Both Jordan and Tolkin are nominated for Oscars, to be presented March 29.
The Writers Guild Awards were presented at ceremonies at the Beverly Hilton Hotel in Beverly Hills, hosted by actor-comedian Howie Mandel, and the Waldorf-Astoria Hotel in New York, hosted by actors Eli Wallach and Anne Jackson.
In its television awards, the guild honored the writers of "Home-front," "I'll Fly Away" and "Murphy Brown."
Lynn Latham and Bernard Lechowick received the prize for original long-form script for "SNAFU," the pilot episode of the ABC series "Homefront."
In the episodic drama category, the episode "Amazing Grace" of the NBC series "I'll Fly Away" brought an award for Henry Bromell.
Both guild events also paid tribute to winners of several honorary awards, among them playwright Horton Foote, recipient of the Screen Laurel Award; TV writer-producer Norman Lear (the Paddy Chayefsky Award for Television), playwright Arthur Miller (the Evelyn F. Burkey Memorial Award), and screenwriter-novelist Ruth Prawer Jhabvala (the Ian McLel-lan Hunter Award).
Here's a list of the winners of the 45th annual Writers Guild Awards:
FILMS
Screenplay written directly for the screen: Neil Jordan, "The Crying Game."
Screenplay based on material previously produced or published: Michael Tolkin, "The Player," based on his novel of the same title.
TELEVISION
Original long form: Lynn Latham and Bernard Lechowick, "SNAFU," pilot of the ABC series "Homefront."
Adapted long form: Ann Beckett, "Broken Cord," teleplay adapted from book of the same title by Michael Dorris.
Episodic drama: Henry Bromell, "Amazing Grace" episode of the NBC series "I'll Fly Away."
Episodic comedy: Diane English, teleplay, Korby Siamis and Diane English, story, "Uh-Oh, Part II" episode of the CBS series "Murphy Brown."
Variety-musical: Julie Brown and Charlie Coffey, "Medusa: Dare to Be Truthful" on Showtime.
Daytime serial: Michael Malone, Josh Griffith, Jean Passanante, Dorothy Goldstone, Kate Rogin, Alan Bernstein, Eleanor Mancusi, Juliette Mann, Neal Bell, Lloyd Gold, Becky Cole, David Smilow, Fran Newman, Roger Newman, Bill Hoffman, Jeffrey Sweet, Alan Gelb, "One Life to Live."
Children's script: Daryl Busby and Susan Amerikaner, "Pretzelmania" episode of the Disney series "Adventures in Wonderland."
Documentary, current events: Rory O'Connor, "The Bank of Crooks and Criminals," PBS.
Documentary, other than current events: David Grubin, "The American Experience: LBJ," PBS.
Spot news script: Jerry Cipriano, Hugh Heckman and Thomas Phillips, "CBS Evening News: Hurricane Andrew."
RADIO
Spot news: Joel H. Komisarow, "Dan Rather Reporting: Vietnam Memorial," CBS.
Documentary: Brian Seligson and Joel H. Komisarow, "The Coming of Age in America," CBS.
On-air promotion: Tracy L. Beckerman, WCBS-TV promotion.
HONORARY AWARDS
Screen Laurel Award: Horton Foote.
Valentine Davies Award: True Boardman.
Paddy Chayefsky Laurel Award for Television: Norman Lear.
Morgan Cox Award: Irma Kalish.
Paul Selvin Award: Cynthia Whitcomb, "Guilty Until Proven Innocent."
African American Pioneer Award: Helen Thompson, Ossie Davis, James Baldwin, Robert Goodwin, Lorraine Hansberry.
Evelyn F. Burkey Memorial Award: Arthur Miller.
Ian McLellan Hunter Award: Ruth Prawer Jhabvala.
Richard B. Jablow Award: Willie K. Suggs, writer on "ABC NewsOne" and member of the Writers Guild of America, East.
John Merriman Memorial Award: Stephanie Claire Griggs.