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May 28, 2021 · Italian filmmaker Federico Fellini received twelve Oscar nominations throughout his long and illustrious career, and eight of those were for writing. Fellini earned two nominations for Best Adapted Screenplay - Rome, Open City and Fellini's Casanova.
- Pete Docter - 3. Pete Docter is the Chief Creative Officer of Pixar Animation. Docter's nominations for Original Screenplay since 2000 have been for 2008's WALL-E (shared with Andrew Stanton and Jim Reardon), 2009's Up (shared with Bob Peterson and Tom McCarthy), and 2015's Inside Out (shared with Ronnie del Carmen, Meg LeFauve, and Josh Cooley).
- Wes Anderson - 3. Wes Anderson's writing nominations have come for 2001's The Royal Tenenbaums, 2012's Moonrise Kingdom, and 2014's The Grand Budapest Hotel.
- Mike Leigh - 3. Mike Leigh has been nominated for three writing awards since 2000. These were for 2004's Vera Drake, 2008's Happy-Go-Lucky, and 2010s Another Year.
- Kenneth Lonergan - 3. View this post on Instagram. A post shared by The Academy (@theacademy) Kenneth Lonergan's three Original Screenplay nominations are for You Can Count on Me (2000), Gangs of New York with Jay Cocks and Steve Zaillian (2002), and Manchester by the Sea (2016).
Woody Allen earned three Original Screenplay Oscars, for Annie Hall (along with Marshall Brickman), Hannah and Her Sisters, and Midnight in Paris. He has received sixteen nominations total, the most of any writer. Steve Tesich received the award in 1979 for Breaking Away.
Ben Hecht, one of Hollywood's and Broadway's greatest writers, won an Oscar for best original story for Underworld (1927) at the first Academy Awards in 1929 and had a hand in the writing of many classic films. He was nominated five more times for the best writing Oscar, winning (along with writing partner and friend Charles MacArthur, with ...
Woody Allen (16) and Billy Wilder (12) have been nominated the most for any screenwriting category. Five individuals have been awarded with three (3) screenwriting Oscars: Billy Wilder, Charles Brackett, Francis Ford Coppola, Woody Allen, and Paddy Chayefsky.
Taylor Sheridan, Hell or High Water, nominated for Best Original Screenplay. Allison Schroeder, Hidden Figures, nominated with Theodore Melfi for Best Adapted Screenplay. Damien Chazelle, La La Land, nominated for Best Original Screenplay. Luke Davies, Lion, nominated for Best Adapted Screenplay.
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Feb 19, 2024 · From underrated screenwriter and script doctor, Herman J. Mankiewicz to one of the greatest storytellers of all time, Billy Wilder, these are the 10 best Oscar-winning screenwriters from...
