13th Writers Guild of America Awards

• Bells Are Ringing, Screenplay by Betty Comden and Adolph Green; based on the play by Betty Comden and Adolph Green
  • Can-Can, Screenplay by Dorothy Kingsley and Charles Lederer
  • G.I. Blues, Written by Edmund Beloin and Henry Garson
  • Let's Make Love, Screenplay by Norman Krasna and Hal Kanter

• Elmer Gantry, Screenplay by Richard Brooks; based on the novel by Sinclair Lewis
  • Sons and Lovers, Screenplay by Gavin Lambert and T.E.B. Clarke; based on the novel by D.H. Lawrence
  • Psycho, Screenplay by Joseph Stefano; based on the novel by Robert Bloch
  • Spartacus, Screenplay by Dalton Trumbo; based on the novel by Howard Fast
  • The Sundowners, Screenplay by Isobel Lennart; based on the novel by Jon Cleary

• The Apartment, Written by Billy Wilder and I.A.L. Diamond
  • North to Alaska, Screenplay by Martin Rackin, John Lee Mahin and Claude Binyon; based on the play by Ladislas Fodor and John H. Kafka
  • Ocean's 11, Screenplay by Harry Brown and Charles Lederer; story by George Clayton Johnson and Jack Golden Russell
  • Please Don't Eat the Daisies, Screenplay by Isobel Lennart; based on the book by Jean Kerr
  • The Facts of Life, Written by Norman Panama and Melvin Frank

• "The Unhired Assassin: Part 1 & 2" – The Untouchables (ABC) – William Spier
  • "The Last Hunt" – Bonanza (NBC) – Donald S. Sanford
  • "Incident of the Dry Drive" – Rawhide (CBS) – John Dunkel

• Margaret's Old Flame" – Father Knows Best (CBS) – Dorothy Cooper
  • "Chip Off the Old Block" – My Three Sons (ABC) – George Tibbles
  • "Linda Wants to Be a Boy" – The Danny Thomas Show (ABC) – Charles Stewart, and Jack Elison

• "Interrogation" – Zane Grey Theater (CBS) – Christopher Knopf
  • "The Glorious Fourth" – Alcoa Theatre (NBC) – Richard Alan Simmons
  • "Lady Bug" – Goodyear Theatre (NBC) – Leonard Freeman
  • "The Trench Coat – The DuPont Show with June Allyson (CBS) – Bruce Geller
  • "The Monsters Are Due on Maple Street" – The Twilight Zone (CBS) – Rod Serling

• "I, Don Quixote" – The DuPont Show of the Month (CBS) – Dale Wasserman

George Seaton