Category: Press Release

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The Student Academy Awards are Open for Entries

The Academy is now accepting applications for its 2014 Student Academy Awards competition. Past Student Academy Award® winners have gone on to receive 46 Oscar® nominations and have won or shared eight awards.  Winners include Pete Docter, John Lasseter, Spike Lee, Trey Parker and Robert Zemeckis.

Gold, Silver and Bronze Medal awards, along with cash prizes, may be presented to student filmmakers in the following categories: Alternative, Animation, Narrative, Documentary and Foreign Film.

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So this is how Spike’s joint got started read article

WGAW Picks Garry Marshall for 2014 Paddy Chayevsky Laurel Award for TV

garry-marshallby Team TVWRITER™ Press Service

Veteran writer-producer-director Garry Marshall, who is, you know, kind of a big deal for being responsible for some of the most popular series in television, including Happy Days, Laverne & Shirley, and Mork & Mindy, is set to receive the Writers Guild of America, West’s 2014 Paddy Chayefsky Laurel Award for Television Writing Achievement, honoring lifetime achievement in outstanding television writing. Marshall’s contributions to entertainment will be recognized at the upcoming 2014 Writers Guild Awards’ West Coast ceremony to be held on Saturday, February 1, 2014, at the JW Marriott Los Angeles L.A. LIVE.

“Garry Marshall’s filmography – from The Joey Bishop Show to Happy Days – is a virtual history of American television comedy. Both of-their-time and timeless, his shows are a gentle, generous, comic mirror held up to late mid-century America. And no one is a finer or funnier chronicler of friendship – male or female (or alien) – than Garry Marshall. Beloved both for his iconic work and the warmth of his spirit, today we rightly place him on the short list of the best of our best,” said WGAW President Christopher Keyser.

Over the course of his prolific career, Marshall has created or co-created and executive produced numerous hit television series that have helped define pop culture for a generation of viewers, including ’50s-era sitcom Happy Days, which ran from 1974-84, Happy Days spin-offs Laverne & Shirley (Created by Marshall, Lowell Ganz, Mark Rothman), which ran from 1976-83, and Joanie Loves Chachi (Created by Marshall, Lowell Ganz, Developed by Thomas L. Miller, Robert L. Boyett), sci-fi sitcom Mork & Mindy (Created by Marshall and Dale McRaven and Joe Glauberg), which ran from 1978-82 and made actor-comic Robin Williams a household name, Angie (Created by Marshall, Dale McRaven, Developed by Alan Eisenstock & Larry Mintz, 1979), the disco-era comedy Makin’ It (Created by Mark Rothman & Lowell Ganz and Garry K. Marshall), The Brian Keith Show (1972-74), and Hey, Landlord! (Created by Jerry Belson and Marshall). read article

Producers Guild of America Announces TV Award Nominations

by Team TVWriter™ Press Service

BigMedia, in the form of the Producers Guild of America, has stared the new year off with a bang via the following announcement, designed to take the spotlight away from not-so-BigMedia encourage the excellence for which  the job title “Producer” has always been so famous.

Or something like that. Per the press release:

The Producers Guild of America (PGA) announced today the motion picture and long-form television nominations for the 25th Annual Producers Guild Awards. The categories include: The Darryl F. Zanuck Award for Outstanding Producer of Theatrical Motion Pictures; The Award for Outstanding Producer of Animated Theatrical Motion Pictures; and The David L. Wolper Award for Outstanding Producer of Long-Form Television. The documentary film category and other television category nominations were already announced by the Guild in late 2013. read article

Winter TV Premiere Dates: When Will Your Favorite Show Come Back?

From TVLine.Com
From TVLine.Com

From Team TVWriter™ News Service

Look and see, kids, look and see. A couple may already have started, but the rest are at your disposal. (Was that a bad way to word this? Hmm…)

Thursday, Jan. 2
“Community” 8 p.m. EST on NBC
“Two and a Half Men” 9:30 p.m. EST on CBS
“Parenthood” 10 p.m. EST on NBC

Friday, Jan. 3
“Grimm” 9 p.m. EST on NBC
“Dracula” 10 pm. EST on NBC read article

The WGAW Names Sam Simon Winner of the 2014 Valentine Davies Award

by Team TVWriter™ Press Service

sam-simonThe Writers Guild of America, West (WGAW) has named The Simpsons co-developer, Emmy-winning television writer, director, producer, and philanthropist Sam Simon as its 2014 Valentine Davies Award honoree in recognition of his humanitarian efforts and community service on behalf of writers. Simon will be feted, along with other honorees, at the WGAW’s 2014 Writers Guild Awards West Coast ceremony to be held on Saturday, February 1, 2014, at the JW Marriott Los Angeles L.A. LIVE.

“The work of Sam Simon’s life has entertained and humbled us, in equal measure. And while this Guild has often honored his wit and skill, today we honor his generosity and love – his understanding that we are, in the end, all caretakers of each other. Sam has dedicated himself to the cause of at-risk animals and people who have no other protector. A friend to them, he has become an inspiration to us, his grateful colleagues,” said WGAW President Chris Keyser.

A Writers Guild, West member since 1980, in November Simon also received the WGAW’s Animation Writers Caucus (AWC) 16th Annual Animation Writing Award, a lifetime achievement honor recognizing his contributions to the craft of animation writing. read article