4th Writers Guild of America Awards


The 4th Writers Guild of America Awards honored the best film writers of 1951. Winners were announced in 1952.

Winners & Nominees

Film

Winners are listed first highlighted in boldface.

  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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