# 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.

## Nominados y ganadores
### Cine

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 | |

### Televisión

| 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 | |

### Premios Especiales

Premio Laurel para el Logro de Guion en Cine :
* Norman Krasna |