Woody Allen’s romantic fantasy “Midnight in Paris” and Alexander Payne’s family drama “The Descendants” have won top screenplay honors from the Writers Guild of America.

With his biggest hit in decades, writer-director Allen earned the guild’s prize Sunday for original screenplay on “Midnight in Paris.” The film stars Owen Wilson as a modern Hollywood writer who gets a chance to hang with his literary idols in the 1920s Paris of Hemingway and Fitzgerald.

Academy Awards original screenplay contender “The Artist” was ineligible for the WGA awards.

Director Payne shared the adapted screenplay honor with co-writers Nat Faxon and Jim Rash. Based on the novel by Kaui Hart Hemmings, “The Descendants” stars George Clooney as a Hawaiian dad struggling to tend to his two daughters after a boating accident puts his wife in a coma.

The prize for big-screen documentary writing went to Katie Galloway and Kelly Duane de la Vega for “Better This World.”

Writers for “Breaking Bad,” “Homeland” and “Modern Family” won honors in the TV categories.

Giffords’ husband writing kids’ book

Retired astronaut Mark Kelly, who collaborated with his wife, former U.S. Rep. Gabrielle Giffords, on her memoir, is writing a children’s book about a mouse that goes to space.

His “Mousetronaut: A Partially True Story” will be published in October by Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers. According to Simon & Schuster, which released a statement Monday, the book tells of a little mouse chosen for a space mission.

“While in space,” the statement says, “the astronauts are busy with their mission when only the smallest member of the crew can save the day.”

Kelly, who turns 48 today, collaborated with his wife last year on the memoir “Gabby: A Story of Courage and Hope,” which told of her recovery from a shooting.

Oscar voters largely white, males: Study

A study of Academy Awards voters has found that it’s not a very diverse group that hands out Hollywood’s highest honors.

The Los Angeles Times found that 94 percent of the 5,765 voting members of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences are white and 77 percent are men. Blacks and Hispanics account for only 2 percent each of academy members.

The newspaper’s findings were reported Sunday, a week before the Oscars.

The findings are in line with industry employment overall. But academy President Tom Sherak says the group is trying to diversify its membership rolls.