2nd Writers Guild of America Awards

2nd WGA Awards
2nd WGA Awards
Date	1950
Organized by	Writers Guild of America, East and the Writers Guild of America, West
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The 2nd Writers Guild of America Awards honored the best film writers of 1949. Winners were announced in 1950.^[1]

Date1950

Organized byWriters Guild of America, East and the Writers Guild of America, West

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Best Written Film Concerning American Scene All the King's Men, Screenplay by Robert Rossen Home of the Brave, Screenplay by Carl Foreman Intruder in the Dust, Screenplay Ben Maddow; based on the Novel by William Faulner Lost Boundaries, Screenplay by Virginia Shaler, and Eugene King Pinky, Screenplay by Philip Dunne & Dudley Nichols	Best Written Western Yellow Sky, Story by W.R. Burnett, Screenplay by W.R. Burnett and Lamar Trotti She Wore a Yellow Ribbon, Screenplay by Frank S. Nugent, and Laurence Stallings; based on the story "The Big Hunt" and "War Party" by James Warner Bellah Streets of Laredo, Screenplay by Charles Marquis Warren The Gal Who Took the West, Screenplay by William Bowers, and Oscar Brodney Whispering Smith, Screenplay by Frank Butler, and Karl Kamb
Best Written Musical On the Town, Written by Adolph Green & Betty Comden; based on the play by Adolph Green, and Betty Comden In the Good Old Summertime, Screenplay by Albert Hackett, Frances Goodrich, and Ivan Tors Jolson Sings Again, Screenplay by Sidney Buchman Take Me Out to the Ball Game, Screenplay by Harry Tugend, and George Wells; story by Gene Kelly, and Stanley Donen The Barkleys of Broadway, Screenplay by Betty Comden, and Adolph Green You're My Everything, Screenplay by Lamar Trotti, and Will Hays Jr.	Best Written Drama All the King's Men, Screenplay by Robert Rossen Battleground, Screenplay by Robert Pirosh Champion, Screenplay by Carl Foreman; story by Ring Lardner Intruder in the Dust, Screenplay Ben Maddow; based on the Novel by William Faulner The Hasty Heast, Screenplay by Ranald MacDougall, based on the Play by John Patrick The Heiress, Screenplay by Ruth Goetz, and August Goetz The Window, Screenplay by Mel Dinelli; based on the story "The Boy Cried Murder" by Cornell Woolrich
Best Written Comedy A Letter to Three Wives, Screenplay by Joseph L. Mankiewicz Adam's Rib, Screenplay by Ruth Gordon, and Garson Kanin Come to the Stable, Screenplay by Oscar Millard, and Sally Benson; story by Clare Boothe Luce Every Girl Should Be Married, Screenplay by Stephen Morehouse Avery; written by Don Hartman; story by Eleanor Harris I Was a Male War Bride, Screenplay by Charles Lederer, Leonard Spigel, and Hagar Wilde; story by Henri Rochard It Happens Every Spring, Screenplay by Valentine Davies; based on a story by Shirley W. Smith, and Valentine Davies

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