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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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Charles Bennett (2 August 1899 – 15 June 1995) was an English playwright and screenwriter, probably best known for his work with Alfred Hitchcock.
Born in Shoreham-by-Sea, Sussex, England, Bennett served in World War I and worked as an actor and...
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- Joan Harrison
Joan Harrison
Joan Harrison (June 26, 1907 - August 14, 1994) was an English film producer and screenwriter.
Born in Guildford, Surrey, Harrison studied at St Hugh's College, Oxford and reviewed films for the student newspaper. She also studied at the Sorbonne....
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Heinz Herald
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- Geza Herczeg,
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Norman Burnside
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- Heinz Herald,
- John Huston
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,...
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Herman J. Mankiewicz
Herman Jacob Mankiewicz (pronounced MANK-eh-wits), (November 7, 1897 – March 5, 1953) was an American screenwriter, who, with Orson Welles, wrote the screenplay for Citizen Kane. Earlier, he was the Berlin correspondent for the Chicago Tribune and...
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- Jo Swerling
Howard Koch
Howard E. Koch (December 12, 1901 – August 17, 1995) was an American playwright and screenwriter who was blacklisted by the Hollywood movie studio bosses in the 1950s.
Born in New York City, New York, he was a graduate of Bard College and Columbia...
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- Harry Chandlee,
- Abem Finkel,
- John Huston
- Abem Finkel,
Paul Jarrico
Paul Jarrico (January 12, 1915 – October 28, 1997) was an American screenwriter and film producer who was blacklisted by the Hollywood movie studio bosses during the era of McCarthyism.
Paul Jarrico was born in Los Angeles, California in January 12,...
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...
Abem Finkel
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- Harry Chandlee,
- Howard Koch,
- John Huston
- Howard Koch,
Darrell Ware
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Harry Chandlee
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- Abem Finkel,
- Howard Koch,
- John Huston
- Howard Koch,
Karl Tunberg
Karl Tunberg (11 March 1909 – 3 April 1992) was an American screenwriter and occasional film producer.
Born in Spokane, Washington, Tunberg began writing for films, usually in association with other writers, in the late 1930s. His first feature film...
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- Darrell Ware
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- 1959
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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...
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- Michael Kanin
- x Year:
- 1970
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Michael Powell
Michael Latham Powell (30 September 1905 – 19 February 1990) was a British film director, born in Bekesbourne, Kent, England who was renowned for his partnership with Emeric Pressburger. Their partnership produced a series of classic British films...
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- Emeric Pressburger,
- Eagle-Lion Films,
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- Oscar for Best Picture
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- Columbia Pictures
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Emeric Pressburger
Emeric Pressburger (5 December 1902–5 February 1988) was an Oscar-winning Hungarian/British screenwriter, film director, and producer. He is known for his series of collaborations with Michael Powell.
Emeric Pressburger (Imre József Emmerich...
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- Michael Powell
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- x Award:
- Oscar for Best Picture
- x Award Nominee:
- Michael Powell,
- Eagle-Lion Films,
- Rank-Archers,
- Eagle-Lion Films,
- x Year:
- 1942
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- Rodney Ackland
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William R. Burnett
William Riley Burnett (November 25, 1899 - April 25, 1982), often credited as W. R. Burnett, was an American novelist and screenwriter. He is best known for the crime novel, Little Caesar, whose film adaptation is considered the first of the classic...
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- Frank Butler
Frank Butler
Francis or Frank Butler may refer to:
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- William R. Burnett
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- Don Hartman
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- 1944
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- Frank Cavett
Don Hartman
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George Oppenheimer
Noel Coward
Sir Noël Peirce Coward (16 December 1899 – 26 March 1973) was an English playwright, composer, director, actor and singer, known for his wit, flamboyance, and what Time magazine called "a sense of personal style, a combination of cheek and chic,...
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- United Artists
Lillian Hellman
Lillian Florence Hellman (June 20, 1905 – June 30, 1984) was an American playwright, linked throughout her life with many left-wing causes. She was romantically involved for 30 years with mystery and crime writer Dashiell Hammett (and was the...
Allan Scott
Allan Scott (May 23, 1906, Arlington, New Jersey, USA - April 13, 1995, Santa Monica, California) was a screenwriter that was nominated for an Academy Award for So Proudly We Hail!.
Allan was the father of actor Pippa Scott, and brother of film...
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- 1997
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- Peter R. Simpson,
- Gilles MacKinnon
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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- 1943
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- Oscar for Best Picture
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- 20th Century Fox
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- 1944
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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...
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- Oscar for Best Director
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- 1954
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- Oscar for Best Director
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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...
Richard Connell
Richard Edward Connell, Jr. (October 17, 1893 – November 22, 1949) was an American author and journalist, best known for his short story "The Most Dangerous Game." Connell was one of the best-known American short story writers of his time and his...
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- Gladys Lehman
Jerome Cady
Jerome Cady (1903 - 1948) was a Hollywood screenwriter.
What promised to be a lucrative and successful career as a film writer - graduating up from Charlie Chan movies in the late 30s to such well respected war films as Guadalcanal Diary (1943), a...
Gladys Lehman
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- Richard Connell
Philip Yordan
Philip Yordan (April 1, 1914 - March 24, 2003) was a popular and talented screenwriter of the 1940s, 1950s and 1960s. He was also known as a highly regarded script doctor, called in to rewrite and repair flawed screenplays. Born to Polish immigrants...
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- Robert Wyler
Harry Kurnitz
Myles Connolly
Milton Holmes
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.
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- David Wechsler
Raymond Chandler
Raymond Thornton Chandler (July 23, 1888 – March 26, 1959) was an Anglo-American novelist and screenwriter who had an immense stylistic influence upon the modern private detective story, especially in the style of the writing and the attitudes now...
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- Billy Wilder
Ben Hecht
Ben Hecht (last name pronounced Hekt), (February 28, 1894 – April 18, 1964), was an American screenwriter, director, producer, playwright, and novelist. Called "the Shakespeare of Hollywood", he received screen credits, alone or in collaboration,...
Jacques Prévert
Jacques Prévert (French pronunciation: [ʒak pʀeˈvɛʀ]; 4 February 1900 - 11 April 1977) was a French poet and screenwriter.
Prevert was born at Neuilly-sur-Seine and grew up in Paris, where he was bored by school. He often went to theatre with his...
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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- 1946
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- Sydney Box
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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Charlie Chaplin
Sir Charles Spencer "Charlie" Chaplin, KBE (16 April 1889 – 25 December 1977) was an English comedic actor and film director. Chaplin became one of the most famous actors as well as a notable filmmaker, composer and musician in the early to mid...
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Cesare Zavattini
Cesare Zavattini (September 20, 1902-October 13, 1989) was an Italian screenwriter and one of the first theorists and proponents of the Neorealist movement in Italian cinema.
Born at Luzzara, near Reggio Emilia in northern Italy, on September 20,...
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- Adolfo Franci,
- Cesare Giulio Viola,
- Sergio Amidei
- Cesare Giulio Viola,
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- 1949
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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...
Abraham Polonsky
Abraham Lincoln Polonsky (December 5, 1910 - October 26, 1999) was an American screenwriter blacklisted by Hollywood movie studios in the 1950s, in the midst of the McCarthy era.
Abraham Polonsky was born in New York City, the eldest son of Russian...
Adolfo Franci
Adolfo Franci (born November 27, 1895) was an Italian screenwriter. He was nominated for the Academy Award for Writing Original Screenplay for his work in Shoeshine (1946).
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- Cesare Giulio Viola,
- Cesare Zavattini,
- Sergio Amidei
- Cesare Zavattini,
Cesare Giulio Viola
Cesare Giulio Viola (died October 3, 1958) is an Italian screenwriter. He was nominated for the Academy Award for Writing Original Screenplay for his work in Shoeshine (1946).
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- 1947
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- Adolfo Franci,
- Cesare Zavattini,
- Sergio Amidei
- Cesare Zavattini,
Roberto Rossellini
Roberto Rossellini (8 May 1906 – 3 June 1977) was an Italian film director. Rossellini was one of the directors of the Italian neorealist cinema, contributing films such as Roma città aperta (Rome, Open City 1945) to the movement.
Born in Rome,...
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- Federico Fellini,
- Sergio Amidei,
- Marcello Pagliero
- Sergio Amidei,
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- 1948
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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...
Helen Levitt
Helen Levitt (August 31, 1913 – March 29, 2009) was an American photographer. She was particularly noted for "street photography" around New York City, and has been called "the most celebrated and least known photographer of her time."
Levitt grew...
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- 1949
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- Sidney Meyers,
- Janice Loeb
Sidney Buchman
Sidney Robert Buchman (March 27, 1902 – August 23, 1975) was a film writer and producer who worked on 38 films from the late 1920s to the early 1970s.
Born in Duluth, Minnesota and educated at Columbia University, he served as President of the...
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- Seton I. Miller
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- Irwin Shaw
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Alfred Hayes
Alfred Hayes (18 April 1911 – 14 August 1985) was a British screenwriter, television writer, novelist, and poet, who worked in Italy and the United States. He is perhaps best known for his poem "Joe Hill" ("I dreamed I saw Joe Hill last night…"),...
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- 1949
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- Federico Fellini,
- Sergio Amidei,
- Marcello Pagliero,
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- Sergio Amidei,
Sidney Meyers
Sidney Meyers (March 9, 1906 – December 4, 1969) was a film director and editor.
Born in New York City, he is best known for two documentary films: the low-budget 1949's The Quiet One, for which he was nominated for an Oscar for Best Original...
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- Helen Levitt,
- Janice Loeb
Marcello Pagliero
Marcello Pagliero (15 January 1907 - 18 October 1980) was an Italian film director, actor, and screenwriter.
Pagliero was born in London and died in Paris. He is perhaps best known for his performance in the Roberto Rossellini film Rome, Open City ...
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- 1949
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- Federico Fellini,
- Sergio Amidei,
- Roberto Rossellini
- Sergio Amidei,
Janice Loeb
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- x Year:
- 1949
- x Award Nominee:
- Sidney Meyers,
- Helen Levitt
John Huston
John Marcellus Huston (pronounced /ˈdʒɒn mɑrˈsɛləs ˈhjuːstən/; August 5, 1906 – August 28, 1987) was an American filmmaker, screenwriter and actor. He was known for directing the films The Maltese Falcon (1941), The Treasure of the Sierra Madre ...
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- 1950
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- Oscar for Best Director
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- x Year:
- 1951
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- Oscar for Best Director
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- 1952
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- Oscar for Best Director
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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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- 1950
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- Billy Wilder,
- Charles Brackett
Virginia Kellogg
Virginia Kellogg (December 3, 1907 – April 8, 1981) was a film writer whose scripts for White Heat (1949) and Caged (1950) were nominated for Oscars.
At one time, she was married to director Frank Lloyd.
Virginia Kellogg at the Internet Movie...
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- 1950
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- Bernard C. Schoenfeld
Bernard C. Schoenfeld
Bernard C. Schoenfeld (August 17, 1907 - April 25, 1980) was a film screenwriter. He wrote for over twenty films and television series including Phantom Lady (1944), The Dark Corner (screenplay based on the Cornell Woolrich novel, 1946), Caged (1950...
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- 1950
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- Virginia Kellogg
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...
Elia Kazan
Elia Kazan, (pronounced ē-LĒ-ä ka-ZAHN) (September 7, 1909 – September 28, 2003), was a Turkish-born American film and theatre director, film and theatrical producer, screenwriter, novelist and co-founder of the influential Actors Studio in New York...
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- Oscar for Best Director
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- 1955
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- Oscar for Best Director
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- 1954
- x Award:
- Oscar for Best Director
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Walter Newman
Walter Newman may refer to
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- Lesser Samuels,
- Billy Wilder
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- 1978
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- 1965
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