Spook thrillers win Writers' Guild gongs

CIA thrillers 'Argo' and 'Zero Dark Thirty' won top screenplay honours from the Writers Guild of America last night.

The guild’s adapted screenplay award went to Chris Terrio for 'Argo', director Ben Affleck’s tale of the CIA’s daring masquerade of six US diplomats as a Hollywood film crew to rescue them from Iran during the hostage crisis there.