13th Writers Guild of America Awards

13th WGA Awards
13th WGA Awards
Date	1961
Organized by	Writers Guild of America, East and the Writers Guild of America, West
	← 12th; WGA Awards; 14th →;

The 13th Writers Guild of America Awards honored the best film writers of 1960. Winners were announced in 1961.^[1]

Winners & Nominees

Winners are listed first highlighted in boldface.

Best Written Musical Bells Are Ringing, Screenplay by Betty Comden and Adolph Green; based on the play by Betty Comden and Adolph Green Can-Can, Screenplay by Dorothy Kingsley and Charles Lederer G.I. Blues, Written by Edmund Beloin and Henry Garson Let's Make Love, Screenplay by Norman Krasna and Hal Kanter	Best Written American Drama 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
Best Written American Comedy 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

Episodic, Longer than 30 Minutes in Length "The Unhired Assassin: Part 1 & 2" – The Untouchables (ABC) – William Spier "The Last Hunt" – Bonanza (NBC) – Donald S. Sanford "Incident of the Dry Drive" – Rawhide (CBS) – John Dunkel	Episodic Comedy *Margaret's Old Flame" – Father Knows Best* (CBS) – Dorothy Cooper** "Chip Off the Old Block" – My Three Sons (ABC) – George Tibbles "Linda Wants to Be a Boy" – The Danny Thomas Show (ABC) – Charles Stewart, and Jack Elison
Anthology, 30 Minutes in Length *"Interrogation" – Zane Grey Theater* (CBS) – Christopher Knopf** "The Glorious Fourth" – Alcoa Theatre (NBC) – Richard Alan Simmons "Lady Bug" – Goodyear Theatre (NBC) – Leonard Freeman "The Trench Coat – The DuPont Show with June Allyson (CBS) – Bruce Geller "The Monsters Are Due on Maple Street" – The Twilight Zone (CBS) – Rod Serling	Anthology, More Than One Half Hour *"I, Don Quixote" – The DuPont Show of the Month* (CBS) – Dale Wasserman**

Laurel Award for Screenwriting Achievement
George Seaton

^ "Awards Winners". wga.org. Writers Guild of America. Archived from the original on 2012-12-05. Retrieved 2010-06-06.
^ "Writers Guild of America, USA (1961)". IMDb. Retrieved 2019-05-23.

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Film Awards	Best Adapted Screenplay Best Original Screenplay Best Documentary Screenplay
Television/ New Media Awards	Animation Comedy Series Comedy/Variety Talk Series Comedy/Variety Specials Comedy/Variety Sketch Series Daytime Serials Drama Series Episodic Comedy Episodic Drama Long Form – Adapted Long Form – Original Short Form New Media New Series Children's Script Documentary Script – Current Events Documentary Script – Other Than Current Events
Special Awards	Paul Selvin Award Valentine Davies Award Animation Writers Caucus Animation Writing Award Laurel Award for Screenwriting Achievement Laurel Award for TV Writing Achievement Evelyn F. Burkey Award
Former Awards	Musical Western American Scene Drama Comedy
Ceremonies	1948 1949 1950 1951 1952 1953 1954 1955 1956 1957 1958 1959 1960 1961 1962 1963 1964 1965 1966 1967 1968 1969 1970 1971 1972 1973 1974 1975 1976 1977 1978 1979 1980 1981 1982 1983 1984 1985 1986 1987 1988 1989 1990 1991 1992 1993 1994 1995 1996 1997 1998 1999 2000 2001 2002 2003 2004 2005 2006 2007 2008 2009 2010 2011 2012 2013 2014 2015 2016 2017 2018 2019 2020 2021 2022 2023 Years are of film release; ceremonies are held the following year