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Writers Guild of America, USA: 1960

WGA Award (Screen)

Date:	6 May
Location:	Beverly Hilton Hotel, Los Angeles, California, USA

Best Written American Musical


Winner:
	Five Pennies, The (1959) - Melville Shavelson; Jack Rose (I)
Other Nominees:
	Li'l Abner (1959) - Norman Panama; Melvin Frank Never Steal Anything Small (1959) - Charles Lederer Porgy and Bess (1959) - N. Richard Nash Private's Affair, A (1959) - Winston Miller Say One for Me (1959) - Robert O'Brien (I)

Best Written American Drama


Winner:
	Diary of Anne Frank, The (1959) - Frances Goodrich; Albert Hackett
Other Nominees:
	Anatomy of a Murder (1959) - Wendell Mayes Ben-Hur (1959) - Karl Tunberg Compulsion (1959) - Richard Murphy (I) Nun's Story, The (1959) - Robert Anderson (VII)

Best Written American Comedy


Winner:
	Some Like It Hot (1959) - Billy Wilder; I.A.L. Diamond
Other Nominees:
	Hole in the Head, A (1959) - Arnold Schulman North by Northwest (1959) - Ernest Lehman Operation Petticoat (1959) - Stanley Shapiro; Maurice Richlin Pillow Talk (1959) - Stanley Shapiro; Maurice Richlin

WGA Award (TV)

Date:	May
Notes:	The TV awards are covering the period from 1 January 1958 to 31 December 1958.

Laurel Award for Screen Writing Achievement


Awarded to:
	Norman Krasna