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Film
Best Screenplay Written Directly for the Screenplay
Broadway Danny Rose, Written by Woody Allen
El Norte, Written by Gregory Nava and Anna Thomas
Places in the Heart, Written by Robert Benton
Romancing the Stone, Written by Diane Thomas
Splash, Written by Lowell Ganz, Babaloo Mandel and Bruce Jay Friedman; Story by Brian Grazer
Best Screenplay Based on Material from Another Medium
The Killing Fields, Screenplay by Bruce Robinson
A Passage to India, Screenplay by David Lean; Based on the novel by E.M. Forster and the play by Santha Rama Rau
A Soldier's Story, Screenplay by Charles Fuller; Based on his play
Greystoke: The Legend of Tarzan, Screenplay by Robert Towne and Michael Austin; Based on the novel by Edgar Rice Burroughs
The Natural, Screenplay by Phil Dusenberry, and Roger Towne; Based on the novel by Bernard Malamud
Television
Episodic Drama
"Grace Under Pressure" - Hill Street Blues (NBC) - Jeffrey Lewis, Michael Wagner, Karen Hall, Mark Frost, Steven Bochco and David Milch
"Victimless Crime" - Cagney & Lacey (CBS) - Peter Lefcourt
"Parting In Such Sweep Sorrow" - Hill Street Blues (NBC) - Jeffrey Lewis, Michael Wagner, David Milch, Mark Frost and Steven Bochco
"Death by Kiki" - Hill Street Blues (NBC) - David Milch and Mark Frost
"The Women" - St. Elsewhere (NBC) - John Ford Noonan, John Masius and Tom Fontana
"Hello, Goodbye" - St. Elsewhere (NBC) - John Masius and Tom Fontana
"Turnaround" - Trauma Center (ABC) - Harry Longstreet and Renee Longstreet
Episodic Comedy
"Summer's Return" - Cheers (NBC) - Michael J. Weithorn
"Night Shift" - AfterMASH (CBS) - Everett Greenbaum and Elliott Reid
"Affairs of the Heart" - Cheers (NBC) - Heide Perlman
"Old Flames" - Cheers (NBC) - David Angell
"Not an Affair to Remember" - Family Ties (NBC) - Gary David Goldberg and Ruth Bennett
"Once in Love with Harry" - Night Court (NBC) - Reinhold Weege
"Goodbye Buddy, Hello Skip" - The Duck Factory (NBC) - Allan Burns
"Shipmates" - Too Close for Comfort (ABC) - Arne Sultan and Earl Barret
Daytime Serials
Search for Tomorrow (NBC) - Gary Tomlin, Jeannie Glynn, Courtney Simon, Robin Amos, Norman Borisoff, Louisa Burns-Bisogno, Judy Lewis, Juliet Law Packer, Jule Selbo, Diane Silver, Noreen Stone, Emily Squires, Leslie Thomas, Phyllis White and Robert White
Guiding Light (CBS) - Trent Jones, Christopher Whitesell, Pamela K. Long, Emily Squires, Pete T. Rich, Samuel D. Ratcliffe, Michelle Poteet Lisanti, Stephanie Braxton, Jay Hammer, Carolyn Culliton, Robin Amos, Addie Walsh, John Kuntz, Jeff Ryder and N. Gail Lawrence
Adapted Drama Anthology
The Dollmaker - Susan Cooper and Hume Cronyn
Original Drama Anthology
The Day After (ABC) - Edward Hume
Pope John Paul II (CBS) - Christopher Knopf
Original/Adapted Comedy Anthology
Hobson's Choice (CBS) - Burt Prelutsky
Original/Adapted Multi-Part Long Form Series
The First Olympics: Athens 1896 (NBC) - Charles Gary Allison and William Bast
Special Awards
Laurel Award for Screenwriting Achievement
William Goldman
Laurel Award for TV Writing Achievement
Danny Arnold
Valentine Davies Award
Charles Champlin
Morgan Cox Award
Edmund L. Hartmann
Edmund J. North Award
Mary C. McCall Jr.