17th Writers Guild of America Awards

Best Written Musical

• Mary Poppins, Screenplay by Bill Walsh and Don DaGradi; Based on the bookbyP.L. Travers
  • Kissin' Cousins, Screenplay by Gerald Drayson Adams and Gene Nelson; Story by Gerald Drayson Adams
  • My Fair Lady, Screenplay by Alan Jay Lerner; Based on the playbyGeorge Bernard Shaw and the book by Alan Jay Lerner
  • Robin and the 7 Hoods, Written by David R. Schwartz
  • Roustabout, Screenplay by Anthony Lawrence and Allan Weiss; Story by Allan Weiss
  • The Unsinkable Molly Brown, Screenplay by Helen Deutsch; Based on the play by Richard Morris

Best Written American Drama

• Becket, Screenplay by Edward Anhalt; Based on the playbyJean Anouilh and Lucienne Hill
  • One Potato, Two Potato, Screenplay by Raphael Hayes and Orville H. Hampton
  • Seven Days in May, Screenplay by Rod Serling; Based on the novel by Fletcher Knebel and Charles W. Bailey II
  • The Best Man, Screenplay by Gore Vidal
  • The Night of the Iguana, Screenplay by Anthony Veiller and John Huston; Based on the playbyTennessee Williams

Best Written American Comedy

• Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb, Screenplay by Stanley Kubrick, Peter George and Terry Southern; Based on the book Red AlertbyPeter George
  • Father Goose, Screenplay by Peter Stone and Frank Tarloff; Story by S.H. Barnett
  • The Pink Panther, Screenplay by Maurice Richlin and Blake Edwards
  • The World of Henry Orient, Screenplay by Nora Johnson and Nunnally Johnson; Based on the novel by Nora Johnson
  • Topkapi, Screenplay by Monja Danischewsky; Based on the novel The Light of DaybyEric Ambler

Episodic Comedy

• "The Shoplifters" – The Andy Griffith Show (CBS) – Bill Idelson and Sam Bobrick
• "My Husband Is the Best One" – The Dick Van Dyke Show (CBS) – Martin Ragaway
  • "The Bowling Partners" – The Danny Thomas Show (ABC) – Jerry Belson and Garry Marshall
  • "Turtles, Ties, and Toreadors" – The Dick Van Dyke Show (CBS) – John Whedon
  • "October Eve" – The Dick Van Dyke Show (CBS) – Bill Persky and Sam Denoff

Episodic Drama

• "Who Do You Kill?" – East Side/West Side (CBS) – Arnold Perl
  • "Wave Goodbye to Our Fair-Haired Boy" – Channing (ABC) – Kenneth Kolb
  • "Freedom Is a Lovesome Thing God Wot" – Channing (ABC) – Jack Guss, and Edmund Morris
  • "Owney Tupper Had a Daughter" – Gunsmoke (CBS) – Paul Savage
  • "The Non-Violent" – The Defenders (CBS) – Ernest Kinoy

Anthology, Any Length

• "The Game with Glass Pieces" – Bob Hope Presents the Chrysler Theatre (NBC) – Howard Rodman
  • "A Slow Fade to Black" – Bob Hope Presents the Chrysler Theatre (NBC) – Rod Serling
  • "The Last Hangman" – The DuPont Show of the Week (NBC) – Ernest Kinoy
  • "Ride with Terro" – The DuPont Show of the Week (NBC) – Nicholas E. Baehr
  • "All the Comforts of Home" – The Richard Boone Show (NBC) – Paul Lucey

Sidney Buchman

James R. Webb