18th Writers Guild of America Awards
# 18th Writers Guild of America Awards

The 18th Writers Guild of America Awards honored the best film writers and television writers of 1965. Winners were announced in 1966.

## Winners & Nominees

### Film

Winners are listed first highlighted in boldface.

| Best Written Musical The Sound of Music, Screenplay by Ernest Lehamn; Based on the stage musical book by Howard Lindsay and Russel Crouse | Best Written American Drama The Pawnbroker, Screenplay by Morton S. Fine and David Friedkin; Based on the novel by Edward Lewis Wallant A Patch of Blue, Screenplay by Guy Green; Based on the novel Be Ready with Bells and Drums by Elizabeth Kata The Spy Who Came in from the Cold, Screenplay by Paul Dehn and Guy Trosper; Based on the novel by John le Carré The Collector, Screenplay by Stanley Mann and John Kohn; Based on the novel by John Fowles Ship of Fools, Screenplay by Abby Mann; Based on the novel by Katherine Anne Porter |
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| Best Written American Comedy A Thousand Clowns, Screenplay by Herb Gardner Cat Ballou, Screenplay by Walter Newman and Frank Pierson; Based on the novel by Roy Chanslor That Darn Cat!, Screenplay by Mildred Gordon, Gordon Gordon and Bill Walsh; Based on the novel Undercover Cat by The Gordons The Great Race, Screenplay by Arthur A. Ross; Story by Blake Edwards and Arthur A. Ross What's New Pussycat, Written by Woody Allen | |

### Television

| Episodic Comedy "Br-room, Br-room" – The Dick Van Dyke Show (CBS) – Dale McRaven and Carl Kleinschmitt "Dash Riprock, You Cad" – The Beverly Hillbillies (ABC) – Paul Henning and Mark Tuttle "4½" – The Dick Van Dyke Show (CBS) – Gary Marshall and Jerry Belson "Romances, Roses, and Rye Bread" – The Dick Van Dyke Show (CBS) – Gary Marshall and Jerry Belson "Maybe Love Will Save My Apartment House" – Dr. Kildare (NBC) – Boris Solbelman | Episodic Drama "With a Hammer in His Hand, Lord, Lord!" – Mr. Novak (NBC) – John D.F. Black "Interlude" – 12 O'Clock High (ABC) – Dean Riesner "A Woods Full of Question Marks" – Ben Casey (ABC) – Ellis Marcus "Man is a Rock" – Dr. Kildare (NBC) – Christopher Knopf "Men in a Chariot" – The Fugitive (ABC) – George Eckstein "Did He Who Made the Lamb Make Thee?" – Slattery's People (CBS) – William P. McGivern |
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| Anthology, Any Length "Demon with a Glass Hand" – The Outer Limits (ABC) – Harlan Ellison "Cops and Robbers" – Bob Hope Presents the Chrysler Theatre (NBC) – Eric Bercovici and Jud Taylor "Rapture at Two-Forty" – Kraft Suspense Theatre (NBC) – Luther Davis and Jo Swerling Jr. "Child Molester" – Purex Summer Specials (NBC) – John T. Dugan | |

### Special Awards

Laurel Award for Screenwriting Achievement :

* Isobel Lennart |
* Valentine Davies Award |
* Leonard Spigelgass |
