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Film
Best Drama Written Directly for the Screenplay
Tender Mercies, Written by Horton Foote
Silkwood, Written by Nora Ephron and Alice Arlen
WarGames, Written by Lawrence Lasker and Walter F. Parkes
Best Comedy Written Directly for the Screenplay
The Big Chill, Written by Lawrence Kasdan and Barbara Benedek
Risky Business, Written by Paul Brickman
Zelig, Written by Woody Allen
Best Drama Adapted from Another Medium
Reuben, Reuben, Screenplay by Julius J. Epstein; Based on the novel by Peter De Vries and the play by Herman Shumlin
The Right Stuff, Screenplay by Philip Kaufman; Based on the book by Tom Wolfe
The Year of Living Dangerously, Screenplay by David Williamson, Peter Weir and C.J. Koch; Based on the novel by C.J. Koch
Best Comedy Adapted from Another Medium
Terms of Endearment, Screenplay by James L. Brooks; Based on the novel by Larry McMurtry
A Christmas Story, Written by Jean Shepherd, Leigh Brown, and Bob Clark; Based on the novel "In God We Trust, All Other Pay Cash" by Jean Shepherd
To Be or Not to Be, Written by Thomas Meehan and Ronny Graham; Based on the 1942 screenplay by Edwin Justus Mayer and the story of Melchior Lengyel and Ernst Lubitsch
Television
Episodic Drama
"Trial by Fury" - Hill Street Blues (NBC) - David Milch
"Jane Doe #37" - Cagney & Lacey (CBS) - Peter Lefcourt
"Gung Ho" - Hill Street Blues (NBC) - David Milch, Jeffrey Lewis and Michael Wagner
"Eugene's Comedy Empire Strikes Back" - Hill Street Blues (NBC) - Anthony Yerkovich, David Milch, Karen Hall, Steven Bochco and Jeffrey Lewis
"Addiction" - St. Elsewhere (NBC) - John Masius and Tom Fontana
"Pilot" - Two Marriages (ABC) - Carol Sobieski
Episodic Comedy
"Give Me a Ring Sometimes" - Cheers (NBC) - Glen Charles and Les Charles
"Boys in the Bar" - Cheers (NBC) - Ken Levine and David Isaacs
"The Spy Who Came in for a Cold One" - Cheers (NBC) - David Lloyd
"Let Me Count the Ways" - Cheers (NBC) - Heide Perlman
"Goodbye, Farewell, and Amen" - M*A*S*H (CBS) - Alan Alda, Burt Metcalf, John Rappaport, Dan Wilcox, Thad Mumford, Elias Davis, David Pollock and Karen Hall
"Scenskees from a Marriage: Part 1 & 2" - Taxi (NBC) - Howard Gewirtz and Ian Praiser
"Jim's Inheritance" - Taxi (NBC) - Ken Estin
Daytime Serials
Ryan's Hope (ABC) - Claire Labine, Mary Munisteri, Paul Avila Mayer and Nancy Fordh
Capitol - John William Corrington, Joyce Hooper Corrington, Shirley Hartman, Steve Hayes, Susan Goldberg, David Carren, Stephen Karpf, Elinor Karpf, Peggy O'Shea, Craig Carlson, Granville Burgess, Richard Camp and Peggy Sloane
Adapted Drama Anthology
For Us the Living: The Medgar Evers Story (PBS) - Ossie Davis and Ken Rotcop
Original Drama Anthology
Special Bulletin (NBC) - Marshall Herskovitz and Edward Zwick
Original/Adapted Comedy Anthology
The Other Woman - Lila Garret and Anne Meara
Original/Adapted Multi-Part Long Form Series
"Part II" - Blood Feud (OPT) - Robert Boris
"Part I" - V (NBC) - Kenneth Johnson
Special Awards
Laurel Award for Screenwriting Achievement
Jack Rose, Melville Shavelson, Melvin Frank, and Norman Panama
Laurel Award for TV Writing Achievement
John Gay
Valentine Davies Award
Jerome Lawrence, and Robert E. Lee
Morgan Cox Award
Nate Monaster