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Film
Best Drama Written Directly for the Screenplay
Network, Written by Paddy Chayefsky
The Omen, Written by David Seltzer
Rocky, Written by Sylvester Stallone
Taxi Driver, Written by Paul Schrader
The Front, Written by Walter Bernstein
Best Comedy Written Directly for the Screenplay
The Bad News Bears, Written by Bill Lancaster
Murder by Death, Written by Neil Simon
Next Stop, Greenwich Village, Written by Paul Mazursky
Silent Movie, Written by Mel Brooks, Ron Clark, Rudy De Luca and Barry Levinson
Silver Streak, Written by Colin Higgins
Best Drama Adapted from Another Medium
All the President's Men, Screenplay by William Goldman; Based on the book by Carl Bernstein and Bob Woodward
Bound for Glory, Screenplay by Robert Getchell; Based on the autobiography by Woody Guthrie
The Seven-Per-Cent Solution, Screenplay by Nicholas Meyer; Based on the novel by Nicholas Meyer
Marathon Man, Screenplay by William Goldman, Based on his novel
The Shootist, Screenplay by Miles Hood Swarthout and Scott Hale; Based on the novel by Glendon Swarthout
Best Comedy Adapted from Another Medium
The Pink Panther Strikes Again, Screenplay by Frank Waldman and Blake Edwards
Family Plot, Screenplay by Ernest Lehman; Based on the novel by Victor Canning
Stay Hungry, Screenplay by Charles Gaines and Bob Rafelson; Based on the novel by Charles Gaines
The Bingo Long Traveling All-Stars & Motor Kings, Screenplay by Hal Barwood and Matthew Robbins; Based on the novel by William Brashler
The Ritz, Screenplay by Terrence McNally; Based on his play
Television
Episodic Drama
"Crossing Fox River" - Lincoln (NBC) - Loring Mandel
"Flying Misfits" - Baa Baa Black Sheep (NBC) - Stephen J. Cannell
"The November Plan: Part 1, 2 & 3" - City of Angels (NBC) - Stephen J. Cannell and Roy Huggins
Rich Man, Poor Man - Book II (ABC) - Millard Lampell
"So Help Me God" - The Rockford Files (NBC) - Juanita Barltett
Episodic Comedy
"Dear Sigmund" - M*A*S*H (CBS) - Alan Alda
"Joey's Baptism" - All in the Family (CBS) - Mel Tolkin, Larry Rhine and Milt Josefsberg
"Evacuation" - Barney Miller (ABC) - Danny Arnold and Chris Hayward
"Hawkeye Get Your Gun" - M*A*S*H (CBS) - Jay Folb, and Gene Reynolds
"Mary's Insomnia" - The Mary Tyler Moore Show (CBS) - David Lloyd
"My Son, the Genius" - The Mary Tyler Moore Show (CBS) - Bob Ellison
Daytime Serials
Ryan's Hope (ABC) - Claire Labine, Paul Avila Mayer, Mary Munisteri and Jeffrey Lane
Days of Our Lives (NBC) - William J. Bell, Patricia Falken Smith, Bill Rega, Margaret Stewart and Kay Lenard
The Edge of Night (ABC) - Henry Slesar
Children's Script - Episodic & Specials
"Blind Sunday" - ABC Afterschool Special (ABC) - Arthur Barron
"Big Henry and the Polka Dot Kid" - NBC Special Treat (NBC) - W.W. Lewis
Bound for Freedom (NBC) - Jan Hartman
"Part II" - God's Country (CBS) - Alfa-Betty Olsen and Marshall Efron
Special Awards
Laurel Award for Screenwriting Achievement
Samson Raphaelson
Laurel Award for TV Writing Achievement
Everett Greenbaum, James Fritzell
Valentine Davies Award
Carl Foreman
Morgan Cox Award
Herbert Baker