15th Writers Guild of America Awards
# 15th Writers Guild of America Awards

The 15th Writers Guild of America Awards honored the best film writers and television writers of 1962. Winners were announced in 1963.

## Winners & Nominees

### Film

Winners are listed first highlighted in boldface.

| Best Written Musical The Music Man, Screenplay by Marion Hargrove; Based on the musical by Meredith Willson Billy Rose's Jumbo, Screenplay by Sidney Sheldon; Based on the musical by Ben Hecht and Charles MacArthur Gypsy, Screenplay by Leonard Spigelgass; Based on the memoir of Gypsy Rose Lee Hey, Let's Twist, Written by Hal Hackady State Fair, Screenplay by Richard L. Breen; Based on the novel by Philip Stong | Best Written American Drama To Kill a Mockingbird, Screenplay by Horton Foote; Based on the novel by Harper Lee Billy Budd, Screenplay by Peter Ustinov and DeWitt Bodeen; Based on the novel by Herman Melville, and the play by Louis O. Coxe and Robert H. Chapman Birdman of Alcatraz, Screenplay by Guy Trosper; Based on the book by Thomas E. Gaddis Freud, Screenplay by Charles Kaufman and Wolfgang Reinhardt; Story by Charles Kaufman The Miracle Worker, Screenplay by William Gibson; Based on his play |
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| Best Written American Comedy That Touch of Mink, Written by Nate Monaster and Stanley Shapiro Mr. Hobbs Takes a Vacation, Screenplay by Nunnally Johnson; Based on the novel "Mr. Hobbs' Vacation" by Edward Streeter The Notorious Landlady, Screenplay by Blake Edwards and Larry Gelbart; Based on the story "The Notorious Tenant" by Margery Sharp Period of Adjustment, Screenplay by Isobel Lennart; Based on the play by Tennessee Williams The Pigeon That Took Rome, Screenplay by Melville Shavelson; Based on the novel by Donald Downes | |

### Television

| Episodic Drama "Today the Man Who Kills Ants Is Coming" – Naked City (ABC) – Kenneth M. Rosen and Howard Rodman "I Remember a Lemon Tree" – Ben Casey (ABC) - Jack Laird and Marcus Demian "The Multiplicity of Herbert Konish" – Naked City (ABC) – Ernest Kinoy "Goodnight Sweet Blues" – Route 66 (CBS) – Will Lorin and Leonard Freeman "The Benefactor" – The Defenders (CBS) – Peter Stone | Anthology, Any Length "Price of Tomatoes" – The Dick Powell Theatre (NBC) – Richard Alan Simmons "The Jail" – Alcoa Premiere (ABC) – Ray Bradbury and Tad Mosel "People Need People" – Alcoa Premier (ABC) – Henry F. Greenberg "Death in a Village" – The Dick Powell Theatre (NBC) – Christopher Knopf and Aaron Spelling "The Remarkable Mrs. Hawk" – Thriller (NBC) – Donald S. Sanford Westinghouse Presents: That's Where the Town Is Going (CBS) – Tad Mosel |
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| Comedy/Variety, Any Length "I Won't Go" – Car 54, Where Are You? (NBC) – Nat Hiken and Gary Belkin "Birds and Bees" – My Three Sons (ABC) – George Tibbles "Where Did I Come From?" – The Dick Van Dyke Show (CBS) – Carl Reiner |

### Special Awards

Laurel Award for Screenwriting Achievement :

* Joseph L. Mankiewicz |
* Valentine Davies Award |
* Allen Rivkin |
