Writers Guild of America Awards 1962

15th WGA Award

May 7, 1963

----Best Written Drama:
To Kill a Mockingbird

The 15th Writers Guild of America Awards, given at the Beverly Hilton Hotel, Los Angeles, California, U.S. on 7 May 1963, honored the best writers of 1962.

Winners

Film

*Best Written American Comedy:
**"That Touch of Mink" - Nate Monaster and Stanley Shapiro
*Best Written American Drama:
**"To Kill a Mockingbird" - Horton Foote
*Best Written American Musical:
**"The Music Man" - Marion Hargrove

Nominees

Film

*Best Written American Comedy:
**"Mr. Hobbs Takes a Vacation" - Nunnally Johnson
**"The Notorious Landlady" - Blake Edwards and Larry Gelbart
**"Period of Adjustment" - Isobel Lennart
**"The Pigeon That Took Rome" - Melville Shavelson

*Best Written American Drama:
**"Billy Budd" - Peter Ustinov and DeWitt Bodeen
**"Birdman of Alcatraz" - Guy Trosper
**"Freud" - Charles Kaufman and Wolfgang Reinhardt
**"The Miracle Worker" - William Gibson

*Best Written American Musical:
**"Billy Rose's Jumbo" - Sidney Sheldon
**"Gypsy" - Leonard Spigelgass
**"Hey, Let's Twist" - Hal Hackady
**"State Fair" - Richard L. Breen

Television

*TV Anthology, any Length:
**"The Dick Powell Show" (for episode "Death In A Village") - Christopher Knopf and Aaron Spelling