The Writers Guild Awards pays tribute to Emmy-winning writer Hal Kanter

Screenwriter and Writers Guild of America, West Vice President Howard A. Rodman pays tribute to Hal Kanter at the 2012 Writers Guild Awards. An Emmy-winning writer, director and producer Kanter died November 6, 2011 at the age of 92. Kanter served as a writer and emcee of the Writers Guild Awards, an emcee of the DGA Awards, and for decades a writer of the Academy Awards.

Kanter joined the Guild in 1950 and eventually served as a board member and a trustee of the Writers Guild Foundation. He was a recipient of the Morgan Cox and Valentine Davies Awards for Guild and community service, and in 1989, received the WGAW's Paddy Chayefsky Television Laurel Award.

Co-hosted by "New Girl" star Zooey Deschanel and "Community/The Soup" star Joel McHale, the 2012 Writers Guild Awards West Coast show was held on February 19, 2012 at the Hollywood Palladium in Los Angeles.

To see the complete list of 2012 Writers Guild Award winners, go to WGAW.org.