Writers Guild Awards 2017 winners: Moonlight and Arrival win big in film, Atlanta triumphs in TV

Barry Jenkins' drama Moonlight and Denis Villeneuve's sci-fi Arrival won big in the film categories at The 2017 Writers Guild Awards on Sunday 19 February at the Beverly Hilton Hotel in Los Angeles and New York's Edison Hall simultaneously. Hosted by comedians Patton Oswalt and Lewis Black respectively, the ceremonies saw Donald Glover's Atlanta took home best new television series.

Moonlight bagged the award for original screenplay, ahead of Hell Or High Water, Manchester By The Sea (which recently won a Bafta in the same category), Loving and Oscar favourite La La Land. Arrival – based on the short story Story Of Your Life by Ted Chiang – took home best adapted screenplay, triumphing over Nocturnal Animals, Fences, Hidden Figures and superhero outing Deadpool.

Other TV titles that walked away victorious on the night included The Americans (somewhat surprisingly beating Stranger Things, Game Of Thrones and Westworld), Fear The Walking Dead, Saturday Night Live and American Crime Story: The People v. O.J. Simpson. Netflix's BoJack Horseman and Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt also won accolades for best animated episode and best comedy episode respectively.

Check out the full list of winners below...

Original Screenplay: Moonlight

Comedy/Variety Sketch Series: Saturday Night Live

Comedy/Variety Talk Series: Last Week Tonight With John Oliver

Drama Series: The Americans

Documentary Screenplay: Command And Control

Children's Episodic: Gortimer Gibbon's Life On Normal Street, 'Mel Vs. The Night Mare of Normal Street'

Children's Long Form: Once Upon A Sesame Street Christmas

Daytime Drama: General Hospital

On-Air Promotion (Television, New Media or Radio): CBS On-Air Reel

TV News Script - Analysis, Feature or Commentary: CBS Sunday Morning Almanac

TV News Script - Regularly Scheduled, Bulletin or Breaking Report: Muhammad Ali: Remembering A Legend

Television Graphic Art and Animation: The Real History Of Cinco De Mayo

Comedy/Variety Specials: Triumph's Election Special

Outstanding Achievement in Video Game Writing: Uncharted 4: A Thief's End

Original Short Form New Media: The Commute, 'The Party'

Quiz and Audience Participation: Hollywood Game Night

Radio Documentary: Chernobyl: 30 Years Later

Radio News Script - Regularly Scheduled, Bulletin or Breaking Report: World News This Week

Radio News Script - Analysis, Feature or Commentary: Morley Safer: A Journalist's Life

Animation: BoJack Horseman, 'Stop The Presses'

Documentary Script - Other Than Current Events: Jackie Robinson, Part One

Documentary Script - Current Events: Frontline, 'The Choice' and 'Inside Assad's Syria'

Adapted Short Form New Media: Fear The Walking Dead

Adapted Long Form: The People v. O.J. Simpson: American Crime Story

Original Long Form: Confirmation

New Series: Atlanta

Comedy Series: Atlanta

Adapted Screenplay: Arrival

Episodic Comedy: Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt, 'Kimmy Goes On A Play Date'

Episodic Drama: This Is Us, 'The Trip'

WGA's Valentine Davies Award for Humanitarian Service: Richard Curtis

2017 Jean Renoir Award for International Screenwriting Achievement: Abbas Kiarostami

2017 Morgan Cox Award: Dan Wilcox

Paul Selvin Award: Susannah Grant

Laurel Award for Screenwriting Achievement: Oliver Stone

Animation Writing Award for Lifetime Achievement: Mike Judge

Paddy Chayefsky Laurel Award for Television Writing Achievement: Aaron Sorkin