Writers Guild of America Award for Best Written Drama
Writers Guild of America Award for Best Written Drama | |
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Awarded for | Outstanding Writing for a Dramatic Film |
Country | United States |
Presented by | Writers Guild of America |
First awarded | 1949 |
Last awarded | 1984 |
Website | http://www.wga.org |
The Writers Guild Award for Best Written Drama was an award presented from 1949 to 1984 by the Writers Guild of America, after which it was discontinued.
Winners & Nominees[1][]
Notes[]
- The year indicates when the film was released. The awards were presented the following year.
1940s[]
Year | Film | Writer(s) |
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1948 | The Snake Pit | Frank Partos and Millen Brand |
All My Sons | Chester Erskine | |
Another Part of the Forest | Vladimir Pozner | |
Berlin Express | Harold Medford | |
Call Northside 777 | Jerome Cady, and Jay Dratler | |
Command Decision | William R. Laidlaw, and George Froeschel | |
I Remember Mama | Dewitt Bodeen | |
Johnny Belinda | Irma von Cube, and Allen Vincent | |
Key Largo | Richard Brooks, and John Huston | |
Sorry, Wrong Number | Lucille Fletcher | |
The Naked City | Albert Maltz, and Malvin Wald | |
The Treasure of the Sierra Madre | John Huston | |
1949 | All the King's Men | Robert Rossen |
Battleground | Robert Pirosh | |
Champion | Carl Foreman | |
Intruder in the Dust | Ben Maddow | |
The Hasty Heast | Ranald MacDougall | |
The Heiress | Ruth Goetz, and Augustus Goetz | |
The Window | Mel Dinelli |
1950s[]
Year | Film | Writer(s) |
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1950 | Sunset Boulevard | Charles Brackett, Billy Wilder, and D.M. Marshman Jr. |
All About Eve | Joseph L. Mankiewicz | |
Panic in the Streets | Richard Murphy | |
The Asphalt Jungle | Ben Maddow, and John Huston | |
The Men | Carl Foreman | |
1951 | A Place in the Sun | Michael Wilson and Harry Brown |
A Streetcar Named Desire | Tennessee Williams | |
Death of a Salesman | Stanley Roberts | |
Detective Story | Philip Yordan, and Robert Wyler | |
Fourteen Hours | John Paxton | |
1952 | High Noon | Carl Foreman |
5 Fingers | Michael Wilson | |
Come Back, Little Sheba | Ketti Frings | |
Moulin Rouge | Anthony Veiller, and John Huston | |
The Bad and the Beautiful | Charles Schnee | |
1953 | From Here to Eternity | Daniel Taradash |
Above and Beyond | Melvin Frank, Norman Panama, and Beirne Lay Jr. | |
Little Fugitive | Ray Ashley | |
Martin Luther | Allan Sloane, and Lothar Wolff | |
Shane | A. B. Guthrie Jr. | |
1954 | On the Waterfront | Budd Schulberg |
Executive Suite | Ernest Lehman | |
Rear Window | John Michael Hayes | |
The Barefoot Contessa | Joseph L. Mankiewicz | |
The Country Girl | George Seaton | |
1955 | Marty | Paddy Chayefsky |
Bad Day at Black Rock | Millard Kaufman | |
Blackboard Jungle | Richard Brooks | |
East of Eden | Paul Osborn | |
Picnic | Daniel Taradash | |
1956 | Friendly Persuasion | Michael Wilson |
Baby Doll | Tennessee Williams | |
Giant | Fred Guiol, and Ivan Moffat | |
Somebody Up There Likes Me | Ernest Lehman | |
The Rainmaker | N. Richard Nash | |
1957 | 12 Angry Men | Reginald Rose |
Heaven Knows, Mr. Allison | John Lee Mahin, and John Huston | |
Paths of Glory | Stanley Kubrick, Calder Willingham, and Jim Thompson | |
Peyton Place | John Michael Hayes | |
Sayonara | Paul Osborn | |
1958 | The Defiant Ones | Harold Jacob Smith, and Nedrick Young |
Cat on a Hot Tin Roof | Richard Brooks, and James Poe | |
I Want to Live! | Nelson Gidding, and Don Mankiewicz | |
Separate Tables | Terence Rattigan, and John Gay | |
The Long, Hot Summer | Irving Ravetch, and Harriet Frank Jr. | |
1959 | The Diary of Anne Frank | Frances Goodrich, and Albert Hackett |
Anatomy of a Murder | Wendell Mayes | |
Ben-Hur | Karl Tunberg | |
Compulsion | Richard Murphy | |
The Nun's Story | Robert Anderson |
1960s[]
Year | Film | Writer(s) |
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1960 | Elmer Gantry | Richard Brooks |
Sons and Lovers | Gavin Lambert, and T.E.B. Clarke | |
Psycho | Joseph Stefano | |
Spartacus | Dalton Trumbo | |
The Sundowners | Isobel Lennart | |
1961 | The Hustler | Sidney Carroll, and Robert Rossen |
A Raisin in the Sun | Lorraine Hansberry | |
Fanny | Julius J. Epstein | |
Judgment at Nuremberg | Abby Mann | |
The Innocents | William Archibald, and Truman Capote | |
1962 | To Kill a Mockingbird | Horton Foote |
Billy Budd | Peter Ustinov, and DeWitt Bodeen | |
Birdman of Alcatraz | Guy Trosper | |
Freud | Charles Kaufman, and Wolfgang Reinhardt | |
The Miracle Worker | William Gibson | |
1963 | Hud | Harriet Frank Jr., and Irving Ravetch |
America America | Elia Kazan | |
Captain Newman, M.D. | Richard L. Breen, Phoebe Ephron, and Henry Ephron | |
The Balcony | Ben Maddow | |
The Great Escape | James Clavell, and W.R. Burnett | |
The Ugly American | Stewart Stern | |
1964 | Becket | Edward Anhalt |
One Potato, Two Potato | Raphael Hayes, and Orville H. Hampton | |
Seven Days in May | Rod Serling | |
The Best Man | Gore Vidal | |
The Night of the Iguana | Anthony Veiller, and John Huston | |
1965 | The Pawnbroker | Morton S. Fine |
A Patch of Blue | Guy Green | |
The Spy Who Came in from the Cold | Paul Dehn, and Guy Trosper | |
The Collector | Stanley Mann, and John Kohn | |
Ship of Fools | Abby Mann | |
1966 | Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? | Ernest Lehman |
Harper | William Goldman | |
The Professionals | Richard Brooks | |
The Sand Pebbles | Robert Anderson | |
1967 | Bonnie and Clyde | Robert Benton, and David Newman |
Guess Who's Coming to Dinner | William Rose | |
In Cold Blood | Richard Brooks | |
In the Heat of the Night | Stirling Silliphant | |
Up the Down Staircase | Tad Mosel | |
1968 | The Lion in Winter | James Goldman |
Petulia | Lawrence B. Marcus | |
Rachel, Rachel | Stewart Stern | |
Rosemary's Baby | Roman Polanski | |
The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter | Thomas C. Ryan | |
1969 (22nd)[23] |
Best Drama Adapted from Another Medium | |
Midnight Cowboy † | Waldo Salt | |
Anne of the Thousand Days ‡ | John Hale, and Bridget Boland | |
The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie | Jay Presson Allen | |
They Shoot Horses, Don't They? ‡ | James Poe, and Robert E. Thompson | |
True Grit | Marguerite Roberts | |
Best Drama Written Directly for the Screen | ||
Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid † | William Goldman | |
Alice's Restaurant | Venable Herndon, and Arthur Penn | |
Downhill Racer | James Salter | |
Easy Rider | Peter Fonda, Dennis Hopper, and Terry Southern | |
Me, Natalie | A. Martin Zwelback |
1970s[]
Year | Film | Writer(s) |
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1970 (23rd)[24] |
Best Drama Adapted from Another Medium | |
I Never Sang for My Father | Robert Anderson | |
Airport ‡ | George Seaton | |
Catch-22 | Buck Henry | |
Little Big Man | Calder Willingham | |
The Great White Hope | Howard Sackler | |
Best Drama Written Directly for the Screen | ||
Patton † | Francis Ford Coppola and Edmund H. North | |
Five Easy pieces ‡ | Carole Eastman (As Adrien Joyce) | |
Love Story ‡ | Erich segal | |
1971 (24th)[25] |
Best Drama Adapted from Another Medium | |
The French Connection † | Ernest Tidyman | |
A Clockwork Orange ‡ | Stanley Kubrick | |
Johnny Got His Gun | Dalton Trumbo | |
McCabe & Mrs. Miller | Robert Altman, and Brian McKay | |
The Last Picture Show ‡ | Larry McMurtry, and Peter Bodganovich | |
Best Drama Written Directly for the Screen | ||
Sunday Bloody Sunday ‡ | Penelope Gilliatt | |
Klute ‡ | Andy Lewis, and David E. Lewis | |
Summer of '42 ‡ | Hernan Raucher | |
The Hellstrom Chronicle | David Seltzer | |
1972 (25th)[26] |
Best Drama Adapted from Another Medium | |
The Godfather † | Mario Puzo, and Francis Ford Coppola | |
Deliverance | James Dickley | |
Pete 'n' Tillie ‡ | Julius J. Epstein | |
Slaughterhouse-Five | Stephen Geller | |
Sounder ‡ | Lonne Elder III | |
Best Drama Written Directly for the Screen | ||
The Candidate † | Jeremy Larner | |
Bad Company | David Newman, and Robert Benton | |
Images | Robert Altman | |
The Culpepper Cattle Co. | Eric Bercovici, and Gregory Prentiss | |
Philip Kaufman | ||
1973 (26th)[27] |
Best Drama Adapted from Another Medium | |
Serpico ‡ | Waldo Salt, and Norman Wexler | |
Cinderella Liberty | Darryl Ponicsan | |
The Exorcist † | William Peter Blatty | |
The Last Detail ‡ | Robert Towne | |
The Paper Chase ‡ | James Bridges | |
Best Drama Written Directly for the Screen | ||
Save the Tiger | Steve Shagan | |
Mean Streets | Martin Scorsese, and Mardik Martin | |
Payday | Don Carpenter | |
The Sting † | David S. Ward | |
The Way We Were | Arthur Laurents | |
1974 (27th)[28] |
Best Drama Adapted from Another Medium | |
The Godfather Part II † | Francis Ford Coppola, and Mario Puzo | |
Conrack | Irving Ravetch, and Harriet Frank Jr. | |
Lenny ‡ | Julian Barry | |
The Parallax View | David Giler, and Lorenzo Sempler Jr. | |
The Talking of Pelham One Two Three | Peter Stone | |
Best Drama Written Directly for the Screen | ||
Chinatown † | Robert Towne | |
A Woman Under the Influence | John Cassavetes | |
Alice Doesn't Live Here Anymore ‡ | Robert Getchell | |
Harry and Tonto ‡ | Paul Mazursky, and Josh Greenfeld | |
The Conversation ‡ | Francis Ford Coppola | |
1975 (28th)[29] |
Best Drama Adapted from Another Medium | |
One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest † | Lawrence Hauben, and Bo Goldman | |
Barry Lyndon ‡ | Stanley Kubrick | |
The Man Whou Would Be King ‡ | John Huston, and Gladys Hill | |
Jaws | Peter Benchley, and Carl Gottlieb | |
The Man in the Glass Booth | Edward Anhalt | |
Best Drama Written Directly for the Screen | ||
Dog Day Afternoon † | Frank Pierson | |
French Connection II | Alexander Jacobs, Robert Dillon, and Laurie Dillon | |
Nashville | Joan Twekesbury | |
The Wind and the Lion | John Milius | |
1976 (29th)[30] |
Best Drama Adapted from Another Medium | |
All the President's Men † | William Goldman | |
Bound for Glory ‡ | Robert Getchell | |
The Seven-Per-Cent Solution ‡ | Nicholas Meyer | |
Marathon Man | William Goldman | |
The Shootist | Miles Hood Swarthout, and Scott Hale | |
Best Drama Written Directly for the Screen | ||
Network † | Paddy Chayefsky | |
The Omen | David Seltzer | |
Rocky ‡ | Sylvester Stallone | |
Taxi Driver | Paul Schrader | |
The Front ‡ | Walter Bernstein | |
1977 (30th)[31] |
Best Drama Adapted from Another Medium | |
Julia † | Alvin Sargent | |
I Never Promised You a Rose Garden ‡ | Gavin Lambert, and Lewis John Carlino | |
Islands in the Stream | Denne Bart Petitclerc | |
Looking for Mr. Goodbar | Richard Brooks | |
Best Drama Written Directly for the Screen | ||
The Turning Point ‡ | Arthur Laurents | |
Close Encounters of the Third Kind | Steven Spielberg | |
Saturday Night Fever | Norman Wexler | |
The Late Show ‡ | Robert Benton | |
1978 (31st)[32] |
Best Drama Adapted from Another Medium | |
Midnight Express † | Oliver Stone | |
Bloodbrothers ‡ | Walter Newman | |
Go Tell the Spartans | Wendell Mayes | |
Invasion of the Body Snatchers | W.D. Richter | |
Who'll Stop the Rain | Judith Rascoe, and Robert Stone | |
Best Drama Written Directly for the Screen | ||
Coming Home † | Nancy Dowd, Robert C. Jones, and Waldo Salt | |
An Unmarried Woman | Paul Mazursky | |
Days of Heaven | Terrence Malick | |
Interiors ‡ | Woody Allen | |
The Deer Hunter ‡ | Deric Washburn, Michael Cimino, Louis Garfinkle, and Quinn K. Redeker | |
1979 (32nd)[33] |
Best Drama Adapted from Another Medium | |
Kramer vs. Kramer † | Robert Benton | |
Norma Rae ‡ | Irving Ravetch, and Harriet Frank Jr. | |
Best Drama Written Directly for the Screen | ||
The China Syndrome ‡ | Mike Gray, T. S. Cook, and James Bridges | |
Apocalypse Now | John Milius, and Francis Ford Coppola |
1980s[]
Year | Nominees | Writer(s) |
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1980 (33rd)[34] |
Best Drama Adapted from Other Medium | |
Ordinary People † | Alvin Sargent | |
Coal Miner's Daughter ‡ | Thomas Rickman | |
The Elephant Man ‡ | Christopher De Vore, Eric Bergren, and David Lynch | |
The Great Santini | Lewis John Carlino | |
The Stunt Man ‡ | Lawrence B. Marcus, Richard Rush | |
Best Drama Written Directly for the Screen | ||
Melvin and Howard † | Bo Goldman | |
Fame | Christopher Gore | |
My Bodyguard | Alan Ornsby | |
1981 (34th)[35] |
Best Drama Adapted from Other Medium | |
On Golden Pond † | Ernest Thompson, and Donald E. Stewart | |
Cutler's Way | Jeffrey Alan Fiskin | |
Prince of the City ‡ | Jay Presson Allen, and Sidney Lumet | |
Ragtime ‡ | Michael Weller | |
Best Drama Written Directly for the Screen | ||
Reds‡ | Warren Beatty and Trevor Griffiths | |
Absence of Malice | Kurt Luedtke | |
Atlantic City | John Guare | |
Body Heat | Lawrence Kasdan | |
1982 (35th)[36] |
Best Drama Adapted from Other Medium | |
Missing † | Costa-Gavras, and Donald E. Stewart | |
Sophie's Choice ‡ | Alan J. Pakula | |
The Verdict ‡ | David Mamet | |
The World According to Garp | Steve Tesich | |
Best Drama Written Directly for the Screen | ||
E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial ‡ | Melissa Mathison | |
An Officer and a Gentleman | Douglas Day Stewart | |
Shoot the Moon | Bo Goldman | |
1983 (36th)[37] |
Best Drama Adapted from Other Medium | |
Reuben, Reuben ‡ | Julius J. Epstein | |
The Year of Living Dangerously | David Williamson, Peter Weir, and C.J. Koch | |
The Right Stuff | Philip Kaufman | |
Best Drama Written Directly for the Screen | ||
Tender Mercies † | Horton Foote | |
Silkwood | Nora Ephron, and Alice Arlen | |
WarGames | Lawrence Lasker, and Walter F. Parkes |
References[]
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