7th Writers Guild of America Awards

• Seven Brides for Seven Brothers, Screenplay by Albert Hackett & Frances Goodrich & Dorothy Kingsley
  • A Star is Born, Screenplay by Moss Hart; based on the play by Dorothy Parker, Alan Campbell, and Robert Carson
  • Carmen Jones, Screenplay by Harry Kleiner; based on the book by Oscar Hammerstein II
  • The Glenn Miller Story, Screenplay by Valentine Davies, and Oscar Brodney
  • There's No Business Like Show Business, Screenplay by Phoebe Ephron, and Henry Ephron; story by Lamar Trotti

• On the Waterfront, Written by Budd Schulberg
  • Executive Suite, Screenplay by Ernest Lehman; based on the novel by Cameron Hawley
  • Rear Window, Screenplay by John Michael Hayes; story by Cornell Woolrich
  • The Barefoot Contessa, Written by Joseph L. Mankiewicz
  • The Country Girl, Screenplay by George Seaton; based on the play by Clifford Odets

• Sabrina, Written by Billy Wilder & Samuel Taylor & Ernest Lehman
  • It Should Happen to You, Written by Garson Kanin
  • Knock on Wood, Screenplay by Melvin Frank, and Norman Panama
  • Susan Slept Here, Screenplay by Alex Gottlieb; based on the play by Steve Fisher, and Alex Gottlieb
  • The Long, Long Trailer, Screenplay by Albert Hackett, and Frances Goodrich; based on the novel by Clinton Twiss

Robert Riskin