3rd Writers Guild of America Awards


The 3rd Writers Guild of America Awards honored the best film writers of 1950. Winners were announced in 1951.

Winners & Nominees

Film

Winners are listed first highlighted in boldface.

  • Broken Arrow, Screenplay by Albert Maltz
  • *A Ticket to Tomahawk, Screenplay by Mary Loos, and Richard Sale
  • *Devil's Doorway, Screenplay by Guy Trosper
  • *Rio Grande, Screenplay by James McGuinness
  • *The Gunfighter, Screenplay by William Bowers, and William Sellers; story by William Bowers, and André de Toth
  • *Winchester '73, Screenplay by Robert L. Richards, and Borden Chase; story by Stuart N. Lake
  • Annie Get Your Gun, Screenplay by Sidney Sheldon
  • *My Blue Heaven, Screenplay by Lamar Trotti, and Claude Binyon
  • *Summer Stock, Screenplay by George Wells, and Sy Gomberg; story by Sy Gomberg
  • *The West Point Story, Screenplay by John Monks Jr., Charles Hoffman, and Irving Wallace
  • *Three Little Words, Screenplay by George Wells
  • Sunset Boulevard, Written by Charles Brackett & Billy Wilder & D.M. Marshman Jr.
  • *All About Eve, Screenplay by Joseph L. Mankiewicz
  • *Panic in the Streets, Screenplay by Richard Murphy; story by Edna Anhalt, and Edward Anhalt
  • *The Asphalt Jungle, Screenplay by Ben Maddow, and John Huston
  • *The Men, Screenplay by Carl Foreman
  • All About Eve, Written by Joseph L. Mankiewicz
  • *Adam's Rib, Screenplay by Ruth Gordon, and Garson Kanin
  • *Born Yesterday, Screenplay by Albert Mannheimer, based on a Play by Garson Kanin
  • *Father of the Bride, Screenplay by Frances Goodrich and Albert Hackett; based on the novel by Edward Streeter
  • *The Jackpot, Screenplay by Phoebe Ephron, and Henry Ephron; story by John McNulty