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 awards.wga.org.

[@mlchc9004]

Jean Smart is world class act. She brings joy to everything she does. She is brilliant stunning & gorgeous

[@KathyLMurphy67]

Congratulations Linda Bloodworth-Thomason. From your old friend, Kathy L. Murphy, formerly Patrick of Beauty and the Book. My daughters Helaina and Madeleine will never forget you and one of these days we will have to catch up. Going into my 25th year anniversary of my Official International Pulpwood Queens and Timber Guys Book Club that you were such a major part of back in the day. Would love to talk to you and wow, this has been such a thrill to see you and Harry yet again.

[@toddescott]

As a teenager in 80s, Linda’s work left an indelible mark on me. The Designing Women episode Jean references here, featuring Tony Goldwyn as a young man living with AIDS, is unforgettable and features my second most quoted Linda Bloodworth Thomason-authored line for the inimitable Julia Sugarbaker: “Imogine, get serious-who do you think you’re talking to? I’ve known you for 27 years and all I can say is that if God was giving out sexually transmitted diseases as a punishment for sinning, then YOU would be at the free clinic all the time. And so would the rest of us."