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Writing (Screenplay Written Directly for the Screen) - Screenplay by John Cleese; Story by John Cleese, Charles Crichton
Feb 5, 2014 · 62nd Academy Awards (1989): Nominees and Winners – Cinema Sight by Wesley Lovell. BEST PICTURE. Born on the Fourth of July – A. Kitman Ho, Oliver Stone. Dead Poets Society – Steven Haft, Paul Junger Witt, Tony Thomas. Driving Miss Daisy – Richard D. Zanuck, Lili Fini Zanuck. Field of Dreams – Lawrence Gordon, Charles Gordon.
The 61st Academy Awards ceremony, organized by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences (AMPAS), honored the best films of 1988 and took place on Wednesday, March 29, 1989, at the Shrine Auditorium in Los Angeles, beginning at 6:00 p.m. PST / 9:00 p.m. EST.
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 .
The 61st Academy Awards Memorable Moments. Best Picture: Rain Man. Rain Man also won Academy Awards for Best Actor (Dustin Hoffman), Directing (Barry Levinson), and Writing – Screenplay written directly for the screen (Ronald Bass and Barry Morrow).
These are all the movies that won the Oscar for Best Original Screenplay (aka Screenplay Written Directly for the Screen). The writers that won the Oscar are listed in the description.
Currently, there are two basic categories of writing awards: Writing, Adapted Screenplay: awarded to the writer of a screenplay adapted from another source (novel or play usually) Writing, Original Screenplay: awarded to the writer of a script not based on previously published material
