13th Writers Guild of America Awards


The 13th Writers Guild of America Awards honored the best film writers of 1960. Winners were announced in 1961.

Winners & Nominees

Film

Winners are listed first highlighted in boldface.

  • 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
  • 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

    • Television

    Special Awards