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Writers Guild of America, USA 1985

Event held on 20 March 1985 in Beverly Hilton Hotel, Los Angeles, California, USA

WGA Award (Screen)

Best Screenplay Written Directly for the Screen

Won
Broadway Danny Rose (1984), Woody Allen

Nominated
El Norte (1983), Gregory Nava, Anna Thomas

Nominated
Places in the Heart (1984), Robert Benton

Nominated
Romancing the Stone (1984), Diane Thomas

Nominated
Splash (1984), Lowell Ganz, Babaloo Mandel, Bruce Jay Friedman

Best Screenplay Based on Material from Another Medium

Won
The Killing Fields (1984), Bruce Robinson

Nominated
Greystoke: The Legend of Tarzan, Lord of the Apes (1984), Robert Towne, Michael Austin

Nominated
The Natural (1984), Phil Dusenberry, Roger Towne

Nominated
A Passage to India (1984), David Lean

Nominated
A Soldier's Story (1984), Charles Fuller

WGA Award (TV)

Original/Adapted Multi-Part Long Form Series

Won
The First Olympics: Athens 1896 (1984), Charles Gary Allison, William Bast

Episodic Comedy

Won
Cheers (1982), Michael J. Weithorn

Nominated
Cheers (1982), David Angell

Nominated
Cheers (1982), Heide Perlman

Daytime Serial

Won
Search for Tomorrow (1951), Gary Tomlin, Jeannie Glynn, Courtney Simon, Robin Amos, Norman Borisoff, Louisa Burns-Bisogno, Judy Lewis, Juliet Law Packer, Jule Selbo, Diane Silver, Noreen Stone, Emily Squires, Phyllis White, Robert White

Nominated
Guiding Light (1952), Trent Jones, Christopher Whitesell, Pamela K. Long, Emily Squires, Pete T. Rich, Samuel D. Ratcliffe, Michelle Poteet Lisanti, Stephanie Braxton, Jay Hammer, Carolyn Culliton, Robin Amos, Addie Walsh, John Kuntz, Jeff Ryder, N. Gail Lawrence

Adapted Drama Anthology

Won
The Dollmaker (1984), Susan Cooper, Hume Cronyn

Original/Adapted Comedy Anthology

Won
Hobson's Choice (1983), Burt Prelutsky

Original Drama Anthology

Won
The Day After (1983), Edward Hume

Nominated
Pope John Paul II (1984), Christopher Knopf

Laurel Award for Screen Writing Achievement

Won
William Goldman

Laurel Award for TV Writing Achievement

Won
Danny Arnold

Valentine Davies Award

Won
Charles Champlin

Morgan Cox Award

Won
Edmund L. Hartmann

Edmund J. North Award

Won
Mary C. McCall Jr.

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