Writers Guild of America Awards 1949

2nd WGA Awards
Date	1950
Organized by	Writers Guild of America, East and the Writers Guild of America, West
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The 2nd Writers Guild of America Awards honored the best film writers of 1949. Winners were announced in 1950. ^[1]

Winners & Nominees ^[2]

Film

Winners are listed first highlighted in boldface.

Best Written Film Concerning American Scene All the King's Men , Screenplay by Robert Rossen Home of the Brave , Screenplay by Carl Foreman Intruder in the Dust , Screenplay Ben Maddow; based on the Novel by William Faulner Lost Boundaries , Screenplay by Virginia Shaler, and Eugene King Pinky , Screenplay by Philip Dunne & Dudley Nichols	Best Written Western Yellow Sky , Story by W.R. Burnett, Screenplay by W.R. Burnett and Lamar Trotti She Wore a Yellow Ribbon , Screenplay by Frank S. Nugent, and Laurence Stallings; based on the story "The Big Hunt" and "War Party" by James Warner Bellah Streets of Laredo , Screenplay by Charles Marquis Warren The Gal Who Took the West , Screenplay by William Bowers, and Oscar Brodney Whispering Smith , Screenplay by Frank Butler, and Karl Kamb
Best Written Musical On the Town , Written by Adolph Green & Betty Comden; based on the play by Adolph Green, and Betty Comden In the Good Old Summertime , Screenplay by Albert Hackett, Frances Goodrich, and Ivan Tors Jolson Sings Again , Screenplay by Sidney Buchman Take Me Out to the Ball Game , Screenplay by Harry Tugend, and George Wells; story by Gene Kelly, and Stanley Donen The Barkleys of Broadway , Screenplay by Betty Comden, and Adolph Green You're My Everything , Screenplay by Lamar Trotti, and Will Hays Jr.	Best Written Drama All the King's Men , Screenplay by Robert Rossen Battleground, Screenplay by Robert Pirosh Champion, Screenplay by Carl Foreman; story by Ring Lardner Intruder in the Dust , Screenplay Ben Maddow; based on the Novel by William Faulner The Hasty Heast , Screenplay by Ranald MacDougall, based on the Play by John Patrick The Heiress , Screenplay by Ruth Goetz, and August Goetz The Window , Screenplay by Mel Dinelli; based on the story "The Boy Cried Murder" by Cornell Woolrich
Best Written Comedy A Letter to Three Wives , Screenplay by Joseph L. Mankiewicz Adam's Rib , Screenplay by Ruth Gordon, and Garson Kanin Come to the Stable , Screenplay by Oscar Millard, and Sally Benson; story by Clare Boothe Luce Every Girl Should Be Married , Screenplay by Stephen Morehouse Avery; written by Don Hartman; story by Eleanor Harris I Was a Male War Bride , Screenplay by Charles Lederer, Leonard Spigel, and Hagar Wilde; story by Henri Rochard It Happens Every Spring , Screenplay by Valentine Davies; based on a story by Shirley W. Smith, and Valentine Davies

References

1. https://archive.is/20121205095022/http://www.wga.org/awards/awardssub.aspx?id=1551
2. "Writers Guild of America, USA (1950)". IMDb. Retrieved 2019-05-14.

External links

• WGA.org