52nd Writers Guild of America Awards

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

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

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