37th Writers Guild of America Awards explained

Number:	37
Award:	WGA Awards
Date:	1985
Organizer:	Writers Guild of America, East and the Writers Guild of America, West
Last:	36th
Next:	38th

The 37th Writers Guild of America Awards honored the best television, and film writers of 1984. Winners were announced in 1985.^[1]

Winners and nominees

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Film

Winners are listed first highlighted in boldface.

Broadway Danny Rose, Written by Woody Allen El Norte, Written by Gregory Nava and Anna Thomas Places in the Heart, Written by Robert Benton Romancing the Stone, Written by Diane Thomas Splash, Written by Lowell Ganz, Babaloo Mandel and Bruce Jay Friedman; Story by Brian Grazer

The Killing Fields, Screenplay by Bruce Robinson A Passage to India, Screenplay by David Lean; Based on the novel by E.M. Forster and the play by Santha Rama Rau A Soldier's Story, Screenplay by Charles Fuller; Based on his play Greystoke: The Legend of Tarzan, Screenplay by Robert Towne and Michael Austin; Based on the novel by Edgar Rice Burroughs The Natural, Screenplay by Phil Dusenberry, and Roger Towne; Based on the novel by Bernard Malamud

Television

"Summer's Return" – Cheers (NBC) – Michael J. Weithorn "Night Shift" – AfterMASH (CBS) – Everett Greenbaum and Elliott Reid "Affairs of the Heart" – Cheers (NBC) – Heide Perlman "Old Flames" – Cheers (NBC) – David Angell "Not an Affair to Remember" – Family Ties (NBC) – Gary David Goldberg and Ruth Bennett "Once in Love with Harry" – Night Court (NBC) – Reinhold Weege "Goodbye Buddy, Hello Skip" – The Duck Factory (NBC) – Allan Burns "Shipmates" – Too Close for Comfort (ABC) – Arne Sultan and Earl Barret	"Grace Under Pressure" – Hill Street Blues (NBC) – Jeffrey Lewis, Michael Wagner, Karen Hall, Mark Frost, Steven Bochco and David Milch "Victimless Crime" – Cagney & Lacey (CBS) – Peter Lefcourt "Parting In Such Sweep Sorrow" – Hill Street Blues (NBC) – Jeffrey Lewis, Michael Wagner, David Milch, Mark Frost and Steven Bochco "Death by Kiki" – Hill Street Blues (NBC) – David Milch and Mark Frost "The Women" – St. Elsewhere (NBC) – John Ford Noonan, John Masius and Tom Fontana "Hello, Goodbye" – St. Elsewhere (NBC) – John Masius and Tom Fontana "Turnaround" – Trauma Center (ABC) – Harry Longstreet and Renee Longstreet
Search for Tomorrow (NBC) – Gary Tomlin, Jeannie Glynn, Courtney Simon, Robin Amos, Norman Borisoff, Louisa Burns-Bisogno, Judy Lewis, Juliet Law Packer, Jule Selbo, Diane Silver, Noreen Stone, Emily Squires, Leslie Thomas, Phyllis White and Robert White Guiding Light (CBS) – Trent Jones, Christopher Whitesell, Pamela K. Long, Emily Squires, Pete T. Rich, Samuel D. Ratcliffe, Michelle Poteet Lisanti, Stephanie Braxton, Jay Hammer, Carolyn Culliton, Robin Amos, Addie Walsh, John Kuntz, Jeff Ryder and N. Gail Lawrence	The Dollmaker – Susan Cooper and Hume Cronyn
Hobson's Choice (CBS) – Burt Prelutsky	The Day After (ABC) – Edward Hume Pope John Paul II (CBS) – Christopher Knopf
(NBC) – Charles Gary Allison and William Bast	"The Greta Love Experiment" – ABC Afterschool Special (ABC) – Jeffrey Kindley "Cougar" – ABC Afterschool Special (ABC) – Stephen H. Foreman "A Different Twist" – ABC Afterschool Special (ABC) – Dianne Dixon "Goodbye Mr. Hooper" – Sesame Street (PBS) – Norman Stiles

Special awards

Laurel Award for Screenwriting Achievement
William Goldman
Laurel Award for TV Writing Achievement
Danny Arnold
Valentine Davies Award
Charles Champlin
Morgan Cox Award
Edmund L. Hartmann
Edmund J. North Award
Mary C. McCall Jr.

References

1. Web site: Awards Winners. wga.org. Writers Guild of America. https://archive.today/20121205095022/http://www.wga.org/awards/awardssub.aspx?id=1551. 2012-12-05. 2010-06-06.
2. Web site: Writers Guild of America, USA (1985). IMDb. 2019-07-06.

External links

• WGA.org