10th Writers Guild of America Awards
# 10th Writers Guild of America Awards

The 10th Writers Guild of America Awards honored the best film writers and television writers of 1957. Winners were announced in 1958.

## Winners & Nominees

### Film

Winners are listed first highlighted in boldface.

| Best Written Musical 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 | Best Written American Drama 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 |
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| Best Written American Comedy 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 | |

### Television

* Western Episode
* "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

### Special Awards

Laurel Award for Screenwriting Achievement :

* John Lee Mahin |
