13th Writers Guild of America Awards


The 13th Writers Guild of America Awards honored the best film writers and television writers of 1960. Winners were announced in 1961.

Winners and nominees

Film

Winners are listed first highlighted in boldface.
Bells Are Ringing, Screenplay by Betty Comden and Adolph Green; based on the play by Betty Comden and Adolph Green
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
  • 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