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

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

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

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

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

1982 Writers Guild of America Awards - Best Original Screenplay WinnerRedsWarren BeattyA radical American journalist becomes involved with the Communist revolution in Russia, and hopes to bring its spirit and idealism to the United States.Amazon1982 Writers Guild of America Awards - Best Original Screenplay NomineesAbsence of MaliceKurt LuedtkeAmazonAtlantic CityJohn GuareAmazonBody HeatLawrence KasdanAmazon

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

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

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

1986 Writers Guild of America Awards - Best Original Screenplay WinnerWitnessEarl W. WallaceWhen a young Amish boy is sole witness to a murder, policeman John Book goes into hiding in Amish country to protect him until the trial.Amazon1986 Writers Guild of America Awards - Best Original Screenplay NomineesBack to the FutureRobert ZemeckisAmazonCocoonTom BenedekAmazonMaskAnna Hamilton PhelanAmazonThe Purple Rose of CairoWoody AllenAmazon