2nd Writers Guild of America Awards


The 2nd Writers Guild of America Awards honored the best film writers of 1949. Winners were announced in 1950.

Winners & Nominees

Film

Winners are listed first highlighted in boldface.

  • Yellow Sky, Story by W.R. Burnett, Screenplay by W.R. Burnett and Lamar Trotti
  • *She Wore a Yellow Ribbon, Screenplay by Frank S. Nugent, and Laurence Stallings; based on the story "The Big Hunt" and "War Party" by James Warner Bellah
  • *Streets of Laredo, Screenplay by Charles Marquis Warren
  • *The Gal Who Took the West, Screenplay by William Bowers, and Oscar Brodney
  • *Whispering Smith, Screenplay by Frank Butler, and Karl Kamb
  • On the Town, Written by Adolph Green & Betty Comden; based on the play by Adolph Green, and Betty Comden
  • *In the Good Old Summertime, Screenplay by Albert Hackett, Frances Goodrich, and Ivan Tors
  • *Jolson Sings Again, Screenplay by Sidney Buchman
  • *Take Me Out to the Ball Game, Screenplay by Harry Tugend, and George Wells; story by Gene Kelly, and Stanley Donen
  • *The Barkleys of Broadway, Screenplay by Betty Comden, and Adolph Green
  • *You're My Everything, Screenplay by Lamar Trotti, and Will Hays Jr.
  • All the King's Men, Screenplay by Robert Rossen
  • *Battleground, Screenplay by Robert Pirosh
  • *Champion, Screenplay by Carl Foreman; story by Ring Lardner
  • *Intruder in the Dust, Screenplay Ben Maddow; based on the Novel by William Faulner
  • *The Hasty Heast, Screenplay by Ranald MacDougall, based on the Play by John Patrick
  • *The Heiress, Screenplay by Ruth Goetz, and August Goetz
  • *The Window, Screenplay by Mel Dinelli; based on the story "The Boy Cried Murder" by Cornell Woolrich
  • A Letter to Three Wives, Screenplay by Joseph L. Mankiewicz
  • *Adam's Rib, Screenplay by Ruth Gordon, and Garson Kanin
  • *Come to the Stable, Screenplay by Oscar Millard, and Sally Benson; story by Clare Boothe Luce
  • *Every Girl Should Be Married, Screenplay by Stephen Morehouse Avery; written by Don Hartman; story by Eleanor Harris
  • *I Was a Male War Bride, Screenplay by Charles Lederer, Leonard Spigel, and Hagar Wilde; story by Henri Rochard
  • *It Happens Every Spring, Screenplay by Valentine Davies; based on a story by Shirley W. Smith, and Valentine Davies