43rd Writers Guild of America Awards

43rd WGA Awards
43rd WGA Awards
Date	1991
Organized by	Writers Guild of America, East and the Writers Guild of America, West
	← 42nd; WGA Awards; 44th →;

The 43rd Writers Guild of America Awards honored the best television, and film writers of 1990. Winners were announced in 1991.^[1]

Winners and nominees[edit]

Film[edit]

Winners are listed first highlighted in boldface.

Best Screenplay Written Directly for the Screenplay Avalon, Written by Barry Levinson Alice, Written by Woody Allen Ghost, Written by Bruce Joel Rubin Green Card, Written by Peter Weir Pretty Woman, Written by J.F. Lawton	Best Screenplay Based on Material from Another Medium Dances with Wolves, Screenplay by Michael Blake; based on his novel Awakenings, Screenplay by Steven Zaillian; based on the book by Oliver Sacks Goodfellas, Screenplay by Nicholas Pileggi, and Martin Scorsese; based on his book Reversal of Fortune, Screenplay by Nicholas Kazan; based on the book by Alan Dershowitz The Grifters, Screenplay by Donald E. Westlake; based on the novel by Jim Thompson

Television[edit]

Episodic Comedy "Brown Like Me: Part 1 & 2" – Murphy Brown (CBS) – Diane English "The First Day of the Last Decade of the Entire Twentieth Century: Part 1 & 2" – Designing Women (CBS) – Linda Bloodworth-Thomason "The Stakeout" – Seinfeld (NBC) – Larry David, and Jerry Seinfeld "Rock 'n Roll" – The Wonder Years (ABC) – Bob Stevens "The Powers That Be" – The Wonder Years (ABC) – David M. Stern "Goodbye" – The Wonder Years (ABC) – Bob Brush	Episodic Drama "Souvenirs" – China Beach (ABC) – John Sacret Young "Warriors" – China Beach (ABC) – Martin M. Goldstein, Neal Baer, and Dottie Dartland "Justice Swerved" – L.A. Law (NBC) – David E. Kelley, and Bryce Zabel "Bang... Zoom... Zap" – L.A. Law (NBC) – David E. Kelley, and William M. Finkelstein "Strangers" – Thirtysomething (ABC) – Richard Kramer "I'm Nobody, Who Are You?" – Thirtysomething (ABC) – Winnie Holzman
Daytime Serials Santa Barbara (NBC) – Charles Pratt Jr., Sheri Anderson, Samuel D. Ratcliffe, Maralyn Thoma, Sam Hall, Josh Griffith, Patrick Mulcahey, Robert Guza Jr., Courtney Simon, Lynda Myles, Gary Tomlin, Frank Salisbury, Libby Beers, David J. Ross All My Children (ABC) – Agnes Nixon, Lorraine Broderick, Wisner Washam, Megan McTavish, Mary K. Wells, Susan Kirshenbaum Margaret DePriest, Lorraine Broderick, Victor Miller, Gillian Spencer, Elizabeth Page, Karen Lewis, Kathleen Klein, Michelle Patrick, and Elizabeth Smith	Anthology Episode/Single Program Sisters (CBS) – Shelley List, and Jonathan Estrin "The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde" – Nightmare Classics – J. Michael Straczynski "The Ventriloquist's Dummy" – Tales from the Crypt (HBO) – Frank Darabont
Original Long Form The Incident (CBS) – James Norell, and Michael Norell Heat Wave (TNT) – Michael Lazarou	Adapted Long Form Voices Within: The Lives of Truddi Chase (ABC) – E. Jack Neuman
Children's Script "The Perfect Date" – ABC Afterschool Special (ABC) – Josef Anderson "American Eyes" – CBS Schoolbreak Special (CBS) – Cynthia A. Cherbak, Elizabeth Hansen, and Herbert Stein "The Frog Girl: The Jenifer Graham Story" – CBS Schoolbreak Special (CBS) – Harry Longstreet and Renee Longstreet

Documentary[edit]

Documentary – Current Events "Seven Days in Bensonhurst" – Frontline (PBS) – Thomas Lennon, and Shelby Steele

Special awards[edit]

Laurel Award for Screenwriting Achievement
Alvin Sargent
Laurel Award for TV Writing Achievement
Carol Sobieski
Valentine Davies Award
Frank Pierson
Morgan Cox Award
Christopher Knopf
Paul Selvin Award
Michael Lazarou
Edmund J. North Award
Daniel Taradash
Meltzer Award
Kirk Douglas in recognition of his action in 1960 to ensure that Dalton Trumbo received screen credit for writing Spartacus (1960)

References[edit]

^ "Awards Winners". wga.org. Writers Guild of America. Archived from the original on 2012-12-05. Retrieved 2010-06-06.

External links[edit]

WGA.org

[1] "Awards Winners". wga.org. Writers Guild of America. Archived from the original on 2012-12-05. Retrieved 2010-06-06.

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v t e Writers Guild of America Awards
Film Awards	Best Adapted Screenplay Best Original Screenplay Best Documentary Screenplay
Television/ New Media Awards	Animation Comedy Series Comedy/Variety Talk Series Comedy/Variety Specials Comedy/Variety Sketch Series Daytime Serials Drama Series Episodic Comedy Episodic Drama Long Form – Adapted Long Form – Original Short Form New Media New Series Children's Script Documentary Script – Current Events Documentary Script – Other Than Current Events
Special Awards	Paul Selvin Award Valentine Davies Award Animation Writers Caucus Animation Writing Award Laurel Award for Screenwriting Achievement Laurel Award for TV Writing Achievement Evelyn F. Burkey Award
Former Awards	Musical Western American Scene Drama Comedy
Ceremonies	1948 1949 1950 1951 1952 1953 1954 1955 1956 1957 1958 1959 1960 1961 1962 1963 1964 1965 1966 1967 1968 1969 1970 1971 1972 1973 1974 1975 1976 1977 1978 1979 1980 1981 1982 1983 1984 1985 1986 1987 1988 1989 1990 1991 1992 1993 1994 1995 1996 1997 1998 1999 2000 2001 2002 2003 2004 2005 2006 2007 2008 2009 2010 2011 2012 2013 2014 2015 2016 2017 2018 2019 2020 2021 2022 2023 Years are of film release; ceremonies are held the following year

43rd Writers Guild of America Awards

Winners and nominees[edit]

Film[edit]

Television[edit]

Documentary[edit]

Special awards[edit]

References[edit]

External links[edit]

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