13th Writers Guild of America Awards

13th WGA Awards
Date	1961
Organized by	Writers Guild of America, East and the Writers Guild of America, West

13th Writers Guild of America Awards daa nyɛla pini shɛŋa bɛ ni daa ti ban daa sabiri shinii ka di bira yuuni 1960. Bɛ daa molila ban daa dili yuuni 1961.

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Best Written Musical 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

Best Written American Drama 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

Best Written American Comedy 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

Television

Episodic, Longer than 30 Minutes in Length "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	Episodic Comedy 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
Anthology, 30 Minutes in Length "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	Anthology, More Than One Half Hour "I, Don Quixote" – The DuPont Show of the Month (CBS) – Dale Wasserman

Pini gahinda

Laurel Award for Screenwriting Achievement
George Seaton

External links

• WGA.org