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    11th Writers Guild of America Awards

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    11th WGA Awards
    Date1959
    Organized byWriters Guild of America, East and the Writers Guild of America, West
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    The 11th Writers Guild of America Awards honored the best film writers of 1958. Winners were announced in 1959.[1]

    Winners and nominees

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    Film

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    Winners are listed first highlighted in boldface.

    Best Written Musical
    • Gigi, Screenplay by Alan Jay Lerner; Based on the novella by Colette
      • Damn Yankees, Screenplay by George Abbott; Based on the book by George Abbott and Douglass Wallop
      • The Girl Most Likely, Screenplay by Devery Freeman
      • South Pacific, Screenplay by Paul Osborn; Based on "Tales of the South Pacific" by James A. Michener
      • Tom Thumb, Screenplay by Ladislas Fodor; Based on a story of the Brothers Grimm
    Best Written American Drama
    • The Defiant Ones, Screenplay by Harold Jacob Smith and Nedrick Young
      • Cat on a Hot Tin Roof, Screenplay by Richard Brooks and James Poe; Based on the play by Tennessee Williams
      • I Want to Live!, Screenplay by Nelson Gidding and Don Mankiewicz
      • The Long, Hot Summer, Screenplay by Irving Ravetch and Harriet Frank Jr.; Based on the novel "The Hamlet" by William Faukner
      • Separate Tables, Screenplay by Terence Rattigan and John Gay; Based on the play by Terence Rattigan
    Best Written American Comedy
    • Me and the Colonel, Screenplay by S.N. Behrman and George Froeschel; Based on the play by Franz Werfel
      • Houseboat, Screenplay by Melville Shavelson and Jack Rose
      • Indiscreet, Screenplay by Norman Krasna; Based on the play
      • The Reluctant Debutante, Screenplay by William Douglas-Home and Julius J. Epstein
      • Teacher's Pet, Screenplay by Fay Kanin and Michael Kanin

    Special awards

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    Laurel Award for Screenwriting Achievement

    Nunnally Johnson

    References

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    1. ^ "Awards Winners". wga.org. Writers Guild of America. Archived from the original on December 5, 2012. Retrieved June 6, 2010.
    2. ^ "Writers Guild of America, USA (1959)". IMDb. Retrieved May 20, 2019.
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