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Nancy Dowd (born 1945) is an Academy Award-winning screenwriter whose credits include the films Slap Shot and Coming Home.
Nancy Dowd. Writer: Slap Shot. Nancy Dowd was born in 1945 in Framingham, Massachusetts, USA. She is a writer and director, known for Slap Shot (1977), Coming Home (1978) and Love (1982).
Nancy Dowd was born in 1945 in Framingham, Massachusetts, USA. She is a writer and director, known for Slap Shot (1977), Coming Home (1978) and Love (1982).
Slap Shot is a 1977 American sports comedy film directed by George Roy Hill, written by Nancy Dowd, and starring Paul Newman and Michael Ontkean. It depicts a minor league ice hockey team that resorts to violent play to gain popularity in a factory town in decline.
It’s a brilliant mélange, and while the film’s ingenious looseness can perhaps be credited to George Roy Hill, Nancy Dowd is the true author of Slap Shot. Nancy Dowd receives her Best Screenplay Oscar for Coming Home from Lauren Bacall, alongside Waldo Salt and Robert C. Jones.
Breakout Female Screenwriter of the 70’s. After graduating from Smith College, Nancy enrolls at UCLA determined to forge a career writing for film. Not only does she succeed, she ends up writing some of the most renowned films of the 70s and 80s, and even winning an Oscar for her first feature script COMING HOME, but while the original script ...
Feb 22, 2014 · Lauren Bacall and Jon Voight presenting Nancy Dowd, Waldo Salt and Robert C. Jones with the Oscar® for Writing (Screenplay Written Directly for the Screen) for "Coming Home" at the 51st Academy...
