I've been a member of the Writers Guild of America, East for more than twenty years.
Video game writer Jay Lender is a part of the Writers Guild committee that made the selections.
British playwright and screenwriter Sir Tom Stoppard is to be honoured by the Writers Guild of America next month.
The contract between the 12, 000-member Writers Guild of America and the Alliance of Motion Picture and Television Producer expired Oct. 31.
One of the episodes he wrote, "Fraudcast News, " earned the Paul Selvin Award from the Writers Guild of America in 2005.
Holland of the Writers Guild says the time and money invested by studios planning for a strike could have been better spent.
The Writers Guild has scrapped its own annual awards ceremony this year.
Howard A Rodman, vice-president of the Writers Guild of America West (WGAW), said Stoppard brought "wit, elegance and heart to all he composes".
"Our basic mantra is if they get paid, we get paid, " Patric Verrone, president of the Writers Guild West, said in a recent interview.
After four weeks on the picket lines, the Writers Guild of America has received a new proposal from the Alliance of Motion Picture and Television Producers.
When the Writers Guild of America traded its pencils for picket signs on Nov. 5, late-night talk shows were the first casualty, heading into repeats nearly immediately.
Talks are ongoing with the WGA (Writers Guild of America).
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Though no Oscar contingencies plans have been announced, the Writers Guild of America has already threatened to picket the ceremony, throwing into question whether the nominees will even show up.
Moonrise Kingdom and The Master are among the films nominated for the Writers Guild's original screenplay prize, while Argo, Life of Pi and Lincoln compete for its adapted screenplay honour.
But if it wanted to order more programmes while the strike is on, it could be a problem for Herskovitz, who is a member of the Writers Guild of America.
According to Tom Wertheimer, a former executive vice president of MCA and now a part-time consultant to NBC Universal, a reuse is a reuse is a reuse to the Writers Guild.
First there was the hassle with the Writers Guild over text-to-speech, and then Amazon threatened MobileRead with legal action for merely linking to software they didn't take kindly too.
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While a potential work stoppage is still months away--the Writers Guild contract with the Hollywood studios expires in October--negotiations are set to begin Monday, and both sides are starting out far apart.
But exactly what Leno and O'Brien will be able to do or say when they return to the airwaves is unclear, as the Writers Guild has not yet weighed in on the rules.
Writers Guild of America President Patric Verrone drew loud cheers when he announced in a closed-door session Thursday night that the union could strike as early as Sunday, several writers told The Associated Press.
The writers, represented by the Writers Guild of America, want a bigger share of the profits from DVDs as well as other new-media productions of their work for cell phones and other handheld devices.
So members of the Writers Guild may walk away as early as the beginning of November which would leave some studios with projects in mid-progress, forcing the studio to put it on hold or cancel it.
His feeling, shared by many: After three-plus months of acrimonious negotiations and another three weeks on strike, the Writers Guild and the Alliance of Motion Picture and Television Producers may be closing in on a deal.
On Wednesday, the Alliance of Motion Picture and Television Producers called on the Writers Guild to extend the current deal, allowing them time to revamp the now-outdated compensation system, particularly as it pertains to the residuals structure.
"The two parties wouldn't have agreed to come back to the table if there wasn't reason for optimism, " says Jonathan Handel, an attorney with TroyGould in Los Angeles and a former associate counsel for the Writers Guild of America.
The prevailing sentiment had been that the Writers Guild of America would wait to stage a strike until next summer, when the contracts of the actors and directors guild run out, but a November walkout is looking increasingly likely.
"While this agreement is neither perfect nor perhaps all that we deserve for the countless hours of hard work and sacrifice, our strike has been a success, " Writers Guild West president Patric Verrone and WGA East president Michael Winship said in an e-mail sent to union members early Saturday.
The way Jonathan Handel, an entertainment industry attorney with TroyGould in Los Angeles and a former associate counsel for the Writers Guild, sees it, the stakes are huge: "If the guild does not succeed in cutting an effective deal, it loses leverage, stature and will suffer continued erosion, " he says.
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