The 19th Writers Guild of America Awards honored the best film writers and television writers of 1966. Winners were announced in 1967.
Winners and nominees
Film Winners are listed first highlighted in boldface. Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?, Screenplay by Ernest Lehman Harper, Screenplay by William Goldman; Based on the novel by Ross Macdonald The Professionals, Screenplay by Richard Brooks; Based on the novel by Frank O'Rourke The Sand Pebbles, Screenplay by Robert Anderson; Based on the novel by Richard McKenna The Russians Are Coming, the Russians Are Coming, Screenplay by William Rose; Based on the novel by Nathaniel Benchley How to Steal a Million, Screenplay by Harry Kurnitz; Based on a story by George Bradshaw Our Man Flint, Screenplay by Hal Fimberg and Ben Starr; Based on a story by Hal Fimberg The Fortune Cookie, Written by Billy Wilder and I. A. L. Diamond You're a Big Boy Now, Screenplay by Francis Ford Coppola; Based on the novel by David Benedictus
Television "You Ought to Be in Pictures" – The Dick Van Dyke Show (CBS) – Jack Winter "The Great Kahuna" – Gidget (ABC) – Albert Mannheimer (Teleplay), Frederick Kohner (story) "Opie Joins the Marines" – Gomer Pyle: USMC (CBS) – Aaron Ruben "Go Tell the Birds and the Bees" – The Dick Van Dyke Show (CBS) – Rick Mittleman "No Justice for the Judge" – The Trials of O'Brien (CBS) – David Ellis "Judge Them Gently" – Court Martial (CBS) – Gerry Day "Color Him Red" – Slattery's People (CBS) – Pat Fielder "When the Wind Blows" – The Fugitive (ABC) – Betty Landgon "The Horse Fighter" – The Virginian (NBC) – Richard Fielder
Special awards Laurel Award for Screenwriting AchievementRichard BrooksValentine Davies AwardEdmund H. NorthEdmund J. North AwardCharles BrackettRichard L. Breen
References
External links
WGA.org