Academy Award for Best Original Screenplay 1961
33rd Academy Awards · held April 17, 1961 · 5 nominees
- Winner The Apartment · Billy Wilder, I. A. L. Diamond
- Nominee Hiroshima mon amour · Marguerite Duras
- Nominee Never on Sunday · Jules Dassin
- Nominee The Angry Silence · Bryan Forbes, Michael Craig, Richard Gregson
- Nominee The Facts of Life · Melvin Frank, Norman Panama