Writers' Guild Awards 1996 - The Writers' Guild of Great Britain (original) (raw)

26 October 1997 at the Intercontinental Hotel, London

FILM

Screenplay

Mark Herman, BRASSED OFF

TV

Play or Film

Jimmy McGovern, HILLSBOROUGH

Situation Comedy

John Sullivan, ONLY FOOLS AND HORSES (CHRISTMAS TRILOGY)

Light Entertainment

Harry Enfield, Paul Whitehouse, Dave Cummings, Ian Hislop, Nick Newman, Richard Preddy, Gary Howe, Graham Linehan, Arthur Mathews & Geoffrey Perkins, HARRY ENFIELD AND CHUMS

Original Drama Serial

Richard Zajdlic, Matthew Graham, Mark Davis Markham, Joe Ahearne, Ian Iqbal Rashid, Amelia Bullmore, Eirene Houston, Annie Caulfield, Jimmy Gardner & William Gaminara, THIS LIFE

Original Drama Series

Tim Firth, PRESTON FRONT

Dramatised Serial

Bryan Elsley, THE CROW ROAD

Children’s

Richard Carpenter, THE IMPORTANCE OF BEING INVISIBLE

RADIO

Original Play

Lee Hall, SPOONFACE STEINBERG

Dramatisation

Steve Chambers, WATERLAND

Comedy/Light Entertainment

Alex Ferguson, MY UNCLE FREDDIE

Children

Peter Kerry, INTO THE DARK

THEATRE

West End

Ayub Khan-Din, EAST IS EAST

Regional

David Farr, ELTON JOHN’S GLASSES

Fringe

Anthony Neilson, THE CENSOR

BOOKS

Fiction

Jonathan Coe, THE HOUSE OF SLEEP

Non-Fiction

Daniel Start, THE OPEN CAGE

Children

John Loveday, GOODBYE BUFFALO SKY

Berlie Doherty, DAUGHTER OF THE SEA

Ted Willis Lifetime Achievement Award

John McGrath

New Writer of the Year

Ayub Khan-Din, EAST IS EAST

The Writers’ Guild Award

Gordon House

Non English Language Award

Siwan Jones, TAIR CHWAER