56th Writers Guild of America Awards

56th WGA Awards
Date	February 21, 2004
Organized by	Writers Guild of America, East and the Writers Guild of America, West
Highlights
Best Adapted Screenplay	American Splendor

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Film

Best Adapted Screenplay

American Splendor - Shari Springer Berman and Robert Pulcini

• Cold Mountain - Anthony Minghella
• The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King - Philippa Boyens, Peter Jackson and Fran Walsh
• Mystic River - Brian Helgeland
• Seabiscuit - Gary Ross

Best Original Screenplay

Lost in Translation - Sofia Coppola

• Bend It Like Beckham - Guljit Bindra, Gurinder Chadha and Paul Mayeda Berges
• Dirty Pretty Things - Steven Knight
• In America - Jim, Kirsten and Naomi Sheridan;
• The Station Agent - Tom McCarthy

Television

Best Episodic Drama

Day 2: 7:00 P.M. - 8:00 P.M - 24 - Evan Katz

• Bounty - Law & Order - Michael S. Chernuchin
• Loss - Law & Order: Special Victims Unit - Michelle Fazekas and Tara Butters
• Abomination - Law & Order: Special Victims Unit - Michelle Fazekas and Tara Butters
• Pilot - The O.C. - Josh Schwartz
• Disaster Relief - The West Wing - Alexa Junge and Lauren Schmidt

Best Episodic Comedy

No Sex, Please, We're Skittish - Frasier - Bob Daily

• Malcolm Films Reese - Malcolm in the Middle - Dan Kopelman
• Day Care - Malcolm in the Middle - Gary Murphy and Neil Thompson
• A Woman's Right to Shoes - Sex and the City - Jenny Bicks

Best Animation Screenplay

Godfellas - Futurama

Best Adapted Long Form Screenplay

Out of the Ashes - Anne Meredith Bastogne (Episode 6 of 2001 miniseries 'Band of Brothers')

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