52nd Writers Guild of America Awards

The 52nd Writers Guild of America Awards, given in 2000, honored the film and television best writers of 1999.

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 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
• Sex and The City - Jenny Bicks
• Evolution -
  Sex and The City - Cindy Chupack