7th Writers Guild of America Awards

The 7th Writers Guild of America Awards honored the best film writers of 1954. Winners were announced in 1955.

7th WGA Awards
Date	1955
Organized by	Writers Guild of America, East and the Writers Guild of America, West

Winners and nominees

Film

Winners are listed first highlighted in boldface.

Best Written Musical 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

Best Written Drama 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

Best Written Comedy 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

Special awards

Laurel Award for Screenwriting Achievement
Robert Riskin

External links

• WGA.org