1960s
Best Written Musical
- 1960: The Five Pennies - Robert Smith, Jack Rose, and Melville Shavelson
- 1961: Bells Are Ringing - Betty Comden and Adolph Green
- 1962: West Side Story - Ernest Lehman
- 1963: The Music Man - Meredith Wilson, Franklin Lacey, and Marion Hargrove
- 1964: Not awarded
- 1965: Mary Poppins - Bill Walsh and Don DaGradi
- 1966: The Sound of Music - Maria Augusta Trapp, Howard Lindsay, Russell Crouse, and Ernest Lehman
- 1967: Not awarded
- 1968: Thoroughly Modern Millie - Richard Morris
- 1969: Funny Girl - Isobel Lennart
Best Written Drama
- 1960: The Diary of Anne Frank - Frances Goodrich and Albert Hackett
- 1961: Elmer Gantry* - Richard Brooks
- 1962: The Hustler - Sydney Carroll and Robert Rossen
- 1963: To Kill a Mockingbird* - Horton Foote
- 1964: Hud - Harriet Frank Jr. and Irving Ravetch
- 1965: Becket* - Edward Anhalt
- 1966: The Pawnbroker - Edward Lewis Wallant, Morton S. Fine, and David Friedkin
- 1967: Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf? - Ernest Lehman
- 1968: Bonnie and Clyde - David Newman and Robert Benton
- 1969: The Lion in Winter* - James Goldman
Best Written Comedy
- 1960: Some Like it Hot - Billy Wilder and I.A.L. Diamond
- 1961: The Apartment* - Billy Wilder and I.A.L. Diamond
- 1962: Breakfast at Tiffany's - George Axelrod
- 1963: That Touch of Mink - Stanley Shapiro and Nate Monastar
- 1964: Lilies of the Field - James Poe
- 1965: Dr. Strangelove - Stanley Kubrick, Terry Southern, and Peter George
- 1966: A Thousand Clowns - Herb Gardner
- 1967: The Russians Are Coming, the Russians Are Coming - William Rose
- 1968: The Graduate - Calder Willingham and Buck Henry
- 1969: The Odd Couple - Neil Simon
Best Original Screenplay
- 1968: Bonnie and Clyde - David Newman and Robert Benton
- 1969: The Producers - Mel Brooks
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