Writers Guild of America Awards, Best Written Comedy

1971

Ring Lardner Jr. / M*A*S*H

1967

Billy Wilder / The Fortune Cookie

I.A.L. Diamond / The Fortune Cookie

1965

Terry Southern / Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb

Stanley Kubrick / Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb

1964

James Poe / Lilies of the Field

I.A.L. Diamond / Irma la Douce

Billy Wilder / Irma la Douce

1962

I.A.L. Diamond / One, Two, Three

Billy Wilder / One, Two, Three

1961

Billy Wilder / The Apartment

I.A.L. Diamond / The Apartment

1960

Stanley Shapiro / Pillow Talk

I.A.L. Diamond / Some Like It Hot

Billy Wilder / Some Like It Hot

Maurice Richlin / Pillow Talk

1958

Billy Wilder / Love in the Afternoon

I.A.L. Diamond / Love in the Afternoon

1956

Billy Wilder / The Seven Year Itch

George Axelrod / The Seven Year Itch

1955

Samuel A. Taylor / Sabrina

Ernest Lehman / Sabrina

Billy Wilder / Sabrina

1954

Billy Wilder / Stalag 17

Edwin Blum / Stalag 17

1949

Richard L. Breen / A Foreign Affair

Charles Brackett / A Foreign Affair

Billy Wilder / A Foreign Affair

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Best Written Comedy