14th Writers Guild of America Awards

Award ceremony for writing of 1961

14th WGA Awards
Date	1962
Organized by	Writers Guild of America, East and the Writers Guild of America, West
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The 14th Writers Guild of America Awards honored the best film writers and television writers of 1961. Winners were announced in 1962.

Winners and nominees

Winners are listed first highlighted in boldface.

Best Written Musical

Best Written American Drama

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

Best Written American Comedy

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

Episodic Drama *"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	Anthology, Any Length *"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
Comedy/Variety, Any Length *"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

Laurel Award for Screenwriting Achievement
Philip Dunne
Valentine Davies Award
Mary C. McCall Jr.

"Awards Winners". wga.org. Writers Guild of America. Archived from the original on 2012-12-05. Retrieved 2010-06-06.
"Writers Guild of America, USA (1962)". IMDb. Retrieved 2019-05-23.

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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 Long Form – Adapted Long Form – Original 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
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