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  1. 6 days ago · 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 ...

  2. Jul 4, 2024 · 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.

  3. 14 hours ago · Three films have received the Big Five Academy Awards: Best Picture, Director, Actor, Actress, and Screenplay ( Original or Adapted; all won for Best Adapted Screenplay).

  4. 4 days ago · Academy Award, any of a number of awards presented annually by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences to recognize achievement in the film industry. The awards were first presented in 1929, and winners receive a gold-plated statuette commonly called Oscar.

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  5. Jul 3, 2024 · He co-wrote the animated feature Shrek, for which he won the British Academy Award for Best Adapted Screenplay and was nominated for an Oscar for Best Writing (Adapted Screenplay).

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  6. Jul 2, 2024 · The 2025 Oscars are likely to have at least one Best Original Screenplay nominee that premiered at the 2024 Cannes Film Festival.

  7. Jul 2, 2024 · Awarded Oscar for Best Original Screenplay and Writers Guild of America Award for Best Screenplay written directly for the screen for Moonstruck (1987) and Pulitzer Prize for Drama, Drama Desk Award, and Tony Award for Best Play for Doubt (2005).