23rd Writers Guild of America Awards

23rd WGA Awards
Date	1971
Organized by	Writers Guild of America, East and the Writers Guild of America, West

23rd Writers Guild of America Awards daa nyɛla pini shɛŋa bɛ ni daa ti ban sabiri shinii ka di bira yuuni 1970. Bɛ daa molila ban daa dili yuuni 1971.

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Best Drama Written Directly for the Screenplay Patton, Written by Francis Ford Coppola and Edmund H. North Five Easy Pieces, Written by Carole Eastman; Story by Bob Rafelson and Carole Eastman Love Story, Written by Erich Segal

Best Comedy Written Directly for the Screenplay The Out of Towners, Written by Neil Simon The Private Life of Sherlock Holmes, Written by Billy Wilder and I.A.L. Diamond Quackser Fortune Has a Cousin in the Bronx, Written by Gabriel Walsh Start the Revolution Without Me, Written by Fred Freeman and Lawrence J. Cohen The Cheyenne Social Club, Written by James Lee Barrett

Best Drama Adapted from Another Medium I Never Sang for My Father, Screenplay by Robert Anderson; Based on "I Never Sang for My Father" by him Airport, Screenplay by George Seaton; Based on the novel by Arthur Hailey Catch-22, Screenplay by Buck Henry; Based on the novel by Joseph Heller Little Big Man, Screenplay by Calder Willingham; Based on the novel by Thomas Berger The Great White Hope, Screenplay by Howard Sackler; Based on the play by Howard Sackler

Best Comedy Adapted from Another Medium MASH, Screenplay by Ring Lardner Jr.; Based on the novel by Richard Hooker Lovers and Other Strangers, Screenplay by Renée Taylor, Joseph Bologna and David Zelag Goodman; Based on the play by Joseph Bologna and Renée Taylor The Owl and the Pussycat, Screenplay by Buck Henry; Based on the play by Bill Manhoff The Twelve Chairs, Screenplay by Mel Brooks; Based on the novel by Ilya Ilf and Yevgeni Petro Where's Poppa?, Screenplay by Robert Klane; Based on his novel

Television

Episodic Comedy "The Valediciton" – Room 222 (ABC) – Richard de Roy "The Fourth Estate" – My World and Welcome to It (NBC) – Lila Garrett and Bernie Kahn "Funny Money" – Room 222 (ABC) – Steven Pritzker "Check the check" – The Governor & JJ (CBS) – Arne Sultan and Earl Barret

Episodic Drama "A Continual Roar of Musketry: Part 1 & 2" – The Bold Ones: The Senator (NBC) – David W. Rintels "Meanwhile Back at the Studio" – Bracken's World (NBC) – Joseph Bonaduce "Infinity" – Bracken's World (NBC) – Cliff Gould "Trouble in Mind" – Hawaii Five-O (CBS) – Mel Goldberg and Sasha Gilien "The Glass Prison" – The Young Lawyers (ABC) – John W. Bloch

Pini gahinda

Laurel Award for Screenwriting Achievement
James Poe
Valentine Davies Award
Daniel Taradash
Morgan Cox Award
Leonard Spigelgass
Edmund J North Award
Lamar Trotti

External links

• WGA.org