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{{WGA awards short description|works-year=1962}}
{{Infobox film awards
|number=15
|award=Writers Guild of America Awards
|date=May 7, 1963
|site=[[The Beverly Hilton|Beverly Hilton Hotel]], [[Los Angeles]], [[California]], [[United States|U.S.]]
|organizer=[[Writers Guild of America, East]] and the [[Writers Guild of America West|Writers Guild of America, West]]
|last=[[14th Writers Guild of America Awards|14th]]
|next=[[16th Writers Guild of America Awards|16th]] }}

The '''15th [[Writers Guild of America Awards]]''' honored the best [[Screenwriter|film writers]] and [[television writer]]s of 1962. Winners were announced in 1963.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.wga.org/awards/awardssub.aspx?id=1551 |title=Awards Winners |work=Writers Guild of America |archive-url=https://archive.today/20121205095022/http://www.wga.org/awards/awardssub.aspx?id=1551 |archive-date=December 5, 2012 |access-date=June 6, 2010 |language=en}}</ref>

==Winners and nominees==
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===Film===
Winners are listed first highlighted in '''boldface'''.
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{{Award category|#EEDD82|[[Writers Guild of America Award for Best Written Musical|Best Written Musical]]}}
*'''''[[The Music Man (1962 film)|The Music Man]]'', Screenplay by [[Marion Hargrove]]; Based on the [[The Music Man|musical]] by [[Meredith Willson]]'''
**''[[Billy Rose's Jumbo]]'', Screenplay by [[Sidney Sheldon]]; Based on the [[Jumbo (musical)|musical]] by [[Ben Hecht]] and [[Charles MacArthur]]
**''[[Gypsy (1962 film)|Gypsy]]'', Screenplay by [[Leonard Spigelgass]]; Based on the [[Gypsy: A Memoir|memoir]] of [[Gypsy Rose Lee]]
**''[[Hey, Let's Twist!|Hey, Let's Twist]]'', Written by [[Hal Hackady]] 
**''[[State Fair (1962 film)|State Fair]]'', Screenplay by [[Richard L. Breen]]; Based on the [[State Fair (novel)|novel]] by [[Philip Stong]]

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{{Award category|#EEDD82|[[Writers Guild of America Award for Best Written Drama|Best Written American Drama]]}}
*'''''[[To Kill a Mockingbird (film)|To Kill a Mockingbird]]'', Screenplay by [[Horton Foote]]; Based on the [[To Kill a Mockingbird|novel]] by [[Harper Lee]]'''
**''[[Billy Budd (film)|Billy Budd]]'', Screenplay by [[Peter Ustinov]] and [[DeWitt Bodeen]]; Based on the [[Billy Budd|novel]] by [[Herman Melville]], and the play by [[Louis O. Coxe]] and Robert H. Chapman
**''[[Birdman of Alcatraz (film)|Birdman of Alcatraz]]'', Screenplay by [[Guy Trosper]]; Based on the book by [[Thomas E. Gaddis]]
**''[[Freud: The Secret Passion|Freud]]'', Screenplay by [[Charles Kaufman (screenwriter)|Charles Kaufman]] and [[Wolfgang Reinhardt (producer)|Wolfgang Reinhardt]]; Story by Charles Kaufman
**''[[The Miracle Worker (1962 film)|The Miracle Worker]]'', Screenplay by [[William Gibson (playwright)|William Gibson]]; Based on his [[The Miracle Worker (play)|play]]
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{{Award category|#EEDD82|[[Writers Guild of America Award for Best Written Comedy|Best Written American Comedy]]}}
*'''''[[That Touch of Mink]]'', Written by [[Nate Monaster]] and [[Stanley Shapiro]]'''
**''[[Mr. Hobbs Takes a Vacation]]'', Screenplay by [[Nunnally Johnson]]; Based on the novel "Mr. Hobbs' Vacation" by [[Edward Streeter]]
**''[[The Notorious Landlady]]'', Screenplay by [[Blake Edwards]] and [[Larry Gelbart]]; Based on the story "The Notorious Tenant" by [[Margery Sharp]]
**''[[Period of Adjustment (film)|Period of Adjustment]]'', Screenplay by [[Isobel Lennart]]; Based on the [[Period of Adjustment|play]] by [[Tennessee Williams]]
**''[[The Pigeon That Took Rome]]'', Screenplay by [[Melville Shavelson]]; Based on the novel by Donald Downes
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=== Television ===
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{{Award category|#EEDD82|[[Writers Guild of America Award for Television: Episodic Drama|Episodic Drama]]}}
* '''"Today the Man Who Kills Ants Is Coming" – ''[[Naked City (TV series)|Naked City]]'' (ABC) – Kenneth M. Rosen and [[Howard A. Rodman|Howard Rodman]]'''
**"I Remember a Lemon Tree" – ''[[Ben Casey]]'' (ABC) - [[Jack Laird]] and Marcus Demian
**"The Multiplicity of Herbert Konish" – ''Naked City'' (ABC) – [[Ernest Kinoy]]
**"Goodnight Sweet Blues" – ''[[Route 66 (TV series)|Route 66]]'' (CBS) – Will Lorin and [[Leonard Freeman]]
**"The Benefactor" – ''[[The Defenders (1961 TV series)|The Defenders]]'' (CBS) – [[Peter Stone (writer)|Peter Stone]]
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{{Award category|#EEDD82|Anthology, Any Length}}
* '''"Price of Tomatoes" – ''[[The Dick Powell Show|The Dick Powell Theatre]]'' (NBC) – Richard Alan Simmons'''
**"The Jail" – ''[[Alcoa Premiere]]'' (ABC) – [[Ray Bradbury]] and [[Tad Mosel]]
**"People Need People" – ''Alcoa Premier'' (ABC) – Henry F. Greenberg
**"Death in a Village" – ''The Dick Powell Theatre'' (NBC) – [[Christopher Knopf]] and [[Aaron Spelling]]
**"The Remarkable Mrs. Hawk" – ''[[Thriller (American TV series)|Thriller]]'' (NBC) – [[Donald S. Sanford]]
**''Westinghouse Presents: That's Where the Town Is Going'' (CBS) – Tad Mosel
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{{Award category|#EEDD82|Comedy/Variety, Any Length}}
* '''"I Won't Go" – ''[[Car 54, Where Are You?]]'' (NBC) – [[Nat Hiken]] and Gary Belkin'''
**"Birds and Bees" – ''[[My Three Sons]]'' (ABC) – [[George Tibbles]]
**"Where Did I Come From?" – ''[[The Dick Van Dyke Show]]'' (CBS) – [[Carl Reiner]]
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=== Special awards ===
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! colspan="2" style="background:{{WGA Awards/color}};" |[[Laurel Award for Screenwriting Achievement]]
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'''[[Joseph L. Mankiewicz]]'''
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! colspan="2" style="background:{{WGA Awards/color}};" |[[Valentine Davies Award]]
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'''[[Allen Rivkin]]'''
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== References ==
{{reflist}}

== External links ==

* [https://web.archive.org/web/20131019053744/http://www.wga.org/content/default.aspx?id=3888 WGA.org]

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