Writers Guild of America Television Awards 2015 Nominations - Full List

The nominees are in for the television categories at the Writers Guild of America Awards 2015. HBO's True Detective and FX's Louie are at the top of the heap, although this year's omissions were nearly as notable as the inclusions. Although huge series such as Game of Thrones, The Good Wife and Mad Men made the cut, former favorites such as Homeland, and critically-acclaimed newcomers such as Fargo, were left out altogether. This latter omission caused a particular stir, as FX released a statement about the Fargo snub, calling out the WGA and blaming its dodgy categorization for the exclusion.

“When the WGA Award nominations were announced this morning, several news outlets commented about the notable omission of FX’s award-winning miniseries Fargo," the statement reads. "The network initially submitted Fargo in the longform category based on the fact that the 10 one-hour scripts – all written by Noah Hawley – tell a single, close-ended story and therefore Fargo is a miniseries. The WGA does not recognize Fargo as a miniseries because Noah Hawley was accorded a ‘Created for Television By’ credit and said that Fargo could only be considered in the drama series category. Fargo won the Emmy Award this year for Outstanding Miniseries. It has been submitted as a miniseries for this year’s Golden Globe Awards. Since Fargo is not in fact a drama series, and it is in fact a miniseries, FX made the decision not to submit Noah Hawley and his brilliant scripts for WGA Awards consideration.”

Every year has controversial omissions from the ballot, such that I wonder if maybe the WGA should think about loosening up its restrictions. Then again, I'm not sure their requirements are necessarily impossible to meet, so long as you know the guidelines, going in. Either way, FX really ought to have submitted Fargo anyway, since it likely would have earned Noah Hawley a well-deserved nomination. But I guess that'll have to wait until next year now.

Check out the full list of nominees for the Writers Guild of America Television Awards 2015 below:

Credit: HBO

TELEVISION AND NEW MEDIA NOMINEES

DRAMA SERIES
Game of Thrones
The Good Wife
House of Cards
Mad Men
True Detective

COMEDY SERIES
Louie
Orange Is the New Black
Silicon Valley
Transparent
Veep

NEW SERIES
The Affair
The Knick
Silicon Valley
Transparent
True Detective

LONG FORM ORIGINAL
Deliverance Creek
Return to Zero

LONG FORM ADAPTED
Houdini
Klondike (Parts One, Three and Six)
The Normal Heart
Olive Kitteridge
The Leftovers (“Pilot”)

SHORT FORM NEW MEDIA – ORIGINAL
“Apocalypse No” (Bad Shorts)
“City of Angels” (Caper)
“Episode 1 – Nature”
“Episode 113: Rachel”
“Episode 204”
“Episode 207”

ANIMATION
“Bob and Deliver” (Bob’s Burgers)
“Brick Like Me” (The Simpsons)
“Covercraft” (The Simpsons)
“Pay Pal” (The Simpsons)
“Steal This Episode” (The Simpsons)
“Work Hard or Die Trying, Girl” (Bob’s Burgers)

EPISODIC DRAMA
“A Day’s Work” (Mad Men)
“Devil You Know” (Boardwalk Empire)
“Donald the Normal” (Rectify)
“Friendless Child” (Boardwalk Empire)
“The Last Call” (The Good Wife)
“The Lion and the Rose” (Game of Thrones)

EPISODIC COMEDY
“The Cold” (Modern Family)
“Landline” (New Girl)
“Low Self Esteem City” (Orange Is the New Black)
“So Did the Fat Lady” (Louie)
“Three Dinners” (Modern Family)
“The Wilderness” (Transparent)

COMEDY / VARIETY (INCLUDING TALK) – SERIES
The Daily Show with Jon Stewart
Last Week Tonight with John Oliver
Inside Amy Schumer
The Colbert Report
Jimmy Kimmel Live
Saturday Night Live
Real Time with Bill Maher

COMEDY / VARIETY – MUSIC, AWARDS, TRIBUTES – SPECIALS
The 68th Annual Tony Awards
71st Annual Golden Globe Awards
2014 Film Independent Spirit Awards
Bill Maher: Live from D.C.
Sarah Silverman: We Are Miracles

QUIZ AND AUDIENCE PARTICIPATION
Hollywood Game Night
Jeopardy!

DAYTIME DRAMA
Days of Our Lives
General Hospital

CHILDREN’S SCRIPT – EPISODIC AND SPECIALS
“Girl Meets 1961” (Girl Meets World)
“Haunted Heartthrob” (Haunted Hathaways)
“Haunted Sisters” (Haunted Hathaways)

DOCUMENTARY SCRIPT – CURRENT EVENTS

“Losing Iraq” (Frontline)
“United States of Secrets: Privacy Lost (Part Two)” (Frontline)
“United States of Secrets: The Program (Part One)” (Frontline)

DOCUMENTARY SCRIPT – OTHER THAN CURRENT EVENTS
“Episode Five: The Rising Road (1933-1939)” (The Roosevelts: An Intimate History)
“League of Denial: The NFL’s Concussion Crisis” (Frontline)
“Standing Up in the Milky Way (Episode 1)” (COSMOS: A Space Time Odyssey)

TV NEWS SCRIPT – REGULARLY SCHEDULED, BULLETIN, OR BREAKING REPORT
“50th Anniversary of JFK’s Assassination” (CBS Evening News with Scott Pelley)
CBS This Morning
“Nelson Mandela: A Man Who Changed the World” (World News with Diane Sawyer)

TV NEWS SCRIPT – ANALYSIS, FEATURE, OR COMMENTARY
“Nowhere to Go” (60 Minutes)

RADIO NOMINEES

RADIO DOCUMENTARY
“Three Shots Rang Out: The JFK Assassination 50 Years Later”

RADIO NEWS SCRIPT – REGULARLY SCHEDULED, BULLETIN, OR BREAKING REPORT
“6AM News” (1010 WINS Radio)
“8PM Hour” (WCBS-AM)
“New York City Loses a Radio News Legend” (CBS Radio/1010 WINS)
“World News This Week” (ABC News Radio)

RADIO NEWS SCRIPT – ANALYSIS, FEATURE, OR COMMENTARY
“Civil Rights at 50” (WCBS Radio)
“Remembering Nelson Mandela” (CBS Radio News)

PROMOTIONAL WRITING NOMINEES

ON-AIR PROMOTION (TELEVISION, NEW MEDIA OR RADIO)
“How I Met Your Mother” (CBS)
“WABC-TV On-Air Promos” (WABC-TV)

H/T: Deadline