Writers Guild of America Award for Best Written Western | |
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Awarded for | Outstanding Writing for a Western Film |
Country | United States |
Presented by | Writers Guild of America |
First awarded | 1949 |
Last awarded | 1951 |
Website | http://www.wga.org/ |
The Writers Guild Award for Best Written Western was an award presented from 1949 to 1951 by the Writers Guild of America, after which it was discontinued.
Year | Film | Writer(s) |
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1948 (1st) [2] | The Treasure of the Sierra Madre | John Huston |
Fort Apache | Frank S. Nugent | |
Four Faces West | Eugene Manlove Rhodes | |
Fury at Furnace Creek | C. Graham Baker, and Teddi Sherman | |
Green Grass of Wyoming | Martin Berkeley | |
Rachel and the Stranger | Waldo Salt | |
Red River | Borden Chase, and Charles Schnee | |
Station West | Frank Fenton, and Winston Miller | |
The Man From Colorado | Robert Hardy Andrews, and Ben Maddow | |
The Paleface | Edmund L. Hartmann, Frank Tashlin, and Jack Rose | |
1949 (2nd) [3] | Yellow Sky | Lamar Trotti |
She Wore a Yellow Ribbon | Frank S. Nugent, and Laurence Stallings | |
Streets of Laredo | Charles Marquis Warren | |
The Gal Who Took the West | William Bowers, and Oscar Brodney | |
Whispering Smith | Frank Butler, and Karl Kamb | |
1950 (3rd) [4] | Broken Arrow | Albert Maltz |
A Ticket to Tomahawk | Mary Loos, and Richard Sale | |
Devil's Doorway | Guy Trosper | |
Rio Grande | James McGuinness | |
The Gunfighter | William Bowers, and William Sellers | |
Winchester '73 | Robert L. Richards, and Borden Chase |
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