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‘Breaking Bad’ & ‘Better Call Saul’ Creator Vince Gilligan Set For WGA Awards Career Honor


Vince Gilligan, who created 'Breaking Bad' and its prequel spinoff series 'Better Call Saul, will receive the career honor at the 2025 Writer s Guild Awards.

Vince GilliganGetty Images Vince Gilligan, who created the juggernaut AMC series Breaking Bad and followed it with the lauded prequel spinoff series Better Call Saul, will receive the WGA West’s Paddy Chayefsky Laurel Award for Television Writing Achievement. He’ll pick up the award, which celebrates a guild member who has advanced the literature of television and made outstanding contributions to the profession of the television writer, February 15 during the Writers Guild Awards ceremony at the Beverly Hilton. “Cribbing from a better writer is about all I can think to do right now, preoccupied as we all are by what has happened to beautiful Southern California.

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