19th Writers Guild of America Awards

The 19th Writers Guild of America Awards honored the best film writers and television writers of 1966. Winners were announced in 1967.

Winners and nominees

Film

Winners are listed first highlighted in boldface.

Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?, Screenplay by Ernest Lehman
* Harper, Screenplay by William Goldman; Based on the novel by Ross Macdonald
* The Professionals, Screenplay by Richard Brooks; Based on the novel by Frank O'Rourke
* The Sand Pebbles, Screenplay by Robert Anderson; Based on the novel by Richard McKenna

The Russians Are Coming, the Russians Are Coming, Screenplay by William Rose; Based on the novel by Nathaniel Benchley

* How to Steal a Million, Screenplay by Harry Kurnitz; Based on a story by George Bradshaw

* Our Man Flint, Screenplay by Hal Fimberg and Ben Starr; Based on a story by Hal Fimberg

* The Fortune Cookie, Written by Billy Wilder and I. A. L. Diamond

* You're a Big Boy Now, Screenplay by Francis Ford Coppola; Based on the novel by David Benedictus