13th Writers Guild of America Awards

13th WGA Awards
Date	1961
Organized by	Writers Guild of America, East and the Writers Guild of America, West
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The 13th Writers Guild of America Awards honored the best film writers and television writers of 1960. Winners were announced in 1961. ^[1]

Winners and nominees

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Film

Winners are listed first highlighted in boldface.

Best Written Musical Bells Are Ringing , Screenplay by Betty Comden and Adolph Green; based on the play by Betty Comden and Adolph Green Can-Can , Screenplay by Dorothy Kingsley and Charles Lederer G.I. Blues , Written by Edmund Beloin and Henry Garson Let's Make Love , Screenplay by Norman Krasna and Hal Kanter

Best Written American Drama Elmer Gantry , Screenplay by Richard Brooks; based on the novel by Sinclair Lewis Sons and Lovers , Screenplay by Gavin Lambert and T.E.B. Clarke; based on the novel by D.H. Lawrence Psycho , Screenplay by Joseph Stefano; based on the novel by Robert Bloch Spartacus , Screenplay by Dalton Trumbo; based on the novel by Howard Fast The Sundowners , Screenplay by Isobel Lennart; based on the novel by Jon Cleary

Best Written American Comedy The Apartment , Written by Billy Wilder and I.A.L. Diamond North to Alaska , Screenplay by Martin Rackin, John Lee Mahin and Claude Binyon; based on the play by Ladislas Fodor and John H. Kafka Ocean's 11 , Screenplay by Harry Brown and Charles Lederer; story by George Clayton Johnson and Jack Golden Russell Please Don't Eat the Daisies , Screenplay by Isobel Lennart; based on the book by Jean Kerr The Facts of Life , Written by Norman Panama and Melvin Frank

Television

Episodic, Longer than 30 Minutes in Length "The Unhired Assassin: Part 1 & 2" – The Untouchables (ABC) – William Spier "The Last Hunt" – Bonanza (NBC) – Donald S. Sanford "Incident of the Dry Drive" – Rawhide (CBS) – John Dunkel	Episodic Comedy Margaret's Old Flame" – Father Knows Best (CBS) – Dorothy Cooper "Chip Off the Old Block" – My Three Sons (ABC) – George Tibbles "Linda Wants to Be a Boy" – The Danny Thomas Show (ABC) – Charles Stewart, and Jack Elison
Anthology, 30 Minutes in Length "Interrogation" – Zane Grey Theater (CBS) – Christopher Knopf "The Glorious Fourth" – Alcoa Theatre (NBC) – Richard Alan Simmons "Lady Bug" – Goodyear Theatre (NBC) – Leonard Freeman "The Trench Coat – The DuPont Show with June Allyson (CBS) – Bruce Geller "The Monsters Are Due on Maple Street" – The Twilight Zone (CBS) – Rod Serling	Anthology, More Than One Half Hour "I, Don Quixote" – The DuPont Show of the Month (CBS) – Dale Wasserman

Special awards

Laurel Award for Screenwriting Achievement
George Seaton

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 (1961)". IMDb. Retrieved 2019-05-23.

External links

• WGA.org