Writers Guild of America Awards 1999

The 52nd Writers Guild of America Awards, given in 2000, honored the film and television best writers of 1999.

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

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 - Rene 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