The Writers Guild of America Awards 1993 were given on 13 March 1994.

Best Adapted Screenplay

Schindler's List

Schindler's List

Schindler's List is a 1993 American film about Oskar Schindler, a German businessman who saved the lives of more than a thousand mostly Polish-Jewish refugees during the Holocaust by employing them in his factories. The film was directed by Steven Spielberg, and based on the novel Schindler's Ark...

- Steven Zaillian

Steven Zaillian

Steven Ernest Bernard Zaillian is an American screenwriter, film director, film editor, producer, and founder of Film Rites, a film production company. He won an Academy Award for his screenplay for Schindler's List and he has been nominated two times for Awakenings and Gangs of New York...

• The Fugitive
  The Fugitive (1993 film)
  The Fugitive is a 1993 American thriller film based on the television series of the same name. The film was directed by Andrew Davis and stars Harrison Ford and Tommy Lee Jones. The film was one of the few movies associated with a television series to be nominated for the Academy Award for Best...
  
  - Jeb Stuart
  Jeb Stuart (writer)
  Jeb Stuart is an American film director, film producer and screenwriter. Among his scripts are Die Hard , The Fugitive , and an early draft of Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull, entitled Indiana Jones and the Saucer Men from Mars, in 1995.-Filmography:*Die Hard *Next of Kin Jeb...
  
   and David Twohy
  David Twohy
  David Neil Twohy is an American film director and screenwriter.-Life and career:Twohy was born in Los Angeles County, California...
  
  
• In the Name of the Father - Terry George
  Terry George
  Terry George is an Irish screenwriter and director. Born and raised in Belfast, Northern Ireland much of his film work involves the Troubles in Northern Ireland...
  
   and Jim Sheridan
  Jim Sheridan
  Jim Sheridan is an Irish film director. A six-time Academy Award nominee, Sheridan is perhaps best known for his films My Left Foot, In the Name of the Father, Get Rich or Die Tryin and In America.-Life and career:...
  
  
• The Joy Luck Club
  The Joy Luck Club (film)
  The Joy Luck Club is a 1993 American film about the relationships between Chinese-American women and their Chinese mothers. It is based on the 1989 novel of the same name by Amy Tan, who co-wrote the screenplay with Ronald Bass. The film was produced by Oliver Stone and directed by Wayne Wang...
  
  - Ronald Bass
  Ronald Bass
  Ronald Jay Bass , sometimes credited as Ron Bass, is an American screenwriter. Also a film producer, Bass's work is characterized as being highly in demand, and he is thought to be among the most highly paid writers in Hollywood. He is often called the "King of the Pitches"...
  
   and Amy Tan
  Amy Tan
  Amy Tan is an American writer whose works explore mother-daughter relationships. Her most well-known work is The Joy Luck Club, which has been translated into 35 languages...
  
  
• The Remains of the Day
  The Remains of the Day (film)
  The Remains of the Day is a 1993 Merchant Ivory film adapted by Ruth Prawer Jhabvala from the novel by Kazuo Ishiguro. It was directed by James Ivory and produced by Ismail Merchant, Mike Nichols and John Calley. It starred Anthony Hopkins as Stevens and Emma Thompson as Miss Kenton with James Fox,...
  
  - Ruth Prawer Jhabvala
  Ruth Prawer Jhabvala
  Ruth Prawer Jhabvala, CBE is a Booker prize-winning novelist, short story writer, and two-time Academy Award-winning screenwriter. She is perhaps best known for her long collaboration with Merchant Ivory Productions, made up of director James Ivory and the late producer Ismail Merchant...
  
  

Best Original Screenplay

The Piano

The Piano

The Piano is a 1993 New Zealand drama film about a mute pianist and her daughter, set during the mid-19th century in a rainy, muddy frontier backwater on the west coast of New Zealand. The film was written and directed by Jane Campion, and stars Holly Hunter, Harvey Keitel, Sam Neill, and Anna Paquin...

- Jane Campion

Jane Campion

Jane Campion is a filmmaker and screenwriter. She is one of the most internationally successful New Zealand directors, although most of her work has been made in or financed by other countries, principally Australia – where she now lives – and the United States...

• Dave
  Dave (film)
  Dave is a 1993 comedy-drama film written by Gary Ross, directed by Ivan Reitman, and starring Kevin Kline and Sigourney Weaver. Co-stars include Frank Langella, Kevin Dunn, Ving Rhames, and Ben Kingsley. Ross was nominated for an Academy Award for his screenplay...
  
  - Gary Ross
  Gary Ross
  Gary Ross is an American writer, director, and actor. He is best known for directing Pleasantville and Seabiscuit, both of which featured Tobey Maguire in the lead role...
  
  
• In the Line of Fire
  In the Line of Fire
  In the Line of Fire is a 1993 American thriller film about a disillusioned and obsessed former CIA agent who attempts to assassinate the President of the United States and the Secret Service agent who tracks him...
  
  - Jeff Maguire
  Jeff Maguire
  Jeff Maguire is an American screenwriter. Regarded for his talent for writing sports films, Jeff Maguire got his first screenwriting break with his script Escape to Victory, a film about soccer directed by John Huston in 1981. His most recent contribution is Gridiron Gang, released in 2006...
  
  
• Philadelphia
  Philadelphia (film)
  Philadelphia is a 1993 American drama film that was one of the first mainstream Hollywood films to acknowledge HIV/AIDS, homosexuality and homophobia. It was written by Ron Nyswaner and directed by Jonathan Demme. The film stars Tom Hanks and Denzel Washington...
  
  - Ron Nyswaner
  Ron Nyswaner
  Ronald L. Nyswaner is an American screenwriter and film director.Nyswaner wrote his first screenplay for the Susan Seidelman film Smithereens. After two other notable screenplays for Swing Shift and Mrs...
  
  
• Sleepless in Seattle
  Sleepless in Seattle
  The film was originally to have been scored by John Barry, but when he was given a list of 20 songs he had to put in the film, he quit.#As Time Goes By - Jimmy Durante #A Kiss to Build a Dream on - Louis Armstrong #Stardust - Nat King Cole...
  
  - Jeff Arch, Nora Ephron
  Nora Ephron
  Nora Ephron is an American film director, producer, screenwriter, novelist, playwright, journalist, author, and blogger.She is best known for her romantic comedies and is a triple nominee for the Academy Award for Writing Original Screenplay; for Silkwood, When Harry Met Sally... and Sleepless in...
  
   and David S. Ward
  David S. Ward
  David Schad Ward is an American film director and screen writer.-Life and career:Ward was born in Providence, Rhode Island, the son of Miriam and Robert McCollum Ward. Ward has degrees from Pomona College , as well as both USC and the UCLA Film School...
  
  

Daytime Serial

Loving

Loving

-Places:* Loving, New Mexico, a village located in Eddy County, New Mexico.* Loving County, Texas, the least populous county in the U.S.-Things:* Love, a range of human emotions* Loving , a 1945 novel by Henry Green....

 (Millee Taggart

Millee Taggart

Millee Taggart is an American actress, best known for her long-running role as Janet Bergman Collins on Search for Tomorrow. She portrayed the character from 1971 to 1982...

, Robert Guza, Jr.

Robert Guza, Jr.

Robert Guza Jr. is an American television writer and producer, and formally held the position as Head Writer on the long running ABC Daytime soap opera General Hospital. He was fired by Brian Frons.-Personal life:...

, Laurie McCarthy, Addie Walsh

Addie Walsh

-Positions held:All My Children*Associate Head Writer: April 2000 - April 2002; July 2003 - January 14, 2008 ; March 19, 2008 – PresentAs the World Turns*Co-Head Writer: 1997*Associate Head Writer: 1995 - 1999...

, Craig Carlson

Craig Carlson

-Positions held:All My Children*Breakdown Writer Another World*Co-Head Writer *Breakdown Writer Capitol...

, John Kuntz

John Kuntz

John Kuntz is an American television writer and actor. He has written for Guiding Light and As the World Turns . He has been nominated for six Daytime Emmys and two WGA Awards. Kuntz has received an Elliot Norton Award and New York International Fringe Festival Award.-Sources:** * *********...

, Eugenie Hunt, Dana Herko, Lewis Arlt

Lewis Arlt

Lewis Arlt is an American director, actor, and writer. He has been nominated for a Daytime Emmy , and 4 Writers Guild of America Awards- won three times....

, Tony Lang, Lynda Myles

Lynda Myles

Lynda Myles is a British writer and producer. She served as director of the Edinburgh International Film Festival , director and curator of film at the Pacific Film Archive, University of California, Berkeley, Senior Vice–President at Columbia Pictures, Commissioning Editor for Drama at the BBC for...

, Juliette Mann, Andrew Gottlieb

Andrew Gottlieb

-Career:He has written sitcoms , feature films , daytime serial , and books .Currently he is an Executive Producer of Z Rock....

 (cousin of Linda Gottlieb

Linda Gottlieb

-Credits:, "SoapLine" -Credits:, "SoapLine" -Credits:, "SoapLine" (a joint production of ABC News and ABC Daytime to bring viewers storyline updates, special features and interviews during breaks in live, pre-emptive coverage of the O. J...

), Nancy Maxwell)

All My Children

All My Children

All My Children is an American television soap opera that aired on ABC from January 5, 1970 to September 23, 2011. Created by Agnes Nixon, All My Children is set in Pine Valley, Pennsylvania, a fictitious suburb of Philadelphia. The show features Susan Lucci as Erica Kane, one of daytime's most...

 (Megan McTavish

Megan McTavish

Megan McTavish is an American television actress and soap opera writer. McTavish is best known for several head writing stints on All My Children.-Early career:...

, Agnes Nixon

Agnes Nixon

Agnes Nixon is an American writer and producer. She attended Northwestern University where she was a member of Alpha Chi Omega sorority, and is best known as the creator of soap operas such as One Life to Live and All My Children...

, Richard Culliton

Richard Culliton

Richard Culliton is an American television writer known for his work on soap operas. He has won four Writers Guild of America Awards, including one as a Head Writer, and two Daytime Emmy Awards. He is an alumnus of Northwestern University...

, Hal Corley

Hal Corley

-Career:Two of Hal's plays, "An Ounce of Prevention" and "Finding Donis Anne," have been widely performed...

, Carolyn Culliton

Carolyn Culliton

Carolyn Culliton is an American daytime serial writer and an alumnus of Northwestern University. Her husband is acclaimed daytime serial writer Richard Culliton...

, Karen Lewis

Karen Lewis

Karen Lewis is an American television soap opera writer.-Positions held:All My Children*Screenwriter: 1985 - 1997, October 2001 - October 17, 2007*Script Editor: 1997 - 1999As the World Turns* Script Editor: 1999 - 2000...

, Janet Iacobuzio

Janet Iacobuzio

Janet Iacobuzio is an American television soap opera writer. She has written for soaps for nearly 18 years.-Positions held:All My Children* Associate Head Writer: 1993-1994 , 2001 - 2003...

, Elizabeth Smith

Elizabeth Smith

Elizabeth Smith may refer to:* Elizabeth Ann Whitney , early Latter Day Saint leader, born Elizabeth Ann Smith* Elizabeth Davis , wife of Joseph Smith Jr....

, Michelle Patrick

Michelle Patrick

Michelle Patrick is an African American television soap opera writer. She has written for soaps for nearly 17 years.-Positions held:All My Children* Associate Head Writer...

, Jeff Beldner

Jeff Beldner

-Positions held:All My Children *Script Editor: May 14, 2004 - January 14, 2008, March 19, 2008–present*Associate Head Writer: 1994 - 1998, September 17, 2001 - May 2004*Script Writer: 1991 - 1994*Writer's Assistant: 1989 - 1991...

, Bettina F. Bradbury

Bettina F. Bradbury

Bettina F. Bradbury is an award-winning American television soap opera screenwriter. She is the daughter of American science fiction writer Ray Bradbury.-Positions held:*Days of our Lives...

, Ralph Wakefield, Judith Donato, Susan Kirshenbaum

Susan Kirshenbaum

-Positions held:* Writer on All My Children; , As the World Turns , and Days of our Lives -Awards and nominations:...

, Kathleen Klein

Kathleen Klein

-Staff writer:*All My Children *Another World *Guiding Light -Awards and nominations:*Writers Guild of America Award...

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Another World

Another World (TV series)

Another World is an American television soap opera that ran on NBC from May 4, 1964 to June 25, 1999. It ran for a total of 35 years. It was created by Irna Phillips along with William J...

 (Peggy Sloane

Peggy Sloane

Peggy Sloane was an American television soap opera script writer. She wrote on daytime for over 23 years, and her final year of active daytime work was back in 1999...

, Victor Miller

Victor Miller (writer)

Victor Miller or Victor B. Miller is an American writer for film and television. Perhaps his best known and most acknowledged work is his script for the first Friday the 13th film, the popularity of which spawned a long series of sequels, none of which has his involvement, though he remains...

, Craig Carlson

Craig Carlson

-Positions held:All My Children*Breakdown Writer Another World*Co-Head Writer *Breakdown Writer Capitol...

, Samuel D. Ratcliffe

Samuel D. Ratcliffe

Samuel D. Ratcliffe was an Emmy-winning screenwriter for daytime television.He grew up in Birmingham, Alabama and graduated from Birmingham Southern College, moving to New York in 1968 to pursue a career as an actor. From 1968 until the mid-seventies, he appeared in commercials, films and theatre...

, Lisa Kern, Janet Stampfl, Kathleen Kennedy

Kathleen Kennedy

Kathleen Kennedy may refer to:*Kathleen Kennedy *Kathleen Kennedy , American journalist, former news anchor for CNN Headline News*Kathleen Cavendish, Marchioness of Hartington, sister of U.S. President John F. Kennedy...

, Judith Pinsker

Judith Pinsker

Judith Pinsker is an American television writer.Pinsker co-wrote the 1995 New York Times bestseller General Hospital tie-in novel Robin's Diary, based in the AIDS storyline between characters Stone Cates and Robin Scorpio....

, Kathleen Klein

Kathleen Klein

-Staff writer:*All My Children *Another World *Guiding Light -Awards and nominations:*Writers Guild of America Award...

, Janet Iacobuzio

Janet Iacobuzio

Janet Iacobuzio is an American television soap opera writer. She has written for soaps for nearly 18 years.-Positions held:All My Children* Associate Head Writer: 1993-1994 , 2001 - 2003...

, Sharon Epstein, Matthew Lombardo, Mimi Leahey

Mimi Leahey

Mimi Leahey is an American television soap opera script writer. She has written for soaps for nearly 20 years.-Positions held:All My Children* Script Editor Another World* Script Writer As the World Turns...

, Elizabeth Page

Elizabeth Page

Elizabeth Page is an American television soap opera writer. She has written for soaps for nearly 15 years.-Positions held:All My Children* Co- Head Writer: Elizabeth Page is an American television soap opera writer. She has written for soaps for nearly 15 years.-Positions held:All My Children* Co-...

, Peter Brash

Peter Brash

Peter Brash is an American television soap opera writer. He has written for soaps for over 25 years.Peter Brash was born in Boston, MA, and graduated in 1976 from Boston College. He appeared in the 1983 film "Without a Trace" with Judd Hirsch...

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Days of Our Lives

Days of our Lives

Days of our Lives is a long running daytime soap opera broadcast on the NBC television network. It is one of the longest-running scripted television programs in the world, airing nearly every weekday in the United States since November 8, 1965. It has since been syndicated to many countries around...

 (James E. Reilly, Maura Penders, Sheri Anderson, Dena Higley, Mel Brez, Ethel M. Brez, Marlene Clark Poulter, Dorothy Ann Purser, Fran Myers

Fran Myers

Frances Myers is an American television soap opera writer. She has written for soaps for nearly 25 years. She also had a contract role on CBS soap opera Guiding Light as Peggy Scott Fletcher from 1965-1980. She is the widow of actor and writer Roger Newman...

, Maralyn Thoma, Michelle Poteet Lisanti, Mary Jeannett LeDonne, Elizabeth Harrower

Elizabeth Harrower (actress)

Elizabeth Harrower Seabold was an American actress and screenwriter.Betty Louise Foss was born into the world during World War I in Alameda, California and the great flu epidemic. Within six weeks her mother died, her father had a nervous breakdown, and relatives passed her care around...

, Pete T. Rich, N. Gail Lawrence, Peggy Schibi)

General Hospital

General Hospital

General Hospital is an American daytime television drama that is credited by the Guinness Book of World Records as the longest-running American soap opera currently in production and the third longest running drama in television in American history after Guiding Light and As the World Turns....

 (Michele Val Jean

Michele Val Jean

Michele Val Jean is an American television writer on the ABC Daytime soap opera General Hospital. Val Jean made television history when in 2000 she was promoted, alongside Elizabeth Korte, to the post of Head Writer; making her the first African American in the history of daytime television...

, Bill Levinson, Tom Citrano, Ralph Ellis, Linda Hamner, Cynthia M. Jervey, Elizabeth F. Snyder, Carol Saraceno, Meg Bennett

Meg Bennett

Meg Bennett is an American television soap opera writer and occasional actress. She is married to General Hospital Head Writer Robert Guza, Jr.-Early life:...

, Linda Campanelli, Kimmer Ringwald, Gillian Spencer

Gillian Spencer

Gillian Spencer is an American soap opera actress and writer.She has had roles on soaps such as The Edge of Night, The Secret Storm, Guiding Light, As the World Turns and on One Life to Live as the original Victoria Lord/Niki Smith 1968-1970.Spencer appeared in the 1968 feature comedy What's So...

, Karen Harris

Karen Harris

Karen Harris was one of the first exclusive models for Estee Lauder, Inc. from 1962 until 1971, when she was replaced by Karen Graham. As with all Lauder models prior to 1993, Victor Skrebneski photographed the ads Miss Harris appeared in....

, Doris Silverton)