Finalist: Jane Ransom, Kitty Bang
Finalist: Barry Wolverton, The Collectors

2003
1st Place: Sylvia Cary, The Ladies War

Finalist: Robert Tracey Bowersox, Beneath the Badge
Finalist: Keith Davidson, Eternally Yours
Finalist: Ben Lee, Love by the Book
Finalist: Steven Vlasak, Tea Party

2002
Best Comedy: Rita Barnett, Fairy Godmothers
Best Drama: Steve Warren, Ghosts of Bull Run

Finalist: Marc Balay, Just My Imagination
Finalist: Ted Rabinowitz, Plan X
Finalist: Karol Ruth Silverstein, Rachel's Season

2001
Judges' Choice (Comedy): Beth Szymkowski, Settlin'
Judges' Choice (Drama): Bill Flannigan, Tiananmen [Credits: Jimmy Ritz (2000)]

Finalist: Susan Stroh, Cloudberries
Finalist: Barbara Albers Jackson, Pretty Bird

2000
Judges' Choice: James Frazier, The Last Buffalo Hunter

Finalist: Samuel Adams, Old Flame
Finalist: Mark Garbett, Knocked Off
Finalist: Joe Mullich, Cloning Casanova
Finalist: Dale Sweeney, Gabriel's Tale

1999
Judges' Choice: John Culton, The Queen's Mark [retitled Freemantle, currently in pre-production]
Judges' Choice: James Frazier & Julian McGrath, Mr. Madden
Judges' Choice: Cynthia Webb, The Grape Arbor

Finalist: Geoffrey Alexander, Good Cop/Bad Cop
Finalist: Joe Mullich, Written in Blood

1998
1st Place: T.J. Lynch, The Beginning of Wisdom [Currently in production]
2nd Place: Joann K. Buckley, The Importance of Being Constance

Finalist: Mark T. Leonard, Inauguration
Finalist: Eric Lindbom & Nic Santiago, The Fake McCoy
Finalist: Andy Smith, Canebreak

1997
1st Place (Comedy): Kathleen Townsley, Babygate
1st Place (Drama): Nancy Hendrickson, On Top of the World
Honorable Mention: Martin Blinder, Kidnap the Devil

Finalist: Jeff Davis, Tango Man
Finalist: Brian Godawa, Friedrich and Elizabeth [Credits: To End All Wars]

1996
1st Place (Tie): Keith Davidson, The Gentleman Detective [Credits: Charlie Noir (2002), currently writing The Nature of Evil for Ivan Reitman, Rob Cohen & Universal]
1st Place (Tie): Jon Macy, Undercurrent [Credits: School Colors (2002)]
Most Promising New Voice: Flo Cameron, Mirror Image [TV Credits: The Nanny]

Finalist: Joanne Bahura, Redliners
Finalist: Andrew Fisk, True Detective
Finalist: Linda Freeny, The Thirteenth Commandment
Finalist: Mark Zifcak, The Swordsman

1995
Most Promising New Voice (Tie): Doug Eboch, Overload [Credits: Sweet Home Alabama (2002)]
Most Promising New Voice (Tie): Catherine Modesitt, Hope and Grace

Finalist: Jacques Buntrock, Final Vow
Finalist: Dianne Mason, Danny's Ghost

1994
1st Place: Tito Morales, Black Palms
2nd Place: James Boyd, The Final Solution [Credits: The New Gods (1997)]
Honorable Mention: Sven Toorvald, Atlantis

Finalist: Bill Lundy, Time Wranglers [Credits: Silent Warnings (2003)]

1993
1st Place (Tie): Keith Moore, Depot
1st Place (Tie): D.J. Wynn & Michael Foresta, Yo! Tinman
2nd Place: Shirley Hillard, Nobody's Sweetheart [Credits: Season of Change (1994)]

Finalist: Nina Beesley, Fast Forward
Finalist: Richard Nathan, The Deadwood Kid
Finalist: Kate Robbins, Legacy [Producer, Plots with a View (2003)]

1992
1st Place: Maria Jacquemetton, Tweetie and Boots [TV Credits: Baywatch, Highlander: The Raven, Enterprise]
2nd Place: Frank Kosa, New World 30910 [Credits: Threat of Exposure (2002)]

Finalist: Flo Cameron, Mirror Image
Finalist: Mark Curran, Benjamin and Galileo
Finalist: Ken Ferber, Perfect Record
Finalist: Ross Jones & Joseph Torchia, The Kryptonite Kid
Finalist: Richard Nathan, The American Son vs. Hitler [Credits: Laughing It Up (1997)]
Finalist: Merrill Powers, Better Than Magic
Finalist: Bonnie Sanders, Eighteen Wheels
Finalist: Harve Tanz, Fatal Act
Finalist: Jim Walker, The Last Species

1991
1st Place: Bettina Moss, The Inventor of Everything [Managing Story Editor, HBO Films]
2nd Place: Frank Kosa, Heart Failure
3rd Place: Marcia Galles, Catalina
Honorable Mention: Maria Doumanoff, White Eagles' Trove

Finalist: Barbara Butler, Bolshevik Blues [Credits: Big Shots (2001)]
Finalist: Mark Curran, Angel Street
Finalist: Jim Grimes, Dead Reckoning
Finalist: Larry Massaron, Lisa
Finalist: Anne Moore, Ghost Walkers
Finalist: Harve Tanz, Ruffled Feathers

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