On the Scene
On the Scene is a gallery of photos exhibiting the interaction of Final Draft, Inc. staff members with the scriptwriting community.

On Saturday, February 5, Script Magazine was back on the red carpet of this year's Writers Guild Awards at the Renaissance Hollywood Hotel. The WGA Awards celebrates writers from every facet of the entertainment industry, from feature films and television to new media and videogames. Script magazine mixed and mingled with the likes of videogame writers like Jeffrey Yohalem (winner for Best Videogame Writing for Assassin's Creed: Brotherhood), Christopher Nolan (winner of Best Original Screenplay for Inception) and the Final Draft Inc. 2010 Hall of Fame award recipient Aaron Sorkin (winner of Best Adapted Screenplay for The Social Network).

We had the chance to speak to a number of nominees, including Andres Heinz (nominated for Best Original Screenplay as co-writer of Black Swan), Matthew Weiner (creator/writer of Mad Men, which won Best Drama and Best Episodic Drama), Morgan Spurlock (nominated for The Simpsons 20th Anniversary Special - In 3-D On Ice!), Charles Ferguson (winner of Best Documentary Screenplay for Inside Job), Nicole Holofcener (nominated for Best Original Screenplay for Please Give), and staff writers for Boardwalk Empire (winner of Best New Series). All offered great and entertaining insights to their nominated works.

Modern Family's lovable gay couple Eric Stonestreet and Jesse Tyler Ferguson, who opened the show with a lively musical number titled "Write It Gay!" hosted the evening in Los Angeles. (The WGA East held a simultaneous, less star-studded program in New York City.) Highlights of the evening included Sony Co-Chair Amy Pascal's eloquent presentation of the Laurel Award for Screen to Steve Zaillian (Schindler's List), accompanied by a video interview with Steven Spielberg; Candice Bergen's emotional presentation of the Paddy Chayefsky Laurel Award for Television to Diane English (Murphy Brown); and Christopher Nolan's win for Best Original Screenplay, which garnered an enthusiastic "Yes!" in the pressroom from fellow award winner for Best Adapted Screenplay, Aaron Sorkin. Seeing Sorkin and Nolan congratulate each other in the pressroom was one of those "You had to be there moments." We're glad we were.

The comedy highlight of the night belonged to the writers of Modern Family, who accepted their Best Comedy Series award by having each staff writer "apologize" for something as their acceptance speech. The evening ended with Matthew Weiner and company accepting their Best Drama Series award for Mad Men, which makes it two years in a row the WGA Awards ended with the staff of Mad Men taking top honors.

For a complete list of WGA Award winners, click here.

To watch the opening musical number by Modern Family's Eric Stonestreet and Jesse Tyler Ferguson, click here.