Paul Selvin Award
{{Infobox award
| name = Writers Guild of America Paul Selvin Award
| presenter = Writers Guild of America
| country = United States
| year = 1990
| holder = Cord Jefferson for
American Fiction (2023)
| website = http://www.wga.org/
}}
The Paul Selvin Award is a special award presented by the Writers Guild of America. It is given to the script that "best embodies the spirit of the constitutional and civil rights and liberties which are indispensable to the survival of free writers everywhere and to whose defense Paul Selvin {{cite web|url=https://www.geni.com/people/Paul-Selvin/6000000077419896766 |title= Paul Phillip Selvin }} committed his professional life."{{cite web |url=http://www.wga.org/uploadedfiles/awards/selvinform14.pdf |title=Archived copy |access-date=2014-01-15 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140116132333/http://www.wga.org/uploadedfiles/awards/selvinform14.pdf |archive-date=2014-01-16 }} With the exception of 2007 in which no award was given, it has been presented annually since the 42nd Writers Guild of America Awards in 1990.{{cite web|url=https://awards.wga.org/awards/awards-recipients/paul-selvin-award-recipients|title=The Paul Selvin Award|website=Writers Guild Awards|access-date=22 February 2019}} No writer has won more than one award.
Winners
=Notes=
- The year indicates when the film was released. The awards are presented the following year.
=1980s=
=1990s=
| class="wikitable sortable" width="95%" cellpadding="4" | |
| width="10%" | Year
! width="33%" | Film ! width="45%" | Writer(s) | |
|---|---|
| rowspan="1" style="text-align:center;" | 1990 {{small|(43rd)}} | Michael Lazarou |
| rowspan="1" style="text-align:center;" | 1991 {{small|(44th)}}
| Separate But Equal {{small|(Miniseries, Episodes "Part I" and "Part II")}} | George Stevens Jr. |
| rowspan="1" style="text-align:center;" | 1992 {{small|(45th)}}
| Guilty Until Proven Innocent | Cynthia Whitcomb |
| rowspan="1" style="text-align:center;" | 1993 {{small|(46th)}}
| Dave | Gary Ross |
| rowspan="1" style="text-align:center;" | 1994 {{small|(47th)}} | Thomas Baum, Priscilla Prestwidge & Keith Pierce |
| rowspan="1" style="text-align:center;" | 1995 {{small|(48th)}}
| Picket Fences {{small|(Episode "Final Judgement")}} | David E. Kelley |
| rowspan="1" style="text-align:center;" | 1996 {{small|(49th)}} | Scott Alexander and Larry Karaszewski |
| rowspan="1" style="text-align:center;" | 1997 {{small|(50th)}}
| Rosewood | Gregory Poirier |
| rowspan="1" style="text-align:center;" | 1998 {{small|(51st)}} | Frank Military |
| rowspan="1" style="text-align:center;" | 1999 {{small|(52nd)}} | Eric Roth and Michael Mann |
=2000s=
| class="wikitable sortable" width="95%" cellpadding="4" | |
| width="10%" | Year
! width="33%" | Film ! width="45%" | Writer(s) | |
|---|---|
| rowspan="1" style="text-align:center;" | 2000 {{small|(53rd)}}
| Quills | Doug Wright |
| rowspan="1" style="text-align:center;" | 2001 {{small|(54th)}} | Timothy J. Sexton |
| rowspan="1" style="text-align:center;" | 2002 {{small|(55th)}} | John Wierick and Jacob Krueger |
| rowspan="1" style="text-align:center;" | 2003 {{small|(56th)}} | Jason Horwitch |
| rowspan="1" style="text-align:center;" | 2004 {{small|(57th)}}
| The Simpsons {{small|(Episode "Fraudcast News")}} | Don Payne |
| rowspan="1" style="text-align:center;" | 2005 {{small|(58th)}} | George Clooney and Grant Heslov |
| rowspan="1" style="text-align:center;" | 2006 {{small|(59th)}}
| colspan="2" style="text-align:left;" |No award given | |
| rowspan="1" style="text-align:center;" | 2007 {{small|(60th)}} | Robert Eisele and Jeffrey Porro |
| rowspan="1" style="text-align:center;" | 2008 {{small|(61st)}}
| Milk | Dustin Lance Black |
| rowspan="1" style="text-align:center;" | 2009 {{small|(62nd)}}
| Invictus | Anthony Peckham |
=2010s=
| class="wikitable sortable" width="95%" cellpadding="4" | |
| width="10%" | Year
! width="33%" | Film ! width="45%" | Writer(s) | |
|---|---|
| rowspan="1" style="text-align:center;" | 2010 {{small|(63rd)}} | Jez Butterworth & John-Henry Butterworth |
| rowspan="1" style="text-align:center;" | 2011 {{small|(64th)}}
| The Help | Tate Taylor |
| rowspan="1" style="text-align:center;" | 2012 {{small|(65th)}}
| Lincoln | Tony Kushner |
| rowspan="1" style="text-align:center;" | 2013 {{small|(66th)}} | Alex Gibney |
| rowspan="1" style="text-align:center;" | 2014 {{small|(67th)}} | Margaret Nagle |
| rowspan="1" style="text-align:center;" | 2015 {{small|(68th)}}
| Trumbo | John McNamara |
| rowspan="1" style="text-align:center;" | 2016 {{small|(69th)}} | Susannah Grant |
| rowspan="1" style="text-align:center;" | 2017 {{small|(70th)}}
| The Post | Liz Hannah and Josh Singer |
| rowspan="1" style="text-align:center;" | 2018 {{small|(71st)}}
| Vice | Adam McKay |
| rowspan="1" style="text-align:center;" | 2019 {{small|(72nd)}} | Charles Randolph |
=2020s=
| class="wikitable sortable" width="95%" cellpadding="4" | |
| width="10%" | Year
! width="33%" | Film ! width="45%" | Writer(s) | |
|---|---|
| rowspan="1" style="text-align:center;" | 2020 {{small|(73rd)}} | Will Berson, Shaka King, and Kenny and Keith Lucas |
| rowspan="1" style="text-align:center;" | 2021 {{small|(74th)}} | Barry Jenkins |
| rowspan="1" style="text-align:center;" | 2022 {{small|(75th)}}
| She Said | Rebecca Lenkiewicz |
| rowspan="1" style="text-align:center;" | 2023 {{small|(76th)}} | Cord Jefferson |
Types of winners
The Paul Selvin Award has been awarded to various platforms of film and television. 21 theatrical films have received the award, along with 8 television films, 2 individual episodes of a television series, 2 miniseries, and 1 documentary.