title: 50th Writers Guild of America Awards
text: # 50th Writers Guild of America Awards
  
  The 50th Writers Guild of America Awards, given on 21 February 1998, honored the best writers in film and television of 1997.
  
  ## Film
  
  ### Best Adapted Screenplay
  
  L.A. Confidential – Curtis Hanson and Brian Helgeland
  
  * Donnie Brasco – Paul Attanasio
  * The Ice Storm – James Schamus
  * Wag the Dog – Hilary Henkin and David Mamet
  * The Wings of the Dove – Hossein Amini
  
  ### Best Original Screenplay
  
  As Good as It Gets – Mark Andrus and James L. Brooks
  
  * Boogie Nights – Paul Thomas Anderson
  * The Full Monty – Simon Beaufoy
  * Good Will Hunting – Matt Damon and Ben Affleck
  * Titanic – James Cameron
  
  ## Television
  
  ### Best Episodic Drama
  
  "Entrapment" - Law & Order - Rene Balcer and Richard Sweren
  
  * "Whose Appy Now?" - ER - Neal Baer
  * "Deadbeat" - Law & Order - Ed Zuckerman and I. C. Rapoport
  
  ### Best Episodic Comedy
  
  "The Fatigues" - Seinfeld - Gregg Kavet and Andy Robin
  
  * "The Puppy Episode" - Ellen - Mark Driscoll, Dana Savel, Tracey Newman, Jonathan Stark and Ellen DeGeneres
  * "The Impossible Dream" - Frasier - Rob Greenberg
  * "The Chicken Roaster" - Seinfeld - Alec Berg and Jeff Schaffer
  * "The Bizarro Jerry" - Seinfeld - David Mandel
  * "Ellen, Or Isn't She?" - The Larry Sanders Show - Judd Apatow, John Markus and Garry Shandling
  * "The Book" - The Larry Sanders Show - Maya Forbes
  
  1997 Daytime Serials Winner- General Hospital: Claire Labine; Matthew Labine; Robert Guza, Jr.; Karen Harris; Michele Val Jean; Meg Bennett; Ralph Ellis; Mary Ryan; Jane Atkins; Stephanie Braxton; Judith Pinsker; Lynda Myles; Elizabeth Korte; Patrick Mulcahey; Lisa Lieberman
  
  Other Nominees: All My Children: Agnes Nixon; Lorraine Broderick; Hal Corley; Fredrick Johnson; Gail Lawrence; Jeff Beldner; Christina Covino; Courtney Sherman; Millee Taggart; Karen Lewis; Elizabeth Smith; Michelle Patrick; Bettina F. Bradbury; Judith Donato; Kathleen Klein; Jane Owen Murphy
  
  