Writers Guild of America Awards 2001

The 54th Writers Guild of America Awards, given in 2002, honored the film and television best writers of 2001.

Winners and nominees

Film

Best Adapted Screenplay

A Beautiful Mind - Akiva Goldsman

• Black Hawk Down - Ken Nolan
• Bridget Jones's Diary - Richard Curtis, Andrew Davies and Helen Fielding
• Ghost World - Daniel Clowes and Terry Zwigoff
• The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring - Philippa Boyens, Peter Jackson and Fran Walsh

Best Original Screenplay

Gosford Park - Julian Fellowes

• The Man Who Wasn't There - Ethan and Joel Coen
• Monster's Ball - Milo Addica and Will Rokos
• Moulin Rouge! - Baz Luhrmann and Craig Pearce
• The Royal Tenenbaums - Wes Anderson and Owen Wilson

Television

Best Episodic Comedy

Everybody Loves Raymond - Philip Rosenthal for "Italy"

• Malcolm in the Middle - Gary Murphy and Neil Thompson for "Grandparents"
• Malcolm in the Middle - Alex Reid for "Bowling"
• Sex and the City - Cindy Chupack for "Just Say Yes"
• Sex and the City - Julie Rottenberg and Elisa Zuritsky for "My Motherboard, My Self"
• Titus - Christopher Titus for "The Pendulum"

Best Episodic Drama

The Sopranos - Timothy Van Patten and Terence Winter for "Pine Barrens"

• CSI: Crime Scene Investigation - Ann Donahue and Tish McCarthy for "Blood Drops"
• The Sopranos - David Chase for "Proshai, Livushka"
• The Sopranos - Mitchell Burgess and Robin Green for "Employee of the Month"
• The West Wing - Paul Redford and Aaron Sorkin for "Somebody's Going To Emergency, Somebody's Going To Jail"
• The West Wing - Aaron Sorkin for "Two Cathedrals"

Best Long Form - Adapted

Anne Frank: The Whole Story - Kirk Ellis

• Baby - Kerry Kennedy, Patricia MacLachlan and David Manson
• Life with Judy Garland: Me and My Shadows - Robert L. Freedman
• The Mists of Avalon - Gavin Scott
• The Song of the Lark - Joseph Maurer

Best Long Form - Original

Conspiracy - Loring Mandel

• 61* - Hank Steinberg
• For Love or Country: The Arturo Sandoval Story - Timothy J. Sexton
• Varian's War - Lionel Chetwynd