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Writers Guild Of America Awards 1962

15th Writers Guild of America Award

May 7 , 1963

Best Written Drama

The 15th WGA Awards, given at the Beverly Hilton Hotel , Los Angeles , California , USA 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 Villlage") - Christopher Knopf and Aaron Spelling