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WGA AWARDS

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    WGA Award (Screen)

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    Best Written American Comedy

    • [object Object]
      Winner

      Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb

      8.3 (542K)
      Stanley Kubrick
      Peter George
      Terry Southern
    • [object Object]

      Father Goose

      7.3 (13K)
      Peter Stone
      Frank Tarloff
    • [object Object]

      The Pink Panther

      7.0 (60K)
      Maurice Richlin
      Blake Edwards
    • [object Object]

      Topkapi

      6.9 (11K)
      Monja Danischewsky
    • [object Object]

      The World of Henry Orient

      6.6 (4K)
      Nora Johnson
      Nunnally Johnson

    Best Written American Drama

    • [object Object]
      Winner

      Becket

      7.7 (17K)
      Edward Anhalt
    • [object Object]

      The Best Man

      7.6 (4.1K)
      Gore Vidal
    • [object Object]

      The Night of the Iguana

      7.6 (14K)
      Anthony Veiller
      John Huston
    • [object Object]

      One Potato, Two Potato

      7.2 (988)
      Raphael Hayes
      Orville H. Hampton
    • [object Object]

      Seven Days in May

      7.8 (18K)
      Rod Serling

    Best Written American Musical

    • [object Object]
      Winner

      Mary Poppins

      7.8 (194K)
      Bill Walsh
      Don DaGradi
    • [object Object]

      Kissin' Cousins

      5.3 (2.6K)
      Gerald Drayson Adams
      Gene Nelson
    • [object Object]

      My Fair Lady

      7.7 (106K)
      Alan Jay Lerner
    • [object Object]

      Robin and the 7 Hoods

      6.4 (5.9K)
      David R. Schwartz
    • [object Object]

      Roustabout

      6.0 (3.5K)
      Anthony Lawrence
      Allan Weiss
    • [object Object]

      The Unsinkable Molly Brown

      6.6 (4.5K)
      Helen Deutsch

    WGA Award (TV)

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    Anthology, Any Length

    • [object Object]
      Winner

      Bob Hope Presents the Chrysler Theatre

      7.4 (262)
      Howard Rodman
      For The Game with Glass Pieces (1964).
    • [object Object]

      The DuPont Show of the Week

      6.1 (196)
      Nicholas E. Baehr
      For Ride with Terror (1963).
    • [object Object]

      The DuPont Show of the Week

      6.1 (196)
      Nicholas E. Baehr
      For Ride with Terror (1963).
    • [object Object]

      The DuPont Show of the Week

      6.1 (196)
      Ernest Kinoy
      For The Last Hangman (1963).
    • [object Object]

      The Richard Boone Show

      8.4 (113)
      Paul Lucey
      For All the Comforts of Home (1963).
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      Bob Hope Presents the Chrysler Theatre

      7.4 (262)
      Rod Serling
      For A Slow Fade to Black (1964).

    Episodic Comedy

    • [object Object]
      Winner

      The Andy Griffith Show

      8.4 (18K)
      Bill Idelson
      Sam Bobrick
      For The Shoplifters (1964). Tied with My Husband Is the Best One (1964).
    • [object Object]
      Winner

      The Dick Van Dyke Show

      8.4 (13K)
      Martin Ragaway
      For My Husband Is the Best One (1964). Tied with The Shoplifters (1964).
    • [object Object]

      The Danny Thomas Show

      7.1 (1.4K)
      Jerry Belson
      Garry Marshall
      For The Bowling Partners (1964).
    • [object Object]

      The Dick Van Dyke Show

      8.4 (13K)
      Bill Persky
      Sam Denoff
      For October Eve (1964).
    • [object Object]

      The Dick Van Dyke Show

      8.4 (13K)
      John Whedon
      For Turtles, Ties, and Toreadors (1963).

    Episodic Drama

    • [object Object]
      Winner

      East Side/West Side

      8.4 (226)
      Arnold Perl
      For Who Do You Kill? (1963).
    • [object Object]

      Channing

      7.1 (65)
      Jack Guss(teleplay)
      Edmund Morris(story)
      For Freedom Is a Lovesome Thing God Wot (1964).
    • [object Object]

      Channing

      7.1 (65)
      Kenneth Kolb
      For Wave Goodbye to Our Fair-Haired Boy (1964).
    • [object Object]

      The Defenders

      7.9 (548)
      Ernest Kinoy
      For The Non-Violent (1964).
    • [object Object]

      Gunsmoke

      8.1 (9.7K)
      Paul Savage
      For Owney Tupper Had a Daughter (1964).

    Laurel Award for Screen Writing Achievement

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    • Sidney Buchman
      Winner
      • Sidney Buchman

    Valentine Davies Award

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    • Winner
      • James R. Webb

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    Event date

    March 17, 1965

    Event location

    USA

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