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* Special Award - Special Award * Writing (Screenplay) - Robert E. Sherwood Sound Recording - Samuel Goldwyn Studio Sound Department, Gordon Sawyer, Sound Director
Feb 5, 2014 · To Colonel William N. Selig, Albert E. Smith, Thomas Armat and George K. Spoor (one of) the small group of pioneers whose belief in a new medium, and whose contributions to its development, blazed the trail along which the motion picture has progressed, in their lifetime, from obscurity to world-wide acclaim.
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. Beginning with the Oscars for 1957, the two categories were combined to honor only the ...
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.
Mar 12, 2021 · The Academy Award for Best Original Screenplay is the Award 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.
The Academy Awards are regarded by many as the most prestigious, significant awards in the entertainment industry in the United States and worldwide. The Oscar statuette depicts a knight rendered in the Art Deco style.
The Original Screenplay nominees were a distinguished group: Ruth Gordon and Garson Kanin for A Double Life, Abraham Polonsky for the boxing tale Body and Soul, Charles Chaplin for Monsieur Verdoux (although Chaplin considered it his best film, it was a box-office flop) and the screenplay for the Italian neo-realistic classic Shoeshine by ...
