52nd Writers Guild of America Awards
Award ceremony for writing of 1999
- ← 51st
- WGA Awards
- 53rd →
The 52nd Writers Guild of America Awards, given in 2000, honored the film and television best writers of 1999.
Film
Best Adapted Screenplay
Election - Alexander Payne and Jim Taylor
- The Cider House Rules - John Irving
- The Insider - Michael Mann and Eric Roth
- October Sky - Lewis Colick
- The Talented Mr. Ripley - Anthony Minghella
Best Original Screenplay
American Beauty - Alan Ball
- Being John Malkovich - Charlie Kaufman
- Magnolia - Paul Thomas Anderson
- The Sixth Sense - M. Night Shyamalan
- Three Kings - John Ridley and David O. Russell
Television
Best Episodic Comedy
Merry Christmas, Mrs. Moskowitz - Frasier - Jay Kogen
- The Paper Hat Anniversary - Dharma & Greg - Bill Prady, Eric Zicklin and Chuck Lorre
- The One Where Everybody Finds Out - Friends - Alexa Junge
- Four Women and A Hobo - Sex and The City - Jenny Bicks
- Evolution - Sex and The City - Cindy Chupack
Best Episodic Drama
Meadowlands - The Sopranos - Jason Cahill
- The Storm, Part 1 - ER - John Wells
- DWB - Law & Order - René Balcer
- U.S. Male - Oz - Tom Fontana and Bradford Winters
Original Long Form
Dash and Lily - Jerrold L. Ludwig
- Freak City - Jane Shepard
- Aldrich Ames: Traitor Within - Michael Burton
- Purgatory - Gordon T. Dawson
References
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- Comedy Series
- Comedy/Variety Talk Series
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- Comedy/Variety Sketch Series
- Daytime Serials
- Drama Series
- Episodic Comedy
- Episodic Drama
- Long Form – Adapted
- Long Form – Original
- Short Form New Media
- New Series
- Children's Script
- Documentary Script – Current Events
- Documentary Script – Other Than Current Events
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