WGA names best original, adapted screenplay winners

'Midnight in Paris''The Descendants'Woody Allen's screenplay for "Midnight in Paris" has won the Writers Guild of America award for original screenplay. "The Descendants" has won the adapted screenplay award for Alexander Payne and Nat Faxon & Jim Rash, based on the novel by Kaui Hart Hemming.It's the fifth WGA award for Allen, who also won WGA awards for "Annie Hall," "Broadway Danny Rose," "Hannah and Her Sisters" and "Crimes and Misdemeneanors." The WGA nom was Allen's 20th. It's the third WGA screenplay award for Payne. He also won for "Election" and "Sideways." The documentary film award went to "Better This World" for Katie Galloway and Kelly duane de la Vega, who said afterwards they're developing it as a narrative feature."Modern Family" repeated as comedy series award winner wins, while the episodic comedy award went to "Modern Family" for Steven Levitan, Jeffrey Richman for "Caught in the Act.""Breaking Bad" and "Homeland" took two trophies each. They tied for best drama segment, while the drama series award went to "Breaking," and the new series award to "Homeland."TV animation award went to Joel H. Cohen for "Homer the Father" segment of "The Simpsons," which won over three other "Simpsons" episodes and single segs of "Futurama" and "Ben 10." Peter Gould took the longform award for "Too Big to Fail," and David Seltzer won the longform original award for "Cinema Verite.""After the Academy Awards" got the award for comedy variety music, and "The Colbert Report" won comedy variety talk.Karen Harris of "General Hospital" noted in her acceptance that ABC did not buy seats for their nominated writers. The derivative new media award was won by "The Walking Dead" for Greg Nicotero and John Esposito.The original new media award went to Heath Corson and Richie Keen for "Aim High."The videogame award went to Amy Hennig for "Uncharted 3: Drake's Deception." WGA children's TV award went to Nick's "Supah Ninjas" segment, "Hero of the Shadows." Contact Dave McNary at dave.mcnary@variety.com