Writers Guild of America Awards 2003

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56th WGA Awards

21 February 2004


Best Adapted Screenplay:
American Splendor


Best Original Screenplay:
Lost in Translation

The 56th Writers Guild of America Awards, given in 2004, honored the film and television best writers of 2003.

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Winners

Film

Best Adapted Screenplay

American Splendor - Shari Springer Berman and Robert Pulcini

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American Splendor is a 2003 American biographical comedy-drama film about Harvey Pekar, the author of the American Splendor comic book series. The film is also in part an adaptation of the comics, which dramatize Pekar's life. The film was written and directed by documentarians Shari Springer Berman and Robert Pulcini.

Shari Springer Berman and Robert Pulcini American filmmakers

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<i>Cold Mountain</i> (film) 2003 film drama set towards of the end of the American Civil War directed by Anthony Minghella

Cold Mountain is a 2003 epic war film written and directed by Anthony Minghella. The film is based on the bestselling 1997 novel of the same name by Charles Frazier. It stars Jude Law, Nicole Kidman, and Renée Zellweger with Eileen Atkins, Brendan Gleeson, Philip Seymour Hoffman, Natalie Portman, Giovanni Ribisi, Donald Sutherland, and Ray Winstone in supporting roles. The film tells the story of a wounded deserter from the Confederate army close to the end of the American Civil War, who is on his way home to the woman he loves.

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Best Original Screenplay

Lost in Translation - Sofia Coppola

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Gurinder Chadha English film director

Gurinder Chadha, is an English film director of Kenyan Asian origin. Most of her films explore the lives of Indians living in England. This common theme among her work showcases the trials of Indian women living in England and how they must reconcile their converging traditional and modern cultures. Although many of her films seem like simple quirky comedies about Indian women, they actually address many social and emotional issues, especially ones faced by immigrants caught between two worlds.

Paul Mayeda Berges American screenwriter and director

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Television

Best Episodic Drama

Day 2: 7:00 P.M. - 8:00 P.M - 24 - Evan Katz

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"Premiere" is the series premiere of the television series The O.C., which premiered on the Fox network on August 5, 2003. Written by series creator Josh Schwartz and directed by executive producer Doug Liman, the episode depicts the introduction of troubled teenager Ryan Atwood into the wealthy lifestyle of the Cohen family in Newport Beach, Orange County, California.

Best Episodic Comedy

No Sex, Please, We're Skittish - Frasier - Bob Daily

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Best Animation Screenplay

Godfellas - Futurama

Best Original Long Form Screenplay

Best Adapted Long Form Screenplay

Out of the Ashes - Anne Meredith Bastogne (Episode 6 of 2001 miniseries 'Band of Brothers')

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