52nd Writers Guild of America Awards

Film

Best Adapted Screenplay

• 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

• 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

• The Paper Hat Anniversary - Dharma & Greg - Bill Prady, Eric Zicklin and Chuck Lorre
• The One Where Everybody Finds Out - Friends - Alexa Junge
• Four Women and A Hobo - Sex and The City - Jenny Bicks
• Evolution - Sex and The City - Cindy Chupack

Best Episodic Drama

• The Storm, Part 1 - ER - John Wells
• DWB - Law & Order - René Balcer
• U.S. Male - Oz - Tom Fontana and Bradford Winters

Original Long Form

• Freak City - Jane Shepard
• Aldrich Ames: Traitor Within - Michael Burton
• Purgatory - Gordon T. Dawson