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Writers Guild of America Awards 2009

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Date
  
20 February 2010

Other ceremonies
  
2009, 2011

The 62nd Writers Guild of America Awards honored the best film, television, and videogame writers of 2009. Winners were announced on February 20, 2010.

Contents

Nominees

Names in bold denote the winners.

Best Adapted Screenplay

  • Crazy Heart
  • Julie & Julia
  • Precious: Based on the novel "Push" by Sapphire
  • Star Trek
  • Up in the Air

    • Best Original Screenplay

  • (500) Days of Summer
  • Avatar
  • The Hangover
  • The Hurt Locker
  • A Serious Man

    • Best Documentary Feature Screenplay

  • Against the Tide
  • Capitalism: A Love Story
  • The Cove
  • Earth Days
  • Good Hair
  • Soundtrack for a Revolution

    • Children's

    Episodic and Specials
    Long Form or Special

    Documentary

    Current events
    Other than Current Events

    News

    Regularly scheduled, bulletin, or breaking report
    Analysis, Feature, or Commentary

    Documentary

  • 2008 Year in Review – Written by Gail Lee; CBS

    • News – Regularly Scheduled or Breaking

  • So Many Goodbyes – Written by Gail Lee; CBS Radio
  • WCBS News Radio – Written by Robert Hawley; CBS Radio
  • World News This Week − July 11, 2009 – Written by Darren Reynolds; ABC Radio

    • News – Analysis, Feature or Commentary

  • Black History Month – Written by Arleen Lebe; CBS Radio
  • End of Summer – Written by Duane Tollison; CBS Radio
  • Farewells – Written by Gail Lee; CBS Radio
  • Paul Harvey: An American Life – Written by Stu Chamberlain; ABC Radio

    • On-Air Promotion (Radio or Television)

  • How I Learned To Stop Worrying and Love the Promo Process – Written by Michelle Straebler; WNBC
  • "Vegas" (Dateline), "The Wanted" Promo, NBC Nightly News Promo, "Iran" (Dateline), "Cheat" (Dateline) – Written by Barry Fitzsimmons; NBC

    • Television Graphic Animation

  • "Hudson Splashdown" (CBS Evening News with Katie Couric) – Written by David M. Rosen and Shannon L. Toma; CBS

    • Videogame Writing

  • Assassin's Creed II – Story by Corey May, Script Writers Corey May, Joshua Rubin, Jeffrey Yohalem; Ubisoft
  • Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2 – Written by Jesse Stern; Additional Writing Steve Fukuda; Story by Todd Alderman, Steve Fukuda, Mackey McCandlish, Zied Rieke, Jesse Stern, Jason West, Battlechatter Dialogue, and Sean Slayback; Activision
  • Uncharted 2: Among Thieves – Written by Amy Hennig; Sony Computer Entertainment
  • Wet – Written by Duppy Demetrius and Bethesda Softworks
  • X-Men Origins: Wolverine – Written by Marc Guggenheim; Activision

    • References

    Writers Guild of America Awards 2009 Wikipedia
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