Writers Guild of America Awards 1999
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52nd WGA Awards
March 5, 2000
Best Adapted Screenplay:
Election
Best Original Screenplay:
American Beauty
The 52nd Writers Guild of America Awards, given in 2000, honored the film and television best writers of 1999.
Contents
Winners and nominees
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
- 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
