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34th WGA Awards
34th WGA Awards
Date	1982
Organized by	Writers Guild of America, East and the Writers Guild of America, West
	← 33rd; WGA Awards; 35th →;

The 34th Writers Guild of America Awards honored the best television, and film writers of 1981. Winners were announced in 1982.^[1]

Winners and nominees

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Film

Winners are listed first highlighted in boldface.

Best Drama Written Directly for the Screenplay Reds, Written by Warren Beatty and Trevor Griffiths Absence of Malice, Written by Kurt Luedtke Atlantic City, Written by John Guare Body Heat, Written by Lawrence Kasdan	Best Comedy Written Directly for the Screenplay Arthur, Written by Steve Gordon The Four Seasons; Written by Alan Alda Raiders of the Lost Ark, Written by Lawrence Kasdan, George Lucas and Philip Kaufman S.O.B., Written by Blake Edwards
Best Drama Adapted from Another Medium On Golden Pond, Screenplay by Ernest Thompson and Donald E. Stewart; Based on his play Cutter's Way, Screenplay by Jeffrey Alan Fiskin; Based on the novel by Newton Thornburg Prince of the City, Screenplay by Jay Presson Allen and Sidney Lumet; Based on the book by Robert Daley Ragtime, Screenplay by Michael Weller; Based on the novel by E.L. Doctorow	Best Comedy Adapted from Another Medium Rich and Famous, Screenplay by Gerald Ayres; Based on the play by John Van Druten First Monday in October, Screenplay by Jerome Lawrence and Robert E. Lee; Based on their play For Your Eyes Only, Screenplay by Richard Maibaum, and Michael G. Wilson; Based on the stories by Ian Fleming

Television

Episodic Comedy *"Stormy Weather" – Barney Miller* (CBS) – Nat Mauldin** "Field Associate" – Barney Miller (CBS) – Jordan Moffet "A War for All Seasons" – MASH* (CBS) – Dan Wilcox and Thad Mumford "No Sweat" – MASH* (CBS) – John Rappaport "Crazy Judge" – Park Place (CBS) – Reinhold Weege "Tony's Sister and Jim" – Taxi (ABC) – Michael Leeson "Thy Boss' Wife" – Taxi (ABC) – Ken Estin "The Greatest American Hero" – The Greatest American Hero (ABC) – Stephen J. Cannell	Episodic Drama *"Hill Street Station" – Hill Street Blues* (NBC) – Michael Kozoll and Steven Bochco** "Film at Eleven" – Hill Street Blues (NBC) – Anthony Yerkovich "Strike" – Lou Grant (CBS) – April Smith "Campesinos" – Lou Grant (CBS) – Michael Vittes "Bless You Hawkeye" – MASH* (CBS) – Dan Wilcox and Thad Mumford "Future City" – Palmerstown, U.S.A. (CBS) – Ronald Rubin
Daytime Serials Ryan's Hope (ABC) – Paul Avila Mayer, Claire Labine, Mary Munisteri and Jeffrey Lane The Doctors (NBC) – Dennis de Brito and Elizabeth Levin Texas (NBC) – John Williams Corrington, Joyce Hooper Corrington, Ralph Adamo, Harry Boehm, Elizabeth Boehm, Carole Berlin and Patrick Mulcahey	Children's Show *"Sunshine's On the Way" – NBC Special Treat* (NBC) – W.W. Lewis** "Family of Strangers" – ABC Afterschool Special (ABC) – Jeffrey Kindley and Len Jenkin "The Treasure of Alpheus Winterborn" – CBS Children's Mystery Theatre (CBS) – Kimmer Ringwald
Anthology Drama Adapted Bitter Harvest (NBC) – Richard Friedenberg Life on the Mississippi (PBS) – Philip H. Reisman Jr. The Acorn People (NBC) – Joan Tewkesbury

Special awards

Laurel Award for Screenwriting Achievement
Paul Osborn
Laurel Award for TV Writing Achievement
John McGreevey
Valentine Davies Award
Mort R. Lewis
Morgan Cox Award
Brad Radnitz

References

^ "Awards Winners". wga.org. Writers Guild of America. Archived from the original on 2012-12-05. Retrieved 2010-06-06.
^ "Writers Guild of America, USA (1982)". IMDb. Retrieved 2019-07-03.

External links

WGA.org

[1] "Awards Winners". wga.org. Writers Guild of America. Archived from the original on 2012-12-05. Retrieved 2010-06-06.

[2] "Writers Guild of America, USA (1982)". IMDb. Retrieved 2019-07-03.

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