Awards-season juggernauts Sinners and One Battle After Another have been dueling for statuettes for months, but both came away as big winners for this one.
Sinners scribe Ryan Coogler took the Original Screenplay and Paul Thomas Anderson won Adapted Screenplay for One Battle After Another during the 78th annual WGA Awards ceremony Sunday in Manhattan. See the full winners list below.
Sinners will battle for the Oscar against Marty Supreme, Blue Moon, Sentimental Value and It Was Just an Accident. The latter two scripts weren’t nominated for the WGA Award because of the Writers Guild’s strict eligibility rules, along with other International Feature Oscar nominees The Secret Agent and Sirāt.
The Warner Bros thriller One Battle After Another continued its awards-season run with a win for Paul Thomas Anderson’s Adapted Screenplay. The pic starring Leonardo DiCaprio and Sean Penn is up for the Oscar in the category next weekend, vying against the scripts for Bugonia, Frankenstein, Hamnet and Train Dreams.
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The Documentary Screenplay prize went to Mstyslav Chernov for Frontline Features’ 2,000 Meters to Andriivka, which follows a Ukrainian platoon as it attempts to liberate the titular town from Russian occupiers in 2023. Chernov also received the WGA West’s 2026 Paul Selvin Award.
On the TV side, HBO’s The Pitt went 3-for-3 today. The Emmy-winning Noah Wyle hospital procedural won every category for which it was nominated: Drama Series, Episodic Drama and New Series.
Another small-screen awards-season juggernaut, Apple TV’s The Studio, took home the Comedy Series statuette.
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HBO’s now-wrapped The Righteous Gemstones won the Episodic Comedy prize; read about its series finale here. The premium cable also won the Comedy/Variety Series – Sketch or Talk award with Last Week Tonight with John Oliver
FX/Hulu’s Dying for Sex won the Limited Series prize after HBO picked up another win for Marc Maron: Panicked, which took Comedy/Variety Special.
CBS/Paramount+’s The Young and the Restless won the Daytime Drama prize, beating Daytime Emmy winner General Hospital and freshman Beyond the Gates.
It’s an unusual awards year for the guild as its annual West Coast ceremony was canceled last weekend amid an ongoing strike by unionized staffers against WGA West‘s management. That comes as the full union is scheduled to begin contract talks with the Alliance of Motion Picture and Television Producers on March 16.
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As always a number of this season’s high-profile screenplays aren’t eligible for a WGA Award because of the guild’s strict eligibility rules. Among those are the scripts for Best International Feature Film Oscar nominees Sentimental Value, It Was Just an Accident, The Secret Agent and Sirāt.
Here are the winners revealed so far at the 2026 WGA Awards:
ORIGINAL SCREENPLAY
Black Bag, Written by David Koepp; Focus Features
If I Had Legs I’d Kick You, Written by Mary Bronstein; A24
Marty Supreme, Written by Ronald Bronstein & Josh Safdie; A24
Sinners, Written by Ryan Coogler; Warner Bros. Pictures
Weapons, Written by Zach Cregger; Warner Bros. Pictures
COMEDY/VARIETY SERIES – TALK OR SKETCH
Last Week Tonight with John Oliver, Senior Writers: Daniel O’Brien, Owen Parsons, Charlie Redd, Joanna Rothkopf, Seena Vali; Writers: Johnathan Appel, Ali Barthwell, Tim Carvell, Liz Hynes, Ryan Ken, Sofía Manfredi, John Oliver, Taylor Kay Phillips, Chrissy Shackelford; HBO | Max
COMEDY SERIES
The Studio, Written by Evan Goldberg, Alex Gregory, Peter Huyck, Frida Perez, Seth Rogen; Apple TV
SHORT FORM STREAMING
The Rabbit Hole with Jimmy Kimmel, Writers: Jimmy Kimmel & Jesse Joyce; YouTube
DRAMA SERIES
The Pitt, Written by Cynthia Adarkwa, Simran Baidwan, Valerie Chu, R. Scott Gemmill, Elyssa Gershman, Joe Sachs, Noah Wyle; HBO | Max
DOCUMENTARY SCRIPT – OTHER THAN CURRENT EVENTS
“Forgotten Hero: Walter White and the NAACP” (American Experience), Written by Rob Rapley; PBS
ANIMATION
“Shira Can’t Cook” (Long Story Short) Written by Mehar Sethi; Netflix
RADIO/AUDIO NEWS SCRIPT – REGULARLY SCHEDULED, BULLETIN, OR BREAKING REPORT
“ABC News Radio Top of the Hour News”, Written by Robert Hawley; ABC News Radio
PROMOTIONAL WRITING
“CBS Comedy “, Written by Dan Greenberger; CBS
DOCUMENTARY SCRIPT – CURRENT EVENTS
“Trump’s Power & the Rule of Law” (Frontline), Written by Michael Kirk & Mike Wiser; PBS
QUIZ AND AUDIENCE PARTICIPATION
Celebrity Jeopardy!, Head Writer: Robert Patton Writers: Kyle Beakley, Michael Davies, Terence Gray, Amy Ozols, Tim Siedell, David Levinson-Wilk; ABC
DOCUMENTARY SCREENPLAY
2,000 Meters to Andriivka, Written by Mstyslav Chernov; Frontline Features
RADIO/AUDIO NEWS SCRIPT – ANALYSIS, FEATURE, OR COMMENTARY
“The Life and Legacy of Jimmy Carter”, Written by Gail Lee; CBS News Radio
TV & STREAMING MOTION PICTURES
Deep Cover, Written by Derek Connolly & Colin Trevorrow; Prime Video
LIMITED SERIES
Dying for Sex, Written by Sheila Callaghan, Harris Danow, Madeleine George, Elizabeth Meriwether, Kim Rosenstock, Sasha Stewart, Sabrina Wu, Keisha Zollar; FX/Hulu
ADAPTED SCREENPLAY
One Battle After Another, Screenplay by Paul Thomas Anderson, Screen Story by Paul Thomas Anderson, Inspired by the novel Vineland by Thomas Pynchon; Warner Bros. Pictures
DAYTIME DRAMA
The Young and the Restless, Associate Head Writers: Jeff Beldner, Marla Kanelos, Dave Ryan; Writers: Susan Banks, Amanda L. Beall, Marin Gazzaniga, Rebecca McCarty, Madeleine Phillips; CBS/Paramount+
CHILDREN’S EPISODIC, LONG FORM AND SPECIALS
“When We Lose Someone” (Tab Time), Written by Sean Presant; YouTube
NEW SERIES
The Pitt, Written by Cynthia Adarkwa, Simran Baidwan, Valerie Chu, R. Scott Gemmill, Elyssa Gershman, Joe Sachs, Noah Wyle; HBO | Max
DIGITAL NEWS
“An Isolated Boarding School Promised to Help Troubled Girls. Former Students Say They Were Abused.”, Written by Sebastian Murdock and Taiyler Mitchell; HuffPost
COMEDY/VARIETY SPECIALS
Marc Maron: Panicked, Written by Marc Maron; HBO | Max
RADIO/AUDIO DOCUMENTARY
“Jerry Lewis’ Lost Holocaust Clown Movie” (Decoder Ring), Written by Max Freedman; Slate
EPISODIC DRAMA
“7:00 A.M.” (The Pitt), Written by R. Scott Gemmill; HBO | Max
EPISODIC COMEDY
“Prelude” (The Righteous Gemstones), Written by John Carcieri, Jeff Fradley, Danny R. McBride; HBO | Max
NEWS SCRIPT – ANALYSIS, FEATURE, OR COMMENTARY
Remembering Palestinian Journalists Killed by Israeli Forces, Written by Lisa Salinas; MSNBC
NEWS SCRIPT – REGULARLY SCHEDULED, BULLETIN, OR BREAKING REPORT
“Devastating Flooding in Texas” (World News Tonight with David Muir), Written by David Muir, Karen Mooney, and Dave Bloch; ABC News
