12th Writers Guild of America Awards

• The Five Pennies, Screenplay by Melville Shavelson and Jack Rose; Story by Robert Smith
  • A Private's Affair, Screenplay by Winston Miller; Story by Ray Livingston Murphy
  • Li'l Abner, Screenplay by Norman Panama and Melvin Frank; Based on the comic strip by Al Capp
  • Never Steal Anything Small, Screenplay by Charles Lederer; Based on the play by Maxwell Anderson and Rouben Mamoulian
  • Porgy and Bess, Screenplay by N. Richard Nash
  • Say One for Me, Screenplay by Robert O'Brien

• The Diary of Anne Frank, Screenplay by Frances Goodrich and Albert Hackett; Based on the book The Diary of a Young Girl by Anne Frank
  • Anatomy of a Murder, Screenplay by Wendell Mayes; Based on the novel by John D. Voelker
  • Ben-Hur, Screenplay by Karl Tunberg; Based on the novel by Lew Wallace
  • Compulsion, Screenplay by Richard Murphy; Based on the novel by Richard Murphy
  • The Nun's Story, Screenplay by Robert Anderson; Based on the book by Kathryn Hulme

• Some Like It Hot, Screenplay by Billy Wilder and I.A.L. Diamond; Story by Robert Thoeren and Michael Logan
  • A Hole in the Head, Screenplay by Arnold Schulman; Based on the play
  • North by Northwest, Screenplay by Ernest Lehman
  • Operation Petticoat, Screenplay by Stanley Shapiro and Maurice Richlin; Story by Paul King and Joseph Stone
  • Pillow Talk, Screenplay by Stanley Shapiro and Maurice Richlin; Story by Russell Rouse and Clarence Greene

• "Freddie's Thanskgiving" - The Red Skelton Hour - Sherwood Schwartz, Jesse Goldstein and Dave O'Brien
  • "The Dean Martin Show" - Startime - Herbert Baker
  • "The Ricardos Make Room for Danny" - The Lucy-Desi Comedy Hour - Bob Schiller and Bob Weiskopf
  • The Steve Allen Show - Don Hinkley, Herbert Sargent, Leonard Stern, Bill Dana and Stan Burns

• "Auf Wiedersehen" - General Electric Theater - Kurt Vonnegut Jr. and Valentine Davies
  • "Eddie" - Alcoa Theatre - Alfred Benner and Ken Hughes
  • "Kathy's Romance" - Father Knows Best - Roswell Rogers
  • "A Friend in Need" - Father Knows Best - Dorothy Cooper
  • "Day of Glory" - Jane Wyman Presents: The Fireside Theatre - Steve Fisher, Oscar Millard and Louis Aadamic
  • "A Locket for Linda" - Make Room for Daddy - Peggy Chantler Dick and William Cowley
  • "Terry's Crush" - Make Room for Daddy - Charles Stewart and Jack Elinson
  • "The Sheridan Story" - The Rifleman - Cyril Hume

• "The Sea Is Boiling Hot" - Kraft Theatre - Shimon Wincelberg
  • "The Nightingale" - Shirley Temple's Storybook - Alvin Sapinsley
  • "The Desperate Age" -
    Studio One in Hollywood - Abby Mann
  • "Capital Punishment" - Studio One in Hollywood - James Lee
  • "My Father, the Fool" - Westinghouse Desilu Playhouse - Adrian Spies

Norman Krasna