Warner Bros’ juggernauts Sinners and One Battle After Another have been dueling for statuettes on the awards circuit months, but both came away as big winners this time.

Sinners writer-director Ryan Coogler took the Original Screenplay and Paul Thomas Anderson scribe-helmer won Adapted Screenplay for One Battle After Another during the 78th annual WGA Awards ceremony Sunday at Edison Ballroom in Manhattan. Both will compete for an Oscar on March 15. See the full winners list below.

Sinners will battle for the Original Screenplay 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.

One Battle After Another starring Leonardo DiCaprio and Sean Penn is up for the Adapted Screenplay Oscar next weekend, vying against the scripts for Bugonia, Frankenstein, Hamnet and Train Dreams.

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It was 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.

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 on Sunday. 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 behemoth, Apple TV’s The Studio, took home the Comedy Series statuette.

HBO’s now-wrapped The Righteous Gemstones won the Episodic Comedy prize; read about its series finale here. The premium cabler also won the Comedy/Variety Series – Sketch or Talk award with Last Week Tonight with John Oliver

FX/Hulu’s Dying for Sex scooped 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.

Stephen Colbert, whose The Late Show is ending its run in May, received this year’s Walter Bernstein Award for career achievement from the WGA East during Sunday’s ceremony. Watch portions of his speech here:

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Roy Wood Jr., the former Daily Show correspondent and current host of CNN’s Have I Got News for You, opened the show with a seemingly sincere, stark set of warnings from someone that he called “a profound philosopher”: ex-Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene. Watch some of his comments here:

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Oscar winner and two-time Screenplay Oscar nominee Terry George (Hotel Rwanda, In the Name of the Father) received the WGA East’s Ian McLellan Hunter Award for career achievement. Here are parts of his speech:

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Here are all the winners at the 2026 WGA Awards:

ORIGINAL SCREENPLAY
Sinners, Written by Ryan Coogler; Warner Bros. Pictures

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

DOCUMENTARY SCREENPLAY
2,000 Meters to Andriivka, Written by Mstyslav Chernov; Frontline Features

DRAMA SERIES
The Pitt, Written by Cynthia Adarkwa, Simran Baidwan, Valerie Chu, R. Scott Gemmill, Elyssa Gershman, Joe Sachs, Noah Wyle; HBO | Max

COMEDY SERIES
The Studio, Written by Evan Goldberg, Alex Gregory, Peter Huyck, Frida Perez, Seth Rogen; Apple TV

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

NEW SERIES
The Pitt, Written by Cynthia Adarkwa, Simran Baidwan, Valerie Chu, R. Scott Gemmill, Elyssa Gershman, Joe Sachs, Noah Wyle; HBO | Max

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

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/VARIETY SPECIALS
Marc Maron: Panicked, Written by Marc Maron; HBO | Max

DOCUMENTARY SCRIPT – OTHER THAN CURRENT EVENTS
“Forgotten Hero: Walter White and the NAACP” (American Experience), Written by Rob Rapley; PBS

DOCUMENTARY SCRIPT – CURRENT EVENTS
“Trump’s Power & the Rule of Law” (Frontline), Written by Michael Kirk & Mike Wiser; PBS

ANIMATION
“Shira Can’t Cook” (Long Story Short) Written by Mehar Sethi; Netflix

TV & STREAMING MOTION PICTURES
Deep Cover, Written by Derek Connolly & Colin Trevorrow; Prime Video

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+

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+

CHILDREN’S EPISODIC, LONG FORM AND SPECIALS
“When We Lose Someone” (Tab Time), Written by Sean Presant; YouTube

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

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

SHORT FORM STREAMING
The Rabbit Hole with Jimmy Kimmel, Writers: Jimmy Kimmel & Jesse Joyce; YouTube

PROMOTIONAL WRITING
“CBS Comedy “, Written by Dan Greenberger; CBS

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

RADIO/AUDIO NEWS SCRIPT – ANALYSIS, FEATURE, OR COMMENTARY
“The Life and Legacy of Jimmy Carter”, Written by Gail Lee; CBS News Radio

RADIO/AUDIO DOCUMENTARY
“Jerry Lewis’ Lost Holocaust Clown Movie” (Decoder Ring), Written by Max Freedman; Slate