52nd Writers Guild of America Awards (2000)

Film

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

Television

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

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

Original Long Form

	Dash and Lily - Jerrold L. Ludwig
	Freak City - Jane Shepard
	Aldrich Ames: Traitor Within - Michael Burton
	Purgatory - Gordon T. Dawson

Adapted Long Form

	The Confession - David Black
	A Cooler Climate - Marsha Norman
	The Devil's Arithmetic - Robert J. Avrech
	Having Our Say: The Delany Sisters' First 100 Years - Emily Mann