Writers Guild of America Awards 1996
The 50th Writers Guild of America Awards, given on 16 March 1997, honored the best writers of screen and television of 1996.
Film
Best Original Screenplay
- Jerry Maguire - Cameron Crowe
- Lone Star - John Sayles
- Secrets & Lies - Mike Leigh
- Shine - Jan Sardi and Scott Hicks
Best Adapted Screenplay
Sling Blade - Billy Bob Thornton
- Emma - Douglas McGrath
- The Birdcage - Elaine May
- The English Patient - Anthony Minghella
- Trainspotting - John Hodge
Television
Best Episodic Drama
Girl Talk - NYPD Blue - Theresa Rebeck and Bill Clark
- Aftershock - Law & Order - Janis Diamond and Michael S. Chernuchin
- Savages - Law & Order - Morgan Gendel, Barry M. Schkolnick and Michael S. Chernuchin
- Trophy - Law & Order - Jeremy R. Litman, Ed Zuckerman and Michael S. Chernuchin
- Pilot - Murder One - Charles H. Eglee, Channing Gibson, Steven Bochco and David Milch
- Falsies - Party of Five - Mark B. Perry
- Clyde Bruckman's Final Repose - The X Files - Darin Morgan
Best Episodic Comedy
The Pool Guy - Seinfeld - David Mandel
- The Soup Nazi - Seinfeld - Spike Feresten
- The Sponge - Seinfeld - Peter Mehlman
- Eight - The Larry Sanders Show - Peter Tolan
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