24th Writers Guild of America Awards

Best Drama Written Directly for the Screenplay

• Sunday Bloody Sunday, Screenplay by Penelope Gilliatt
  • Klute, Written by Andy Lewis and Dave Lewis
  • Summer of '42, Written by Herman Raucher
  • The Hellstrom Chronicle, Written by David Seltzer

Best Comedy Written Directly for the Screenplay

• The Hospital, Written by Paddy Chayefsky
  • Bananas, Written by Woody Allen and Mickey Rose
  • Carnal Knowledge, Written by Jules Feiffer
  • Made for Each Other, Written by Renée Taylor and Joseph Bologna
  • Taking Off, Written by Miloš Forman, Jean-Claude Carrière, John Guare and Jon Klein

Best Drama Adapted from Another Medium

• The French Connection, Screenplay by Ernest Tidyman; based on the bookbyRobin Moore
  • A Clockwork Orange, Screenplay by Stanley Kubrick; based on the novelbyAnthony Burgess
  • Johnny Got His Gun, Screenplay by Dalton Trumbo; based on his novel
  • McCabe & Mrs. Miller, Screenplay by Robert Altman and Brian McKay; based on the novel by Edmund Naughton
  • The Last Picture Show, Screenplay by Larry McMurtry and Peter Bogdanovich; based on the novel by Larry McMurtry

Best Comedy Adapted from Another Medium

• Kotch, Screenplay by John Paxton; based on the novel by Katharine Topkins
  • A New Leaf, Screenplay by Elaine May; based on the story "The Green Heart" by Jack Ritchie
  • Fiddler on the Roof, Screenplay by Joseph Stein; based on the novel by Sholom Aleichem
  • Little Murders, Screenplay by Jules Feiffer; based on his play
  • The Boy Friend, Screenplay by Ken Russell; based on the musicalbySandy Wilson

Episodic Comedy

• "Thoroughly Unmilitant Mary" – The Mary Tyler Moore Show (CBS) – Martin Cohan
  • "Archie's Aching Back" – All in the Family (CBS) – Stanley Ralph Ross
  • "Mike's Problem" – All in the Family (CBS) – Alan J. Levitt, and Phil Mishkin
  • "Gloria Has a Belly Full" – All in the Family (CBS) – Jerry Mayer
  • "Edith's Accident" – All in the Family (CBS) – Michael Ross, Bernard West, Alfred Lewis Levitt, and Helen Levitt
  • "Christmas Day at the Bunkers" – All in the Family (CBS) – Don Nicholl

Episodic Drama

• "Par for the Course" – The Psychiatrist (NBC) – T.Y Drake, Herbe Bermann, Jerrold Freedman, and Bo May
  • "Murder by the Book" – Columbo (NBC) – Steven Bochco
  • "F.O.B. Honolulu: Part I & II" – Hawaii Five-O (CBS) – Jerry Ludwig, and Eric Bercovici
  • "No Motive for Murder" – Ironside (NBC) – Sy Salkowitz
  • "They Grow Up" – Marcus Welby, M.D. (ABC) – Dick Nelson
  • "Until Proven Innocent" – Owen Marshall, Counselor at Law (ABC) –Pat Fielder
  • "The Invasion of Kevin Ireland" – Bold Ones: The Lawyers (NBC) – Jack B. Sowards
  • "Angry Man" – Bold Ones: The New Doctors (NBC) – Howard Dimsdale

Ernest Lehman

Michael Blankfort

Allen Rivkin