12th Writers Guild of America Awards

12th WGA Awards
12th WGA Awards
Date	1960
Organized by	Writers Guild of America, East and the Writers Guild of America, West
	← 11th; WGA Awards; 13th →;

The 12th Writers Guild of America Awards honored the best film writers and television writers of 1959. Winners were announced in 1960.^[1]

Winners and nominees

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Film

Winners are listed first highlighted in boldface.

Best Written Musical The Five Pennies, Screenplay by Melville Shavelson and Jack Rose; Story by Robert Smith A Private's Affair, Screenplay by Winston Miller; Story by Ray Livingston Murphy Li'l Abner, Screenplay by Norman Panama and Melvin Frank; Based on the comic strip by Al Capp Never Steal Anything Small, Screenplay by Charles Lederer; Based on the play by Maxwell Anderson and Rouben Mamoulian Porgy and Bess, Screenplay by N. Richard Nash Say One for Me, Screenplay by Robert O'Brien	Best Written American Drama The Diary of Anne Frank, Screenplay by Frances Goodrich and Albert Hackett; Based on the book The Diary of a Young Girl by Anne Frank Anatomy of a Murder, Screenplay by Wendell Mayes; Based on the novel by John D. Voelker Ben-Hur, Screenplay by Karl Tunberg; Based on the novel by Lew Wallace Compulsion, Screenplay by Richard Murphy; Based on the novel by Richard Murphy The Nun's Story, Screenplay by Robert Anderson; Based on the book by Kathryn Hulme
Best Written American Comedy Some Like It Hot, Screenplay by Billy Wilder and I.A.L. Diamond; Story by Robert Thoeren and Michael Logan A Hole in the Head, Screenplay by Arnold Schulman; Based on the play North by Northwest, Screenplay by Ernest Lehman Operation Petticoat, Screenplay by Stanley Shapiro and Maurice Richlin; Story by Paul King and Joseph Stone Pillow Talk, Screenplay by Stanley Shapiro and Maurice Richlin; Story by Russell Rouse and Clarence Greene

Television

Comedy/Variety, Any Length *"Freddie's Thanskgiving" - The Red Skelton Hour* - Sherwood Schwartz, Jesse Goldstein and Dave O'Brien** "The Dean Martin Show" - Startime - Herbert Baker "The Ricardos Make Room for Danny" - The Lucy-Desi Comedy Hour - Bob Schiller and Bob Weiskopf The Steve Allen Show - Don Hinkley, Herbert Sargent, Leonard Stern, Bill Dana and Stan Burns	Script, 30 Minutes or Less in Program Length *"Auf Wiedersehen" - General Electric Theater* - Kurt Vonnegut Jr. and Valentine Davies** "Eddie" - Alcoa Theatre - Alfred Benner and Ken Hughes "Kathy's Romance" - Father Knows Best - Roswell Rogers "A Friend in Need" - Father Knows Best - Dorothy Cooper "Day of Glory" - Jane Wyman Presents: The Fireside Theatre - Steve Fisher, Oscar Millard and Louis Aadamic "A Locket for Linda" - Make Room for Daddy - Peggy Chantler Dick and William Cowley "Terry's Crush" - Make Room for Daddy - Charles Stewart and Jack Elinson "The Sheridan Story" - The Rifleman - Cyril Hume
Script 60 Minutes or Less in Program Length but Longer Than 30 Minutes *"The Sea Is Boiling Hot" - Kraft Theatre* - Shimon Wincelberg** "The Nightingale" - Shirley Temple's Storybook - Alvin Sapinsley "The Desperate Age" - Studio One in Hollywood - Abby Mann "Capital Punishment" - Studio One in Hollywood - James Lee "My Father, the Fool" - Westinghouse Desilu Playhouse - Adrian Spies

Special awards

Laurel Award for Screenwriting Achievement
Norman Krasna

References

^ "Awards Winners". wga.org. Writers Guild of America. Archived from the original on December 5, 2012. Retrieved June 6, 2010.
^ "Writers Guild of America, USA (1960)". IMDb. Retrieved May 20, 2019.

External links

WGA.org

[1] "Awards Winners". wga.org. Writers Guild of America. Archived from the original on December 5, 2012. Retrieved June 6, 2010.

[2] "Writers Guild of America, USA (1960)". IMDb. Retrieved May 20, 2019.

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v t e Writers Guild of America Awards
Film Awards	Best Adapted Screenplay Best Original Screenplay Best Documentary Screenplay
Television/ New Media Awards	Animation Comedy Series Comedy/Variety Talk Series Comedy/Variety Specials Comedy/Variety Sketch Series Daytime Serials Drama Series Episodic Comedy Episodic Drama Limited Series TV & New Media Pictures Short Form New Media New Series Children's Script Documentary Script – Current Events Documentary Script – Other Than Current Events
Special Awards	Paul Selvin Award Valentine Davies Award Animation Writers Caucus Animation Writing Award Laurel Award for Screenwriting Achievement Laurel Award for TV Writing Achievement Evelyn F. Burkey Award
Former Awards	Musical Western American Scene Drama Comedy Long Form – Adapted Long Form – Original
Ceremonies	1948 1949 1950 1951 1952 1953 1954 1955 1956 1957 1958 1959 1960 1961 1962 1963 1964 1965 1966 1967 1968 1969 1970 1971 1972 1973 1974 1975 1976 1977 1978 1979 1980 1981 1982 1983 1984 1985 1986 1987 1988 1989 1990 1991 1992 1993 1994 1995 1996 1997 1998 1999 2000 2001 2002 2003 2004 2005 2006 2007 2008 2009 2010 2011 2012 2013 2014 2015 2016 2017 2018 2019 2020 2021 2022 2023 2024 Years are of film release; ceremonies are held the following year