Humanitas Prizes awarded

Steven Knight and Tony Kushner won $25,000 each Thursday at the annual Humanitas Prizes, given to movie and TV writers whose scripts “entertain and enrich the viewing public.” Knight won for the feature film “Dirty Pretty Things”; Kushner was honored for HBO’s “Angels in America.”

Other winners included Barbara Hall for the pilot episode of CBS’ “Joan of Arcadia” and JacQui Clay for an installment of Fox’s “The Bernie Mac Show.”