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2 days ago · The Academy Award for Best Original Screenplay is the Academy Award (also known as an Oscar) for the best screenplay not based upon previously published material. It was created in 1940 as a separate writing award from the Academy Award for Best Story .
Aug 22, 2024 · Starting with the 13th ceremony (1940), original writing received two awards, one for best original story and one for best original screenplay, with the exception of the 21st ceremony (1948), wherein only one award was given, for best screenplay.
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Sep 4, 2024 · The Academy Award for Best Adapted Screenplay is the Academy Award for the best screenplay adapted from previously established material. The most frequently adapted media are novels, but other adapted narrative formats include stage plays, musicals, short stories, TV series, and other films and film characters.
Aug 31, 2024 · Writer Budd Schulberg based the story and screenplay on a Pulitzer Prize-winning series of articles that appeared in 1948 in the New York Sun, “Crime on the Waterfront,” by Malcolm Johnson, about corruption in the longshoremen’s union.
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1 day ago · An Academy Award for "Screenplay - based on material from another medium" was awarded to Carl Foreman and Michael Wilson posthumously. The plot was based on prisoners of war working in a constructive way for their captors, but with a twist in the tail.
Sep 1, 2024 · Sylvester Stallone skyrocketed to fame not only as an actor but also as the writer behind the inspiring underdog story, Rocky. Stallone's screenplay for the iconic film earned him an Academy Award nomination, and he continued to pen the narratives for the subsequent films in the beloved franchise.
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Sep 3, 2024 · The Writers Guild of America Award for Best Adapted Screenplay is one of the three screenwriting Writers Guild of America Awards, focused specifically for film. The Writers Guild of America began making the distinction between an original screenplay and an adapted screenplay in 1970, when Waldo Salt, screenwriter for Midnight Cowboy, won for ...
