1979 Writers Guild of America Awards – Best Adapted Screenplay Winner and Nominees

Midnight Express

Oliver Stone

Billy Hayes, an American college student, is caught smuggling drugs out of Turkey and thrown into prison.

Bloodbrothers

Walter Newman

Go Tell the Spartans

Wendell Mayes

Invasion of the Body Snatchers

W.D. Richter

Who’ll Stop the Rain

Judith Rascoe