16th Writers Guild of America Awards
# 16th Writers Guild of America Awards

The 16th Writers Guild of America Awards honored the best film writers and television writers of 1963. Winners were announced in 1964.

## Winners & Nominees

### Film

Winners are listed first highlighted in boldface.

| Best Written American Drama Hud, Screenplay by Harriet Frank Jr. and Irving Ravetch; Based on the novel by Larry McMurtry America America, Written by Elia Kazan Captain Newman, M.D., Screenplay by Richard L. Breen, Phoebe Ephron and Henry Ephron; Based on the novel by Leo Rosten The Balcony, Screenplay by Ben Maddow; Based on the play by Bernard Frechtman and Jean Genet The Great Escape, Screenplay by James Clavell and W.R. Burnett; Based on the book by Paul Brickhill The Ugly American, Screenplay by Stewart Stern; Based on the novel by William J. Lederer and Eugene Burdick | Best Written American Comedy Lilies of the Field, Screenplay by James Poe; Based on the novel by William E. Barrett Charade, Screenplay by Peter Stone; Based on the story by Peter Stone and Marc Behm Irma la Douce, Screenplay by I.A.L. Diamond and Billy Wilder; Based on the play by Alexandre Breffort Love with the Proper Stranger, Written by Arnold Schulman The Thrill of It All, Screenplay by Carl Reiner; Story by Carl Reiner and Larry Gelbart |
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### Television

| Episodic Drama "Man Out of Time" – Route 66 (CBS) – Lawrence B. Marcus "A Cardinal Act of Mercy: Part 1 & 2" – Ben Casey (ABC) – Norman Katkov "Between Friday and Monday" – Empire (NBC) – Ken Trevey The S.S. American Dream – Naked City (ABC) – Frank Pierson "A Book for Burning" – The Defenders (CBS) – William Woolfolk | Anthology, Any Length "The Last of the Big Spenders" – The Dick Powell Theatre (NBC) – Richard Alan Simmons "A Pair of Boots" – The Lloyd Bridges Show (CBS) – Mort R. Lewis "The Seven Deadly Sins" – Look Up and Live (CBS) – Don Kellerman "The Judge" – The Dick Powell Theatre (NBC) – Bruce Geller |
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| Comedy/Variety, Any Length "Barney's First Car" – The Andy Griffith Show (CBS) – James Fritzell and Everett Greenbaum Bob Hope Christmas Show (NBC) – Mort Lachman, Bill Larkin, John Rapp, Lester A. White, Charles Lee, Norman Sullivan and Gig Henry "A Small Matter of Being Fired" – I'm Dickens, He's Fenster (ABC) – Leonard Stern and Don Hinkley "When I Was Your Age" – My Three Sons (ABC) – Ernest Chambers "Barney Mends a Broken Heart" – The Andy Griffith Show (CBS) – Aaron Ruben "It May Look Like a Walnut" – The Dick Van Dyke Show (CBS) – Carl Reiner |

### Special Awards

Laurel Award for Screenwriting Achievement :

* John Huston |
* Valentine Davies Award |
* Morgan Cox |
