Awards & Winners

1959 Writers Guild of America Award

Check winners and nominations of 1959 Writers Guild of America Award. Check awards winners of Writers Guild of America Awards 1958. (Click on the Award name to show winners and nominees)

Writers Guild of America Awards 1958

Writers Guild of America Award for Best Written Musical

Alan Jay Lerner

Honored for : Gigi

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Nominee Nominated Work
Alan Jay Lerner Gigi
George Abbott Damn Yankees
Paul Jarrico The Girl Most Likely
Devery Freeman The Girl Most Likely
Paul Osborn South Pacific
Ladislas Fodor Tom Thumb
Writers Guild of America Award for Best Written Drama

Harold Jacob Smith, Nedrick Young

Honored for : The Defiant Ones

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Nominee Nominated Work
Harold Jacob Smith The Defiant Ones
Nedrick Young The Defiant Ones
Richard Brooks Cat on a Hot Tin Roof
James Poe Cat on a Hot Tin Roof
Nelson Gidding I Want to Live!
Don Mankiewicz I Want to Live!
Irving Ravetch The Long, Hot Summer
Harriet Frank Jr. The Long, Hot Summer
Terence Rattigan Separate Tables
John Gay Separate Tables
Writers Guild of America Award for Best Written Comedy

S. N. Behrman, George Froeschel

Honored for : Me and the Colonel

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Nominee Nominated Work
S. N. Behrman Me and the Colonel
George Froeschel Me and the Colonel
Melville Shavelson Houseboat
Jack Rose Houseboat
Norman Krasna Indiscreet
William Douglas-Home The Reluctant Debutante
Julius J. Epstein The Reluctant Debutante
Fay Kanin Teacher's Pet
Michael Kanin Teacher's Pet