WGA AWARDS

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WGA Award (Screen)

Best Screenplay Based on Material Previously Produced or Published

Winner
Hors d'atteinte
7.0 (104K)
Scott Frank
Préjudice
6.6 (32K)
Steven Zaillian
Ni dieux ni démons
7.3 (34K)
Bill Condon
Primary Colors
6.7 (31K)
Elaine May
Un plan simple
7.5 (80K)
Scott B. Smith

Best Screenplay Written Directly for the Screen

Winner
Shakespeare in Love
7.1 (239K)
Marc Norman
Tom Stoppard
Bulworth
6.8 (28K)
Warren Beatty(screenplay/story)
Jeremy Pikser
Sexe et autres complications
6.4 (22K)
Don Roos
Il faut sauver le soldat Ryan
8.6 (1.6M)
Robert Rodat
The Truman Show
8.2 (1.3M)
Andrew Niccol

WGA Award (TV)

Adapted Long Form

Winner
Lettres secrètes
7.2 (2.6K)
James S. Henerson(teleplay/story)
Don King: Only in America
7.0 (1.4K)
Kario Salem
Sans issue
5.7 (409)
Bill Cain

Children's Script

Winner
1, rue Sésame
8.1 (16K)
Christine Ferraro
For episode "Telly As Jack".
The Mystery Files of Shelby Woo
7.1 (587)
Susan Kim
For episode "The Case of the MacBeth Mystery".
The Wubbulous World of Dr. Seuss
6.8 (221)
Jay Martel
For episode "The Cat In The Hat's First First-Day".
Sports Theater with Shaquille O'Neal
Episode:
First Time
7.0 (50)
Jeff Stetson
La Légende de Cendrillon
6.8 (10K)
Brink, Champion de Roller
6.9 (7.4K)
Jeff Schechter
My Date with the President's Daughter
6.3 (4.7K)
William Robertson
Alex Zamm

Comedy/Variety - Music, Awards, Tributes - Specials - Any Length

Winner
Ellen: A Tribute to Hollywood
Tim Doyle
A Tribute to Robert Wise
7.0 (128)
Robert Shrum
Chris Henchy
George Stevens Jr.

Daytime Serials

Documentary - Current Events

Winner
Frontline
8.6 (2.5K)
Michael Kirk
Peter J. Boyer
For episode "Once Upon a Time in Arkansas (#15.14)". (Screened within Frontline (1983)).
Frontline
8.6 (2.5K)
Elena Mannes
For episode "Busted: America's War on Marijuana (#16.7)".
Primetime Live
5.8 (151)
For episode "The McCaughey Seven: A Homecoming".

Documentary - Other Than Current Events

Winner
American Experience
8.6 (2.4K)
David Grubin
For episode "Truman".
The Irish in America: Long Journey Home
6.7 (59)
Thomas N. Brown
Thomas Lennon
For episode #1 "Long Journey Home".
American Experience
Episode:
Surviving the Dust Bowl
8.6 (2.4K)
Chana Gazit
American Experience
8.6 (2.4K)
Adriana Bosch
For episode "Reagan: Part I (#10.11)".
In Search of Ourselves
Alice Markowitz
Lusitania
7.7 (36)
Kelly McPherson
Melissa Jo Peltier
For episode "Murder on the Atlantic".
Sea Tales
Episode:
The Doomed Voyage of the St. Louis
8.2 (9)
Christopher Meindl
Melissa Jo Peltier

Episodic Comedy

Winner
Frasier
8.2 (100K)
Rob Greenberg
For Frasier's Imaginary Friend (1997).
Dharma & Greg
6.4 (33K)
Dottie Dartland Zicklin(as Dottie Dartland)
Chuck Lorre
For Pilot (1997).
Murphy Brown
6.9 (11K)
Diane English
For Never Can Say Goodbye: Part 1 (1998) & Never Can Say Goodbye: Part 2 (1998).
Ellen
6.1 (6.7K)
Lawrence Broch
For Emma (1997).

Episodic Drama

Winner
Une sacrée vie
7.2 (191)
Paul Leland
For Proofs for the Existence of God (1997).
Homicide
8.7 (16K)
David Mills(teleplay)
James Yoshimura(story)
David Simon(story)
For Finnegan's Wake (1998).
Urgences
7.9 (74K)
Walon Green
Joe Sachs
For Exodus (1998).
Homicide
8.7 (16K)
Eric Ellis Overmyer
For Saigon Rose (1997).
Homicide
8.7 (16K)
James Yoshimura
For The Subway (1997).
De la Terre à la Lune
8.5 (14K)
Graham Yost
For Apollo One (1998).
The practice: Bobby Donnell & associés
7.7 (11K)
David E. Kelley
For Betrayal (1997).
Héros pour la vie - Deux couples
6.0 (151)
Cy Chermak(teleplay/story)
Francine Carroll(teleplay/story)
Malka Drucker(story)
For "The Marie Taquet Story".
New York - Police judiciaire
7.8 (49K)
Siobhan Byrne O'Connor
For Burned (1997).

News - Analysis, Feature or Commentary

Winner
Good Morning America
4.5 (2.2K)
Edmund Levin
For episode "Theodore Kaczynski's Brother".
Good Morning America
4.5 (2.2K)
Margaret Traub-Aguirre
For episode "Amy Biel Story".

News - Regularly Scheduled, Bulletin or Breaking Report

Winner
Farewell to a Princess
Jerry Cipriano
L. Franklin DeVine

Original Long Form

Winner
Labor of Love
5.7 (63)
Nina Shengold
Color of Justice
5.9 (261)
Lionel Chetwynd
Femme de rêve
6.9 (53K)
Jay McInerney
Michael Cristofer
Blind Faith
7.3 (695)
Frank Military

Animation Writers Caucus Animation Award

Winner
Paul Dini

Laurel Award for Screen Writing Achievement

Winner
Paul Schrader

Laurel Award for TV Writing Achievement

Winner
David Milch

Valentine Davies Award

Winner
Barry Kemp

Morgan Cox Award

Winner
Del Reisman

Paul Selvin Honorary Award

Winner
Blind Faith
7.3 (695)
Frank Military

Edmund H. North Award

Winner
Frank Pierson

Meltzer Award

Winner
Paul Jarrico
In recognition of his tireless work to restore blacklisted writers' credits to the films on which they worked. Posthumously, accepted by his widow, Lia Benedetti.

Honorary Award

Winner
David Brown
Winner
Horton Foote

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