19th Writers Guild of America Awards
# 19th Writers Guild of America Awards

The 19th Writers Guild of America Awards honored the best film writers and television writers of 1966. Winners were announced in 1967.

## Winners & Nominees

### Film

Winners are listed first highlighted in boldface.

| Best Written American Drama Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?, Screenplay by Ernest Lehman Harper, Screenplay by William Goldman; Based on the novel by Ross Macdonald The Professionals, Screenplay by Richard Brooks; Based on the novel by Frank O'Rourke The Sand Pebbles, Screenplay by Robert Anderson; Based on the novel by Richard McKenna | Best Written American Comedy The Russians Are Coming, the Russians Are Coming, Screenplay by William Rose; Based on the novel by Nathaniel Benchley How to Steal a Million, Screenplay by Harry Kurnitz; Based on a story by George Bradshaw Our Man Flint, Screenplay by Hal Fimberg and Ben Starr; Based on a story by Hal Fimberg The Fortune Cookie, Written by Billy Wilder and I. A. L. Diamond You're a Big Boy Now, Screenplay by Francis Ford Coppola; Based on the novel by David Benedictus |
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### Television

| Episodic Comedy "You Ought to Be in Pictures" – The Dick Van Dyke Show (CBS) – Jack Winter "The Great Kahuna" – Gidget (ABC) – Albert Mannheimer (Teleplay), Frederick Kohner (story) "Opie Joins the Marines" – Gomer Pyle: USMC (CBS) – Aaron Ruben "Go Tell the Birds and the Bees" – The Dick Van Dyke Show (CBS) – Rick Mittleman | Episodic Drama "No Justice for the Judge" – The Trials of O'Brien (CBS) – David Ellis "Judge Them Gently" – Court Martial (CBS) – Gerry Day "Color Him Red" – Slattery's People (CBS) – Pat Fielder "When the Wind Blows" – The Fugitive (ABC) – Betty Landgon "The Horse Fighter" – The Virginian (NBC) – Richard Fielder |
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### Special Awards

Laurel Award for Screenwriting Achievement :

* Richard Brooks |
* Valentine Davies Award |
* Edmund H. North |
* Edmund J. North Award |
* Charles Brackett |
* Richard L. Breen |
