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Oscar for Writing Original Screenplay
The Academy Award for Best Original Screenplay is the Academy Award for the best script not based upon previously published material. Before 1940, there was an Academy Award for Best Story for writing. For 1940, it and the award in this article were separated into two awards. Beginning with the...
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Dustin Lance Black
Dustin "Lance" Black (born 10 June 1974) is an American screenwriter, director, film and television producer, and LGBT rights activist. He has won two Writers Guild of America Awards for his work on the television series Big Love and an Academy...
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Diablo Cody
Brook Busey (born June 14, 1978), better known by the pen name Diablo Cody, is an American screenwriter, writer, blogger, journalist, and author. She was first known for her candid chronicling of her year as a stripper in her Pussy Ranch blog and...
Paul Haggis
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Paul Haggis was born on March 10,...
Robert Moresco
Robert "Bobby" Moresco is a Hollywood screenwriter. His credits include 10th & Wolf and Crash, the latter of which he won an Academy Award for. He also was a producer of Crash and has acted in three films. He wrote scripts for the television series...
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Michel Gondry
Michel Gondry, born May 8, 1963, is a French film, commercial and music video director and an Academy Award-winning screenwriter. He is noted for his inventive visual style and manipulation of mise en scène.
Michel Gondry was born in Versailles,...
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Charlie Kaufman
Charles Stuart "Charlie" Kaufman (born November 1, 1958) is an Academy Award-, BAFTA-, and Independent Spirit Award-winning American screenwriter, producer, and director. In 2003, he was listed at #100 on Premiere's annual "Power 100" list.
Kaufman...
Pierre Bismuth
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Sofia Coppola
Sofia Carmina Coppola (born May 14, 1971) is an American film director, actress, producer and screenwriter. She is the third female director, and only American woman, to be nominated for an Academy Award for Directing.
Coppola was born in New York...
Pedro Almodóvar
Pedro Almodóvar Caballero (Spanish pronunciation: [ˈpeðɾo almoˈðoβar kaβaˈʎeɾo]; born 1949, is an Academy Award winning Spanish film director, screenwriter and producer.
Almodóvar is arguably the most successful and internationally known Spanish...
Julian Fellowes
Julian Alexander Kitchener-Fellowes DL (born 17 August 1949 in Cairo, Egypt), known as Julian Fellowes, is an English actor, novelist and screenwriter.
Fellowes is the youngest son of Peregrine Fellowes (a diplomat and Arabist who campaigned to have...
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Cameron Crowe
Cameron Bruce Crowe (born July 13, 1957) is an American screenwriter and film director. Before moving into the film industry, Crowe was a contributing editor at Rolling Stone magazine, for which he still frequently writes.
Crowe has made his mark...
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Alan Ball
Alan E. Ball (born May 13, 1957) is an American writer, director, actor and producer for film, theatre and television. He is noted for writing the film American Beauty, and creating and producing the HBO drama series Six Feet Under and True Blood....
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Tom Stoppard
Sir Tom Stoppard OM, CBE, FRSL (born 3 July 1937) is a British playwright. He has written plays such as The Coast of Utopia, Arcadia, Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead, and Rock 'n' Roll. He co-wrote the screenplays for Brazil and Shakespeare in...
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Marc Norman
Marc Norman (born Los Angeles, California, 1941) is an American screenwriter.
He won, with Tom Stoppard the Oscar for Best Original Screenplay, in the 71st Academy Awards of 1998, for his script of Shakespeare in Love; he also shared in the Best...
Ben Affleck
Ben Affleck (born Benjamin Géza Affleck-Boldt; August 15, 1972) is an American actor, film director and screenwriter. He became known in the mid 1990s after his involvement in the film Mallrats (1995), and later played the lead role in Chasing Amy...
Matt Damon
Matt Damon was born in October 8, 1970 in Cambridge, Massachusetts. He´s an actor, screenwriter and Winner of the Academy Award for his well known performance in "Good Will Hunting" in 1997, a movie in which he starred and co-wrote...
Ethan Coen
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Christopher McQuarrie
Christopher McQuarrie (born 1968) is an Academy Award-winning American screenwriter, producer and director.
McQuarrie was born and raised in Princeton Junction, New Jersey, where he attended West Windsor-Plainsboro High School South with director...
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Quentin Tarantino
Quentin Jerome Tarantino (born March 27, 1963) is an American film director, screenwriter, producer, cinematographer and actor. He rose to fame in the early 1990s as an independent filmmaker whose films used nonlinear storylines and aestheticization...
Roger Avary
Roger Roberts Avary (born August 23, 1965) is a Canadian-born motion picture director, producer, and Oscar-winning screenwriter.
Roger Avary is the son of a Brazilian-raised deep-shaft mining engineer and a German physical therapist. Avary was born...
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Jane Campion
Jane Campion (born 30 April 1954) is a film maker and an Academy Award-winning screenwriter. She is one of the most internationally successful New Zealand directors, although most of her work has been made in or financed by other countries,...
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Neil Jordan
Neil Jordan (born 25 February 1950) is an Irish filmmaker and novelist. He won an Academy Award (Best Original Screenplay) for The Crying Game.
Jordan was born in County Sligo. He was educated at St. Paul's College, Raheny. Of his religious...
Callie Khouri
Callie Khouri (born November 27, 1957, as Carolyn Ann Khouri) is an American Academy Award winning screenwriter and film director.
Khouri was born in San Antonio, Texas. Her father was a physician who trained in Louisville, where he met her mother....
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Bruce Joel Rubin
Bruce Joel Rubin (b. March 10, 1943, Detroit, Michigan) is a screenwriter best known for the supernatural romance, Ghost for which he won the 1991 Oscar for Best Original Screenplay.
His other writing credits include: Jacob's Ladder, Deep Impact,...
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Tom Schulman
Tom Schulman (born 1950 in Nashville) is an American screenwriter most famous for his screenplay Dead Poets Society which won the Best Screenplay Academy Award for 1989.
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Ronald Bass
Ronald Jay Bass (born March 26, 1942), sometimes credited as Ron Bass, is an American screenwriter. Also a film producer, Bass's work is characterized as being highly in demand, and he is thought to be among the most highly paid writers in Hollywood...
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Barry Morrow
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John Patrick Shanley
John Patrick Shanley (born October 3, 1950) is an American playwright, screenwriter, and director. It is rumored that he insists in his contract that not a single word can be changed in the screenplays that he writes, but Shanley has denied that...
Woody Allen
Woody Allen (born Allen Stewart Konigsberg; December 1, 1935) is an American screenwriter, film director, actor, comedian, writer, musician, and playwright.
Allen's distinctive films, which run the gamut from dramas to screwball sex comedies, have...
Earl Wallace
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Pamela Wallace
Pamela Wallace (born 1949, Exeter, California) is an American screenwriter and author. She won an Academy Award for co-writing the screenplay for the movie Witness. Wallace has also written 25 romance novels, under her own name and the pseudonyms...
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William Kelley
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Robert Benton
Robert Douglas Benton (born September 29, 1932) is an American screenwriter and film director.
Benton was born in Waxahachie, Texas, the son of Dorothy (née Spaulding) and Ellery Douglass Benton, a telephone company employee. He attended the...
Horton Foote
Albert Horton Foote, Jr. (March 14, 1916 – March 4, 2009) was an American playwright and screenwriter, perhaps best known for his Academy Award-winning screenplays for the 1962 film To Kill a Mockingbird and the 1983 film Tender Mercies, and his...
John Briley
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Colin Welland
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Bo Goldman
Robert "Bo" Goldman (born September 10, 1932) is an American writer, Broadway playwright and Academy Award winning screenwriter.
Born in New York City, Goldman's father, Julian, owned a chain of well known eastern department stores called The...
Steve Tesich
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Steve Tesich was born as Stojan...
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Waldo Salt
Waldo Pressman Salt (October 18, 1914 – March 7, 1987) was an American screenwriter who was blacklisted by the Hollywood movie studio bosses during the era of McCarthyism.
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Nancy Dowd
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Robert C. Jones
Robert C. Jones (born March 8, 1937), sometimes credited as Robert Jones, is a screenwriter and film editor. He received an Academy Award for the screenplay of the film Coming Home (1978). As an editor, Jones has had notable collaborations with the...
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Marshall Brickman
Marshall Brickman (born August 25, 1941 in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil) is an Academy Award winning screenwriter, best known for his collaborations with Woody Allen. He is also known for being an excellent banjo player together with Eric Weissberg back...
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Paddy Chayefsky
Sidney Aaron Chayefski (January 29, 1923 – August 1, 1981), known as Paddy Chayefsky, was an American dramatist and novelist who made a transition from the golden age of American live television in the 1950s to a successful career as a playwright...
Frank R. Pierson
Frank Romer Pierson (born 12 May 1925) is an Academy Award-winning American screenwriter and film director.
Pierson was born in Chappaqua, New York, the son of Louise (née Randall), a writer, and Harold C. Pierson, an entrepreneur. Pierson attended...
Robert Towne
Robert Burton Towne (born November 23, 1934) is an American screenwriter and director.
He is married to Luisa Gaule. His former father-in-law is late actor John Payne, star of the western series, The Restless Gun. Towne's daughter (with actress...
David S. Ward
David Stephen Ward (born October 25, 1945) is an American film director and award winning screen writer.
Ward has degrees from Pomona College (BA), as well as both USC and the UCLA Film School (MFA). He was employed at an educational film production...
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Jeremy Larner
Jeremy Larner (born March 20, 1937) is an award-winning author, poet, journalist and speechwriter. He won an Academy Award in 1972 for Best Original Screenplay, for writing The Candidate.
Jeremy Larner grew up in Indiana, in the quiet but violent ...
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Francis Ford Coppola
Francis Ford Coppola (born April 7, 1939) is an Italian-American film director, producer and screenwriter. Away from showbusiness, Coppola is also a vintner, magazine publisher and hotelier. He is a graduate of Hofstra University where he studied...
Edmund H. North
Edmund Hall North (March 12, 1911 - August 28, 1990), was an American screenwriter who shared an Academy Award for "Best Original Screenplay" with Francis Ford Coppola in 1970 for their script for Patton.
He was a son of Bobby North and Stella Maury...
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William Goldman
William Goldman (born August 12, 1931) is an American novelist, playwright and two-time Academy Award-winning screenwriter. He lives in New York City.
Goldman grew up in a Jewish family in the Chicago suburb of Highland Park, Illinois. His brother...
Mel Brooks
Melvin "Mel" Kaminsky (born June 28, 1926), better known by his stage name Mel Brooks, is an American film director, screenwriter, composer, lyricist, comedian, actor and producer, best known as a creator of broad film farces and comic parodies....
William Rose
William Rose (December 12, 1914 - February 10, 1987) was an American screenwriter of British and Hollywood films.
Although born in Jefferson City, Missouri, after the 1939 outbreak of World War II Rose lived in Canada and volunteered to fight...
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Claude Lelouch
Claude Lelouch (born 30 October 1937) is a French film director, writer, cinematographer, actor and producer.
Born in the 9th arrondissement of Paris to a Jewish family of Algerian origin, Lelouch won the Palme d'Or at the Cannes Film Festival in...
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Pierre Uytterhoeven
Pierre Uytterhoeven is a screenwriter. He won the Academy Award for Best Original Screenplay in 1966 for his work with Claude Lelouch in A Man and a Woman. In 1986 he worked with Lelouch again on the film's sequel, A Man and a Woman: 20 Years Later.
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Frederic Raphael
Frederic Michael Raphael (born 1931 in Chicago) is an American-born, British-educated screenwriter, and also a prolific novelist and journalist.
He is the son of Cedric Michael Raphael, an employee of the Shell Oil Co., and Irene Rose Mauser. With...
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Peter Stone
Peter Hess Stone (February 27, 1930 – April 26, 2003) was an American writer for theater, television and movies.
Stone was born in Los Angeles. His mother, Hilda (née Hess), was a film writer, and his father, John Stone (born Saul Strumwasser) was...
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S. H. Barnett
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