18th Writers Guild of America Awards

• The Sound of Music, Screenplay by Ernest Lehamn; Based on the stage musical book by Howard Lindsay and Russel Crouse

• The Pawnbroker, Screenplay by Morton S. Fine and David Friedkin; Based on the novel by Edward Lewis Wallant
  • A Patch of Blue, Screenplay by Guy Green; Based on the novel Be Ready with Bells and Drums by Elizabeth Kata
  • The Spy Who Came in from the Cold, Screenplay by Paul Dehn and Guy Trosper; Based on the novel by John le Carré
  • The Collector, Screenplay by Stanley Mann and John Kohn; Based on the novel by John Fowles
  • Ship of Fools, Screenplay by Abby Mann; Based on the novel by Katherine Anne Porter

• A Thousand Clowns, Screenplay by Herb Gardner
  • Cat Ballou, Screenplay by Walter Newman and Frank Pierson; Based on the novel by Roy Chanslor
  • That Darn Cat!, Screenplay by Mildred Gordon, Gordon Gordon and Bill Walsh; Based on the novel Undercover Cat by The Gordons
  • The Great Race, Screenplay by Arthur A. Ross; Story by Blake Edwards and Arthur A. Ross
  • What's New Pussycat, Written by Woody Allen

• "Br-room, Br-room" – The Dick Van Dyke Show (CBS) – Dale McRaven and Carl Kleinschmitt
  • "Dash Riprock, You Cad" – The Beverly Hillbillies (ABC) – Paul Henning and Mark Tuttle
  • "4½" – The Dick Van Dyke Show (CBS) – Gary Marshall and Jerry Belson
  • "Romances, Roses, and Rye Bread" – The Dick Van Dyke Show (CBS) – Gary Marshall and Jerry Belson
  • "Maybe Love Will Save My Apartment House" – Dr. Kildare (NBC) – Boris Solbelman

• "With a Hammer in His Hand, Lord, Lord!" – Mr. Novak (NBC) – John D.F. Black
  • "Interlude" – 12 O'Clock High (ABC) – Dean Riesner
  • "A Woods Full of Question Marks" – Ben Casey (ABC) – Ellis Marcus
  • "Man is a Rock" – Dr. Kildare (NBC) – Christopher Knopf
  • "Men in a Chariot" – The Fugitive (ABC) – George Eckstein
  • "Did He Who Made the Lamb Make Thee?" – Slattery's People (CBS) – William P. McGivern

• "Demon with a Glass Hand" – The Outer Limits (ABC) – Harlan Ellison
  • "Cops and Robbers" – Bob Hope Presents the Chrysler Theatre (NBC) – Eric Bercovici and Jud Taylor
  • "Rapture at Two-Forty" – Kraft Suspense Theatre (NBC) – Luther Davis and Jo Swerling Jr.
  • "Child Molester" – Purex Summer Specials (NBC) – John T. Dugan

Isobel Lennart

Leonard Spigelgass