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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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Preston Sturges
Preston Sturges (29 August 1898 – 6 August 1959), originally Edmund Preston Biden, was a celebrated screenwriter and film director born in Chicago.
Sturges took the screwball comedy format of the 1930s to another level, writing dialogue that, heard...
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Orson Welles
George Orson Welles (May 6, 1915 – October 10, 1985), best known as Orson Welles, was an American film director, writer, actor and producer, who worked extensively in film, theatre, television, and radio. Welles was also an accomplished magician,...
Herman J. Mankiewicz
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Michael Kanin
Michael Kanin (February 1, 1910 – March 12, 1993) was an American director, producer, playwright and screenwriter who shared an Academy Award with Ring Lardner Jr. in 1942 for writing the Katharine Hepburn-Spencer Tracy film comedy Woman of the Year...
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Norman Krasna
Norman Krasna (November 7, 1909 – November 1, 1984) was an Academy Award winning American screenwriter, playwright, and film director. He is best known for penning screwball comedies, melodrama, and early films noir. Krasna also directed three films...
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Lamar Trotti
Lamar Jefferson Trotti (October 18, 1900 - August 28, 1952) was an American screenwriter, producer, and motion picture executive.
Trotti was born in Atlanta, Georgia, USA. He became the first graduate of the Henry W. Grady College of Journalism and...
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Billy Wilder
Billy Wilder (22 June 1906 – 27 March 2002) was an Austrian-American journalist, filmmaker, screenwriter and producer, whose career spanned more than 50 years and 60 films. He is regarded as one of the most brilliant and versatile filmmakers of...
Charles Brackett
Charles Brackett (November 26, 1892 - March 9, 1969) was an American novelist, screenwriter, and film producer.
Born in Saratoga Springs, New York, Charles William Brackett was the son of New York State Senator, lawyer, and banker, Edgar Truman...
Muriel Box
Muriel Box (22 September 1905 - 19 May 1991) was a prolific English screenwriter and director in what at the time was basically a male industry, and is generally considered to be one of the most successful females in the history of British film.
She...
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Sydney Box
Sydney Box (29 April 1907 - 25 May 1983) was a British film producer and screenwriter, brother of another prominent British filmmaker, Betty Box. He produced the postwar screenplay, The Seventh Veil, which earned him the 1946 Oscar for best original...
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Sidney Sheldon
Sidney Sheldon (February 11, 1917 – January 30, 2007) was an American writer. His TV works spanned a 20-year period during which he created The Patty Duke Show (1963-66), I Dream of Jeannie (1965-70) and Hart to Hart (1979–84), but it was not until...
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Richard Schweizer
Richard Schweizer (December 23, 1899 - March 30, 1965) is a screenwriter who won the Academy Award for Best Original Screenplay in 1945 for his work in Marie-Louise, as well as the Academy Award for Best Story in 1948 for his work in The Search.
Robert Pirosh
Robert Pirosh (April 1, 1910 - December 25, 1989) was an American screenwriter and director.
Pirosh was born in Baltimore, Maryland and graduated from the Baltimore City College highschool in 1928. Pirosh began his film career in 1934 as a junior...
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D. M. Marshman, Jr.
D.M. Marshman, Jr. born 1922, is an American Academy Award winning screenwriter.
Marshman is known mainly for his contribution to the film script for Sunset Boulevard. He suggested that a gigolo be introduced to the story as a romantic interest for...
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T. E. B. Clarke
Thomas Ernest Bennett "Tibby" Clarke (7 June 1907 - 11 February 1989) was a movie scriptwriter who wrote several of the Ealing Studios comedies. His scripts always feature careful logical development from a slightly absurd premise to a farcical...
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William Inge
William Motter Inge (pronounced /ˈɪndʒ/ "inj") (May 3, 1913(1913-05-03) – June 10, 1973) was an American playwright and novelist, whose works typically feature solitary protagonists encumbered with strained sexual relations. In the early 1950s, he...
Richard L. Breen
Richard L. Breen (June 26, 1918 – February 1, 1967) was a Hollywood screenwriter and director. He began as a freelance radio writer. After a stint in the US Navy during World War II, he began writing for films and worked alone and in collaboration...
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Walter Reisch
Walter Reisch (May 23, 1903 - March 28, 1983) was an Austrian-born, director and Academy Award-winning screenwriter.
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Budd Schulberg
Budd Schulberg (March 27, 1914 – August 5, 2009) was an American screenwriter, television producer, novelist and sports writer. He was known for his 1941 novel, What Makes Sammy Run?, his 1947 novel The Harder They Fall, his 1954 Academy-award...
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Sonya Levien
Sonya Levien (December 25, 1888 – March 19, 1960), was a Russian screenwriter. She wrote for 72 films between 1921 and 1962. She won the Academy Award for Writing Original Screenplay in 1955 for the film Interrupted Melody.
She was born in Russia...
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William Ludwig
William Ludwig (May 16, 1912 - February 7, 1999) was an Academy Award winning screenwriter. He won, with Sonya Levien, an Oscar for "Best Writing, Story and Screenplay" in 1956 for Interrupted Melody. Other notable works include the screenplay for...
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Albert Lamorisse
Albert Lamorisse (13 January 1922 – 2 June 1970) was a French award-winning filmmaker, film producer, and writer, who is best known for his award winning short films which he began making in the late 1940s, and also for inventing the famous...
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George Wells
George Wells (November 8, 1909 - November 27, 2000) was an American Academy Award winning screenwriter.
Along with co-writer Harry Tugend, Wells was nominated for the 1950 Writers Guild of America Award in the category of "Best Written American...
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Alan Jay Lerner
Alan Jay Lerner (vales verga was an American lyricist and librettist. In collaboration with Frederick Loewe, he created some of the world's most popular and enduring works of musical theatre for both the stage and on film. He won three Tony Awards...
Nedrick Young
Nedrick Young (March 23, 1914 – September 16, 1968) was a screenwriter often blacklisted during the 1950's and 1960's. He is credited with writing the screenplay for Jailhouse Rock in 1957, which starred Elvis Presley.
Young was born in Philadelphia...
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Harold Jacob Smith
Harold Jacob Smith (July 2, 1912 - December 28, 1970) was an American Academy Award winning screenwriter.
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Clarence Greene
Clarence Greene (August 10, 1913 - June 17, 1995) was an American screenwriter and film producer who is noted for the "offbeat creativity and originality of his screenplays and for film noir movies and television episodes produced in the 1950s....
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Maurice Richlin
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Russell Rouse
Russell Rouse (20 November 1913 – 2 October 1987) was an American screenwriter, director, and producer who is noted for the "offbeat creativity and originality" of his screenplays and for film noir movies and television episodes produced in the...
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Stanley Shapiro
Stanley Shapiro (July 16, 1925 - July 21, 1990) was an Academy Award-winning American screenwriter and producer responsible for three of Doris Day's most successful films.
Born in Brooklyn, New York, Shapiro earned his first screen credit for South...
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I. A. L. Diamond
I.A.L. Diamond (June 27, 1920 - April 21, 1988) was a comedy writer in Hollywood from the 1940s through the 1980s.
He was born Iţec (Itzek) Domnici in Ungheni, Iaşi County, Bessarabia, Romania, present day Moldova, was referred to as "Iz" in...
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Ennio de Concini
Ennio De Concini (9 December 1923, Rome – 17 November 2008) was an Italian screenwriter and film director, winning the Academy Award in 1962 for the "Best Original Screenplay" for Divorce, Italian Style.
He was the co-screenwriter of The Red Tent a...
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Pietro Germi
Pietro Germi (14 September 1914 - 5 December 1974) was an Italian actor, screenwriter, and director. Germi was born in Genoa, Liguria, to a lower-middle class family. He was a messenger and briefly attended nautical school before deciding on a...
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Alfredo Giannetti
Alfredo Giannetti (1924-1995) is an Italian screenwriter and film editor. He won the Academy Award for Best Original Screenplay in 1962 for his work in Divorce, Italian Style.
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James R. Webb
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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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Frank Tarloff
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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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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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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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Mel Brooks
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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...
Ring Lardner Jr.
Ringgold Wilmer "Ring" Lardner Jr. (August 19, 1915 – October 31, 2000) was an American journalist and screenwriter, who was blacklisted by the Hollywood movie studios during the Red Scare of the late 1940s and 1950s.
Born in Chicago, he was the son...
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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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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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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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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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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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.
Born in Chicago, Illinois, Salt graduated from Stanford University at age...
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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Steve Tesich
Steve Tesich (September 29, 1942 - July 1, 1996) was a Serbian-American Oscar-winning screenwriter, playwright and novelist. He won the Academy Award for Best Original Screenplay in 1979 for the movie Breaking Away.
Steve Tesich was born as Stojan...
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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...
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...
