Premio del Sindicato de Guionistas 1959

La 12ª edición de los Premios del Sindicato de Guionistas de Estados Unidos otorgados a los mejores guionistas de cine y televisión de 1959. Los ganadores fueron anunciados en 1960.^[1]

Nominados y ganadores^[2]

Los ganadores están listados primero y en negritas.

Mejor Guion en Musical The Five Pennies, Screenplay by Melville Shavelson, and Jack Rose; story by Robert Smith⭐ A Private's Affair, Screenplay by Winston Miller; story by Ray Livingston Murphy Li'l Abner, Screenplay by Norman Panama, and Melvin Frank; based on the comic strip by Al Capp Never Steal Anything Small, Screenplay by Charles Lederer; based on the play by Maxwell Anderson, and Rouben Mamoulian Porgy and Bess, Screenplay by N. Richard Nash Say One for Me, Screenplay by Robert O'Brien	Mejor Guion Dramático The Diary of Anne Frank, Screenplay by Frances Goodrich, and Albert Hackett; based on the book "The Diary of a Young Girl" by Anne Frank⭐ Anatomy of a Murder, Screenplay by Wendell Mayes; based on the novel by John D. Voelker Ben-Hur, Screenplay by Karl Tunberg; based on the novel by Lew Wallace Compulsion, Screenplay by Richard Murphy; based on the novel by Richard Murphy The Nun's Story, Screenplay by Robert Anderson; based on the book by Kathryn Hulme
Mejor Guion de Comedia Some Like It Hot, Screenplay by Billy Wilder, and I.A.L. Diamond; story by Robert Thoeren, and Michael Logan⭐ A Hole in the Head, Screenplay by Arnold Schulman; based on the play North by Northwest, Screenplay by Ernest Lehman Operation Petticoat, Screenplay by Stanley Shapiro, and Maurice Richlin; story by Paul King, and Joseph Stone Pillow Talk, Screenplay by Stanley Shapiro, and Maurice Richlin; story by Russell Rouse, and Clarence Greene

Comedia/Variedad - Cualquier duración "Freddie's Thanskgiving" - The Red Skelton Hour - Sherwood Schwartz, Jesse Goldstein, and Dave O'Brien⭐ "The Dean Martin Show" - Startime - Herbert Baker "The Ricardos Make Room for Danny" - The Lucy-Desi Comedy Hour - Bob Schiller, and Bob Weiskopf The Steve Allen Show - Don Hinkley, Herbert Sargent, Leonard Stern, Bill Dana, and Stan Burns	Script - 30 minutos o menos de duración "Auf Wiedersehen" - General Electric Theater - Kurt Vonnegut Jr., and Valentine Davies⭐ "Eddie" - Alcoa Theatre - Alfred Benner, and Ken Hughes "Kathy's Romance" - Father Knows Best - Roswell Rogers "A Friend in Need" - Father Knows Best - Dorothy Cooper "Day of Glory" - Jane Wyman Presents: The Fireside Theatre - Steve Fisher, Oscar Millard, Louis Aadamic "A Locket for Linda" - Make Room for Daddy - Peggy Chantler Dick, and William Cowley "Terry's Crush" - Make Room for Daddy - Charles Stewart, and Jack Elinson "The Sheridan Story" - The Rifleman - Cyril Hume
Script - 60 minutos o menos de duración, pero más de 30 "The Sea Is Boiling Hot" - Kraft Theatre - Shimon Wincelberg⭐ "The Nightingale" - Shirley Temple's Storybook - Alvin Sapinsley "The Desperate Age" - Studio One in Hollywood - Abby Mann "Capital Punishment" - Studio One in Hollywood - James Lee "My Father, the Fool" - Westinghouse Desilu Playhouse - Adrian Spies

Premio Laurel para el Logro de Guion en Cine
Norman Krasna