Writers Guild of America Awards 1957

10th WGA Awards
Date	1958
Organized by	Writers Guild of America, East and the Writers Guild of America, West
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The 10th Writers Guild of America Awards honored the best film writers of 1957. Winners were announced in 1958. ^[1]

Winners & Nominees ^[2]

Film

Winners are listed first highlighted in boldface.

Best Written Musical Les Girls , Screenplay by John Patrick; story by Vera Caspary Funny Face , Screenplay by Leonard Gershe Pal Joey , Screenplay by Dorothy Kingsley; based on the play by John O'Hara The Joker Is Wild , Screenplay by Oscar Saul; based on the book by Art Cohn The Pajama Game , Screenplay by George Abbott, and Richard Bissell; based on the novel by Richard Bissell

Best Written American Drama 12 Angry Men , Screenplay by Reginald Rose Heaven Knows, Mr. Allison , Screenplay by John Lee Mahin, and John Huston; based on the novel by Charles Shaw Paths of Glory , Screenplay by Stanley Kubrick, Calder Willingham, and Jim Thompson; based on the novel by Humphrey Cobb Peyton Place , Screenplay by John Michael Hayes; based on the novel by Grace Metalious Sayonara , Screenplay by Paul Osborn; based on the novel by James A. Michener

Best Written American Comedy Love in the Afternoon , Screenplay by Billy Wilder, and I.A.L. Diamond; based on the novel by Claude Anet Designing Woman , Screenplay by George Wells; story by Helen Rose Don't Go Near the Water , Screenplay by Dorothy Kingsley, and George Wells; based on the novel by William Brinkley Operation Mad Ball , Screenplay by Arthur Carter, Jed Harris, and Blake Edwards; based on the play by Arthur Carter Will Success Spoil Rock Hunter? , Screenplay by Frank Tashlin; based on a play by George Axelrod

Television

Western Episode "Helen of Abajinian" – Have Gun - Will Travel (CBS) – Gene Roddenberry "Ghostface" – Broken Arrow (ABC) – John Dunkel "The Quick and the Dead – Maverick (ABC) – Douglas Heyes End of a Gun – The 20th Century-Fox Hour (CBS) – Sam Peckinpah "The Child" – The Restless Gun (NBC) – Herbert Little Jr., David Victor; story by John Payne

Special Awards

Laurel Award for Screenwriting Achievement
John Lee Mahin

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 (1958)". IMDb. Retrieved 2019-05-20.

External links

• WGA.org