14th Writers Guild of America Awards

• West Side Story, Screenplay by Ernest Lehman; Based on the book by Arthur Laurents & the play by Jerome Robbins
  • Babes in Toyland, Screenplay by Ward Kimball and Lowell S. Hawley; Based on the operetta by Victor Herbert and Glen MacDonough
  • Blue Hawaii, Screenplay by Hal Kanter; Story by Allan Weiss
  • Flower Drum Song, Screenplay by Joseph Fields; Based on the novel by C.Y. Lee
  • Snow White and the Three Stooges, Screenplay by Noel Langley and Elwood Ullman; Story by Charles Wick

• The Hustler, Screenplay by Sidney Carroll and Robert Rossen; Based on the novel by Walter Tevis
  • A Raisin in the Sun, Written by Lorraine Hansberry
  • Fanny, Screenplay by Julius J. Epstein; Based on the play by S.N. Behrman and Joshua Logan
  • The Innocents, Screenplay by William Archibald and Truman Capote; Based on the story "The Turn of the Screw" by Henry James
  • Judgment at Nuremberg, Screenplay by Abby Mann; Story by Abby Mann

• Breakfast at Tiffany's, Screenplay by George Axelrod; Based on the breby Truman Capote
  • A Majority of One, Written by Leonard Spigelgass
  • The Absent Minded Professor, Screenplay by Bill Walsh; Story by Samuel W. Taylor
  • One, Two, Three, Screenplay by Billy Wilder and I.A.L. Diamond; Based on the play by Ferenc Molnár
  • The Parent Trap, Screenplay by David Swift; Based on the book by Erich Kästner

• "The Fault in Our Stars" – Naked City (ABC) – Barry Trivers
  • "The Fatalist" – Have Gun – Will Travel (CBS) – Shimon Wincelberg
  • "Incident of the Buffalo Soldier" – Rawhide (CBS) – John Dunkel
  • "No Sale" – The Law and Mr. Jones (ABC) – Palmer Thompson
  • "Brown" – The Westerner (NBC) – Bruce Geller

• "Death of the Temple Bay" – The DuPont Show with June Allyson (CBS) – Christopher Knopf
  • "The Hidden World" – Armstrong Circle Theatre (NBC) – Alvin Boretz
  • "Eye of the Beholder" – The Twilight Zone (CBS) – Rod Serling

• "The Manhunt" – The Andy Griffith Show (CBS) – Charles Stewart and Jack Elinson
  • "Everybody's Doin' It" – Art Carney Special (NBC) – Herbert Sargent
  • The Arthur Murray Special for Bob Hope – Lester A. White, John Rapp, Mort Lachman, Bill Larkin, Charles Lee and Norman Sullivan

Philip Dunne

Mary C. McCall Jr.