Awards for 1985

WGA Award (Screen)

Best Screenplay Written Directly for the Screen

WINNER

Broadway Danny Rose: Woody Allen
NOMINEES

El Norte: Gregory Nava, Anna Thomas

Places in the Heart: Robert Benton

Romancing the Stone: Diane Thomas

Splash: Lowell Ganz, Babaloo Mandel, Bruce Jay Friedman

Best Screenplay Based on Material from Another Medium

WINNER

The Killing Fields: Bruce Robinson
NOMINEES

Greystoke: The Legend of Tarzan, Lord of the Apes: Robert Towne, Michael Austin

The Natural: Phil Dusenberry, Roger Towne

A Passage to India: David Lean

A Soldier's Story: Charles Fuller

WGA Award (TV)

Original/Adapted Multi-Part Long Form Series

WINNER

The First Olympics: Athens 1896: Charles Gary Allison (teleplay/story), William Bast (teleplay)

Original Drama Anthology

WINNER

The Day After: Edward Hume
NOMINEE

Pope John Paul II: Christopher Knopf

Adapted Drama Anthology

WINNER

The Dollmaker: Susan Cooper, Hume Cronyn

Original/Adapted Comedy Anthology

WINNER

Hobson's Choice: Burt Prelutsky

Daytime Serial

WINNER

Search for Tomorrow: 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, Leslie Thomas, Phyllis White, Robert White, Stephen Wardwell
For episodes #8251, #8390 and #8381.
NOMINEE

Guiding Light: 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

Episodic Drama

WINNER

Hill Street Blues: David Milch (story), Michael I. Wagner (teleplay), Mark Frost (teleplay), Karen Hall (teleplay), Steven Bochco (story), Jeffrey Lewis (teleplay/story)
For "Grace Under Pressure".
NOMINEES

Hill Street Blues: David Milch, Mark Frost
For "Death by Kiki".

Trauma Center: Harry Longstreet, Renee Longstreet
For "Turnaround".

St. Elsewhere: John Masius, Tom Fontana
For "Hello and Goodbye".

Cagney & Lacey: Peter Lefcourt
For "Victimless Crime".

Hill Street Blues: Jeffrey Lewis (teleplay/story), Steven Bochco (story), David Milch (teleplay/story), Michael I. Wagner (teleplay), Mark Frost (teleplay)
For "Parting Is Such Sweep Sorrow".

St. Elsewhere: Tom Fontana (story), John Ford Noonan (teleplay), John Masius (story)
For "The Women".

Episodic Comedy

WINNER

Cheers: Michael J. Weithorn
For episode "Sumner's Return".
NOMINEES

Family Ties: Ruth Bennett, Gary David Goldberg
For episode "Not An Affair to Remember".

The Duck Factory: Allan Burns
For episode "Goodbye Buddy, Hello Skip".

Night Court: Reinhold Weege
For episode "Once in Love with Harry".

After MASH: Everett Greenbaum, Elliott Reid
For episode "Night Shift".

Too Close for Comfort: Earl Barret, Arne Sultan
For episode "Ship Mates".

Cheers: David Angell
For episode "Old Flames".

Cheers: Heide Perlman
For episode "Affairs of the Heart".