59th Writers Guild of America Awards

Winners and nominees

Film

Best Adapted Screenplay

The Departed - William Monahan

• Borat: Cultural Learnings of America for Make Benefit Glorious Nation of Kazakhstan - Sacha Baron Cohen, Anthony Hines, Peter Baynham and Dan Mazer
• The Devil Wears Prada - Aline Brosh McKenna
• Little Children - Todd Field and Tom Perrotta
• Thank You for Smoking - Jason Reitman

Little Miss Sunshine - Michael Arndt

• Babel - Guillermo Arriaga
• The Queen - Peter Morgan
• Stranger than Fiction - Zach Helm
• United 93 - Paul Greengrass

Best Adapted Documentary Feature Screenplay

Deliver Us from Evil – Amy J. Berg

• The Heart of the Game – Ward Serrill
• Once in a Lifetime: The Extraordinary Story of the New York Cosmos – Mark Monroe; story by Mark Monroe and John Dower
• Who Killed The Electric Car? – Chris Paine
• Why We Fight – Eugene Jarecki

Television

Dramatic Series

The Sopranos - Mitchell Burgess, David Chase, Diane Frolov, Robin Green, Andrew Schneider, Matthew Weiner, Terence Winter

• 24 - Robert Cochran, Manny Coto, Duppy Demetrius, David Ehrman, David Fury, Howard Gordon, Evan Katz, Stephen Kronish, Michael Loceff, Matt Michnovetz, Steve Mitchell, Sam Montgomery, Nicole Ranadive, Joel Surnow, Craig W. Van Sickle
• Bernadette McNamara, David Milch, Kem Nunn, Nick Towne, Zack Whedon
• Grey's Anatomy - Debora Cahn, Zoanne A. Clack, Allan Heinberg, Elizabeth Klaviter, Kip Koenig, Stacy McKee, Carolina Paiz, James D. Parriott, Tony Phelan, Joan Rater, Shonda Rhimes, Blythe Robe, Mimi Schmir, Gabrielle Stanton, Krista Vernoff, Harry Werksman, Mark Wilding
• Adam Horowitz, Dawn Lambertsen Kelly, Christina M. Kim, Edward Kitsis, Damon Lindelof, Steven Maeda, Jeff Pinkner, Matt Ragghianti, Elizabeth Sarnoff, Alison Schapker

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  It Takes Two" - Desperate Housewives - Kevin Murphy & Jenna Bans
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  Don't Look at Me" - Desperate Housewives - Josh Senter
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  Bomb Shelter" - Malcolm in the Middle - Rob Ulin
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  The Office - Paul Lieberstein
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  Jump for Joy" - My Name Is Earl - Vali Chandrasekaran