14th Writers Guild of America Awards

February 2025 1961 14 WGA Awards 1962 Writers Guild of America, East and the Writers Guild of America, West 13th 15th The 14th Writers Guild of America Awards honored the best film writers and television writers of 1961. Winners were announced in 1962.https://awards.wga.org/awards/nominees-winners/1995-1949 Writers Guild Awards Winners: 1995-1949 wga.org Writers Guild of America https://web.archive.org/web/20251204222131/https://awards.wga.org/awards/nominees-winners/1995-1949 2025-12-04 2026-02-20 live Winners and nominees Film Winners are listed first highlighted in boldface.http://www.imdb.com/event/ev0000710/1962/1/ Writers Guild of America, USA (1962) IMDb 2019-05-23 #EEDD82 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#EEDD82 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 The Innocents, Screenplay by William Archibald and Truman Capote; Based on the story "The Turn of the Screw" by Henry James Judgment at Nuremberg, Screenplay by Abby Mann; Story by Abby Mann#EEDD82 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 The Absent Minded Professor, Screenplay by Bill Walsh; Story by Samuel W. Taylor One, Two, Three, Screenplay by Billy Wilder and I.A.L. Diamond; Based on the play by Ferenc Molnár The Parent Trap, Screenplay by David Swift; Based on the book by Erich Kästner Television #EEDD82 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#EEDD82 Anthology, Any Length "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#EEDD82 Comedy/Variety, Any Length "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 Special awards Laurel Award for Screenwriting AchievementPhilip DunneValentine Davies AwardMary C. McCall Jr. References External links WGA.org 1961 W Writers Guild of America Awards Writers Guild of America Awards Writers Guild of America Awards