10th Writers Guild of America Awards

10th WGA Awards
10th WGA Awards
Date	1958
Organized by	Writers Guild of America, East and the Writers Guild of America, West
	← 9th; WGA Awards; 11th →;

The 10th Writers Guild of America Awards honored the best film writers and television writers of 1957. Winners were announced in 1958.^[1]

Winners and nominees edit

Winners are listed first highlighted in boldface.

Best Written Musical Les Girls, Screenplay by John Patrick; story by Vera Caspary Funny Face, Screenplay by Leonard Gershe Pal Joey, Screenplay by Dorothy Kingsley; based on the play by John O'Hara The Joker Is Wild, Screenplay by Oscar Saul; based on the book by Art Cohn The Pajama Game, Screenplay by George Abbott, and Richard Bissell; based on the novel by Richard Bissell	Best Written American Drama 12 Angry Men, Screenplay by Reginald Rose Heaven Knows, Mr. Allison, Screenplay by John Lee Mahin, and John Huston; based on the novel by Charles Shaw Paths of Glory, Screenplay by Stanley Kubrick, Calder Willingham, and Jim Thompson; based on the novel by Humphrey Cobb Peyton Place, Screenplay by John Michael Hayes; based on the novel by Grace Metalious Sayonara, Screenplay by Paul Osborn; based on the novel by James A. Michener
Best Written American Comedy Love in the Afternoon, Screenplay by Billy Wilder, and I.A.L. Diamond; based on the novel by Claude Anet Designing Woman, Screenplay by George Wells; story by Helen Rose Don't Go Near the Water, Screenplay by Dorothy Kingsley, and George Wells; based on the novel by William Brinkley Operation Mad Ball, Screenplay by Arthur Carter, Jed Harris, and Blake Edwards; based on the play by Arthur Carter Will Success Spoil Rock Hunter?, Screenplay by Frank Tashlin; based on a play by George Axelrod

Western Episode *"Helen of Abajinian" – Have Gun - Will Travel* (CBS) – Gene Roddenberry** "Ghostface" – Broken Arrow (ABC) – John Dunkel "The Quick and the Dead – Maverick (ABC) – Douglas Heyes End of a Gun – The 20th Century-Fox Hour (CBS) – Sam Peckinpah "The Child" – The Restless Gun (NBC) – Herbert Little Jr., David Victor; story by John Payne

Laurel Award for Screenwriting Achievement
John Lee Mahin

^ "Awards Winners". wga.org. Writers Guild of America. Archived from the original on 2012-12-05. Retrieved 2010-06-06.
^ "Writers Guild of America, USA (1958)". IMDb. Retrieved 2019-05-20.