40th Writers Guild of America Awards explained

Number:40
Award:WGA Awards
Date:1988
Organizer:Writers Guild of America, East and the Writers Guild of America, West
Last:39th
Next:41st

The 40th Writers Guild of America Awards honored the best television, and film writers of 1987. Winners were announced in 1988.[1]

Winners and nominees

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Film

Winners are listed first highlighted in boldface.

Television

  • "Turn, Turn, Turn: Part 1" – Cagney & Lacey (CBS) – Georgia Jeffries
  • "It's a Wonderful Job" – Moonlighting (ABC) – Debra Frank, and Carl Sautter
    • "More Skinned Against Than Skinning" – Hill Street Blues (NBC) – David Black
    • "Fathers and Guns" – Hill Street Blues (NBC) – Jeffrey Lewis, and Jerry Patrick Brown
    • "The Venus Butterfly" – L.A. Law (NBC) – Steven Bochco, and Terry Louise Fisher
    • "Fry Me to the Moon" – L.A. Law (NBC) – Jacob Epstein, Marshall Goldberg, and David E. Kelley
    • "Big Man on Mulberry Street" – Moonlighting (ABC) – Karen Hall
    • "Atomic Shakespeare" – Moonlighting (ABC) – Ron Osborn, and Jeff Reno
    • "A Room with a View" – St. Elsewhere (NBC) – Channing Gibson, John Masius, and Tom Fontana
  • Ryan's Hope (ABC) – Claire Labine, Eleanor Mancusi, William Burritt, Madeline B. David, Steve Lehrman, David Appel
    • Days of Our Lives (NBC) – Sheri Anderson, Leah Laiman, Anne Schoettle, Thom Racina, M.M. Shelly Moore, Dena Higley, Richard J. Allen, Linda Campanelli, Maralyn Thoma, Michelle Poteet Lisanti, Peggi Schibi, Penina Spiegel, Ted Kubiak
  • Will Rogers: Look Back in Laughter – Bennet Tramer
    • 19th Annual NAACP Image Award – Daryl G. Nickens, Rita Cash, and Royce Osborn Jr.

Documentary

Special awards

Laurel Award for Screenwriting Achievement
Harriet Frank Jr., and Irving Ravetch
Laurel Award for TV Writing Achievement
Bob Schiller, and Bob Weiskopf
Valentine Davies Award
Lois Preyser
Morgan Cox Award
Daniel Taradash

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. live.
  2. Web site: Writers Guild of America, USA (1988). IMDb. 2019-07-07.

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