Mingle Media TV and our Red Carpet Report host Denise Salcedo were invited to come out to cover 10th Annual Final Draft Awards at the Paramount Theatre at the Paramount Studios Lot.
Interviews from the Red Carpet
Before the ceremony, we spoke with Alex Dinelaris, Screenwriter for “Birdman”, Eric Andre from FX’s “Man Seeking Woman”, Graham Moore Screenwriter for “The Imitation Game”, Jeremy Sisto from A&E’s “The Returned”, Lea Thompson from ABC Family’s “Switched At Birth”, Marc Madnick, CEO of Final Draft, Nicole Perlman, Screenwriter of “Guardians of the Galaxy”, and Honorees Scott Alexander & Larry Karaszewski – Hall of Fame Award Recipients.
Honored
Scott Alexander and Larry Karaszewski received the Hall of Fame Award at the ceremony hosted by Thomas Lennon & Robert Ben Garant. Additional winners in the Best Television Comedy, Best Television Drama, Best Adapted Screenplay, and Best Original Screenplay are listed below.
Select Photos from the Red Carpet – see the rest in our 10th Annual Final Draft awards Album on Flickr
Winners from the 10th Annual Final Draft Awards
Best Original Screenplay
- Birdman– Alejandro González Iñárritu, Nicolás Giacobone, Alexander Dinelaris, Armando Bo (winner)
- Boyhood– Richard Linklater
- The Grand Budapest Hotel– Wes Anderson & Hugo Guinness
- Interstellar – Christopher Nolan & Jonathan Nolan
- Nightcrawler – Dan Gilroy
Best Adapted Screenplay
- American Sniper– Jason Dean Hall
- Gone Girl– Gillian Flynn (winner)
- Guardians of the Galaxy – James Gunn & Nicole Perlman
- The Imitation Game– Graham Moore
- The Theory of Everything – Anthony McCarten
Best Television Drama
- Downton Abbey– Julian Fellowes
- Fargo– Noah Hawley
- Game of Thrones– David Benioff & D.B. Weiss
- House of Cards– Beau Willimon
- True Detective – Nic Pizzolatto (winner)
Best Television Comedy
- The Big Bang Theory– Chuck Lorre & Bill Prady (winner)
- Louie– Louis C.K.
- Modern Family– Steven Levitan & Christopher Lloyd
- Orange is the New Black– Jenji Kohan
- Veep – Armando Iannucci
Big Break Winners – Screenwriting Contest
Winners and finalists were awarded over $80,000 in cash and prizes, and the grand prize winners were flown to Los Angeles for the awards show and meetings with top industry professionals.
Grand Prize winners
- Feature – 13.1by Chad Rhiness
- TV – The Blacklist“William Henry Booker (No. 58)” by Christopher Iannacone
Feature Film winners, by genre:
- Action/Adventure– Flesh & Blood by Josh Cobb
- Comedy/Rom-Com– 13.1 by Chad Rhiness
- Drama– 10 Angels by Peter Wulff
- Family/Animated– Larry, Lord of Darkness by Jeff Hand
- Period/Historical/War– The End-of-Summer Guest by John Orlock
- Sci-Fi/Fantasy– Man Alive by Joseph Greenberg
- Thriller/Horror– The Web by Sven Mund
Television winners:
- Half-Hour Spec– Brooklyn Nine-Nine “The Subway Sniffer” by Michael Salomon
- Half-Hour Pilot– How I Got Hanged “First Last Words” by Ty Freer
- Hour-Long Spec– The Blacklist “William Henry Booker (No. 58)” by Christopher Iannacone
- Hour-Long Pilot– After The Merge by Derek Asaff
Bonus! All 11 Big Break winners will participate in the first-ever Final Draft/New York Film Academy Fellowship in Writing for Film & Television, a 12-week master class – one for film writers and one for television writers – held on the Burbank campus of the New York Film Academy and taught by top New York Film Academy instructors.
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About Final Draft Awards
10th annual Final Draft Awards recognize four exceptional film and television projects, as well as present the Hall of Fame Award to its first writing team, Scott Alexander & Larry Karaszewski, as well as the winners of the annual Final Draft Big Break Contest. The nominees and winners of the Screenwriters Choice Awards are determined by thousands of votes from Final Draft users. for more info visit https://www.finaldraft.com/discover/events/final-draft-awards or like on Facebook https://www.facebook.com/finaldraftfan.
About Final Draft, Inc.
Final Draft, Inc. has published Final Draft software – the number-one selling screenwriting application in the world – for over 20 years. Final Draft software automatically paginates and formats scripts to industry standards allowing writers to focus on what they do best – scripting stories. Used by industry giants like J.J. Abrams, James Cameron, Aaron Sorkin and others, Final Draft has become the professional’s choice and the entertainment industry standard. In addition to its flagship software product, Final Draft, Inc. offers other services for writers, like the Big Break Contest – a screenwriting contest that launches careers and awards over $80,000 in cash and prizes and professional script coverage with its ScriptXpert services. In 2012, Final Draft, Inc. launched Final Draft Mobile™, a division focused on bringing screenwriting tools to mobile devices. The Final Draft Reader® and Final Draft Writer® apps for iPad are the first in a series of mobile apps to be brought to market. To learn more about Final Draft, Inc. and its products and services, visit: www.finaldraft.com.
