Writers Guild of America Awards 1961

14th WGA Awards
Date	1962
Organized by	Writers Guild of America, East and the Writers Guild of America, West
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The 14th Writers Guild of America Awards honored the best film writers of 1961. Winners were announced in 1962. ^[1]

Winners & Nominees ^[2]

Film

Best Written Musical West Side Story, Screenplay by Ernest Lehman; based on the book by Arthur Laurents & the play by Jerome Robbins Babes in Toyland, Screenplay by Ward Kimball, and Lowell S. Hawley; based on the operetta by Victor Herbert, and Glen MacDonough Blue Hawaii, Screenplay by Hal Kanter; story by Allan Weiss Flower Drum Song, Screenplay by Joseph Fields; based on the novel by C.Y. Lee Snow White and the Three Stooges, Screenplay by Noel Langley, and Elwood Ullman; story by Charles Wick

Best Written American Drama The Hustler, Screenplay by Sidney Carroll, and Robert Rossen; based on the novel by Walter Tevis A Raisin in the Sun, Written by Lorraine Hansberry Fanny, Screenplay by Julius J. Epstein; based on the play by S.N. Behrman, and Joshua Logan Judgment at Nuremberg, Screenplay by Abby Mann; story by Abby Mann The Innocents, Screenplay by William Archibald, and Truman Capote; based on the story "The Turn of the Screw" by Henry James

Best Written American Comedy Breakfast at Tiffany's, Screenplay by George Axelrod; based on the breby Truman Capote A Majority of One, Written by Leonard Spigelgass One, Two, Three, Screenplay by Billy Wilder, and I.A.L. Diamond; based on the play by Ferenc Molnár The Absent Minded Professor, Screenplay by Bill Walsh; story by Samuel W. Taylor The Parent Trap, Screenplay by David Swift; based on the book by Erich Kästner

Television

Episodic Drama "The Fault in Our Stars" – Naked City (ABC) – Barry Trivers "The Fatalist" – Have Gun - Will Travel (CBS) – Shimon Wincelberg "Incident of the Buffalo Soldier" – Rawhide (CBS) – John Dunkel "No Sale" – The Law and Mr. Jones (ABC) – Palmer Thompson "Brown" – The Westerner (NBC) – Bruce Geller	Anthology, Any Lenght "The Manhunt" – The Andy Griffith Show (CBS) – Charles Stewart, and Jack Elinson "Everybody's Doin' It" – Art Carney Special (NBC) – Herbert Sargent The Arthur Murray Special for Bob Hope – Lester A. White, John Rapp, Mort Lachman, Bill Larkin, Charles Lee, and Norman Sullivan
Comedy/Variety, Any Lenght "Death of the Temple Bay" – The DuPont Show with June Allyson (CBS) – Christopher Knopf "The Hidden World" – Armstrong Circle Theatre (NBC) – Alvin Boretz "Eye of the Beholder" – The Twilight Zone (CBS) – Rod Serling

Special Awards

Laurel Award for Screenwriting Achievement
Philip Dunne
Valentine Davies Award
Mary C. McCall Jr.

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 (1962)". IMDb. Retrieved 2019-05-23.

External links

• WGA.org