16th Writers Guild of America Awards

• 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

• 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

• "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

• "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

• "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

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