15th Writers Guild of America Awards

15th WGA Award

May 7, 1963

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Best Written Drama:
To Kill a Mockingbird

The 15th Writers Guild of America Awards, given at the Beverly Hilton Hotel, Los Angeles, California, U.S. on 7 May 1963, honored the best writers of 1962.

Winners

Film

• Best Written American Comedy:
  • That Touch of Mink - Nate Monaster and Stanley Shapiro
• Best Written American Drama:
  • To Kill a Mockingbird - Horton Foote
• Best Written American Musical:
  • The Music Man - Marion Hargrove

Nominees

Film

• Best Written American Comedy:
  • Mr. Hobbs Takes a Vacation - Nunnally Johnson
  • The Notorious Landlady - Blake Edwards and Larry Gelbart
  • Period of Adjustment - Isobel Lennart
  • The Pigeon That Took Rome - Melville Shavelson
• Best Written American Drama:
  • Billy Budd - Peter Ustinov and DeWitt Bodeen
  • Birdman of Alcatraz - Guy Trosper
  • Freud - Charles Kaufman and Wolfgang Reinhardt
  • The Miracle Worker - William Gibson
• Best Written American Musical:
  • Billy Rose's Jumbo - Sidney Sheldon
  • Gypsy - Leonard Spigelgass
  • Hey, Let's Twist - Hal Hackady
  • State Fair - Richard L. Breen

Television

• TV Anthology, any Length:
  • The Dick Powell Show (for episode "Death In A Village") - Christopher Knopf and Aaron Spelling