51st Writers Guild of America Awards (1999)

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
Best Long Form - Adapted
The Love Letter - James S. Henerson
Don King: Only in America - Kario Salem
Thicker Than Blood - Bill Cain