The Valentine Davies Award, named after Valentine Davies, is a special award given to a member of the Writers Guild of America, West whose contributions to the entertainment industry and the community-at-large have brought dignity and honor to writers everywhere.
Recipients Year Person(s)Reference 1962 Mary C. McCall Jr. 1963 Allen Rivkin 1964 Morgan Cox 1965 James R. Webb 1966 Leonard Spigelgass 1967 Edmund H. North 1968 George Seaton 1969 Dore Schary 1970 Richard Murphy 1971 Dan Taradash 1972 Michael Blankfort & Norman Corwin 1973 William Ludwig 1974 Ray Bradbury & Philip Dunne 1975 Fay Kanin 1976 Winston Miller 1977 Carl Foreman 1978 Norman Lear 1979 Melville Shavelson 1980 David W. Rintels 1981 Arthur Orloff 1982 Mort R. Lewis 1983 Hal Kanter 1984 Jerome Lawrence & Robert E. Lee 1985 Charles Champlin 1986 Ronald Austin 1987 William Froug 1988 Lois Peyser 1989 Michael Kanin & Garson Kanin 1990 John Furia Jr. 1991 Frank Pierson 1992 Allan Burns 1993 True Boardman 1994 Phil Alden Robinson 1995 Garry Marshall 1996 Mike Farrell 1997 Jonathan Estrin & Shelley List (posthumously) 1998 Gary David Goldberg 1999 Barry Kemp 2000 Alan Alda 2001 Paul Haggis 2002 David Angell (posthumously) 2003 Aaron Ruben 2004 Neal Baer 2005 Irma Kalish 2006 Not presented 2007 Larry Gelbart 2008 Tom Schulman 2009 Carl Reiner & Victoria Riskin 2010 Not presented 2011 Seth Freeman & Susannah Grant 2012 Philip Rosenthal 2013 Sam Simon 2014 Ben Affleck 2016 John August 2017 Richard Curtis 2018 Dustin Lance Black 2020 Brad Falchuk
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