24th Writers Guild of America Awards explained

Number:	24
Award:	WGA Awards
Date:	1972
Organizer:	Writers Guild of America, East and the Writers Guild of America, West
Last:	23rd
Next:	25th

The 24th Writers Guild of America Awards honored the best film writers and television writers of 1971. Winners were announced in 1972.^[1]

Winners and nominees

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Film

Winners are listed first highlighted in boldface.

Sunday Bloody Sunday, Screenplay by Penelope Gilliatt Klute, Written by Andy Lewis and Dave Lewis Summer of '42, Written by Herman Raucher The Hellstrom Chronicle, Written by David Seltzer	The Hospital, Written by Paddy Chayefsky Bananas, Written by Woody Allen and Mickey Rose Carnal Knowledge, Written by Jules Feiffer Made for Each Other, Written by Renée Taylor and Joseph Bologna Taking Off, Written by Miloš Forman, Jean-Claude Carrière, John Guare and Jon Klein
The French Connection, Screenplay by Ernest Tidyman; based on the book by Robin Moore A Clockwork Orange, Screenplay by Stanley Kubrick; based on the novel by Anthony Burgess Johnny Got His Gun, Screenplay by Dalton Trumbo; based on his novel McCabe & Mrs. Miller, Screenplay by Robert Altman and Brian McKay; based on the novel by Edmund Naughton The Last Picture Show, Screenplay by Larry McMurtry and Peter Bogdanovich; based on the novel by Larry McMurtry	Kotch, Screenplay by John Paxton; based on the novel by Katharine Topkins A New Leaf, Screenplay by Elaine May; based on the story "The Green Heart" by Jack Ritchie Fiddler on the Roof, Screenplay by Joseph Stein; based on the novel by Sholom Aleichem Little Murders, Screenplay by Jules Feiffer; based on his play The Boy Friend, Screenplay by Ken Russell; based on the musical by Sandy Wilson

Television

"Thoroughly Unmilitant Mary" – The Mary Tyler Moore Show (CBS) – Martin Cohan "Archie's Aching Back" – All in the Family (CBS) – Stanley Ralph Ross "Mike's Problem" – All in the Family (CBS) – Alan J. Levitt, and Phil Mishkin "Gloria Has a Belly Full" – All in the Family (CBS) – Jerry Mayer "Edith's Accident" – All in the Family (CBS) – Michael Ross, Bernard West, Alfred Lewis Levitt, and Helen Levitt "Christmas Day at the Bunkers" – All in the Family (CBS) – Don Nicholl

"Par for the Course" – The Psychiatrist (NBC) – T.Y Drake, Herbe Bermann, Jerrold Freedman, and Bo May "Murder by the Book" – Columbo (NBC) – Steven Bochco "F.O.B. Honolulu: Part I & II" – Hawaii Five-O (CBS) – Jerry Ludwig, and Eric Bercovici "No Motive for Murder" – Ironside (NBC) – Sy Salkowitz "They Grow Up" – Marcus Welby, M.D. (ABC) – Dick Nelson "Until Proven Innocent" – Owen Marshall, Counselor at Law (ABC) –Pat Fielder "The Invasion of Kevin Ireland" – Bold Ones: The Lawyers (NBC) – Jack B. Sowards "Angry Man" – Bold Ones: The New Doctors (NBC) – Howard Dimsdale

Special awards

Laurel Award for Screenwriting Achievement
Ernest Lehman
Valentine Davies Award
Michael Blankfort
Morgan Cox Award
Allen Rivkin

External links

• WGA.org

Notes and References

1. Web site: Awards Winners. wga.org. Writers Guild of America. https://archive.today/20121205095022/http://www.wga.org/awards/awardssub.aspx?id=1551. 2012-12-05. 2010-06-06. live.
2. Web site: Writers Guild of America, USA (1972). IMDb. 2019-06-14.