Saturday
February 13, 2027

1996 Writers Guild Awards Winners

SCREEN

BEST SCREENPLAY WRITTEN DIRECTLY FOR THE SCREEN 

BRAVEHEART, Paramount Pictures, Written by Randall Wallace 

BEST SCREENPLAY BASED ON MATERIAL PREVIOUSLY PRODUCED OR PUBLISHED 

SENSE AND SENSIBILITY, Columbia, Screenplay by Emma Thompson, Based on the novel by Jane Austen

TELEVISION

ORIGINAL LONG FORM 

ER (Pilot), Warner Bros. Television Productions, NBC, Written by Michael Crichton 

ADAPTED LONG FORM 

CITIZEN X, HBO Films Inc., HBO, Teleplay by Chris Gerolmo, Based upon the book "The Killer Department" by Robert Cullen

EPISODIC DRAMA 

LOVE'S LABOR LOST (ER), Warner Bros. Television Production, NBC, Written by Lance A. Gentile 

EPISODIC COMEDY 

(FRASIER), Network Television Division, Paramount Pictures, NBC, Written by Joe Keenan  

VARIETY--MUSICAL, AWARD, TRIBUTE, SPECIAL EVENT 

DENNIS MILLER LIVE, SHOW #8, Happy Family Productions, HBO, Writing Supervised by Eddie Feldmann, Writers Jeff Cesario, Ed Driscoll, David Feldman, Gregory Greenberg, Dennis Miller, Kevin Rooney 

DAYTIME SERIALS 

GENERAL HOSPITAL, ABC, Written by Claire Labine, Matthew Labine, Eleanor Mancusi, Meg Bennett, Ralph Ellis, Michele Val Jean, Stephanie Braxton, Karen Harris, Lewis Arlt, Judith Pinsker 

CHILDREN'S SCRIPT 

STAND UP (CBS SCHOOLBREAK SPECIAL), CBS, Written by Gordon Rayfield 

DOCUMENTARY CURRENT EVENTS 

THE HUMAN QUEST: THE NATURE OF HUMAN NATURE, EPISODE 1, PBS, Written by Roger Bingham & Carl Byker 

DOCUMENTARY OTHER THAN CURRENT EVENTS 

THE AMERICAN EXPERIENCE: THE WAY WEST, PBS, Written by Ric Burns 

TELEVISION SPOT NEWS SCRIPT 

48 HOURS: NO PLACE TO HIDE, CBS, Written by Greg Kandra 

RADIO

RADIO DOCUMENTARY 

THE 442ND, ABC Radio, Written by Mike Silverstein 

RADIO SPOT NEWS SCRIPT 

WORLD NEWS THIS WEEK, ABC News Radio, Written by Stephen B. Jones 

ON-AIR PROMOTION 

PBS & CBS PROMOTIONS, PBS & CBS, Written by Susan Meredith Lay 

TELEVISION GRAPHIC ANIMATION 

CBS GRAPHIC ANIMATION, CBS, Graphic Animation by Karen McInnis