18th Writers Guild of America Awards

18th WGA Awards
18th WGA Awards
Date	March 23, 1966
Organized by	Writers Guild of America, East and the Writers Guild of America, West
	← 17th; WGA Awards; 19th →;

The 18th Writers Guild of America Awards honored the best film writers and television writers of 1965. Winners were announced in 1966.^[1]

Winners and nominees

Winners are listed first highlighted in boldface.^[2]

Best Written Musical The Sound of Music, Screenplay by Ernest Lehamn; Based on the stage musical book by Howard Lindsay and Russel Crouse	Best Written American Drama The Pawnbroker, Screenplay by Morton S. Fine and David Friedkin; Based on the novel by Edward Lewis Wallant A Patch of Blue, Screenplay by Guy Green; Based on the novel Be Ready with Bells and Drums by Elizabeth Kata The Spy Who Came in from the Cold, Screenplay by Paul Dehn and Guy Trosper; Based on the novel by John le Carré The Collector, Screenplay by Stanley Mann and John Kohn; Based on the novel by John Fowles Ship of Fools, Screenplay by Abby Mann; Based on the novel by Katherine Anne Porter
Best Written American Comedy A Thousand Clowns, Screenplay by Herb Gardner Cat Ballou, Screenplay by Walter Newman and Frank Pierson; Based on the novel by Roy Chanslor That Darn Cat!, Screenplay by Mildred Gordon, Gordon Gordon and Bill Walsh; Based on the novel Undercover Cat by The Gordons The Great Race, Screenplay by Arthur A. Ross; Story by Blake Edwards and Arthur A. Ross What's New Pussycat, Written by Woody Allen

Episodic Comedy *"Br-room, Br-room" – The Dick Van Dyke Show* (CBS) – Dale McRaven and Carl Kleinschmitt** "Dash Riprock, You Cad" – The Beverly Hillbillies (ABC) – Paul Henning and Mark Tuttle "4½" – The Dick Van Dyke Show (CBS) – Gary Marshall and Jerry Belson "Romances, Roses, and Rye Bread" – The Dick Van Dyke Show (CBS) – Gary Marshall and Jerry Belson "Maybe Love Will Save My Apartment House" – Dr. Kildare (NBC) – Boris Solbelman	Episodic Drama *"With a Hammer in His Hand, Lord, Lord!" – Mr. Novak* (NBC) – John D.F. Black** "Interlude" – 12 O'Clock High (ABC) – Dean Riesner "A Woods Full of Question Marks" – Ben Casey (ABC) – Ellis Marcus "Man is a Rock" – Dr. Kildare (NBC) – Christopher Knopf "Men in a Chariot" – The Fugitive (ABC) – George Eckstein "Did He Who Made the Lamb Make Thee?" – Slattery's People (CBS) – William P. McGivern
Anthology, Any Length *"Demon with a Glass Hand" – The Outer Limits* (ABC) – Harlan Ellison** "Cops and Robbers" – Bob Hope Presents the Chrysler Theatre (NBC) – Eric Bercovici and Jud Taylor "Rapture at Two-Forty" – Kraft Suspense Theatre (NBC) – Luther Davis and Jo Swerling Jr. "Child Molester" – Purex Summer Specials (NBC) – John T. Dugan

Laurel Award for Screenwriting Achievement
Isobel Lennart
Valentine Davies Award
Leonard Spigelgass

↑ "Writers Guild Awards Winners: 1995-1949". wga.org. Writers Guild of America. Archived from the original on December 4, 2025. Retrieved February 20, 2026.
↑ "Writers Guild of America, USA (1966)". IMDb. Retrieved May 30, 2019.