29th Writers Guild of America Awards
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Award ceremony for writing of 1976
| 29th WGA Awards | |
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| Date | 1977 |
| Organized by | Writers Guild of America, East and the Writers Guild of America, West |
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The 29th Writers Guild of America Awards honored the best film writers and television writers of 1976. Winners were announced in 1977.[1]
Winners and nominees
[edit ]Film
[edit ]Winners are listed first highlighted in boldface.
- Network , Written by Paddy Chayefsky
- The Omen , Written by David Seltzer
- Rocky , Written by Sylvester Stallone
- Taxi Driver , Written by Paul Schrader
- The Front , Written by Walter Bernstein
- The Bad News Bears , Written by Bill Lancaster
- Murder by Death , Written by Neil Simon
- Next Stop, Greenwich Village , Written by Paul Mazursky
- Silent Movie , Written by Mel Brooks, Ron Clark, Rudy De Luca and Barry Levinson
- Silver Streak , Written by Colin Higgins
- All the President's Men , Screenplay by William Goldman; Based on the book by Carl Bernstein and Bob Woodward
- Bound for Glory , Screenplay by Robert Getchell; Based on the autobiography by Woody Guthrie
- The Seven-Per-Cent Solution , Screenplay by Nicholas Meyer; Based on the novel by Nicholas Meyer
- Marathon Man , Screenplay by William Goldman, Based on his novel
- The Shootist , Screenplay by Miles Hood Swarthout and Scott Hale; Based on the novel by Glendon Swarthout
- The Pink Panther Strikes Again , Screenplay by Frank Waldman and Blake Edwards
- Family Plot , Screenplay by Ernest Lehman; Based on the novel by Victor Canning
- Stay Hungry , Screenplay by Charles Gaines and Bob Rafelson; Based on the novel by Charles Gaines
- The Bingo Long Traveling All-Stars & Motor Kings , Screenplay by Hal Barwood and Matthew Robbins; Based on the novel by William Brashler
- The Ritz , Screenplay by Terrence McNally; Based on his play
Television
[edit ]- "Dear Sigmund" – M*A*S*H (CBS) – Alan Alda
- "Joey's Baptism" – All in the Family (CBS) – Mel Tolkin, Larry Rhine and Milt Josefsberg
- "Evacuation" – Barney Miller (ABC) – Danny Arnold and Chris Hayward
- "Hawkeye Get Your Gun" – M*A*S*H (CBS) – Jay Folb, and Gene Reynolds
- "Mary's Insomnia" – The Mary Tyler Moore Show (CBS) – David Lloyd
- "My Son, the Genius" – The Mary Tyler Moore Show (CBS) – Bob Ellison
- "Crossing Fox River" – Lincoln (NBC) – Loring Mandel
- "Flying Misfits" – Baa Baa Black Sheep (NBC) – Stephen J. Cannell
- "The November Plan: Part 1, 2 & 3" – City of Angels (NBC) – Stephen J. Cannell and Roy Huggins
- Rich Man, Poor Man - Book II (ABC) – Millard Lampell
- "So Help Me God" – The Rockford Files (NBC) – Juanita Barltett
- Ryan's Hope (ABC) – Claire Labine, Paul Avila Mayer, Mary Munisteri and Jeffrey Lane
- Days of Our Lives (NBC) – William J. Bell, Patricia Falken Smith, Bill Rega, Margaret Stewart and Kay Lenard
- The Edge of Night (ABC) – Henry Slesar
- "Blind Sunday" – ABC Afterschool Special (ABC) – Arthur Barron
- "Big Henry and the Polka Dot Kid" – NBC Special Treat (NBC) – W.W. Lewis
- Bound for Freedom (NBC) – Jan Hartman
- "Part II" – God's Country (CBS) – Alfa-Betty Olsen and Marshall Efron
Special awards
[edit ]References
[edit ]- ^ "Awards Winners". wga.org. Writers Guild of America. Archived from the original on December 5, 2012. Retrieved June 6, 2010.
- ^ "Writers Guild of America, USA (1977)". IMDb. Retrieved June 20, 2019.