51st Writers Guild of America Awards
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The 51st Writers Guild of America Awards, given in 1999, honored the film and television best writers of 1998.
Winners and nominees
Film
Best Adapted Screenplay
- Out of Sight – Scott Frank
- A Civil Action – Steven Zaillian
- Gods and Monsters – Bill Condon
- Primary Colors – Elaine May
- A Simple Plan – Scott B. Smith
Best original screenplay
- Shakespeare in Love – Marc Norman and Tom Stoppard
- Bulworth – Warren Beatty and Jeremy Pikser
- The Opposite of Sex – Don Roos
- Saving Private Ryan – Robert Rodat
- The Truman Show – Andrew Niccol
Television
Best episodic drama
- Proofs for The Existence of God – Nothing Sacred – Paul Leland
- Exodus – ER – Walon Green and Joe Sachs
- Apollo One – From The Earth to the Moon – Graham Yost
- Finnegan's Wake – Homicide: Life on the Street – David Mills, James Yoshimura and David Simon
- Saigon Rose – Homicide: Life on the Street – Eric Overmyer
- The Subway – Homicide: Life on the Street – James Yoshimura
- Burned – Law & Order – Siobhan Byrne
- Betrayal – The Practice – David E. Kelley
- The Marie Taquet Story – Rescuers: Stories of Courage: Two Couples – Cy Chermak, Francine Carroll and Malka Drucker
Best episodic comedy
- Frasier's Imaginary Friend – Frasier – Rob Greenberg
- Pilot – Dharma & Greg – Dottie Dartland and Chuck Lorre
- Emma – Ellen – Lawrence Broch
- Never Can Say Goodbye – Murphy Brown – Diane English