Jean Smart presents the WGAW's 2024 Paddy Chayefsky Laurel Award to Linda Bloodworth Thomason

Multiple Emmy-nominated TV creator-writer, director, and producer Linda Bloodworth Thomason (Designing Women, Evening Shade) receives the Writers Guild of America West’s 2024 Paddy Chayefsky Laurel Award for Television Writing Achievement from actor Jean Smart (Hacks, Designing Women).

The Paddy Chayefsky Award is presented to a Guild member who has “advanced the literature of television and made outstanding contributions to the profession of the television writer.”

Bloodworth Thomason was honored at the 2024 Writers Guild Awards west coast show, held on on Sunday, April 14, 2024 at the Hollywood Palladium and hosted by Emmy Award-winning actor Niecy Nash-Betts (Monster: The Jeffrey Dahmer Story).

The Writers Guild Awards honor outstanding writing in film, television, new media, videogames, news, radio, promotional, and graphic animation categories.

For more information about the 2024 Writers Guild Awards and a list of the winners, visit https://awards.wga.org.