The Underground Railroad creator-writer Barry Jenkins accepts the WGAW’s 2022 Paul Selvin Award
Writers Guild, NAACP Image, and Academy Award-winning writer-director-producer Barry Jenkins receives the Writers Guild of America West’s 2022 Paul Selvin Award from actor, writer, and director Colman Domingo (Euphoria, If Beale Street Could Talk) in recognition of Jenkins’ script for “Chapter 9: Indiana Winter” (The Underground Railroad, Teleplay by Barry Jenkins). The limited series tells the fictional story of people attempting to escape slavery through the historical Underground Railroad network of safe houses and secret routes in the Antebellum South. Named for the late Paul Selvin, general counsel to WGAW for 25 years, the honorary award is given each year to the member or members whose script best embodies the spirit of the constitutional and civil rights and liberties that are indispensable to the survival of free writers everywhere. Previous recipients of the Paul Selvin award include Will Berson & Shaka King and Kenny Lucas & Keith Lucas, Charles Randolph, Adam McKay, Dustin Lance Black, Alex Gibney, Susannah Grant, Eric Roth, Michael Mann, Gary Ross, Liz Hannah, Josh Singer, George Clooney and Tony Kushner. The 2022 Writers Guild Awards, a joint Writers Guild of America West and Writers Guild of America, East virtual ceremony, was held on Sunday, March 20, 2022 and hosted by writer, comedian, actor, and producer Ashley Nicole Black. The Writers Guild Awards honor outstanding writing in film, television, new media, videogames, news, radio, promotional, and graphic animation categories. To see the complete list of winners, visit awards.wga.org/winners or wgaeast.org/awards.
Writers Guild, NAACP Image, and Academy Award-winning writer-director-producer Barry Jenkins receives the Writers Guild of America West’s 2022 Paul Selvin Award from actor, writer, and director Colman Domingo (Euphoria, If Beale Street Could Talk) in recognition of Jenkins’ script for “Chapter 9: Indiana Winter” (The Underground Railroad, Teleplay by Barry Jenkins). The limited series tells the fictional story of people attempting to escape slavery through the historical Underground Railroad network of safe houses and secret routes in the Antebellum South. Named for the late Paul Selvin, general counsel to WGAW for 25 years, the honorary award is given each year to the member or members whose script best embodies the spirit of the constitutional and civil rights and liberties that are indispensable to the survival of free writers everywhere. Previous recipients of the Paul Selvin award include Will Berson & Shaka King and Kenny Lucas & Keith Lucas, Charles Randolph, Adam McKay, Dustin Lance Black, Alex Gibney, Susannah Grant, Eric Roth, Michael Mann, Gary Ross, Liz Hannah, Josh Singer, George Clooney and Tony Kushner. The 2022 Writers Guild Awards, a joint Writers Guild of America West and Writers Guild of America, East virtual ceremony, was held on Sunday, March 20, 2022 and hosted by writer, comedian, actor, and producer Ashley Nicole Black. The Writers Guild Awards honor outstanding writing in film, television, new media, videogames, news, radio, promotional, and graphic animation categories. To see the complete list of winners, visit awards.wga.org/winners or wgaeast.org/awards.