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Writers Guild of America Awards 1997

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Date
  
21 February 1998

Other ceremonies
  
1997, 1999

The 50th Writers Guild of America Awards, given on 21 February 1998, honored the best writers of 1997.

Contents

Film

  • Best Adapted Screenplay:
  • L.A. Confidential - Curtis Hanson and Brian Helgeland
  • Best Original Screenplay:
  • As Good as It Gets -Mark Andrus and James L. Brooks

    • Best Episodic Drama

    "Entrapment" - Law & Order - Rene Balcer and Richard Sweren

  • "Whose Appy Now?" - ER - Neal Baer
  • "Deadbeat" - Law & Order - Ed Zuckerman and I. C. Rapoport

    • Best Episodic Comedy

    "The Fatigues" - Seinfeld - Gregg Kavet and Andy Robin

  • "The Puppy Episode" - Ellen - Mark Driscoll, Dana Savel, Tracey Newman, Jonathan Stark and Ellen DeGeneres
  • "The Impossible Dream" - Frasier - Rob Greenberg
  • "The Chicken Roaster" - Seinfeld - Alec Berg and Jeff Schaffer
  • "The Bizarro Jerry" - Seinfeld - David Mandel
  • "Ellen, Or Isn't She?" - The Larry Sanders Show - Judd Apatow, John Markus and Garry Shandling
  • "The Book" - The Larry Sanders Show - Maya Forbes

    • 1997 Daytime Serials Winner- All My Children: Agnes Nixon; Lorraine Broderick; Hal Corley; Fredrick Johnson; Gail Lawrence; Jeff Beldner; Christina Covino; Courtney Sherman; Millee Taggart; Karen Lewis; Elizabeth Smith; Michelle Patrick; Bettina F. Bradbury; Judith Donato; Kathleen Klein; Jane Owen Murphy

    Other Nominees: General Hospital: Claire Labine; Matthew Labine; Robert Guza, Jr.; Karen Harris; Michele Val Jean; Meg Bennett; Ralph Ellis; Mary Ryan; Jane Atkins; Stephanie Braxton; Judith Pinsker; Lynda Myles; Elizabeth Korte; Patrick Mulcahey; Lisa Lieberman

    References

    Writers Guild of America Awards 1997 Wikipedia
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