14th Writers Guild of America Awards

14th WGA Awards
14th WGA Awards
Date	1962
Organized by	Writers Guild of America, East and the Writers Guild of America, West
	← 13th; WGA Awards; 15th →;

The 14th Writers Guild of America Awards honored the best film writers and television writers of 1961. Winners were announced in 1962.^[1]

Winners and nominees

Winners are listed first highlighted in boldface.

Best Written Musical West Side Story, Screenplay by Ernest Lehman; Based on the book by Arthur Laurents & the play by Jerome Robbins Babes in Toyland, Screenplay by Ward Kimball and Lowell S. Hawley; Based on the operetta by Victor Herbert and Glen MacDonough Blue Hawaii, Screenplay by Hal Kanter; Story by Allan Weiss Flower Drum Song, Screenplay by Joseph Fields; Based on the novel by C.Y. Lee Snow White and the Three Stooges, Screenplay by Noel Langley and Elwood Ullman; Story by Charles Wick	Best Written American Drama The Hustler, Screenplay by Sidney Carroll and Robert Rossen; Based on the novel by Walter Tevis A Raisin in the Sun, Written by Lorraine Hansberry Fanny, Screenplay by Julius J. Epstein; Based on the play by S.N. Behrman and Joshua Logan The Innocents, Screenplay by William Archibald and Truman Capote; Based on the story "The Turn of the Screw" by Henry James Judgment at Nuremberg, Screenplay by Abby Mann; Story by Abby Mann
Best Written American Comedy Breakfast at Tiffany's, Screenplay by George Axelrod; Based on the breby Truman Capote A Majority of One, Written by Leonard Spigelgass The Absent Minded Professor, Screenplay by Bill Walsh; Story by Samuel W. Taylor One, Two, Three, Screenplay by Billy Wilder and I.A.L. Diamond; Based on the play by Ferenc Molnár The Parent Trap, Screenplay by David Swift; Based on the book by Erich Kästner

Episodic Drama *"The Fault in Our Stars" – Naked City* (ABC) – Barry Trivers** "The Fatalist" – Have Gun – Will Travel (CBS) – Shimon Wincelberg "Incident of the Buffalo Soldier" – Rawhide (CBS) – John Dunkel "No Sale" – The Law and Mr. Jones (ABC) – Palmer Thompson "Brown" – The Westerner (NBC) – Bruce Geller	Anthology, Any Length *"Death of the Temple Bay" – The DuPont Show with June Allyson* (CBS) – Christopher Knopf** "The Hidden World" – Armstrong Circle Theatre (NBC) – Alvin Boretz "Eye of the Beholder" – The Twilight Zone (CBS) – Rod Serling
Comedy/Variety, Any Length *"The Manhunt" – The Andy Griffith Show* (CBS) – Charles Stewart and Jack Elinson** "Everybody's Doin' It" – Art Carney Special (NBC) – Herbert Sargent The Arthur Murray Special for Bob Hope – Lester A. White, John Rapp, Mort Lachman, Bill Larkin, Charles Lee and Norman Sullivan

Laurel Award for Screenwriting Achievement
Philip Dunne
Valentine Davies Award
Mary C. McCall Jr.

^ "Awards Winners". wga.org. Writers Guild of America. Archived from the original on 2012-12-05. Retrieved 2010-06-06.
^ "Writers Guild of America, USA (1962)". IMDb. Retrieved 2019-05-23.