Writers Guild of America Award for Best Written Western

Writers Guild of America Award for Best Written Western
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.

Winners & Nominees ^[1]

Notes

• The year indicates when the film was released. The awards are presented the following year.

Year	Film	Writer(s)
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

References

1. "Writers Guild Awards Winners 1995-1949". awards.wga.org. Retrieved 2019-05-17.
2. "Writers Guild of America, USA (1949)". IMDb. Retrieved 2019-05-17.
3. "Writers Guild of America, USA (1950)". IMDb. Retrieved 2019-05-17.
4. "Writers Guild of America, USA (1951)". IMDb. Retrieved 2019-05-17.

External links

• WGA.org