23rd Writers Guild of America Awards

23rd WGA Awards
Date	1971
Organized by	Writers Guild of America, East and the Writers Guild of America, West
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The 23rd Writers Guild of America Awards honored the best film writers and television writers of 1970. Winners were announced in 1971. ^[1]

Winners and nominees

Film

Winners are listed first highlighted in boldface. ^[2]

Best Drama Written Directly for the Screenplay Patton , Written by Francis Ford Coppola and Edmund H. North Five Easy Pieces , Written by Carole Eastman; Story by Bob Rafelson and Carole Eastman Love Story , Written by Erich Segal

Best Comedy Written Directly for the Screenplay The Out of Towners , Written by Neil Simon The Private Life of Sherlock Holmes , Written by Billy Wilder and I.A.L. Diamond Quackser Fortune Has a Cousin in the Bronx , Written by Gabriel Walsh Start the Revolution Without Me , Written by Fred Freeman and Lawrence J. Cohen The Cheyenne Social Club , Written by James Lee Barrett

Best Drama Adapted from Another Medium I Never Sang for My Father , Screenplay by Robert Anderson; Based on "I Never Sang for My Father" by him Airport , Screenplay by George Seaton; Based on the novel by Arthur Hailey Catch-22 , Screenplay by Buck Henry; Based on the novel by Joseph Heller Little Big Man , Screenplay by Calder Willingham; Based on the novel by Thomas Berger The Great White Hope , Screenplay by Howard Sackler; Based on the play by Howard Sackler

Best Comedy Adapted from Another Medium MASH , Screenplay by Ring Lardner Jr.; Based on the novel by Richard Hooker Lovers and Other Strangers , Screenplay by Renée Taylor, Joseph Bologna and David Zelag Goodman; Based on the play by Joseph Bologna and Renée Taylor The Owl and the Pussycat , Screenplay by Buck Henry; Based on the play by Bill Manhoff The Twelve Chairs , Screenplay by Mel Brooks; Based on the novel by Ilya Ilf and Yevgeni Petro Where's Poppa? , Screenplay by Robert Klane; Based on his novel

Television

Episodic Comedy "The Valediciton" – Room 222 (ABC) – Richard de Roy "The Fourth Estate" – My World and Welcome to It (NBC) – Lila Garrett and Bernie Kahn "Funny Money" – Room 222 (ABC) – Steven Pritzker "Check the check" – The Governor & JJ (CBS) – Arne Sultan and Earl Barret

Episodic Drama "A Continual Roar of Musketry: Part 1 & 2" – The Bold Ones: The Senator (NBC) – David W. Rintels "Meanwhile Back at the Studio" – Bracken's World (NBC) – Joseph Bonaduce "Infinity" – Bracken's World (NBC) – Cliff Gould "Trouble in Mind" – Hawaii Five-O (CBS) – Mel Goldberg and Sasha Gilien "The Glass Prison" – The Young Lawyers (ABC) – John W. Bloch

Special awards

Laurel Award for Screenwriting Achievement
James Poe
Valentine Davies Award
Daniel Taradash
Morgan Cox Award
Leonard Spigelgass
Edmund J North Award
Lamar Trotti

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 (1971)". IMDb. Retrieved 2019-06-08.

External links

• WGA.org