Best Original Screenplay

1985 Writers Guild of America Awards - Best Original Screenplay WinnerBroadway Danny RoseWoody AllenIn his attempts to reconcile a lounge singer with his mistress, a hapless talent agent is mistaken as her lover by a jealous gangster.Amazon1985 Writers Guild of America Awards - Best Original Screenplay NomineesEl NorteGregory NavaAmazonPlaces in the HeartRobert BentonAmazonRomancing the StoneDiane ThomasAmazonSplashLowell GanzAmazon

1984 Writers Guild of America Awards - Best Original Screenplay WinnerTender MerciesHorton FooteA broken-down, middle-aged country singer gets a new wife, reaches out to his long-lost daughter, and tries to put his troubled life back together.Amazon1984 Writers Guild of America Awards - Best Original Screenplay NomineesSilkwoodNora EphronAmazonWarGamesLawrence LaskerAmazon

1983 Writers Guild of America Awards - Best Original Screenplay WinnerE.T. the Extra-TerrestrialMelissa MathisonA troubled child summons the courage to help a friendly alien escape Earth and return to his home world.Amazon1983 Writers Guild of America Awards - Best Original Screenplay NomineesAn Officer and a GentlemanDouglas Day StewartAmazonShoot the MoonBo GoldmanAmazon

1995 Writers Guild of America Awards - Best Original Screenplay WinnerFour Weddings and a FuneralRichard CurtisOver the course of five social occasions, a committed bachelor must consider the notion that he may have discovered love.Amazon1995 Writers Guild of America Awards - Best Original Screenplay NomineesBullets Over BroadwayWoody AllenAmazonEd WoodScott AlexanderAmazonHeavenly CreaturesFran WalshAmazonThe Adventures of Priscilla, Queen of the DesertStephan ElliottAmazon

1981 Writers Guild of America Awards - Best Original Screenplay WinnerMelvin and HowardBo GoldmanThe story of hard-luck Melvin E. Dummar, who claimed to have received a will naming him an heir to the fortune of Howard Hughes.Amazon1981 Writers Guild of America Awards - Best Original Screenplay NomineesFameChristopher GoreAmazonMy BodyguardAlan OrmsbyAmazon

1980 Writers Guild of America Awards - Best Original Screenplay WinnerThe China SyndromeMike GrayA reporter finds what appears to be a cover-up of safety hazards at a nuclear power plant.Amazon1980 Writers Guild of America Awards - Best Original Screenplay NomineesApocalypse NowJohn MiliusAmazon

1979 Writers Guild of America Awards - Best Original Screenplay WinnerComing HomeWaldo SaltA woman whose husband is fighting in Vietnam falls in love with another man who suffered a paralyzing combat injury there.Amazon1979 Writers Guild of America Awards - Best Original Screenplay NomineesAn Unmarried WomanPaul MazurskyAmazonDays of HeavenTerrence MalickAmazonInteriorsWoody AllenAmazonThe Deer HunterDeric WashburnAmazon

1978 Writers Guild of America Awards - Best Original Screenplay WinnerThe Turning PointArthur LaurentsWhen her daughter joins a ballet company, a former dancer is forced to confront her long-ago decision to give up the stage to have a family.Amazon1978 Writers Guild of America Awards - Best Original Screenplay NomineesClose Encounters of the Third KindSteven SpielbergAmazonSaturday Night FeverNorman WexlerAmazonThe Late ShowRobert BentonAmazon

1977 Writers Guild of America Awards - Best Original Screenplay WinnerNetworkPaddy ChayefskyA television network cynically exploits a deranged former anchor's ravings and revelations about the news media for its own profit.Amazon1977 Writers Guild of America Awards - Best Original Screenplay NomineesRockySylvester StalloneAmazonTaxi DriverPaul SchraderAmazonThe FrontWalter BernsteinAmazonThe OmenDavid SeltzerAmazon

1976 Writers Guild of America Awards - Best Original Screenplay WinnerDog Day AfternoonFrank PiersonA man robs a bank to pay for his lover's operation, which turns into a hostage situation and a media circus.Amazon1976 Writers Guild of America Awards - Best Original Screenplay NomineesFrench Connection IIAlexander JacobsAmazonNashvilleJoan TewkesburyAmazonThe Wind and the LionJohn MiliusAmazon