Don't Look Up and CODA win Best Screenplay honors at the 2022 Writers Guild of America Awards. The annual ceremony honors the top writing in film, television, radio, and video game writing. This includes both fiction and non-fiction categories. The WGA award show ceremony again went virtual due to the pandemic, with Ted Lasso writer Ashley Nicole Black as host.

THR reports that the top honors at the 2022 WGA awards went to Adam McKay's Don't Look Up for Best Original Screenplay and Siân Heder’s CODA for Best Adapted Screenplay. Don't Look Up won over serious contenders such as Zach Baylin's King Richard and Paul Thomas Anderson's Licorice Pizza. This is McKay's third win at the WGA awards. He won previously for his work on The Big Short and in television for his work on Saturday Night Live. CODA also won in a stacked category, taking the honors over Dune and tick...tick...BOOM! Check out the full list of winners below:

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Original Screenplay

  • Don't Look Up (winner)
  • Being the Ricardos
  • The French Dispatch
  • King Richard
  • Licorice Pizza

Adapted Screenplay

  • CODA (winner)
  • Dune
  • Nightmare Alley
  • tick, tick... BOOM!
  • West Side Story

Documentary Screenplay

  • Exposing Muybridge (winner)
  • Being Cousteau
  • Like a Rolling Stone: The Life & Times of Ben Fong-Torres

Drama Series

  • Succession (winner)
  • The Handmaid's Tale
  • Loki
  • The Morning Show
  • Yellowjackets
The cast of Succession walking side by side

Comedy Series

  • Hacks (winner)
  • Curb Your Enthusiasm
  • Only Murders in the Building
  • Ted Lasso
  • What We Do in the Shadows

New Series

  • Hacks (winner)
  • Loki
  • Only Murders in the Building
  • Reservation Dogs
  • Yellowjackets

Original Longform

  • Mare of Easttown (winner)
  • American Horror Story: Double Feature
  • Midnight Mass
  • Them: Covenant
  • The White Lotus

Adapted Longform

  • Maid (winner)
  • Halston
  • Impeachment: American Crime Story
  • The Underground Railroad
  • WandaVision

Adapted Shortform New Media

  • Debunking Borat (winner)
  • Calls
  • The Expanse: One Ship

Animation

  • "Planteau" (Tuca & Bertie) (winner)
  • "An Icon-Wheelie-ent Truth" (Bob's Burgers)
  • "Loft in Bedslation" (Bob's Burgers)
  • "Must Love Dogs" (Family Guy)
  • "Portrait of a Lackey on Fire" (The Simpsons)
  • "The Star of the Backstage" (The Simpsons)
Mare of Easttown Featured

Episodic Drama

  • "Retired Janitors of Idaho" (Succession) (winner)
  • "1883" (1883)
  • "Birth Mother" (This Is Us)
  • "La Amara Vita" (The Morning Show)
  • "The New Normal" (New Amsterdam)
  • "Testimony" (The Handmaid's Tale)

Episodic Comedy

  • "Alone at Last" (The Great) (winner)
  • "All Sales Final" (Superstore) (winner)
  • "Enlightened Dave" (Dave)
  • Episode One: True Crime (Only Murders in the Building)
  • "F*ckin' Rez Dogs" (Pilot) (Reservation Dogs)
  • "Pilot" (The Wonder Years)

Comedy/Variety Talk Series

  • Conan (winner)
  • Dues & Mero
  • Last Week Tonight with John Oliver
  • The Problem With John Stewart

Comedy/Variety Sketch Series

  • I Think You Should Leave With Tim Robinson (winner)
  • How To With John Wilson
  • Pause With Sam Jay
  • Saturday Night Live
  • That Damn Michael Che

Comedy/Variety Specials

  • Full Frontal Wants to Take Your Guns (winner)
  • 43rd Annual Kennedy Center Honors
  • Drew Michael: Red Blue Green
  • The Tony Awards Presents: Broadway's Back!
  • Yearly Departed

Quiz & Audience Participation

  • Baking It (winner)
  • Capital One College Bowl
  • The Chase
  • Jeopardy!

Daytime Drama

  • Days of Our Lives (winner)
  • General Hospital
  • The Young and the Restless

Children's Episodic, Longform and Specials

  • “The Tale of the Midnight Magic” (Are You Afraid of the Dark?) (winner)
  • “A Big Favor for Grampy/A Fair Way to Bounce” (Donkey Hodie)
  • “Park Ranger Percy / Lizard Lizzy” (Helpsters)
  • “Rice” (Waffles + Mochi)
  • “Which Witch?” (Just Beyond)

Documentary Script - Current Events

  • “The Healthcare Divide” (Frontline) (winner)
  • “The Jihadist” (Frontline)

Documentary Script - Other Than Current Events

  • “Citizen Hearst, Part One” (American Experience) (winner)
  • “A Writer” (Hemingway)
  • “Citizen” (Amend: The Fight for America)
  • “Round One” (Muhammad Ali)

News Script - Regularly Scheduled, Bulletin or Breaking Report

  • “The Unequal Recession” (60 Minutes) (winner)
  • “Against All Enemies” (60 Minutes)
  • “Democracy Lost” (60 Minutes)

News Script - Analysis, Feature or Commentary

  • “Handcuffed to the Truth” (60 Minutes)
  • “The Fall of Kandahar” (Vice News Tonight)
  • “Unpacking How Child Welfare and Foster Care Fails Black Children” (Unpack That)
  • “The Unstudied Link Between the COVID Vaccine and Periods” (Vice News Tonight)
  • “Woman in Motion: Star Trek’s Nichelle Nichols and The Transformation of NASA” (CBS Sunday Morning)

Digital News

  • “Men’s Rights Asians Think This Is Their Moment,” written by Aaron Mak; Slate.com (winner)
  • “An Oral History of the Longest-Ever Broadway Shutdown,” written by Madeline Ducharme; Slate.com
  • “Knives Out: Why ‘Hacks’ Works,” written by Katie Baker; TheRinger.com
  • “We Get to Hear Them Training to Kill Us,” written by Christina Cauterucci; Slate.com
  • “What if the Unorthodox Arizona Audit Declares Trump Won?” written by Jeremy Stahl; Slate.com

Radio/Audio Documentary

  • “One Year: 1977 ‘The Miracle Cure’” (winner)
  • “Our Year” (What Next)
  • “That Seattle Muzak Sound” (Decoder Ring)
  • “Who Killed the Segway?” (Decoder Ring)

Radio/Audio News Script - Regularly Scheduled, Bulletin or Breaking Report

  • “Surfside Condo Collapse” (CBS World News Roundup Late Edition) (winner)
  • “Silence the Mics: Tributes to Some Famous Broadcasters"
  • “World News This Week — Week of August 16, 2021”
  • “World News This Week — Week of January 8, 2021”
  • “World News This Week – Week of September 3, 2021"

Radio/Audio News Script - Analysis, Feature, or Commentary

  • “The Tasmanian Devil Tattoo” (Decoder Ring) (winner)
  • “When the Culture War Comes for Your Job” (What Next)

On-Air Promotion

  • “Celebrating Powerful Female Leads: Trailers for The Equalizer & Why Women Kill" (winner)
  • “CSI: Vegas Trailers"

Adam McKay shared the award with David Sirota who received writing credit on the black comedy. McKay sent a prerecorded acceptance speech from his Los Angeles office saying, "I’m here in my office in Los Angeles recording this. If this is actually being broadcast, this is real legitimate excitement." In Heder's acceptance speech she honored the learning experience she had on the film and gave thanks to the "people from the deaf community who were my collaborators."

Leonardo DiCaprio and Jennifer Lawrence looking at a phone in Don't Look Up

Don't Look Up stars Leonardo DiCaprio and Jennifer Lawrence as scientists who discover that Earth will be hit by a massive previously unknown comet. The film is a bleak apocalyptic comedy that uses in-your-face satire to comment on the current climate change crisis as well as disinformation in media. CODA is an English-language adaptation of the French film La Famille Bélier about a child living with deaf parents. Emilia Jones stars in the role of the only hearing member of her family as she deals with her situation's difficulties while trying to find her own place in the world.

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Source: THR