Valentine Davies Award

The Valentine Davies Award, named after Valentine Davies, is a special award given to a member of the Writers Guild of America, West whose contributions to the entertainment industry and the community-at-large have brought dignity and honor to writers everywhere.^[1]

Recipients

Year	Person(s)	Reference
1962	Mary C. McCall Jr.	^[1]
1963	Allen Rivkin
1964	Morgan Cox
1965	James R. Webb
1966	Leonard Spigelgass
1967	Edmund H. North
1968	George Seaton
1969	Dore Schary
1970	Richard Murphy
1971	Dan Taradash
1972	Michael Blankfort & Norman Corwin
1973	William Ludwig
1974	Ray Bradbury & Philip Dunne
1975	Fay Kanin
1976	Winston Miller
1977	Carl Foreman
1978	Norman Lear
1979	Melville Shavelson
1980	David W. Rintels
1981	Arthur Orloff
1982	Mort R. Lewis
1983	Hal Kanter
1984	Jerome Lawrence & Robert E. Lee
1985	Charles Champlin
1986	Ronald Austin
1987	William Froug
1988	Lois Peyser
1989	Michael Kanin & Garson Kanin
1990	John Furia Jr.
1991	Frank Pierson
1992	Allan Burns
1993	True Boardman
1994	Phil Alden Robinson
1995	Garry Marshall
1996	Mike Farrell
1997	Jonathan Estrin & Shelley List (posthumously)
1998	Gary David Goldberg
1999	Barry Kemp
2000	Alan Alda
2001	Paul Haggis
2002	David Angell (posthumously)
2003	Aaron Ruben
2004	Neal Baer
2005	Irma Kalish	^[2]
2006	Not presented
2007	Larry Gelbart
2008	Tom Schulman
2009	Carl Reiner & Victoria Riskin	^[3]
2010	Not presented
2011	Seth Freeman & Susannah Grant	^[4]
2012	Philip Rosenthal
2013	Sam Simon
2014	Ben Affleck
2016	John August
2017	Richard Curtis
2018	Dustin Lance Black
2020	Brad Falchuk

References

^ ^a ^b "Valentine Davies Award Previous Recipients". awards.wga.org. Retrieved 2019-05-12.
^ "Veteran TV Writer Irma Kalish to Receive Valentine Davies Award From Writers Guild of America, west". awards.wga.org. Retrieved 2019-05-12.
^ "Carl Reiner and Victoria Riskin to Receive WGAW's Valentine Davies Award". awards.wga.org. Retrieved 2019-05-12.
^ "Writers Seth Freeman and Susannah Grant Named 2011 WGAW Valentine Davies Award Honorees". awards.wga.org. Retrieved 2019-05-12.

[:0-1] "Valentine Davies Award Previous Recipients". awards.wga.org. Retrieved 2019-05-12.

[2] "Veteran TV Writer Irma Kalish to Receive Valentine Davies Award From Writers Guild of America, west". awards.wga.org. Retrieved 2019-05-12.

[3] "Carl Reiner and Victoria Riskin to Receive WGAW's Valentine Davies Award". awards.wga.org. Retrieved 2019-05-12.

[4] "Writers Seth Freeman and Susannah Grant Named 2011 WGAW Valentine Davies Award Honorees". awards.wga.org. Retrieved 2019-05-12.

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