52nd Writers Guild of America Awards

52nd WGA Awards
Date	March 5, 2000
Organized by	Writers Guild of America, East and the Writers Guild of America, West

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

• WGA - Previous award winners

† indicates the winners of the Academy Awards for Best Original Screenplay and Best Adapted Screenplay.