Awards & Winners

1979 Writers Guild of America Award

Check winners and nominations of 1979 Writers Guild of America Award. Check awards winners of Writers Guild of America Awards 1978. (Click on the Award name to show winners and nominees)

Writers Guild of America Awards 1978

Writers Guild of America Award for Best Original Drama

Waldo Salt, Robert C. Jones

Honored for : Coming Home

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Nominee Nominated Work
Paul Mazursky An Unmarried Woman
Waldo Salt Coming Home
Robert C. Jones Coming Home
Terrence Malick Days of Heaven
Deric Washburn The Deer Hunter
Michael Cimino The Deer Hunter
Louis Garfinkle The Deer Hunter
Quinn K. Redeker The Deer Hunter
Woody Allen Interiors
Writers Guild of America Award for Best Original Comedy

Larry Gelbart, Sheldon Keller

Honored for : Movie Movie

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Nominee Nominated Work
Larry Gelbart Movie Movie
Sheldon Keller Movie Movie
Harold Ramis National Lampoon's Animal House
Douglas Kenney National Lampoon's Animal House
Chris Miller National Lampoon's Animal House
Max Shulman House Calls
Julius J. Epstein House Calls
Alan Mandel House Calls
Charles Shyer House Calls
Frank D. Gilroy Once in Paris
John Considine A Wedding
Patricia Resnick A Wedding
Allan F. Nicholls A Wedding
Robert Altman A Wedding
Writers Guild of America Award for Best Adapted Comedy

Elaine May, Warren Beatty

Honored for : Heaven Can Wait

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Nominee Nominated Work
Elaine May Heaven Can Wait
Warren Beatty Heaven Can Wait
Neil Simon California Suite
Bernard Slade Same Time, Next Year
Mario Puzo Superman
Leslie Newman Superman
David Newman Superman
Robert Benton Superman
Peter Stone Who Is Killing the Great Chefs of Europe?
Writers Guild of America Award for Best Adapted Drama

Oliver Stone

Honored for : Midnight Express

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Nominee Nominated Work
Oliver Stone Midnight Express
Walter Newman Bloodbrothers
Wendell Mayes Go Tell the Spartans
W. D. Richter Invasion of the Body Snatchers
Judith Rascoe Who'll Stop the Rain
Robert Stone Who'll Stop the Rain
Writers Guild of America Award for Television: Episodic Drama

Seth Freeman

Honored for : Prisoner

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Nominee Nominated Work
Seth Freeman Prisoner
From the TV Series \"Lou Grant\"
Gary David Goldberg Murder
From the TV Series \"Lou Grant\"
Howard Berk The Conspirators
From the TV Series \"Columbo\"
Stephen J. Cannell The House on Willis Avenue, Part 1
From the TV Series \"The Rockford Files\"
Ray Cuneff The Captive
From the TV Series \"The Waltons\"
John McGreevey The Illusion
From the TV Series \"The Waltons\"