42nd Writers Guild of America Awards
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The 1989 Writers Guild of America Awards were given on 18 March 1990. They were co-presented by the Writers Guild of America, East and the Writers Guild of America, west
Winners and nominees
Film
Best Adapted Screenplay
Driving Miss Daisy - Alfred Uhry
- Born on the Fourth of July - Ron Kovic and Oliver Stone
- Field of Dreams - Phil Alden Robinson
- Glory - Kevin Jarre
- My Left Foot: The Story of Christy Brown - Shane Connaughton and Jim Sheridan
Best Original Screenplay
Crimes and Misdemeanors - Woody Allen
- Dead Poets Society - Tom Schulman
- The Fabulous Baker Boys - Steve Kloves
- Sex, Lies, and Videotape - Steven Soderbergh
- When Harry Met Sally... - Nora Ephron
TV
Daytime Serial
Ryan's Hope (Claire Labine, Matthew Labine, Eleanor Mancusi, William Burritt, Louise Shaffer, Paul Balido)
All My Children (Agnes Nixon, Margaret DePriest, Lorraine Broderick, Victor Miller, Peggy Sloane, Megan McTavish, Gillian Spencer, Mary K. Wells, Susan Kirshenbaum, Elizabeth Page, Karen Lewis, Elizabeth Wallace, Kathleen Klein)
As the World Turns (Douglas Marland, John Kuntz, Stephanie Braxton, Juliet Law Packer, Meredith Post, Nancy Ford, Penelope Koechl, Richard Backus, Caroline Franz, Patricia Dizenzo)