Writers Guild of America Award for Best Written Musical

The Writers Guild Award for Best Written Musical was an award presented from 1949 to 1969 by the Writers Guild of America, after which it was discontinued.

Writers Guild of America Award for Best Written Musical
Awarded for	Outstanding Writing for a Musical Film
Country	United States
Presented by	Writers Guild of America
First awarded	1949
Last awarded	1969
Website	http://www.wga.org/

Winners & Nominees^[1]

Notes

• The year indicates when the film was released. The awards were presented the following year.

1940s

Year	Film	Writer(s)
1948 (1st)^[2]	Easter Parade	Sidney Sheldon, Frances Goodrich, and Albert Hackett
	Luxury Liner	Gladys Lehman, and Richard Connell
	On an Island with You	Dorothy Kingsley, Dorothy Cooper, Charles Martin, and Hans Wilhelm
	That Lady in Ermine	Samson Raphaelson
	The Emperor Waltz	Charles Brackett, and Billy Wilder
	When My Baby Smiles at Me	Lamar Trotti
	You Were Meant for Me	Elick Moll, and Valentine Davies
1949 (2nd)^[3]	On the Town	Adolph Green & Betty Comden
	In the Good Old Summertime	Albert Hackett, Frances Goodrich, and Ivan Tors
	Jolson Sings Again	Sidney Buchman
	Take Me Out to the Ball Game	Harry Tugend, and George Wells
	The Barkleys of Broadway	Betty Comden, and Adolph Green
	You're My Eve	Lamar Trotti

1950s

Year	Film	Writer(s)
1950 (3rd)^[4]	Annie Get Your Gun	Sidney Sheldon
	My Blue Heaven	Lamar Trotti, and Claude Binyon
	Summer Stock	George Wells, and Sy Gomberg
	The West Point Story	John Monks Jr., Charles Hoffman, and Irving Wallace
	Three Little Words	George Wells
1951 (4th)^[5]	An American in Paris	Alan Jay Lerner
	Here Comes the Groom	Virginia Van Upp, Liam O'Brien, and Myles Connolly
	On the Riviera	Valentine Davies, Phoebe Ephron, and Henry Ephron
	Show Boat	John Lee Mahim
	The Great Caruso	Sonya Levien, and William Ludwig
1952 (5th)^[6]	Singin' in the Rain	Betty Comden, and Adolph Green
	Hans Christian Andersen	Moss Hart
	I'll See You in My Dreams!	Jack Rose, and Melville Shavelson
	Where's Charley	John Monks Jr.
	With a Song in My Heart	Lamar Trotti
1953 (6th)^[7]	Lili	Helen Deutsch
	Call Me Madam	Arthur Sheekman
	Gentlemen Prefer Blondes	Charles Lederer
	Kiss Me Kate	Dorothy Kingsley
	The Band Wagon	Bett Comden, and Adolph Green
1954 (7th)^[8]	Seven Brides for Seven Brothers	Albert Hackett, Frances Goodrich, and Dorothy Kingsley
	A Star Is Born	Moss Hart
	Carmen Jones	Harry Kleiner
	The Glenn Miller Story	Valentine Davies, and Oscar Brodney
	There's No Business Like Show Business	Phoebe Ephron, and Henry Ephron
1955 (8th)^[9]	Love Me or Leave Me	Daniel Fuchs, and Isobel Lennart
	Daddy long Legs	Phoebe Ephron, and Henry Ephron
	Guys and Dolls	Joseph L. Mankiewicz
	It's Always Fair Weather	Betty Comden, and Adolph Green
	Oklahoma!	Sonya Levien, and William Ludwig
1956 (9th)^[10]	The King and I	Ernest Lehman
	Carousel	Phoebe Ephron, and Henry Ephron
	High Society	John Patrick
	Meet Me in Las Vegas	Isobel Lennart
	The Eddy Duchin Story	Samuel A. Taylor
1957 (10th)^[11]	Les Girls	John Patrick
	Funny Face	Leonard Gershe
	Pal Joey	Dorothy Kingsley
	The Jorker Is Wild	Oscar Saul
	The Pajama Game	George Abbott, and Richard Bissell
1958 (11th)^[12]	Gigi	Alan Jay Lerner
	Damn Yankees	George Abbott
	South Pacific	Paul Osborn
	The Girl Most Likely	Paul Jarrico, and Devery Freeman
	Tom Thumb	Ladislas Fodor
1959 (12th)^[13]	The Five Pennies	Melville Shavelson, and Jack Rose
	A Private's Affair	Winston Miller
	Li'l Abner	Norman Panama, and Melvin Frank
	Never Steal Anything Small	Charles Lederer
	Porgy and Bess	N. Richard Nash
	Say One for Me	Robert O'Brien

1960s

Year	Film	Writer(s)
1960 (13th)^[14]	Bells Are Ringing	Betty Comden, and Adolph Green
	Can-Can	Dorothy Kingsley, and Charles Lederer
	G.I. Blues	Edmund Beloin, and Henry Garson
	Let's Make Love	Norman Krasna, and Hal Kanter
1961 (14th)^[15]	West Side Story	Ernest Lehman
	Babes in Toyland	Ward Kimball, and Lowell S. Hawley
	Blue Hawaii	Hal Kanter
	Flower Drum Song	Joseph Fields
	Snow White and the Three Stooges	Noel Langley, and Elwood Ullman
1962 (15th)^[16]	The Music Man	Marion Hargrove
	Billy Rose's Jumbo	Sidney Sheldon
	Gypsy	Leoanard Spigelgass
	Hey, Let's Twist!	Hal Hackady
	State Fair	Richard L. Breen
1963 (16th)^[17]	Not Awarded
1964 (17th)^[18]	Mary Poppins	Bill Walsh, and Don DaGradi
	Kissin' Cousins	Gerarld Drayson Adams, and Gene Nelson
	My Fair Lady	Alan Jay Lerner
	Robin and the 7 Hoods	David R. Schwartz
	Roustabout	Anthony Lawrence, and Allan Weiss
	The Unsinkable Molly Brown	Helen Deutsch
1965 (18th)^[19]	The Sound of Music	Ernest Lehman
1966 (19th)^[20]	Not Awarded
1967 (20th)^[21]	Thoroughly Modern Millie	Richard Morris
	Camelot	Alan Jay Lerner
	Doctor Dolittle	Leslie Bricusse
	How to Succeed in Business Without Really Trying	David Swift
1968 (21st)^[22]	Funny Girl	Isobel Lennart
	Finian's Rainbow	E. Y. Harburg, and Fred Saidy
	Star!	William Fairchild

References

1. "Writers Guild Awards Winners 1995-1949". awards.wga.org. Retrieved 2019-05-17.
2. "Writers Guild of America, USA (1949)". IMDb. Retrieved 2019-05-17.
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21. "Writers Guild of America, USA (1968)". IMDb. Retrieved 2019-05-17.
22. "Writers Guild of America, USA (1969)". IMDb. Retrieved 2019-05-17.

External links

• WGA.org