With three nominations in total, the chance of The Simpsons winning a Writers Guild Award this year was fairly high. The 56th annual awards were presented in simultaneous ceremonies in New York and Los Angeles this Saturday, with “Lost in Translation” and “American Splendor” taking top screenwriting honors. The Simpsons tops the television winners in the animation category. The show received the award for the Season 14 episode “The Dad Who Knew Too Little” written by Matt Selman. Other episodes nominated were “Moe Baby Blues” by J. Stewart Burns, and “My Mother The Carjacker” by Michael Price, but these did not come out on top. This is the show’s first Writers Guild Award after a category for animation was introduced last year.
