| #8363, aired 2021-03-24 | THE NEBULA AWARDS $600: A Game Writing award went to Charlie Brooker for this: "Bandersnatch", also a Netflix movie Black Mirror |
| #8257, aired 2020-10-13 | AWARDS & HONORS $1600: This award for sci-fi or fantasy writing is named for Mr. Gernsback, founder of Amazing Stories magazine Hugo |
| #8229, aired 2020-06-04 | EMMYS FOR WRITING $200: "30 Rock" earned her 2 awards for writing; there were others for starring & executive producing as well Tina Fey |
| #7430, aired 2016-12-23 | POWER AWARDS $800: The "Election Night" episode of this HBO show won the Outstanding Writing for a Comedy Series Emmy in 2015 Veep |
| #7358, aired 2016-09-14 | AWARDS FOR WRITING $400: Won in 2015 by Svetlana Alexievich, it's handed out annually by the Swedish Academy the Nobel Prize in Literature |
| #7358, aired 2016-09-14 | AWARDS FOR WRITING $800: The Newbery Medal goes to writers in this genre; Eleanor Estes won for 1952 with "Ginger Pye" children's writing |
| #7358, aired 2016-09-14 | AWARDS FOR WRITING $1200: Named for a 16th century luminary, this prize is awarded by the Spanish ministry of culture the Cervantes Award |
| #7358, aired 2016-09-14 | AWARDS FOR WRITING $2000: The Poetry Society of America's gold medal was renamed for this man; as he wrote, "Nothing gold can stay" Robert Frost |
| #7358, aired 2016-09-14 | AWARDS FOR WRITING $2,400 (Daily Double): This science fiction award is named for an interstellar gas cloud the Nebula Award |
| #6706, aired 2013-11-11 | AWARDS & HONORS $400: Since 1922 this medal has been awarded for excellence in American writing for children the Newbery |
| #5505, aired 2008-07-11 | THE ACADEMY AWARDS $2,000 (Daily Double): These brothers won Oscars for writing, directing & producing the "Best Picture" of 2007 the Coen Brothers |
| #5442, aired 2008-04-15 | ENTERTAINMENT AWARDS $1600: In 1998 Garry Shandling & Peter Tolan won Emmys for best writing for this HBO comedy series The Larry Sanders Show |
| #4694, aired 2005-01-20 | AWARDS $1200: This country's Governor General's Award has 7 categories each for writing in English & French Canada |
| #3684, aired 2000-09-14 | 1950s EMMYS $1000: He won Writing awards for 1955, 1956 & 1957 for projects like "Requiem For A Heavyweight" & "Patterns" Rod Serling |
| #2992, aired 1997-09-09 | CARRYING ON $600: She wrote her & her mother's speeches for the American Comedy Awards & was on the 1997 Oscar writing staff Carrie Fisher |
| #2204, aired 1994-03-17 | THE GOLDEN GLOBE AWARDS $200: She said, "All I can say is 'wow'" when she & Paul Williams won for writing "Evergreen" Barbra Streisand |
| #1432, aired 1990-11-20 | AWARDS $1000: The American Library Association awards the Newbery Medal for writing children's books & this medal for illustration the Caldecott Medal |
| #744, aired 1987-11-26 | AWARDS $1000: At '86 Tonys, Michael Rupert won for acting in "Sweet Charity" & this Rupert won for writing "Edwin Drood" Rupert Holmes |
| #67, aired 1984-12-11 | AWARDS $400: 26 years after writing it for the stage, he won Oscar for the screenplay "Pygmalion" George Bernard Shaw |
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