Writers Guild of America Awards 2000

53rd WGA Awards

March 4, 2001

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Best Adapted Screenplay:
Traffic

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Best Original Screenplay:
You Can Count on Me

The 53rd Writers Guild of America Awards, given in 2001, honored the film and television best writers of 2000.

Winners and nominees

Film

Best Adapted Screenplay

Traffic - Stephen Gaghan

• Chocolat - Robert Nelson Jacobs
• Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon (Wo hu cang long) - James Schamus, Kuo Jung Tsai and Hui-Ling Wang
• High Fidelity - John Cusack, D.V. DeVincentis, Steve Pink and Scott Rosenberg
• Wonder Boys - Steve Kloves

Best Original Screenplay

You Can Count on Me - Kenneth Lonergan

• Almost Famous - Cameron Crowe
• Best in Show - Christopher Guest and Eugene Levy
• Billy Elliot - Lee Hall
• Erin Brockovich - Susannah Grant

Television

Best Episodic Comedy

Frasier - Joe Keenan and Christopher Lloyd for writing "Something Borrowed, Someone Blue"

• Frasier - Joe Keenan for writing "Out With Dad"
• Sex and the City - Cindy Chupack for writing "Attack of the 5'10" Woman"
• Sex and the City - Michael Patrick King for writing "Ex and the City"
• Will & Grace - Jeff Greenstein for writing "Hey La, Hey La, My Ex-Boyfriend's Back"

Best Episodic Drama

The West Wing - Rick Cleveland and Aaron Sorkin for writing "In Excelsis Deo"

• Once and Again - Richard Kramer for writing "Strangers and Brothers"
• The Sopranos - Mitchell Burgess and Robin Green for writing "The Knight In White Satin Armor"
• The Sopranos - Terence Winter for writing "Big Girls Don't Cry"
• The West Wing - Patrick Caddell, Rick Cleveland and Lawrence O'Donnell for writing "Enemies"
• The West Wing - Lawrence O'Donnell, Paul Redford and Aaron Sorkin for writing "Take This Sabbath Day"