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 "The Grand Budapest Hotel," up for nine Oscars including best
picture on Feb. 22, beat frontrunner, Richard Linklater's
"Boyhood," for best screenplay.
Anderson accepted his award by quipping that the location of the
awards show, held in a hotel in the Century City neighborhood of
Los Angeles, "was formerly was the backlot of one of the great
cinema studios and now home to this wonderful Hyatt, filled with
entertainment attorneys."
Graham Moore from "The Imitation Game," about British World War
Two Nazi code breaker Alan Turing, won best adapted screenplay
and dedicated his award to the late Turing, who died in 1954 a
broken man, persecuted for his homosexuality.
"He was probably the greatest genius of his generation and I am
a screenwriter from Chicago. So it's very strange to be standing
on stage now when he should be," Moore said.
Hosted by "Friends" and "The Comeback" star Lisa Kudrow, the
awards, voted for by the members of the Writers Guild of
America, has had mixed results in predicting the best screenplay
Oscars awards.
Last year, Spike Jonze's "Her" won both the Writers Guild Award
(WGA) and the Oscar for best adapted screenplay, but the WGA for
best original screenplay went to Billy Ray's "Captain Phillips"
while John Ridley won the Oscar for "12 Years a Slave."
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In the best documentary screenplay category, Oscar nominees "Finding
Vivian Maier" and "Last Days in Vietnam" lost out to "The Internet's
Own Boy: The Story of Aaron Swartz."
HBO's gritty crime thriller "True Detective" won both best new
series and best drama series for its creator Nic Pizzolatto, while
FX's "Louie" won best comedy series for its creator and star Louis
C.K. and writer Pamela Adlon.
"Grey's Anatomy" creator Shonda Rhimes received a lifetime
achievement award for her television work and spoke of the need for
more diversity in Hollywood.
Actor-director Ben Affleck was honored for his humanitarian work
with the Eastern Congo Initiative, aiming to improve the economy and
hardships of the war-torn region.
The late Harold Ramis, the writer-director of films such as "Caddyshack,"
"Groundhog Day" and as Dr Egon Spengler in "Ghostbusters," received
the Laurel award for screenwriting achievement, accepted by his
family on his behalf.
(Reporting by Piya Sinha-Roy; Edited by Robert Birsel)
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