"The Descendants," "Midnight in Paris," Won The Writers Guild Awards

LOS ANGELES: U.S. blur and television writers gave their top two cine awards on Sunday to affair "Midnight in Paris" and ball "The Descendants" in the final Hollywood brotherhood awards appearance afore abutting week's Oscars.

Writer-director Woody Allen won the Writers Brotherhood of America accolade for best aboriginal cine with "Midnight in Paris," his account of a adolescent biographer in Paris who faces questions of love.

"The Descendants," which tells of a man who brings his ancestors calm in a time of affliction while his cheating
wife is hospitalized, becoming the WGA bays for best acclimatized cine for writers Alexander Payne, Nat Faxon and Jim Rash.

The awards accord both movies a lift in the chase for the Oscars, the world's top blur honors, because abounding brotherhood associates additionally accord to the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences that gives out the Oscars on February 26.

But the guilds accept accustomed a array of films this year, authoritative them an inexact diviner for Oscar success. Earlier this year, the administrator and ambassador guilds put "The Artist" aloft their account of best films, but "The Artist" was not acceptable for a WGA bays because it was created by French writers.

The Screen Actors Brotherhood singled out the performers of civilian rights ball "The Help" for its top honor, best ensemble cast, but the WGA went for "The Descendants" over "The Help" in the WGA's class for best acclimatized screenplay.

WGA voters did account "The Help" biographer and administrator Tate Taylor with a appropriate accolade acquainted assignment that embodies the spirit of civilian rights and liberties.

Backstage, Taylor told reporters the movie's success at box offices aftermost summer and during the accepted accolade division had been "fantastic," and he alleged "The Help" a "labor of love."

"It's my aboriginal adaptation, which I anticipate was a absolution because I aloof went for it," Taylor said.

The WGA additionally gave out an accolade to documentary cine "Better This World."

Best TV ball alternation went to "Breaking Bad," and the writers of "Modern Family" claimed the award-winning for TV ball series. "Homeland" was called best new TV series.



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