Valentine Davies Award
# Valentine Davies Award

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) |
| - | - |
| 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 |
