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5 days ago · The Writers Guild of America began making the distinction between an original screenplay and an adapted screenplay in 1970, when Waldo Salt, screenwriter for Midnight Cowboy, won for "Best Adapted Drama" and Arnold Schulman won "Best Adapted Comedy" for his screenplay of Goodbye, Columbus.
4 days ago · List of Academy Award records. Walt Disney, the record-holder for most Academy Awards won (22 Oscars) This list of Academy Award records is current as of the 96th Academy Awards, with the ceremony taking place on March 10, 2024.
2 days ago · Roger Joseph Ebert ( / ˈiːbərt / EE-burt; June 18, 1942 – April 4, 2013) was an American film critic, film historian, journalist, essayist, screenwriter, and author. He was a film critic for the Chicago Sun-Times from 1967 until his death in 2013. Ebert was known for his intimate, Midwestern writing style and critical views informed by ...
5 days ago · George Seaton was an American screenwriter and film director who was perhaps best known for his work on Miracle on 34th Street (1947) and The Country Girl (1954), both of which earned him Academy Awards for best screenplay.
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4 days ago · But otherwise, as the decades wore on, May became an icon of failure and invisibility, her strongest work as a script doctor remaining uncredited (for hits like Shampoo [1975], Scrooged [1988 ...
3 days ago · Made under the Hayes Code, Alfred Hitchock's Rope adapted a play by Patrick Hamilton, filmed in just 10 long takes and edited almost seamlessly enough to simulate the experience of live theatre. The plot took inspiration from the true crime story of Leopold and Loeb — gay college students who committed murder out of a sense of Nietzschean superiority.
2 days ago · Atomic Blonde (2017) Directed by David Leitch, "Atomic Blonde" is a spy thriller set in Cold War-era Berlin, starring Charlize Theron, James McAvoy, and John Goodman. Theron plays MI6 agent ...
