13th Writers Guild of America Awards

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{{Award category|#EEDD82|Best Written Musical}}

• Bells Are Ringing, Screenplay by Betty Comden and Adolph Green; based on the play by Betty Comden and Adolph Green
• Can-Can, Screenplay by Dorothy Kingsley and Charles Lederer
• G.I. Blues, Written by Edmund Beloin and Henry Garson
• Let's Make Love, Screenplay by Norman Krasna and Hal Kanter

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{{Award category|#EEDD82|Best Written American Drama}}

• Elmer Gantry, Screenplay by Richard Brooks; based on the novel by Sinclair Lewis
• Sons and Lovers, Screenplay by Gavin Lambert and T.E.B. Clarke; based on the novel by D.H. Lawrence
• Psycho, Screenplay by Joseph Stefano; based on the novel by Robert Bloch
• Spartacus, Screenplay by Dalton Trumbo; based on the novel by Howard Fast
• The Sundowners, Screenplay by Isobel Lennart; based on the novel by Jon Cleary

{{Award category|#EEDD82|Best Written American Comedy}}

• The Apartment, Written by Billy Wilder and I.A.L. Diamond
• North to Alaska, Screenplay by Martin Rackin, John Lee Mahin and Claude Binyon; based on the play by Ladislas Fodor and John H. Kafka
• Ocean's 11, Screenplay by Harry Brown and Charles Lederer; story by George Clayton Johnson and Jack Golden Russell
• Please Don't Eat the Daisies, Screenplay by Isobel Lennart; based on the book by Jean Kerr
• The Facts of Life, Written by Norman Panama and Melvin Frank

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{{Award category|#EEDD82|Episodic, Longer than 30 Minutes in Length}}

• "The Unhired Assassin: Part 1 & 2" – The Untouchables (ABC) – William Spier
• "The Last Hunt" – Bonanza (NBC) – Donald S. Sanford
• "Incident of the Dry Drive" – Rawhide (CBS) – John Dunkel

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{{Award category|#EEDD82|Episodic Comedy}}

• Margaret's Old Flame" – Father Knows Best (CBS) – Dorothy Cooper
• "Chip Off the Old Block" – My Three Sons (ABC) – George Tibbles
• "Linda Wants to Be a Boy" – The Danny Thomas Show (ABC) – Charles Stewart, and Jack Elison

{{Award category|#EEDD82|Anthology, 30 Minutes in Length}}

• "Interrogation" – Zane Grey Theater (CBS) – Christopher Knopf
• "The Glorious Fourth" – Alcoa Theatre (NBC) – Richard Alan Simmons
• "Lady Bug" – Goodyear Theatre (NBC) – Leonard Freeman
• "The Trench Coat – The DuPont Show with June Allyson (CBS) – Bruce Geller
• "The Monsters Are Due on Maple Street" – The Twilight Zone (CBS) – Rod Serling

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{{Award category|#EEDD82|Anthology, More Than One Half Hour}}

• "I, Don Quixote" – The DuPont Show of the Month (CBS) – Dale Wasserman

! colspan="2" style="background:{{WGA Awards/color}};" |Laurel Award for Screenwriting Achievement

George Seaton