14th Writers Guild of America Awards
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Award ceremony for writing of 1961
| 14th WGA Awards | |
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| 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 and television writers of 1961. Winners were announced in 1962.[1]
Winners and nominees
[edit ]Film
[edit ]Winners are listed first highlighted in boldface.
- 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
- 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
- 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
[edit ]- "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 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
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
[edit ]| Laurel Award for Screenwriting Achievement | |
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| Valentine Davies Award | |
References
[edit ]- ^ "Awards Winners". wga.org. Writers Guild of America. Archived from the original on December 5, 2012. Retrieved June 6, 2010.
- ^ "Writers Guild of America, USA (1962)". IMDb. Retrieved May 23, 2019.