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Richard Schweizer was the first to win for a foreign-language film, Marie-Louise. Other winners for a non-English screenplay include Albert Lamorisse, Pietro Germi, Claude Lelouch, Pedro Almodóvar, Bong Joon-ho, Han Jin-won, Justine Triet and Arthur Harari.
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- 'All About Eve' (1950) Screenwriter: Joseph L. Mankiewicz. Alongside Sunset Boulevard, All About Eve showed that 1950 was a surprisingly strong year for well-written movies about the darker sides of showbiz, aging, and fame.
- 'Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb' (1964) Screenwriters: Stanley Kubrick, Terry Southern, and Peter George. From its chaotic, uncertain start, all the way to its surprisingly morbid and harrowing end, Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb is a wild ride.
- 'Sunset Boulevard' (1950) Screenwriters: Charles Brackett, Billy Wilder, and D. M. Marshman Jr. Sunset Boulevard is another Billy Wilder-directed film that he had a hand in writing, though tonally, this one's not as broadly comedic as Some Like It Hot.
- 'Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid' (1969) Screenwriter: William Goldman. William Goldman was such a brilliant novelist and screenwriter that it's hard to pick out a single screenplay of his as "the best."
Apr 3, 2021 · Paddy Chayefsky won two Academy Awards for Best Original Screenplay (The Hospital and Network), as well as one Academy Award for Best Adapted Screenplay (Marty).
Apr 7, 2006 · 101 Greatest Screenplays will finally set the record straight by celebrating the best in film writing and bringing recognition to the wizards behind the curtain: the men and women who wrote the greatest films of all time.
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award presented annually by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences, located in Beverly Hills, California. It honors outstanding achievement by screenwriters for an original screenplay (not one 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. The next four ceremonies honored work in films released from August to July. The 6th ceremony honored work from August to December, and beginning with the 7th ceremony (1935), only work in movies released the previous calendar year was eligible for consideration.
This award has had a complicated history. In the first ceremony (1927–28), an award was given for best original story; an award for title writing was also given. A story was a prose narration of the action in the film that typically would later be converted to a screenplay by another screenwriter. In the second and third ceremonies (1928–30), an award was given for best writing, with no distinction between original work and adaptations. From the 4th (1930–31) to the 12th (1939) ceremonies, an award was again given for best original story, with a screenplay award that was the equivalent of the modern award for best adapted screenplay. 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. A separate award for best story and screenplay was added for the 22nd ceremony (1949), and the category for best story was dropped as a separate award in the 30th ceremony (1957). The “story” was dropped from the name of the award at the 47th ceremony (1974), and the award had various names before it finally settled on best original screenplay at the 75th ceremony (2002). The winning screenwriters are given a gold-plated statuette known as an Oscar.
Woody Allen has won the most Academy Awards for best original screenplay (three). Below is a list of the winning screenwriters and the films for which they won. The years indicate when the eligible films were released.
•1927–28: original story: Ben Hecht (Underworld); title writing: Joseph Farnham (no specific film was mentioned); special award: Charles Chaplin for acting, writing, directing, and producing The Circus
•1928–29: none
•1929–30: writing: Frances Marion (The Big House)
•1930–31: original story: John Monk Saunders (The Dawn Patrol)
•1931–32: original story: Frances Marion (The Champ)
•1932–33: original story: Robert Lord (One Way Passage)
•1940: original story: Benjamin Glazer and John S. Toldy (Arise, My Love); original screenplay: Preston Sturges (The Great McGinty)
•1941: original story: Harry Segall (Here Comes Mr. Jordan); original screenplay: Herman J. Mankiewicz and Orson Welles (Citizen Kane)
•1942: original motion picture story: Emeric Pressburger (49th Parallel; released in the Uunited States as The Invaders); original screenplay: Ring Lardner, Jr., and Michael Kanin (Woman of the Year)
•1943: original motion picture story: William Saroyan (The Human Comedy), original screenplay: Norman Krasna (Princess O’Rourke)
•1944: original motion picture story: Leo McCarey (Going My Way); original screenplay: Lamar Trotti (Wilson)
•1945: original motion picture story: Charles G. Booth (The House on 92nd Street); original screenplay: Richard Schweizer (Marie-Louise)
•1960: story and screenplay: Billy Wilder and I.A.L. Diamond (The Apartment)
•1961: story and screenplay: William Inge (Splendor in the Grass)
•1962: story and screenplay: Ennio de Concini, Alfredo Giannetti, and Pietro Germi (Divorce—Italian Style)
•1963: story and screenplay: James R. Webb (How the West Was Won)
•1964: story and screenplay: story by S.H. Barnett, screenplay by Peter Stone and Frank Tarloff (Father Goose)
•1965: story and screenplay: Frederic Raphael (Darling)
•1980: Bo Goldman (Melvin and Howard)
•1981: Colin Welland (Chariots of Fire)
•1982: John Briley (Gandhi)
•1983: Horton Foote (Tender Mercies)
•1984: Robert Benton (Places in the Heart)
•1985: story by William Kelley and Pamela and Earl W. Wallace, screenplay by Earl W. Wallace and William Kelley (Witness)
•2000: Cameron Crowe (Almost Famous)
•2001: Julian Fellowes (Gosford Park)
•2002: Pedro Almodóvar (Talk to Her)
•2003: Sofia Coppola (Lost in Translation)
•2004: story by Charlie Kaufman, Michel Gondry, and Pierre Bismuth, screenplay by Charlie Kaufman (Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind)
•2005: story by Paul Haggis, screenplay by Paul Haggis and Bobby Moresco (Crash)
•2020: Emerald Fennell (Promising Young Woman)
•2021: Kenneth Branagh (Belfast)
- The Editors of Encyclopaedia Britannica
Mar 7, 2024 · What is best Oscar-winning screenplay? This list includes every film that has won an Oscar for Best Original Screenplay, with titles such as “Her,” “Pulp Fiction,” “Annie Hall,” and “Good Will Hunting.”
Mar 29, 2022 · 1. Belfast (2021) PG-13 | 98 min | Biography, Drama, Romance. 7.2. Rate. 75 Metascore. A young boy and his working-class Belfast family experience the tumultuous late 1960s. Director: Kenneth Branagh | Stars: Jude Hill, Lewis McAskie, Caitríona Balfe, Jamie Dornan. 91,664. 2. Promising Young Woman (2020) R | 113 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery. 7.5.
