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Richard Brooks
- Richard Brooks Writer, director, producer Born in Philadelphia. Won the Oscar for best writing, screenplay based on material from another medium for the 1960 film "Elmer Gantry." He had seven other Academy Award nominations.
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Writing (Screenplay--based on material from another medium) - Richard Brooks, James Poe
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.
Writing (Screenplay--based on material from another medium) - Gavin Lambert, T. E. B. Clarke
WRITING (Story and Screenplay–written directly for the screen) The Angry Silence – Richard Gregson, Michael Craig, Bryan Forbes The Apartment – Billy Wilder, I. A. L. Diamond
It honors outstanding achievement by screenwriters for a screenplay adapted from another work, such as a play or novel, from a given year, as determined by the academy’s voting members. At the inaugural Academy Awards ceremony, in 1929, the award recognized the work in films released from August 1, 1927, to August 1, 1928.