43rd Writers Guild of America Awards (1991)

Film

Best Screenplay Written Directly for the Screenplay

	Avalon, Written by Barry Levinson
	Alice, Written by Woody Allen
	Ghost, Written by Bruce Joel Rubin
	Green Card, Written by Peter Weir
	Pretty Woman, Written by J.F. Lawton

Best Screenplay Based on Material from Another Medium

	Dances with Wolves, Screenplay by Michael Blake; based on his novel
	Awakenings, Screenplay by Steven Zaillian; based on the book by Oliver Sacks
	Goodfellas, Screenplay by Nicholas Pileggi, and Martin Scorsese; based on his book
	Reversal of Fortune, Screenplay by Nicholas Kazan; based on the book by Alan Dershowitz
	The Grifters, Screenplay by Donald E. Westlake; based on the novel by Jim Thompson

Television

Episodic Drama

	"Souvenirs" - China Beach (ABC) - John Sacret Young
	"Warriors" - China Beach (ABC) - Martin M. Goldstein, Neal Baer, and Dottie Dartland
	"Justice Swerved" - L.A. Law (NBC) - David E. Kelley, and Bryce Zabel
	"Bang... Zoom... Zap" - L.A. Law (NBC) - David E. Kelley, and William M. Finkelstein
	"Strangers" - Thirtysomething (ABC) - Richard Kramer
	"I'm Nobody, Who Are You?" - Thirtysomething (ABC) - Winnie Holzman

Episodic Comedy

	"Brown Like Me: Part 1 & 2" - Murphy Brown (CBS) - Diane English
	"The First Day of the Last Decade of the Entire Twentieth Century: Part 1 & 2" - Designing Women (CBS) - Linda Bloodworth-Thomason
	"The Stakeout" - Seinfeld (NBC) - Larry David, and Jerry Seinfeld
	"Rock 'n Roll" - The Wonder Years (ABC) - Bob Stevens
	"The Powers That Be" - The Wonder Years (ABC) - David M. Stern
	"Goodbye" - The Wonder Years (ABC) - Bob Brush

Daytime Serials

	Santa Barbara (NBC) - Charles Pratt Jr., Sheri Anderson, Samuel D. Ratcliffe, Maralyn Thoma, Sam Hall, Josh Griffith, Patrick Mulcahey, Robert Guza Jr., Courtney Simon, Lynda Myles, Gary Tomlin, Frank Salisbury, Libby Beers, David J. Ross
	All My Children (ABC) - Agnes Nixon, Lorraine Broderick, Wisner Washam, Megan McTavish, Mary K. Wells, Susan Kirshenbaum Margaret DePriest, Lorraine Broderick, Victor Miller, Gillian Spencer, Elizabeth Page, Karen Lewis, Kathleen Klein, Michelle Patrick, and Elizabeth Smith

Anthology Episode/Single Program

	Sisters (CBS) - Shelley List, and Jonathan Estrin
	"The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde" - Nightmare Classics - J. Michael Straczynski
	"The Ventriloquist's Dummy" - Tales from the Crypt (HBO) - Frank Darabont

Original Long Form

	The Incident (CBS) - James Norell, and Michael Norell
	Heat Wave (TNT) - Michael Lazarou

Adapted Long Form

Voices Within: The Lives of Truddi Chase (ABC) - E. Jack Neuman

Special Awards

Laurel Award for Screenwriting Achievement

Alvin Sargent

Laurel Award for TV Writing Achievement

Carol Sobieski

Valentine Davies Award

Frank Pierson

Morgan Cox Award

Christopher Knopf

Paul Selvin Award

Michael Lazarou

Edmund J. North Award

Daniel Taradash

Meltzer Award

Kirk Douglas in recognition of his action in 1960 to ensure that Dalton Trumbo received screen credit for writing Spartacus (1960)