The 15th Writers Guild of America Awards honored the best film writers and television writers of 1962. Winners were announced in 1963.
Winners and nominees
Film Winners are listed first highlighted in boldface. 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 StongTo 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 playThat 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 "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 "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 "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 AchievementJoseph L. MankiewiczValentine Davies AwardAllen Rivkin
References
External links
WGA.org