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The 52nd Writers Guild of America Awards, given in 2000, honored the film and television best writers of 1999.^[1]^[2]

DateMarch 5, 2000

Organized byWriters Guild of America, East and the Writers Guild of America, West

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52nd WGA Awards
Date	March 5, 2000
Organized by	Writers Guild of America, East and the Writers Guild of America, West
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Film

Best Adapted Screenplay

Election - Alexander Payne and Jim Taylor

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

American Beauty - Alan Ball †

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

Merry Christmas, Mrs. Moskowitz - Frasier - Jay Kogen

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

Meadowlands - The Sopranos - Jason Cahill

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

Original Long Form

Dash and Lily - Jerrold L. Ludwig

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

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