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WGA AWARDS

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    WGA Award (Screen)

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    Best Written American Comedy

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      Winner

      The Apartment

      8.3 (211K)
      Billy Wilder
      I.A.L. Diamond
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      The Facts of Life

      6.3 (1.9K)
      Norman Panama
      Melvin Frank
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      North to Alaska

      6.9 (8.9K)
      Martin Rackin
      John Lee Mahin
      Claude Binyon
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      Ocean's Eleven

      6.5 (27K)
      Harry Brown
      Charles Lederer
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      Please Don't Eat the Daisies

      6.4 (5.2K)
      Isobel Lennart

    Best Written American Drama

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      Winner

      Elmer Gantry

      7.7 (14K)
      Richard Brooks
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      Psycho

      8.5 (760K)
      Joseph Stefano
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      Sons and Lovers

      7.1 (1.9K)
      Gavin Lambert
      T.E.B. Clarke
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      Spartacus

      7.9 (149K)
      Dalton Trumbo
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      The Sundowners

      7.1 (5.1K)
      Isobel Lennart

    Best Written American Musical

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      Winner

      Bells Are Ringing

      6.9 (4K)
      Betty Comden
      Adolph Green
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      Can-Can

      6.3 (2.7K)
      Dorothy Kingsley
      Charles Lederer
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      G.I. Blues

      6.2 (4.7K)
      Edmund Beloin
      Henry Garson
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      Let's Make Love

      6.4 (8.4K)
      Norman Krasna
      Hal Kanter

    WGA Award (TV)

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    Anthology Drama, 30 Minutes in Length

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      Winner

      Zane Grey Theatre

      7.5 (646)
      Christopher Knopf
      For Interrogation (1959).
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      Alcoa Theatre

      7.4 (99)
      Richard Alan Simmons
      For The Glorious Fourth (1960).
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      The DuPont Show with June Allyson

      7.2 (254)
      Bruce Geller
      For The Trench Coat (1960).
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      The Twilight Zone

      9.0 (102K)
      Rod Serling
      For The Monsters Are Due on Maple Street (1960).
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      Goodyear Theatre

      7.1 (80)
      Leonard Freeman
      For Lady Bug (1959).

    Episodic Comedy

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      Winner

      Father Knows Best

      7.4 (2.9K)
      Dorothy Cooper
      For Margaret's Old Flame (1959).
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      The Danny Thomas Show

      7.1 (1.4K)
      Charles Stewart
      Jack Elinson
      For Linda Wants to Be a Boy (1960).
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      My Three Sons

      7.1 (4.9K)
      George Tibbles
      For Chip Off the Old Block (1960).

    Episodic, Longer Than 30 Minutes in Length

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      Winner

      The Untouchables

      8.0 (3.3K)
      William Spier
      For The Unhired Assassin: Part 1 (1960) and The Unhired Assassin: Part 2 (1960).
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      Bonanza

      7.3 (12K)
      Donald S. Sanford
      For The Last Hunt (1959).
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      Rawhide

      7.9 (5K)
      John Dunkel
      For Incident of the Dry Drive (1959).

    Television Anthology, More Than One Half Hour

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      Winner

      The DuPont Show of the Month

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      I, Don Quixote

      7.2 (118)
      Dale Wasserman

    Laurel Award for Screen Writing Achievement

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    • George Seaton
      Winner
      • George Seaton

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