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13th Writers Guild of America Awards
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February 2025
1960
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The 13th Writers Guild of America Awards honored the best film writers and television writers of 1960. Winners were announced in 1961.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/ev0000710/1961/1/ Writers Guild of America, USA (1961) IMDb 2019-05-23
#EEDD82 Best Written Musical
Bells Are Ringing, Screenplay by Betty Comden and Adolph Green; based on the play by Betty Comden and Adolph Green
Can-Can, Screenplay by Dorothy Kingsley and Charles Lederer
G.I. Blues, Written by Edmund Beloin and Henry Garson
Let's Make Love, Screenplay by Norman Krasna and Hal Kanter#EEDD82 Best Written American Drama
Elmer Gantry, Screenplay by Richard Brooks; based on the novel by Sinclair Lewis
Sons and Lovers, Screenplay by Gavin Lambert and T.E.B. Clarke; based on the novel by D.H. Lawrence
Psycho, Screenplay by Joseph Stefano; based on the novel by Robert Bloch
Spartacus, Screenplay by Dalton Trumbo; based on the novel by Howard Fast
The Sundowners, Screenplay by Isobel Lennart; based on the novel by Jon Cleary#EEDD82 Best Written American Comedy
The Apartment, Written by Billy Wilder and I.A.L. Diamond
North to Alaska, Screenplay by Martin Rackin, John Lee Mahin and Claude Binyon; based on the play by Ladislas Fodor and John H. Kafka
Ocean's 11, Screenplay by Harry Brown and Charles Lederer; story by George Clayton Johnson and Jack Golden Russell
Please Don't Eat the Daisies, Screenplay by Isobel Lennart; based on the book by Jean Kerr
The Facts of Life, Written by Norman Panama and Melvin Frank
Television
#EEDD82 Episodic, Longer than 30 Minutes in Length
"The Unhired Assassin: Part 1 & 2" – The Untouchables (ABC) – William Spier
"The Last Hunt" – Bonanza (NBC) – Donald S. Sanford
"Incident of the Dry Drive" – Rawhide (CBS) – John Dunkel#EEDD82 Episodic Comedy
Margaret's Old Flame" – Father Knows Best (CBS) – Dorothy Cooper
"Chip Off the Old Block" – My Three Sons (ABC) – George Tibbles
"Linda Wants to Be a Boy" – The Danny Thomas Show (ABC) – Charles Stewart, and Jack Elison#EEDD82 Anthology, 30 Minutes in Length
"Interrogation" – Zane Grey Theater (CBS) – Christopher Knopf
"The Glorious Fourth" – Alcoa Theatre (NBC) – Richard Alan Simmons
"Lady Bug" – Goodyear Theatre (NBC) – Leonard Freeman
"The Trench Coat – The DuPont Show with June Allyson (CBS) – Bruce Geller
"The Monsters Are Due on Maple Street" – The Twilight Zone (CBS) – Rod Serling#EEDD82 Anthology, More Than One Half Hour
"I, Don Quixote" – The DuPont Show of the Month (CBS) – Dale Wasserman
Special awards
Laurel Award for Screenwriting AchievementGeorge Seaton
References
External links
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