15th Writers Guild of America Awards

• The Music Man, Screenplay by Marion Hargrove; Based on the musical by Meredith Willson
  • Billy Rose's Jumbo, Screenplay by Sidney Sheldon; Based on the musical by Ben Hecht and Charles MacArthur
  • Gypsy, Screenplay by Leonard Spigelgass; Based on the memoir of Gypsy Rose Lee
  • Hey, Let's Twist, Written by Hal Hackady
  • State Fair, Screenplay by Richard L. Breen; Based on the novel by

• To Kill a Mockingbird, Screenplay by Horton Foote; Based on the novel by Harper Lee
  • Billy Budd, Screenplay by Peter Ustinov and DeWitt Bodeen; Based on the novel by Herman Melville, and the play by Louis O. Coxe and Robert H. Chapman
  • Birdman of Alcatraz, Screenplay by Guy Trosper; Based on the book by Thomas E. Gaddis
  • Freud, Screenplay by Charles Kaufman and Wolfgang Reinhardt; Story by Charles Kaufman
  • The Miracle Worker, Screenplay by William Gibson; Based on his play

• That Touch of Mink, Written by Nate Monaster and Stanley Shapiro
  • Mr. Hobbs Takes a Vacation, Screenplay by Nunnally Johnson; Based on the novel "Mr. Hobbs' Vacation" by Edward Streeter
  • The Notorious Landlady, Screenplay by Blake Edwards and Larry Gelbart; Based on the story "The Notorious Tenant" by Margery Sharp
  • Period of Adjustment, Screenplay by Isobel Lennart; Based on the play by Tennessee Williams
  • The Pigeon That Took Rome, Screenplay by Melville Shavelson; Based on the novel by Donald Downes

• "Today the Man Who Kills Ants Is Coming" – Naked City (ABC) – Kenneth M. Rosen and Howard Rodman
  • "I Remember a Lemon Tree" – Ben Casey (ABC) - Jack Laird and Marcus Demian
  • "The Multiplicity of Herbert Konish" – Naked City (ABC) – Ernest Kinoy
  • "Goodnight Sweet Blues" – Route 66 (CBS) – Will Lorin and Leonard Freeman
  • "The Benefactor" – The Defenders (CBS) – Peter Stone

• "Price of Tomatoes" – The Dick Powell Theatre (NBC) – Richard Alan Simmons
  • "The Jail" – Alcoa Premiere (ABC) – Ray Bradbury and Tad Mosel
  • "People Need People" – Alcoa Premier (ABC) – Henry F. Greenberg
  • "Death in a Village" – The Dick Powell Theatre (NBC) – Christopher Knopf and Aaron Spelling
  • "The Remarkable Mrs. Hawk" – Thriller (NBC) – Donald S. Sanford
  • Westinghouse Presents: That's Where the Town Is Going (CBS) – Tad Mosel

• "I Won't Go" – Car 54, Where Are You? (NBC) – Nat Hiken and Gary Belkin
  • "Birds and Bees" – My Three Sons (ABC) – George Tibbles
  • "Where Did I Come From?" – The Dick Van Dyke Show (CBS) – Carl Reiner

Joseph L. Mankiewicz

Allen Rivkin