12th Writers Guild of America Awards

12th WGA Awards
Date	1960
Organized by	Writers Guild of America, East and the Writers Guild of America, West
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The 12th Writers Guild of America Awards honored the best film writers and television writers of 1959. Winners were announced in 1960. ^[1]

Winners & Nominees

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Film

Winners are listed first highlighted in boldface.

Best Written Musical The Five Pennies , Screenplay by Melville Shavelson and Jack Rose; Story by Robert Smith A Private's Affair , Screenplay by Winston Miller; Story by Ray Livingston Murphy Li'l Abner , Screenplay by Norman Panama and Melvin Frank; Based on the comic strip by Al Capp Never Steal Anything Small , Screenplay by Charles Lederer; Based on the play by Maxwell Anderson and Rouben Mamoulian Porgy and Bess , Screenplay by N. Richard Nash Say One for Me , Screenplay by Robert O'Brien

Best Written American Drama The Diary of Anne Frank , Screenplay by Frances Goodrich and Albert Hackett; Based on the book The Diary of a Young Girl by Anne Frank Anatomy of a Murder , Screenplay by Wendell Mayes; Based on the novel by John D. Voelker Ben-Hur , Screenplay by Karl Tunberg; Based on the novel by Lew Wallace Compulsion , Screenplay by Richard Murphy; Based on the novel by Richard Murphy The Nun's Story , Screenplay by Robert Anderson; Based on the book by Kathryn Hulme

Best Written American Comedy Some Like It Hot , Screenplay by Billy Wilder and I.A.L. Diamond; Story by Robert Thoeren and Michael Logan A Hole in the Head , Screenplay by Arnold Schulman; Based on the play North by Northwest , Screenplay by Ernest Lehman Operation Petticoat , Screenplay by Stanley Shapiro and Maurice Richlin; Story by Paul King and Joseph Stone Pillow Talk , Screenplay by Stanley Shapiro and Maurice Richlin; Story by Russell Rouse and Clarence Greene

Television

Comedy/Variety, Any Length "Freddie's Thanskgiving" - The Red Skelton Hour - Sherwood Schwartz, Jesse Goldstein and Dave O'Brien "The Dean Martin Show" - Startime - Herbert Baker "The Ricardos Make Room for Danny" - The Lucy-Desi Comedy Hour - Bob Schiller and Bob Weiskopf The Steve Allen Show - Don Hinkley, Herbert Sargent, Leonard Stern, Bill Dana and Stan Burns

Script, 30 Minutes or Less in Program Length "Auf Wiedersehen" - General Electric Theater - Kurt Vonnegut Jr. and Valentine Davies "Eddie" - Alcoa Theatre - Alfred Benner and Ken Hughes "Kathy's Romance" - Father Knows Best - Roswell Rogers "A Friend in Need" - Father Knows Best - Dorothy Cooper "Day of Glory" - Jane Wyman Presents: The Fireside Theatre - Steve Fisher, Oscar Millard and Louis Aadamic "A Locket for Linda" - Make Room for Daddy - Peggy Chantler Dick and William Cowley "Terry's Crush" - Make Room for Daddy - Charles Stewart and Jack Elinson "The Sheridan Story" - The Rifleman - Cyril Hume

Script 60 Minutes or Less in Program Length but Longer Than 30 Minutes "The Sea Is Boiling Hot" - Kraft Theatre - Shimon Wincelberg "The Nightingale" - Shirley Temple's Storybook - Alvin Sapinsley "The Desperate Age" - Studio One in Hollywood - Abby Mann "Capital Punishment" - Studio One in Hollywood - James Lee "My Father, the Fool" - Westinghouse Desilu Playhouse - Adrian Spies

Special Awards

Laurel Award for Screenwriting Achievement
Norman Krasna

References

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 (1960)". IMDb. Retrieved 2019-05-20.

External links

• WGA.org