4th Writers Guild of America Awards

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{{Award category|#EEDD82|Best Written Film Concerning American Scene}}

• Bright Victory, Screenplay by Robert Henry Buckner
• A Place in the Sun, Screenplay by Michael Wilson, and Harry Brown; based on the novel by Theodore Dreiser
• Death of a Salesman,, Screenplay by Stanley Roberts; based on the play by Arthur Miller
• Saturday's Hero, Screenplay by Sidney Buchman, and Millard Lampedll, based on the novel by Millard Lampell
• The Well, Screenplay by Russell Rouse, and Clarence Green

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{{Award category|#EEDD82|Best Written Low-budget Film}}

• The Steel Helmet, Written by Samuel Fuller
• Five, Screenplay by Arch Oboler
• Little Big Horn, Screenplay by Charles Marquis Warren; story by Harold Shumate
• Pickup, Screenplay by Hugo Haas, Arnold Lipp; based on a novel by Josef Kopta
• The First Legion, Screenplay by Emmet Lavery; based on a play by Emmet Lavery

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

• An American in Paris, Written by Alan Jay Lerner
• Here Comes the Groom, Screenplay by Virginia Van Upp, Liam O'Brien, and Myles Connolly
• On the Riviera, Screenplay by Valentine Davies, Phoebe Ephron, and Henry Ephron; based on a play by Rudolph Lothar, and Hans Adler
• Show Boat, Screenplay by John Lee Mahin, based on the play by Jerome Kern, and Oscar Hammerstein II
• The Great Caruso, Written by Sonya Levien, and William Ludwig

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

• A Place in the Sun, Screenplay by Michael Wilson and Harry Brown
• A Streetcar Named Desire, Written by Tennessee Williams
• Death of a Salesman, Screenplay by Stanley Roberts; based on a play by Arthur Miller
• Detective Story, Screenplay by Philip Yordan, and Robert Wyler; based on the play by Sidney Kingsley
• Fourteen Hours, Screenplay by John Paxton; story by Joel Sayre

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

• Father's Little Dividend, Written by Albert Hackett, and Frances Goodrich
• Angels in the Outfield, Screenplay by Dorothy Kingsley, and George Wells, story by Richard Conlin
• People Will Talk, Screenplay by Joseph L. Mankiewicz; based on a play by Curt Goetz
• That's My Boy, Screenplay by Cy Howard
• You're in the Navy Now, Screenplay by Richard Murphy

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