10th Writers Guild of America Awards

• Les Girls, Screenplay by John Patrick; story by Vera Caspary
  • Funny Face, Screenplay by Leonard Gershe
  • Pal Joey, Screenplay by Dorothy Kingsley; based on the play by John O'Hara
  • The Joker Is Wild, Screenplay by Oscar Saul; based on the book by Art Cohn
  • The Pajama Game, Screenplay by George Abbott, and Richard Bissell; based on the novel by Richard Bissell

• 12 Angry Men, Screenplay by Reginald Rose
  • Heaven Knows, Mr. Allison, Screenplay by John Lee Mahin, and John Huston; based on the novel by Charles Shaw
  • Paths of Glory, Screenplay by Stanley Kubrick, Calder Willingham, and Jim Thompson; based on the novel by Humphrey Cobb
  • Peyton Place, Screenplay by John Michael Hayes; based on the novel by Grace Metalious
  • Sayonara, Screenplay by Paul Osborn; based on the novel by James A. Michener

• Love in the Afternoon, Screenplay by Billy Wilder, and I.A.L. Diamond; based on the novel by Claude Anet
  • Designing Woman, Screenplay by George Wells; story by Helen Rose
  • Don't Go Near the Water, Screenplay by Dorothy Kingsley, and George Wells; based on the novel by William Brinkley
  • Operation Mad Ball, Screenplay by Arthur Carter, Jed Harris, and Blake Edwards; based on the play by Arthur Carter
  • Will Success Spoil Rock Hunter?, Screenplay by Frank Tashlin; based on a play by George Axelrod

• "Helen of Abajinian" – Have Gun - Will Travel (CBS) – Gene Roddenberry
  • "Ghostface" – Broken Arrow (ABC) – John Dunkel
  • "The Quick and the Dead – Maverick (ABC) – Douglas Heyes
  • End of a Gun – The 20th Century-Fox Hour (CBS) – Sam Peckinpah
  • "The Child" – The Restless Gun (NBC) – Herbert Little Jr., David Victor; story by John Payne

John Lee Mahin