WGA names best original, modified script those who win

'Midnight in Paris''The Descendants'Woody Allen's script for "Night time in Paris" has won the Authors Guild of America award for original script. "The Descendants" has won the modified script award for Alexander Payne and Nat Faxon & Jim Rash, in line with the novel by Kaui Hart Hemming.It is the fifth WGA award for Allen, who also won WGA honours for "Annie Hall," "Broadway Danny Rose," "Hannah and Her Siblings" and "Crimes and Misdemeneanors." The WGA nom was Allen's 20th. It is the third WGA script award for Payne. Younger crowd won for "Election" and "Sideways." The documentary film award visited "Better Our PlanetInch for Katie Galloway and Kelly duane p la Vega, who stated later on they are developing it as being a story feature."Modern Family" repeated as comedy series award champion wins, as the episodic comedy award visited "Modern Family" for Steven Levitan, Jeffrey Richman for "Caught in the process.""Breaking Bad" and "Homeland" required two trophies each. They tied for the best drama segment, as the drama series award visited "Breaking," and also the new series award to "Homeland."TV animation award visited Joel H. Cohen for "Homer the daddyInch segment of "The Simpsons," which won over three other "Simpsons" episodes and single segs of "Futurama" and "Ben 10." Peter Gould required the longform award for "Too Large to Fail," and David Seltzer won the longform original award for "Cinema Verite.""Following the Oscars" got the award for comedy variety music, and "The Colbert Report" won comedy variety talk.Karen Harris of "General Hospital" noted in her own acceptance that ABC didn't buy seats for his or her nominated authors. The derivative new media award was won by "The Walking Dead" for Greg Nicotero and John Esposito.The initial new media award visited Heath Corson and Richie Keen for "Goal High."The videogame award visited Amy Hennig for "Uncharted 3: Drake's Deceptiveness." WGA children's TV award visited Nick's "Supah Ninjas" segment, "Hero from the Shadows." Contact Dork McNary at dork.mcnary@variety.com