1971 Writers Guild of America Awards – Best Adapted Screenplay Winner and Nominees

I Never Sang for My Father

Robert Anderson

A man who wants to move on with his life by moving to California and marry his girlfriend, finds it difficult as he still lives in the towering shadow of his aging father.

Airport

George Seaton

Catch-22

Buck Henry

Little Big Man

Calder Willingham

The Great White Hope

Howard Sackler