The 52nd Writers Guild of America Awards, given in 2000, honored the film and television best writers of 1999.
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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† indicates the winners of the Academy Awards for Best Original Screenplay and Best Adapted Screenplay.