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The Academy Award for Best Original Screenplay is the Academy Award
Academy Awards

The Academy Awards, popularly known as the Oscars, are presented annually by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences to recognize excellence of professionals in the film industry, including directors, actors, and writers....
 for the best script
Screenplay

A screenplay or script is a written work especially for a film or television program. Screenplays can be original works or adaptations from existing works....
 not based upon previously published material. Before 1940, there was an Academy Award for Best Story
Academy Award for Best Story

The Academy Award for Best Story was an Academy Awards given from the beginning of the Academy Awards until 1957, when it was eliminated in favor of the Academy Award for Writing Original Screenplay, which had been introduced in 1940....
 for writing. For 1940, it and the award in this article were separated into two awards. Beginning with the Oscars for 1957, the two categories were combined to honor only the screenplay.








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The Academy Award for Best Original Screenplay is the Academy Award
Academy Awards

The Academy Awards, popularly known as the Oscars, are presented annually by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences to recognize excellence of professionals in the film industry, including directors, actors, and writers....
 for the best script
Screenplay

A screenplay or script is a written work especially for a film or television program. Screenplays can be original works or adaptations from existing works....
 not based upon previously published material. Before 1940, there was an Academy Award for Best Story
Academy Award for Best Story

The Academy Award for Best Story was an Academy Awards given from the beginning of the Academy Awards until 1957, when it was eliminated in favor of the Academy Award for Writing Original Screenplay, which had been introduced in 1940....
 for writing. For 1940, it and the award in this article were separated into two awards. Beginning with the Oscars for 1957, the two categories were combined to honor only the screenplay.

1940s

  • 1940
    1940 in film

    The year 1940 in film involved some significant events....
     The Great McGinty
    The Great McGinty

    The Great McGinty is a political satire comedy film written and directed by Preston Sturges, starring Brian Donlevy and Akim Tamiroff and featuring William Demarest and Muriel Angelus....
     - Preston Sturges
    Preston Sturges

    Preston Sturges , originally Edmund Preston Biden, was a celebrated screenwriter and film director born in Chicago.Sturges took the screwball comedy format of the 1930s to another level, writing dialogue that, heard today, is often surprisingly naturalistic, mature, and ahead of its time, despite the farcical situations....
    • Angels Over Broadway
      Angels Over Broadway

      Angels Over Broadway is a 1940 in film drama film in which a hustler, a showgirl, and an alcoholic playwright try to help an Embezzlement win enough money to return what he stole before it is too late....
       - Ben Hecht
      Ben Hecht

      Ben Hecht , , was an United States screenwriter, director, producer, playwright, and novelist. Called "the Shakespeare of Hollywood", he received screen credits, alone or in collaboration, for the stories or screenplays of some 70 films and as a prolific storyteller, authored 35 books and created some of the most entertaining screenplays or p...
    • Dr. Ehrlich's Magic Bullet - Norman Burnside, Heinz Herald, John Huston
      John Huston

      John Marcellus Huston was an United States film director and actor. He was known for directing the films, The Maltese Falcon , The Asphalt Jungle , The Treasure of the Sierra Madre , Key Largo , The African Queen , The Misfits , and The Man Who Would Be King ....
    • Foreign Correspondent
      Foreign Correspondent (film)

      Foreign Correspondent is a Cinema of the United States Thriller directed by Alfred Hitchcock which tells the story of an American reporter who tries to expose enemy spies in United Kingdom, a series of events involving a continent-wide conspiracy that eventually leads to the events of a fictionalized Second World War....
       - Charles Bennett
      Charles Bennett (screenwriter)

      Charles Bennett was an England playwright and screenwriter, probably best known for his work with Alfred Hitchcock.Born in Shoreham-by-Sea, Sussex, England, Bennett served in World War I and worked as an actor and writer, before finding success as a playwright in the 1920s....
      , Joan Harrison
      Joan Harrison

      Joan Harrison was an England film producer and screenwriter....
    • The Great Dictator
      The Great Dictator

      The Great Dictator is a comedy film Film director by and starring Charlie Chaplin. First released in October 1940 in film, it was Chaplin's first true talking picture, and more importantly was the only major film of its period to bitterly satirise Nazism and Adolf Hitler, culminating in an overt political plea to defy fascism....
       - Charlie Chaplin
      Charlie Chaplin

      Sir Charles Spencer Chaplin, Jr. Order of the British Empire , better known as Charlie Chaplin, was an Academy Award-winning England comedy film actor and filmmaker....
  • 1941
    1941 in film

    The year 1941 in film involved some significant events....
     Citizen Kane
    Citizen Kane

    Citizen Kane is a 1941 in film United States dramatic film and the first feature film directed by Orson Welles. It was nominated for an Academy Award in nine categories, but won only for Best Original Screenplay by Herman Mankiewicz and Welles....
     - Herman Mankiewicz, Orson Welles
    Orson Welles

    George Orson Welles , better known as Orson Welles, was an Academy Award-winning United States actor, director, writer and producer, who worked extensively in film, theatre, television, and radio....
    • The Devil and Miss Jones
      The Devil and Miss Jones

      The Devil and Miss Jones is a 1941 in film comedy film starring Jean Arthur and Charles Coburn. Directed by Sam Wood and scripted by Norman Krasna, the film was the product of an independent collaboration between Krasna and producer Frank Ross....
       - Norman Krasna
      Norman Krasna

      Norman Krasna was an Academy Award winning United States screenwriter, playwright, and film director. He is best known for penning Screwball comedy film, melodrama, and early film noir....
    • Sergeant York
      Sergeant York

      Sergeant York is a 1941 in film biographical film about the life of Alvin York, the most-decorated American soldier of World War I. It was directed by Howard Hawks and was the highest-grossing film of the year....
       - Harry Chandlee, Abem Finkel, John Huston
      John Huston

      John Marcellus Huston was an United States film director and actor. He was known for directing the films, The Maltese Falcon , The Asphalt Jungle , The Treasure of the Sierra Madre , Key Largo , The African Queen , The Misfits , and The Man Who Would Be King ....
      , Howard Koch
      Howard Koch (screenwriter)

      Howard Koch was a United States screenwriter who was Hollywood blacklist by the Hollywood movie studio bosses in the 1950s.Born in New York City, New York, his first accepted screenplay was made into a 1940 film....
    • Tall, Dark and Handsome - Karl Tunberg
      Karl Tunberg

      Karl Tunberg was an USA screenwriter and occasional film producer.Born in Spokane, Washington, Tunberg began writing for films, usually in association with other writers, in the late 1930s....
      , Darrell Ware
    • Tom, Dick and Harry
      Tom, Dick and Harry (1941 film)

      Tom, Dick and Harry is a comedy film directed by Garson Kanin, written by Paul Jarrico, and starring Ginger Rogers, George Murphy, Alan Marshal , and Burgess Meredith....
       - Paul Jarrico
      Paul Jarrico

      Paul Jarrico was an United States screenwriter and film producer who was Hollywood blacklist by the Hollywood movie studio bosses during the era of McCarthyism....
  • 1942
    1942 in film

    The year 1942 in film involved some significant events, in particular the release of a film consistently rated as one of the Films considered the greatest ever, Casablanca .....
     Woman of the Year
    Woman of the Year

    Woman of the Year is a romantic comedy film in which a feminist, chosen "Woman of the Year", tries to keep the spark in her personal relationship....
     - Michael Kanin
    Michael Kanin

    Michael Kanin was an United States film director, film producer, playwright and screenwriter who shared an Academy Award with Ring Lardner Jr. in 1942 for writing the Katharine Hepburn-Spencer Tracy film comedy Woman of the Year....
    , Ring Lardner Jr
    • One of Our Aircraft is Missing
      One of Our Aircraft is Missing

      One of Our Aircraft is Missing is a British war film, the fourth collaboration between the Cinema of the United Kingdom writer-director-producer team of Powell and Pressburger and the first film they made under the banner of Powell and Pressburger....
       - Michael Powell
      Michael Powell (director)

      Michael Latham Powell was a British people film director, renowned for his partnership with Emeric Pressburger which produced a series of classic British films under the aegis of "Powell and Pressburger."...
      , Emeric Pressburger
      Emeric Pressburger

      Emeric Pressburger was an Academy Award-winning Hungarian people/British people screenwriter, film director, and producer. He is known for his series of Powell and Pressburger with Michael Powell ....
    • Road to Morocco
      Road to Morocco

      Road to Morocco is a 1942 Academy Award nominated comedy film which tells the story of two fast-talking guys who find themselves tossed up on a desert shore and sold into slavery to a beautiful princess....
       - Frank Butler, Don Hartman
    • Wake Island
      Wake Island (1942 film)

      Wake Island is a 1942 film which tells the story of the United States military garrison on Wake Island and the Battle of Wake Island following the attack on Pearl Harbor....
       - W. R. Burnett, Frank Butler
    • The War Against Mrs. Hadley - George Oppenheimer
  • 1943
    1943 in film

    The year 1943 in film involved some significant events.EventsTop grossing films Awards16th Academy Awards*Bataan ...
     Princess O'Rourke
    Princess O'Rourke

    Princess O'Rourke is a 1943 in film romantic comedy film directed and written by Norman Krasna and starring Olivia de Havilland, Robert Cummings and Charles Coburn....
     - Norman Krasna
    Norman Krasna

    Norman Krasna was an Academy Award winning United States screenwriter, playwright, and film director. He is best known for penning Screwball comedy film, melodrama, and early film noir....
    • Air Force - Dudley Nichols
      Dudley Nichols

      Dudley Nichols was an United States screenwriter who first came to prominence after winning and refusing the screenwriting Academy Awards for The Informer in 1936....
    • In Which We Serve
      In Which We Serve

      In Which We Serve is a 1942 in film Cinema of the United Kingdom war film directed by David Lean and No?l Coward. The screenplay by Coward was inspired by the exploits of Captain Lord Louis Mountbatten, 1st Earl Mountbatten of Burma, who was in command of the destroyer HMS Kelly when it was sunk during the Battle of Crete....
       - Noel Coward
      Noël Coward

      Sir No?l Peirce Coward was an English people playwright, composer, Theatre director, actor and singer, known for his wit, flamboyance and what Time magazine called "a sense of personal style, a combination of cheek and chic, pose and poise"....
    • The North Star
      The North Star (1943 film)

      The North Star is a 1943 war film produced and distributed by RKO Radio Pictures. It was directed by Lewis Milestone and written by Lillian Hellman....
       - Lillian Hellman
      Lillian Hellman

      Lillian Florence Hellman was an United States playwright, linked throughout her life with many Left-wing politics causes. She was romantically involved for 30 years with mystery novel and crime novel writer Dashiell Hammett , and was also a long-time friend and literary executor of author Dorothy Parker....
    • So Proudly We Hail!
      So Proudly We Hail!

      So Proudly We Hail! is a 1943 in film film made by Paramount Pictures, directed by Mark Sandrich, and starring Claudette Colbert, Paulette Goddard , George Reeves and Veronica Lake....
       - Allan Scott
  • 1944
    1944 in film

    The year 1944 in film involved some significant events....
     Wilson
    Wilson (film)

    Wilson is a 1944 biographical film in Technicolor about President Woodrow Wilson. It stars Charles Coburn, Alexander Knox, Geraldine Fitzgerald, Thomas Mitchell , Ruth Nelson , Eddie Foy Jr., Cedric Hardwicke, Matthew Moore and Vincent Price....
     - Lamar Trotti
    Lamar Trotti

    Lamar Jefferson Trotti was an American screenwriter, producer, and motion picture executive....
    • Hail the Conquering Hero
      Hail the Conquering Hero

      Hail the Conquering Hero is a satire comedy film/dramatic film written and directed by Preston Sturges, starring Eddie Bracken, Ella Raines and William Demarest, and featuring Raymond Walburn, Franklin Pangborn, Elizabeth Patterson and Bill Edwards ....
       - Preston Sturges
      Preston Sturges

      Preston Sturges , originally Edmund Preston Biden, was a celebrated screenwriter and film director born in Chicago.Sturges took the screwball comedy format of the 1930s to another level, writing dialogue that, heard today, is often surprisingly naturalistic, mature, and ahead of its time, despite the farcical situations....
    • The Miracle of Morgan's Creek
      The Miracle of Morgan's Creek

      The Miracle of Morgan's Creek is a satire screwball comedy film written and directed by Preston Sturges, starring Eddie Bracken and Betty Hutton, and featuring Diana Lynn, William Demarest and Porter Hall....
       - Preston Sturges
      Preston Sturges

      Preston Sturges , originally Edmund Preston Biden, was a celebrated screenwriter and film director born in Chicago.Sturges took the screwball comedy format of the 1930s to another level, writing dialogue that, heard today, is often surprisingly naturalistic, mature, and ahead of its time, despite the farcical situations....
    • Two Girls and a Sailor
      Two Girls and a Sailor

      Two Girls and a Sailor is a 1944 in film musical film about two singing sisters who are helped to set up a canteen to entertain soldiers by a mysterious wealthy admirer....
       - Richard Connell
      Richard Connell

      Richard Edward Connell, Jr. was an American author and journalist, best known for his short story "The Most Dangerous Game." Connell was one of the best-known American short story writers of his time and his stories appeared in the Saturday Evening Post and Collier's Weekly....
      , Gladys Lehman
    • Wing and a Prayer
      Wing and a Prayer

      Wing and a Prayer is a black-and-white 1944 in film war film about the heroic crew of an American carrier in the desperate early days of World War II in the Pacific theater....
       - Jerome Cady
      Jerome Cady

      Jerome Cady was a Hollywood screenwriter.What threatened to be a lucrative and successful career as a film writer - graduating up from Charlie Chan movies in the late 30s to such well respected war films as Guadalcanal Diary , a successful adaptation of Forever Amber and the police procedural Call Northside 777 - came to an...
  • 1945
    1945 in film

    The year 1945 in film involved some significant events....
     Marie-Louise
    Marie-Louise (film)

    Marie-Louise is a 1944 in film Swiss German-language Cinema of Switzerland film directed by Leopold Lindtberg. It was the first ever foreign language film to win an Academy Award ....
     - Richard Schweizer
    Richard Schweizer

    Richard Schweizer is a screenwriter who won the Academy Award for Best Original Screenplay in 18th Academy Awards for his work in Marie-Louise , as well as the Academy Award for Best Story in 21st Academy Awards for his work in The Search....
    • Dillinger
      Dillinger (1945 film)

      Dillinger is a 1945 in film gangster film telling the story of John Dillinger. The film was directed by Max Nosseck. Dillinger was the first major film to star Lawrence Tierney....
       - Philip Yordan
      Philip Yordan

      Philip Yordan was a popular and talented screenwriter of the 1940s, 1950s and 1960s.He was also known as a highly regarded script doctor, called in to rewrite and repair flawed screenplays....
    • Music for Millions - Myles Connolly
    • Salty O'Rourke - Milton Holmes
    • What Next, Corporal Hargrove? - Harry Kurnitz
  • 1946
    1946 in film

    The year 1946 in film involved some significant events....
     The Seventh Veil
    The Seventh Veil

    The Seventh Veil is a 1945 in film United Kingdom melodrama film made by Sydney Box Productions and distributed by Universal Pictures....
     - Muriel Box
    Muriel Box

    Muriel Box was a prolific England screenwriter and film director in what at the time was basically a male industry, and is generally considered to be one of the most successful females in the history of British film....
    , Sydney Box
    Sydney Box

    Sydney Box was a United Kingdom film producer and screenwriter, brother of another prominent British filmmaker, Betty Box. He produced the postwar screenplay, The Seventh Veil, which earned him the 1946 Academy Awards for best original screenplay with his then wife Muriel Box....
    • The Blue Dahlia
      The Blue Dahlia

      The Blue Dahlia is an United states film noir directed by George Marshall and written by Raymond Chandler. The film marks the third pairing of stars Alan Ladd and Veronica Lake....
       - Raymond Chandler
      Raymond Chandler

      Raymond Thornton Chandler was an United States crime fiction, who had an immense stylistic influence upon the modern private eye story, especially in the style of the writing and the attitudes now characteristic of the genre....
    • Children of Paradise
      Children of Paradise

      Les Enfants du Paradis is a 1945 film by French director Marcel Carn?, made during the German occupation of France during World War II. The film is nominally set around the Parisian theatre in the 1830s and tells the story of a beautiful courtesan, Garance, and the four men who love her in their own ways: a mime artist, an actor, a Crim...
       - Jacques Prévert
      Jacques Prévert

      Jacques Pr?vert was a French poet and screenwriter. ...
    • Notorious - Ben Hecht
      Ben Hecht

      Ben Hecht , , was an United States screenwriter, director, producer, playwright, and novelist. Called "the Shakespeare of Hollywood", he received screen credits, alone or in collaboration, for the stories or screenplays of some 70 films and as a prolific storyteller, authored 35 books and created some of the most entertaining screenplays or p...
    • Road to Utopia
      Road to Utopia

      Road to Utopia, filmed in 1943 but not released until 1946 in film, is the fourth film of the road series....
       - Norman Panama
      Norman Panama

      Norman Panama was an American screenwriter and film director born in Chicago, Illinois. He collaborated with a former schoolfriend, Melvin Frank to form a writing partnership which endured for 3 decades....
      , Melvin Frank
      Melvin Frank

      Melvin Frank was an United States screenwriter, film producer and film director. He collaborated with a former schoolfriend, Norman Panama to form a writing partnership which endured for 3 decades....
  • 1947
    1947 in film

    The year 1947 in film involved some significant events....
     The Bachelor and the Bobby-Soxer
    The Bachelor and the Bobby-Soxer

    The Bachelor and the Bobby-Soxer is a 1947 screwball comedy film starring Cary Grant, Myrna Loy, and Shirley Temple. Sidney Sheldon was awarded the 1948 in film Academy Awards for Academy Award for Writing Original Screenplay for this film in his first and only Academy Award nomination during his career in Hollywood....
     - Sidney Sheldon
    Sidney Sheldon

    Sidney Sheldon was an Academy Award-winning American writer who won awards in three careers-a Broadway theatre playwright, a Hollywood TV and movie screenwriter, and a best-selling novelist....
    • Body and Soul
      Body and Soul (1947 film)

      Body and Soul is a 1947 film noir which tells the story of a boxing who becomes involved with crooked promoters. It stars John Garfield, Lilli Palmer, Hazel Brooks, Anne Revere and William Conrad....
       - Abraham Polonsky
      Abraham Polonsky

      Abraham Lincoln Polonsky was an United States screenwriter Hollywood blacklist by Hollywood movie studios in the 1950s, in the midst of the McCarthyism....
    • A Double Life
      A Double Life

      A Double Life is a 1947 in film film noir which tells the story of an actor whose mind becomes affected by the character he portrays. The movie starred Ronald Colman and Signe Hasso....
       - Ruth Gordon
      Ruth Gordon

      Ruth Gordon Jones , better known as Ruth Gordon, was an United States actress and writer. She was perhaps best known for her films roles such as the oversolicitous neighbor in Rosemary's Baby and the eccentric life-loving Maude in Harold and Maude....
      , Garson Kanin
      Garson Kanin

      Garson Kanin was an United States writer and director of plays and films. Born in Rochester, New York, he is most notable for* his first film A Man to Remember , listed as one of the best top ten films in 1938 by The New York Times....
    • Monsieur Verdoux
      Monsieur Verdoux

      Monsieur Verdoux is a 1947 black comedy film directed by and starring Charlie Chaplin....
       - Charlie Chaplin
      Charlie Chaplin

      Sir Charles Spencer Chaplin, Jr. Order of the British Empire , better known as Charlie Chaplin, was an Academy Award-winning England comedy film actor and filmmaker....
    • Shoeshine - Sergio Amidei
      Sergio Amidei

      Sergio Amidei was an Italy screenwriter and an important figure in Italy's neorealist movement.Amidei was born in Trieste. He worked with famed Italian directors such as Roberto Rossellini and Vittorio De Sica....
      , Adolfo Franci
      Adolfo Franci

      Adolfo Franci was an Italian people screenwriter. He was nominated for the Academy Award for Writing Original Screenplay for his work in Shoeshine ....
      , C. G. Viola
      Cesare Giulio Viola

      Cesare Giulio Viola is an Italian people screenwriter. He was nominated for the Academy Award for Writing Original Screenplay for his work in Shoeshine ....
      , Cesare Zavattini
      Cesare Zavattini

      Cesare Zavattini was an Italian people screenwriter and one of the first theorists and proponents of the Neorealism movement in Italian cinema....
  • 1948
    1948 in film

    The year 1948 in film involved some significant events....
     none given (Instead of the categories "Original Screenplay and "Screenplay", it was combined into one category, called "Screenplay", the award was given to The Treasure of the Sierra Madre
    The Treasure of the Sierra Madre

    The Treasure of the Sierra Madre is a 1927 in literature novel by the mysterious German-English bilingual author B. Traven, in which two United States down-and-outers in 1920s Mexico hook up with an old-timer to prospect for gold....
     adapted from the novel of same name)
  • 1949
    1949 in film

    The year 1949 in film involved some significant events....
     Battleground
    Battleground (1949 film)

    Battleground is a war film that tells the story of the 2nd Squad, 3rd Platoon of Item Company, 327th Infantry Regiment , 101st Airborne Division, trying to cope with the Siege of Bastogne during the Battle of the Bulge in World War II....
     - Robert Pirosh
    Robert Pirosh

    Robert Pirosh was an United States screenwriter and director....
    • Jolson Sings Again
      Jolson Sings Again

      Jolson Sings Again is the 1949 film sequel to The Jolson Story, both of which cover the life of singer Al Jolson....
       - Sidney Buchman
      Sidney Buchman

      Sidney Robert Buchman was a film writer and Film producer who worked on 38 films from the late 1920s to the early 1970s.Born in Duluth, Minnesota, Minnesota and educated at Columbia University, he served as President of the Writers Guild of America in 1941?1942....
    • Paisà
      Paisa

      A paisa is a monetary unit currently equivalent to of a rupee or Bangladeshi taka and is used in several countries, including Bangladesh, India, Nepal, and Pakistan....
       - Alfred Hayes
      Alfred Hayes (writer)

      Alfred Hayes was a British people screenwriter, television writer, novelist, and poetry, who worked in Italy and the United States. He is perhaps best known for his poem "Joe Hill" , later set to music by Earl Robinson....
      , Federico Fellini
      Federico Fellini

      Federico Fellini, Italian orders of merit was an Italy film director. Known for a distinct style which meshes fantasy and baroque images, he is considered as one of the most influential and widely revered filmmakers of the 20th century....
      , Sergio Amidei
      Sergio Amidei

      Sergio Amidei was an Italy screenwriter and an important figure in Italy's neorealist movement.Amidei was born in Trieste. He worked with famed Italian directors such as Roberto Rossellini and Vittorio De Sica....
      , Marcello Pagliero
      Marcello Pagliero

      Marcello Pagliero was an Italian people film director, actor, and screenwriter.Pagliero was born in London and died in Paris. He is perhaps best known for his performance in the Roberto Rossellini film Rome, Open City ....
      , Roberto Rossellini
      Roberto Rossellini

      Roberto Rossellini was an Italian film director. Rossellini was one of the most important directors of Italian neorealism film, contributing films such as Roma citt? aperta to the movement....
    • Passport to Pimlico
      Passport to Pimlico

      Passport to Pimlico is a 1949 in film United Kingdom comedy film made by Ealing Studios. Margaret Rutherford, Stanley Holloway and Hermione Baddeley star under the direction of Henry Cornelius....
       - T. E. B. Clarke
      T. E. B. Clarke

      Thomas Ernest Bennett "Tibby" Clarke was a film scriptwriter who wrote several of the Ealing Studios comedies. His scripts always feature careful logical development from a slightly absurd premise to a farcical conclusion....
    • The Quiet One
      The Quiet One

      The Quiet One is a 1948 United States documentary film directed by Sidney Meyers. The documentary chronicles the rehabilitation of a young, emotionally disturbed African-American boy; it contains a commentary written by James Agee, and narrated by Gary Merrill....
       - Helen Levitt
      Helen Levitt

      Helen Levitt is an American photographer. She is particularly noted for "street photography" around New York City, and has been called "the most celebrated and least known photographer of her time."...
      , Janice Loeb, Sidney Meyers
      Sidney Meyers

      Sidney Meyers was a film director and film editor.Born in New York City, he is best known for two documentary films: the low-budget 1949's The Quiet One, for which he was nominated for an Academy Awards for Best Original Screenplay, and British Academy of Film and Television Arts winner The Savage Eye, which he co-directed with Jos...
(In 1949, the category was renamed "Story and Screenplay")

1950s

  • 1950
    1950 in film

    The year 1950 in film involved some significant events....
     Sunset Boulevard - Charles Brackett
    Charles Brackett

    Charles Brackett was an United States novelist, screenwriter, and film producer.Born in Saratoga Springs, New York, Charles William Brackett was the son of New York State Senator, lawyer, and banker, Edgar Truman Brackett....
    , D.M. Marshman, Jr., Billy Wilder
    Billy Wilder

    Billy Wilder was an Austrian-United States journalist, filmmaker, screenwriter, and film producer, whose career spanned more than 50 years and 60 films....
    • Adam's Rib
      Adam's Rib

      Adam's Rib is a film written by Ruth Gordon and Garson Kanin and directed by George Cukor. It stars Spencer Tracy and Katharine Hepburn and features Judy Holliday in her first substantial film role....
       - Ruth Gordon
      Ruth Gordon

      Ruth Gordon Jones , better known as Ruth Gordon, was an United States actress and writer. She was perhaps best known for her films roles such as the oversolicitous neighbor in Rosemary's Baby and the eccentric life-loving Maude in Harold and Maude....
      , Garson Kanin
      Garson Kanin

      Garson Kanin was an United States writer and director of plays and films. Born in Rochester, New York, he is most notable for* his first film A Man to Remember , listed as one of the best top ten films in 1938 by The New York Times....
    • Caged
      Caged (1950 film)

      Caged is a 1950 film which tells the story of a teenage newlywed, who is sent to prison for being an accessory to a robbery. Her experiences while incarcerated, along with the killing of her husband, change her from a very frightened young girl into a hardened convict....
       - Virginia Kellogg
      Virginia Kellogg

      Virginia Kellogg was a film writer whose scripts for White Heat and Caged were nominated for Academy Awardss.At one time, she was married to film director Frank Lloyd....
      , Bernard C. Schoenfeld
      Bernard C. Schoenfeld

      Bernard C. Schoenfeld was a film screenwriter. He wrote for over twenty films and television series including Phantom Lady , The Dark Corner , Caged , Macao , and The Twilight Zone episode "From Agnes - With Love "....
    • The Men
      The Men

      The Men is a 1950 film directed by Fred Zinnemann. It tells the story of a World War II lieutenant, who is seriously injured in combat, and the struggles he faces as he attempts to re-enter society....
       - Carl Foreman
      Carl Foreman

      Carl Foreman CBE was an United States screenwriter and film producer who was Hollywood ten by the Hollywood movie studio bosses in the 1950s....
    • No Way Out
      No Way Out (1950 film)

      No Way Out is a black-and-white film noir directed by Joseph L. Mankiewicz, and starring Richard Widmark, Linda Darnell, Stephen McNally, and Sidney Poitier....
       - Joseph L. Mankiewicz
      Joseph L. Mankiewicz

      Joseph Leo Mankiewicz was an United States Academy Award-winning film director, screenwriter, and film producer....
      , Lesser Samuels
      Lesser Samuels

      Lesser Samuels enjoyed a 20 year career as a Hollywood scriptwriter.He is best known for back-to-back Academy Awards nominations for the racial drama No Way Out in 1950 and Billy Wilder's lacerating critique of tabloid journalism Ace in the Hole the following year....
  • 1951
    1951 in film

    The year 1951 in film involved some significant events....
     An American in Paris
    An American in Paris (film)

    An American in Paris is a MGM musical film inspired by the An American in Paris by George Gershwin. Starring Gene Kelly, Leslie Caron, and Oscar Levant, the film is set in Paris, and was directed by Vincente Minnelli from a script by Alan Jay Lerner....
     - Alan Jay Lerner
    Alan Jay Lerner

    Alan Jay Lerner was an United States Broadway theatre lyricist and librettist. Together with Frederick Loewe, he created some of the world's most popular and enduring works of musical theatre....
    • The Big Carnival
      Ace in the Hole (1951 film)

      'Ace in the Hole' is a 1951 in film United States drama film. It marked a series of firsts for Auteur theory Billy Wilder: it was the first time he was involved in a project as a writer, producer, and director; his first film following his breakup with long-time writing partner Charles Brackett, with whom he had collaborated on The Lost W...
       - Billy Wilder
      Billy Wilder

      Billy Wilder was an Austrian-United States journalist, filmmaker, screenwriter, and film producer, whose career spanned more than 50 years and 60 films....
      , Lesser Samuels
      Lesser Samuels

      Lesser Samuels enjoyed a 20 year career as a Hollywood scriptwriter.He is best known for back-to-back Academy Awards nominations for the racial drama No Way Out in 1950 and Billy Wilder's lacerating critique of tabloid journalism Ace in the Hole the following year....
      , Walter Newman
      Walter Newman (screenwriter)

      Walter Newman was an United States radio writer and screenwriter active from the late 1940s to the early 1990s. He was nominated three times for Academy Awards , but he may be best known for a work that never made it to the screen: his unproduced original script Harrow Alley....
    • David and Bathsheba
      David and Bathsheba

      David and Bathsheba is a 1951 in film historical film epic film about King David made by 20th Century Fox. It was directed by Henry King, produced by Darryl F....
       - Philip Dunne
      Philip Dunne (writer)

      Philip Dunne was a Hollywood screenwriter, film director and Film producer, who worked prolifically from 1932 until 1965. He spent the majority of his career at 20th Century Fox crafting well regarded romantic and historical dramas, usually adapted from another medium....
    • Go for Broke!
      Go for Broke! (1951 film)

      Go for Broke! is a war film released in 1951. It was directed by Robert Pirosh, produced by Dore Schary and starred Van Johnson, several veterans of the 442nd Regimental Combat Team, and Henry Nakamura....
       - Robert Pirosh
      Robert Pirosh

      Robert Pirosh was an United States screenwriter and director....
    • The Well
      The Well (1951 film)

      The Well is a 1951 in film United States film noir which tackled the issue of Racism and collective behavior. The film was nominated for two Academy Awards, including Academy Award for Writing Original Screenplay and Academy Award for Film Editing....
       - Clarence Greene
      Clarence Greene

      Clarence Greene was an United States film producer and screenwriter who frequently collaborated with filmmaker Russell Rouse on a number of offbeat films....
      , Russell Rouse
      Russell Rouse

      Russell Rouse was an American screenwriter, film producer and film director.The New York City-born Rouse wrote for 18 films between 1942 in film and 1988 in film....
  • 1952
    1952 in film

    The year 1952 in film involved some significant events....
     The Lavender Hill Mob
    The Lavender Hill Mob

    The Lavender Hill Mob is a 1951 in film comedy film from Ealing Studios, written by T.E.B. Clarke, directed by Charles Crichton and starring Alec Guinness, Stanley Holloway and Sid James as gold thieves....
     - T.E.B. Clarke
    • The Atomic City
      The Atomic City

      The Atomic City is a 1952 in film drama film directed by Jerry Hopper, starring Gene Barry, Lydia Clarke. At Los Alamos, New Mexico, a nuclear physicist lives and works....
       - Sydney Boehm
      Sydney Boehm

      Sydney Boehm was an United States screenwriter and producer. Boehm began his writing career as a newswriter for wire services and newspapers before moving on to screenwriting....
    • The Sound Barrier - Terence Rattigan
      Terence Rattigan

      Sir Terence Mervyn Rattigan was one of England's most popular 20th century dramatists. He was born in Kensington, London of Irish people extraction, educated at Harrow School and Trinity College, Oxford, and his plays are generally situated within an upper middle class background....
    • Pat and Mike
      Pat and Mike

      Pat and Mike is a 1952 comedy starring Katharine Hepburn and Spencer Tracy. The movie was directed by George Cukor, who also directed The Philadelphia Story and Adam's Rib....
       - Ruth Gordon
      Ruth Gordon

      Ruth Gordon Jones , better known as Ruth Gordon, was an United States actress and writer. She was perhaps best known for her films roles such as the oversolicitous neighbor in Rosemary's Baby and the eccentric life-loving Maude in Harold and Maude....
      , Garson Kanin
      Garson Kanin

      Garson Kanin was an United States writer and director of plays and films. Born in Rochester, New York, he is most notable for* his first film A Man to Remember , listed as one of the best top ten films in 1938 by The New York Times....
    • Viva Zapata!
      Viva Zapata!

      Viva Zapata! is a 1952 in film biographical film directed by Elia Kazan. The screenplay was written by John Steinbeck, using as a guide Edgcomb Pinchon's book, 'Zapata the Unconquerable', a fact that is not credited in the titles of the film....
       - John Steinbeck
      John Steinbeck

      John Ernst Steinbeck III was an American literature. He wrote the Pulitzer Prize-winning novel The Grapes of Wrath, published in 1939 and the novella Of Mice and Men, published in 1937....
  • 1953
    1953 in film

    The year 1953 in film involved some significant events....
     Titanic
    Titanic (1953 film)

    'Titanic' is a 1953 in film drama film directed by Jean Negulesco. The film is not to be confused with Films about the RMS Titanic. Its plot is centered around an estranged couple sailing on the maiden voyage of the RMS Titanic, which took place in April 1912....
     - Charles Brackett
    Charles Brackett

    Charles Brackett was an United States novelist, screenwriter, and film producer.Born in Saratoga Springs, New York, Charles William Brackett was the son of New York State Senator, lawyer, and banker, Edgar Truman Brackett....
    , Richard Breen, Walter Reisch
    Walter Reisch

    Walter Reisch was an Austrians-born, director and Academy Award-winning screenwriter....
    • The Band Wagon
      The Band Wagon

      The Band Wagon is a 1953 in film musical comedy musical film that many critics rank as the finest of the MGM musicals, although it was only a modest box-office success....
       - Betty Comden
      Betty Comden

      Betty Comden , was one-half of the musical-comedy duo Comden and Green, who provided lyrics, librettos, and screenplays to some of the most beloved and successful musical films and Broadway theatre shows of the mid-20th century....
      , Adolph Green
      Adolph Green

      Adolph Green was an United States lyricist and playwright who, with long-time collaborator Betty Comden, penned the screenplays and songs for some of the most beloved movie musicals, particularly as part of Arthur Freed's production unit at Metro Goldwyn Mayer, during the genre's heyday....
    • The Desert Rats
      The Desert Rats (film)

      The Desert Rats is a 1953 war film starring Richard Burton and Robert Douglas directed by Robert Wise. It features a cameo appearance by James Mason as General Erwin Rommel....
       - Richard Murphy
      Richard Murphy (screenwriter)

      Richard Murphy was an award winning United States screenwriter, film director, and Film producer....
    • The Naked Spur
      The Naked Spur

      The Naked Spur is a 1953 in film United States western directed by Anthony Mann and starring James Stewart in their third collaboration. The screenplay was written by Sam Rolfe and Harold Jack Bloom....
       - Sam Rolfe
      Sam Rolfe

      Samuel Harris Rolfe was an United States screenwriter best known for his work on 1960s television series The Man from U.N.C.L.E. and The Eleventh Hour , both on National Broadcasting Company....
      , Harold Jack Bloom
      Harold Jack Bloom

      Harold Jack Bloom was a television producer and screenwriter who scored a notable hit with his first major screenplay to the classic Anthony Mann Western The Naked Spur in 1953, earning an Academy Awards nomination in the process....
    • Take the High Ground!
      Take the High Ground!

      Take the High Ground! is a Korean War film, starring Richard Widmark and Karl Malden as drill instructors who must transform a batch of everyday civilians into soldiers....
       - Millard Kaufman
      Millard Kaufman

      Millard Kaufman is an American screenwriter and novelist. His works include the Academy Award-nominated Bad Day at Black Rock . He was also one of the creators of Mr....
  • 1954
    1954 in film

    The year 1954 in film involved some significant events....
     On the Waterfront
    On the Waterfront

    On the Waterfront is a United States drama film about mob violence and corruption among stevedore. The film was directed by Elia Kazan and written by Budd Schulberg....
     - Budd Schulberg
    Budd Schulberg

    Budd Schulberg is an United States screenwriter,novelist and sports writer.Born Seymour Wilson Schulberg, he was Hollywood "royalty", the son of B.P....
    • The Barefoot Contessa
      The Barefoot Contessa

      The Barefoot Contessa is a 1954 film about the life and loves of fictional Spanish sex symbol Maria Vargas. It was written and directed by Joseph L....
       - Joseph L. Mankiewicz
      Joseph L. Mankiewicz

      Joseph Leo Mankiewicz was an United States Academy Award-winning film director, screenwriter, and film producer....
    • Genevieve
      Genevieve (film)

      Genevieve is a 1953 in film Cinema of the United Kingdom directed by Henry Cornelius and starring John Gregson, Dinah Sheridan, Kenneth More and Kay Kendall as two couples in a car race....
       - William Rose
      William Rose (screenwriter)

      William Rose was a major United States screenwriter of Great Britain and Hollywood, California films.Although born in Jefferson City, Missouri, after the 1939 outbreak of World War II Rose went to Canada and volunteered to fight overseas with the The Black Watch of Canada....
    • The Glenn Miller Story
      The Glenn Miller Story

      The Glenn Miller Story is a 1953 United States film directed by Anthony Mann and starring James Stewart in their first non-western movie collaboration....
       - Valentine Davies
      Valentine Davies

      Valentine Davies was an USA film and television writer, producer, and director. He is best known for Miracle on 34th Street and The Benny Goodman Story ....
      , Oscar Brodney
      Oscar Brodney

      Oscar Brodney , was an United States lawyer-turned-screenwriter. Entering the film industry in 1935, Brodney worked on various projects, including Abbott and Costello's Mexican Hayride and the adapted screenplay for Harvey ....
    • Knock on Wood - Norman Panama
      Norman Panama

      Norman Panama was an American screenwriter and film director born in Chicago, Illinois. He collaborated with a former schoolfriend, Melvin Frank to form a writing partnership which endured for 3 decades....
      , Melvin Frank
      Melvin Frank

      Melvin Frank was an United States screenwriter, film producer and film director. He collaborated with a former schoolfriend, Norman Panama to form a writing partnership which endured for 3 decades....
  • 1955
    1955 in film

    The year 1955 in film involved some significant events....
     Interrupted Melody
    Interrupted Melody

    Interrupted Melody is a biographical film which tells the story of Australian opera singer Marjorie Lawrence's struggle with polio. The film was made by Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer, directed by Curtis Bernhardt and produced by Jack Cummings from a screenplay by Marjorie Lawrence, Sonya Levien, and William Ludwig....
     - Sonya Levien
    Sonya Levien

    Sonya Levien , was a Russian screenwriter. She wrote for 72 films between 1921 in film and 1962 in film. She won the Academy Award for Writing Original Screenplay in 1955 in film for the film Interrupted Melody....
    , William Ludwig
    William Ludwig

    William Ludwig was an Academy Award winning screenwriter. He won, with Sonya Levien, an Oscar for "Best Writing, Story and Screenplay" in 1956 for Interrupted Melody....
    • The Court-Martial of Billy Mitchell
      The Court-Martial of Billy Mitchell (film)

      The Court-Martial of Billy Mitchell is a film directed by Otto Preminger in 1955 in film. It starred Gary Cooper as Billy Mitchell, Charles Bickford, Ralph Bellamy, Rod Steiger and Elizabeth Montgomery ....
       - Milton Sperling
      Milton Sperling

      Milton Sperling was an American film producer and screenwriter for 20th Century Fox and Warner Bros. where he had his own independent production unit United States Pictures....
      , Emmet Lavery
    • It's Always Fair Weather
      It's Always Fair Weather

      It's Always Fair Weather is a 1955 MGM musical film scripted by Betty Comden and Adolph Green, who also wrote the show's lyrics, scored by Andre Previn and starring Gene Kelly, Dan Dailey, Cyd Charisse, Michael Kidd, and Dolores Gray....
       - Betty Comden
      Betty Comden

      Betty Comden , was one-half of the musical-comedy duo Comden and Green, who provided lyrics, librettos, and screenplays to some of the most beloved and successful musical films and Broadway theatre shows of the mid-20th century....
      , Adolph Green
      Adolph Green

      Adolph Green was an United States lyricist and playwright who, with long-time collaborator Betty Comden, penned the screenplays and songs for some of the most beloved movie musicals, particularly as part of Arthur Freed's production unit at Metro Goldwyn Mayer, during the genre's heyday....
    • Mr. Hulot's Holiday
      Monsieur Hulot's Holiday

      Les Vacances de Monsieur Hulot , is one of Jacques Tati's most famous films, gaining an international reputation for its director upon its release in 1953....
       - Jacques Tati
      Jacques Tati

      Jacques Tati was a noted France comedic filmmaker. He was born Jacques Tatischeff, the son of Russians father Georges-Emmanuel Tatischeff and Dutch people mother Marcelle Claire Van Hoof, in Le Pecq, Yvelines, and died in Paris, France....
      , Henri Marquet
      Henri Marquet

      Henri Marquet is a French people assistant director and screenwriter. He was co-nominated with Jacques Tati for the Academy Award for Writing Original Screenplay for the film Mr. Hulot's Holiday ....
    • The Seven Little Foys
      The Seven Little Foys

      The Seven Little Foys is a 1955 in film film starring Bob Hope as Eddie Foy. James Cagney reprises his role as George M. Cohan for an energetic tabletop dance showdown sequence....
       - Melville Shavelson
      Melville Shavelson

      Melville Shavelson was an United States film director, producer, and screenwriter. He was President of the Writers Guild of America, West from 1969 to 1971, 1979 to 1981, and 1985 to 1987....
      , Jack Rose
      Jack Rose (screenwriter)

      Jack Rose was an United States screenwriter and producer born on November 4, 1911, in Warsaw, Russian Empire. He died on October 21, 1995, in Los Angeles, California....
  • 1956
    1956 in film

    The year 1956 in film involved some significant events....
     The Red Balloon
    The Red Balloon

    The Red Balloon is a fantasy short film, directed by France filmmaker Albert Lamorisse.The thirty-four minute short, which follows the adventures of a young boy who one day finds a sentient, mute, red balloon, was filmed in the M?nilmontant neighborhood of Paris, France, France....
     - Albert Lamorisse
    Albert Lamorisse

    Albert Lamorisse was a France award-winning filmmaker, film producer, and writer, who is best known for his award winning short films which he began making in the late 1940s, and also for inventing the famous strategic board game Risk in 1957....
    • The Bold and the Brave
      The Bold and the Brave

      The Bold and the Brave is a 1956 in film Hollywood World War II film written by Robert Lewin and directed by Lewis R. Foster, starring Wendell Corey, Mickey Rooney, and Don Taylor ....
       - Robert Lewin
    • Julie - Andrew L. Stone
      Andrew L. Stone

      Andrew L. Stone was an United States screenwriter, film director, and film producer. Best known for his b-movies, Stone frequently collaborated with his wife, editor and producer Virginia Lively Stone ....
    • La strada
      La Strada (film)

      La strada is an Italian neorealism film, directed by Federico Fellini. The movie is a drama about a naive young girl who is sold to a brutish man in a coastal town in Italy....
       - Federico Fellini
      Federico Fellini

      Federico Fellini, Italian orders of merit was an Italy film director. Known for a distinct style which meshes fantasy and baroque images, he is considered as one of the most influential and widely revered filmmakers of the 20th century....
      , Tullio Pinelli
      Tullio Pinelli

      Tullio Pinelli was an award-winning Italian screenwriter best known for his work on the Federico Fellini classics I Vitelloni, La strada, La Dolce Vita and 8?....
    • The Ladykillers
      The Ladykillers

      The Ladykillers is a dark comedy film, another edition in a series of post-war Ealing comedies. Directed by Alexander Mackendrick, it stars Alec Guinness, Cecil Parker, Herbert Lom, Peter Sellers, Danny Green , Jack Warner and Katie Johnson....
       - William Rose
      William Rose (screenwriter)

      William Rose was a major United States screenwriter of Great Britain and Hollywood, California films.Although born in Jefferson City, Missouri, after the 1939 outbreak of World War II Rose went to Canada and volunteered to fight overseas with the The Black Watch of Canada....
  • 1957
    1957 in film

    The year 1957 in film involved some significant events....
     Designing Woman
    Designing Woman

    Designing Woman is a 1957 in film romance film comedy about fashion. Vincente Minnelli directed stars Lauren Bacall and Gregory Peck. George Wells won an Academy Award for the screenplay....
     - George Wells
    George Wells (screenwriter)

    George Wells was an American Academy Award winning screenwriter.Along with co-writer Harry Tugend, Wells was nominated for the 1950 Writers Guild of America Award in the category of "Best Written American Musical" for Take Me Out to the Ball Game ....
    • Funny Face
      Funny Face

      Funny Face is an United States musical film released in 1957 in film in Technicolor, with assorted songs by George Gershwin and Ira Gershwin....
       - Leonard Gershe
      Leonard Gershe

      Leonard Gershe was an United States playwright, screenwriter, and lyricist.Born in New York City, Gershe made his Broadway theatre debut as a lyricist for the 1950 revue Alive and Kicking ....
    • Man of a Thousand Faces
      Man of a Thousand Faces

      Man of a Thousand Faces is a film detailing the life of silent movie actor Lon Chaney Sr., in which the title role is played by James Cagney....
       - Ralph Wheelwright, R. Wright Campbell, Ivan Goff
      Ivan Goff

      Ivan Goff was an Australian screenwriter.From 'Made it, Ma ? top of the world!' in 1949's White Heat to 'Morning, Angels', 'Morning, Charlie', in the quintessential 1970s series Charlie's Angels, Ivan Goff enjoyed the longest Hollywood screenwriting career to out of any Australian to date....
      , Ben Roberts
      Ben Roberts (writer)

      Ben Roberts was a writer and one of the creators of the Charlie's Angels television series.References...
    • The Tin Star
      The Tin Star

      The Tin Star is a 1957 in film United States western directed by Anthony Mann and starring Henry Fonda and Anthony Perkins, in one of Perkins' first roles....
       - Barney Slater, Joel Kane, Dudley Nichols
      Dudley Nichols

      Dudley Nichols was an United States screenwriter who first came to prominence after winning and refusing the screenwriting Academy Awards for The Informer in 1936....
    • I Vitelloni
      I Vitelloni

      I Vitelloni is an Italy comedy drama film directed by Federico Fellini. The plot was initially written by Ennio Flaiano and was based on the life of a group of young men in Pescara ....
       - Federico Fellini
      Federico Fellini

      Federico Fellini, Italian orders of merit was an Italy film director. Known for a distinct style which meshes fantasy and baroque images, he is considered as one of the most influential and widely revered filmmakers of the 20th century....
      , Ennio Flaiano
      Ennio Flaiano

      Ennio Flaiano , was an Italy screenwriter, playwright, novelist, journalist and drama critic. He is best known for his work with Federico Fellini....
      , Tullio Pinelli
      Tullio Pinelli

      Tullio Pinelli was an award-winning Italian screenwriter best known for his work on the Federico Fellini classics I Vitelloni, La strada, La Dolce Vita and 8?....
  • 1958
    1958 in film

    The year 1958 in film involved some significant events....
     The Defiant Ones
    The Defiant Ones

    The Defiant Ones is a film which tells the story of two escaped prisoners who are shackled together, one white and one black, who must co-operate in order to survive....
     - Nathan E. Douglas, Harold Jacob Smith
    Harold Jacob Smith

    Harold Jacob Smith was an American Academy Award winning screenwriter.External links...
     (Upon request of his widow and upon recommendation of the Writers Branch Executive Committee, the Board of Governors voted to restore the name of Nedrick Young
    Nedrick Young

    Nedrick Young was a screenwriter often Hollywood blacklist during the 1950's and 1960's. He is credited with writing the screenplay for Jailhouse Rock in 1957, which starred Elvis Presley....
     to the nomination and award presented to Nathan E. Douglas, which was a pseudonym for Mr. Young during the blacklisting period.)
    • The Goddess
      The Goddess

      The Goddess is a 1958 in film Columbia Pictures drama film film starring Kim Stanley and Lloyd Bridges. Others in the cast include Steven Hill, Betty Lou Holland, Patty Duke, and Elizabeth Wilson....
       - Paddy Chayefsky
      Paddy Chayefsky

      Sidney Aaron Chayefski known as Paddy Chayefsky was an acclaimed dramatist and novelist who made a transition from the Golden Age of Television in the 1950s to a successful career as a playwright and screenwriter....
    • Houseboat
      Houseboat (film)

      Houseboat is a 1958 romantic comedy film starring Cary Grant, Sophia Loren, Martha Hyer, Paul Petersen, Charles Herbert and Mimi Gibson. The movie was directed by Melville Shavelson, who also directed the original 1968 version of Yours, Mine and Ours ....
       - Melville Shavelson
      Melville Shavelson

      Melville Shavelson was an United States film director, producer, and screenwriter. He was President of the Writers Guild of America, West from 1969 to 1971, 1979 to 1981, and 1985 to 1987....
      , Jack Rose
      Jack Rose (screenwriter)

      Jack Rose was an United States screenwriter and producer born on November 4, 1911, in Warsaw, Russian Empire. He died on October 21, 1995, in Los Angeles, California....
    • The Sheepman
      The Sheepman

      The Sheepman is a tongue-in-cheek 1958 in film Western film directed by George Marshall, starring Glenn Ford, Shirley MacLaine and Leslie Nielsen....
       - James Edward Grant
      James Edward Grant

      James Edward Grant was an American film writer and director. He wrote more than 50 films between 1935 in film and 1967 in film as well as directing the 1947 in film Angel and the Badman, which starred John Wayne....
      , William Bowers
      William Bowers

      William Bowers was a reporter in Long Beach, California before becoming a screenwriter and specializing in writing comedy westerns and also turned out several thrillers....
    • Teacher's Pet
      Teacher's Pet (1958 film)

      Teacher's Pet is a 1958 in film romantic comedy film starring Clark Gable and Doris Day, directed by George Seaton and written by Fay Kanin and Michael Kanin....
       - Fay Kanin
      Fay Kanin

      Fay Kanin is an American screenwriter, playwright and producer. Kanin was President of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences from 1979 to 1983....
      , Michael Kanin
      Michael Kanin

      Michael Kanin was an United States film director, film producer, playwright and screenwriter who shared an Academy Award with Ring Lardner Jr. in 1942 for writing the Katharine Hepburn-Spencer Tracy film comedy Woman of the Year....
  • 1959
    1959 in film

    The year 1959 in film involved some significant events....
     Pillow Talk - Clarence Greene
    Clarence Greene

    Clarence Greene was an United States film producer and screenwriter who frequently collaborated with filmmaker Russell Rouse on a number of offbeat films....
    , Maurice Richlin
    Maurice Richlin

    Maurice Richlin was an United States Academy Award-winning screenwriter.External links...
    , Russell Rouse
    Russell Rouse

    Russell Rouse was an American screenwriter, film producer and film director.The New York City-born Rouse wrote for 18 films between 1942 in film and 1988 in film....
    , Stanley Shapiro
    Stanley Shapiro

    Stanley Shapiro was an Academy Award-winning United States screenwriter and film producer responsible for three of Doris Day's most successful films....
    • The 400 Blows
      The 400 Blows

      The 400 Blows is a 1959 in film Cinema of France directed by Fran?ois Truffaut. One of the defining films of the French New Wave, it displays many of the characteristic traits of the movement....
       - François Truffaut
      François Truffaut

      Fran?ois Roland Truffaut was an influential filmmaker and one of the founders of the French New Wave; and remains an icon of the Cinema of France industry....
      , Marcel Moussy
      Marcel Moussy

      Marcel Moussy was a French people screenwriter and television director. He was co-nominated with Fran?ois Truffaut for the Academy Award for Writing Original Screenplay for the film The 400 Blows ....
    • North by Northwest
      North by Northwest

      North by Northwest is an Cinema of the United States Thriller directed by Alfred Hitchcock, starring Cary Grant, Eva Marie Saint and James Mason, and featuring Leo G....
       - Ernest Lehman
      Ernest Lehman

      Ernest Lehman was an United States screenwriter. He received 6 Academy Awards nominations during his screenwriting career. In 2001 he received an honorary Oscar for his works, the first screenwriter to receive that honor....
    • Operation Petticoat
      Operation Petticoat

      Operation Petticoat is a 1959 comedic film directed by Blake Edwards, and starring Cary Grant, Tony Curtis, and Dina Merrill, later adapted for television in 1977....
       - Paul King, Joseph Stone, Stanley Shapiro
      Stanley Shapiro

      Stanley Shapiro was an Academy Award-winning United States screenwriter and film producer responsible for three of Doris Day's most successful films....
      , Maurice Richlin
      Maurice Richlin

      Maurice Richlin was an United States Academy Award-winning screenwriter.External links...
    • Wild Strawberries
      Wild Strawberries (film)

      Wild Strawberries is a 1957 film written and directed by Ingmar Bergman, about an old man recalling his past. The original Swedish language title is Smultronst?llet, which literally means "the wild strawberry patch", but idiomatically means an underrated gem of a place ....
       - Ingmar Bergman
      Ingmar Bergman

      Ernst Ingmar Bergman was a Sweden director, writer and Film producer for film, stage and television. He depicted bleakness and despair as well as comedy and hope in his explorations of the human condition....


1960s

  • 1960
    1960 in film

    The year 1960 in film involved some significant events....
     The Apartment
    The Apartment

    The Apartment is a Cinema of the United States comedy film-drama film produced and directed by Billy Wilder, and starring Jack Lemmon, Shirley MacLaine, and Fred MacMurray....
     - I.A.L. Diamond, Billy Wilder
    Billy Wilder

    Billy Wilder was an Austrian-United States journalist, filmmaker, screenwriter, and film producer, whose career spanned more than 50 years and 60 films....
    • The Angry Silence
      The Angry Silence

      The Angry Silence is a 1960 in film British drama film directed by Guy Green and starring Richard Attenborough. Screenwriter Bryan Forbes won a BAFTA Award and an Academy Awards nomination for his contribution....
       - Screenplay by Bryan Forbes
      Bryan Forbes

      Bryan Forbes, Order of the British Empire is an England film director, actor and writer....
      ; Story by Richard Gregson, Michael Craig
      Michael Craig (actor)

      Michael Craig is a British actor, known for his work in film and television in both the United Kingdom and Australia.Film credits include: Sapphire , Doctor in the House, The Iron Maiden, Modesty Blaise , Turkey Shoot and Appointment With Death ....
    • The Facts of Life
      The Facts of Life (film)

      The Facts of Life is a 1960 romantic comedy starring Bob Hope and Lucille Ball as middle-aged people who have an affair despite being married to other people....
       - Norman Panama
      Norman Panama

      Norman Panama was an American screenwriter and film director born in Chicago, Illinois. He collaborated with a former schoolfriend, Melvin Frank to form a writing partnership which endured for 3 decades....
      , Melvin Frank
      Melvin Frank

      Melvin Frank was an United States screenwriter, film producer and film director. He collaborated with a former schoolfriend, Norman Panama to form a writing partnership which endured for 3 decades....
    • Hiroshima Mon Amour
      Hiroshima Mon Amour

      Hiroshima Mon Amour is an acclaimed 1959 in film Drama film/romance film with a documentary or film essay element directed by France film director Alain Resnais, with a screenplay by Marguerite Duras....
       - Marguerite Duras
      Marguerite Duras

      Marguerite Donnadieu, better known as Marguerite Duras was a French writer and film director....
    • Never on Sunday
      Never on Sunday

      Never on Sunday is a 1960 cinema of Greece black-and-white film which tells the story of Ilya, a prostitute who lives in the port of Piraeus in Greece, and Homer, an American tourist — a classical scholar enamored with all things Greek....
       - Jules Dassin
      Jules Dassin

      Jules Dassin, born Julius Dassin , was an United States film director. He was a subject of the Hollywood blacklist, and subsequently moved to France where he revived his career....
  • 1961
    1961 in film

    The year 1961 in film involved some significant events....
     Splendor in the Grass
    Splendor in the Grass

    Splendor in the Grass, an United States movie from 1961 in film, tells a story of sexual repression, love, and heartbreak. Written by William Inge, who appears briefly as a Protestant clergyman, the film was directed by Elia Kazan....
     - William Inge
    William Inge

    William Motter Inge was an United States playwright and novelist, whose works typically feature solitary protagonists encumbered with strained sexual relations....
    • Ballad of a Soldier
      Ballad of a Soldier

      Ballad of a Soldier, is a 1959 Cinema of the Soviet Union directed by Grigori Chukhrai and starring Vladimir Ivashov and Zhanna Prokhorenko....
       - Valentin Yoshov, Grigori Chukhrai
      Grigori Chukhrai

      Grigori Naumovich Chukhrai was a prominent film director and screenwriter in the former Soviet Union. He is the father of director Pavel Chukhrai....
    • La dolce vita
      La Dolce Vita

      La dolce vita is a 1960 film directed by Federico Fellini. It is usually cited as the film that signals the split between Fellini's earlier Italian neorealism films and his later art films....
       - Federico Fellini
      Federico Fellini

      Federico Fellini, Italian orders of merit was an Italy film director. Known for a distinct style which meshes fantasy and baroque images, he is considered as one of the most influential and widely revered filmmakers of the 20th century....
      , Tullio Pinelli
      Tullio Pinelli

      Tullio Pinelli was an award-winning Italian screenwriter best known for his work on the Federico Fellini classics I Vitelloni, La strada, La Dolce Vita and 8?....
      , Ennio Flaiano
      Ennio Flaiano

      Ennio Flaiano , was an Italy screenwriter, playwright, novelist, journalist and drama critic. He is best known for his work with Federico Fellini....
      , Brunello Rondi
    • General della Rovere
      General della Rovere

      General della Rovere is a 1959 Italian film directed by Roberto Rossellini. It tells the story of a petty thief who is hired by the Nazis to impersonate an Italian resistance leader, General della Rovere, and inflitrate a group of resistance prisoners in a Milan prison....
       - Sergio Amidei
      Sergio Amidei

      Sergio Amidei was an Italy screenwriter and an important figure in Italy's neorealist movement.Amidei was born in Trieste. He worked with famed Italian directors such as Roberto Rossellini and Vittorio De Sica....
      , Diego Fabbi, Indro Montanelli
      Indro Montanelli

      Indro Montanelli was an Italian journalist and historian, known for his new approach to writing history in books such as History of the Greeks and History of Rome ....
    • Lover Come Back
      Lover Come Back

      Lover Come Back is a 1961 in film romantic comedy released by Universal Studios. The film stars Doris Day and Rock Hudson in their second film together....
       - Stanley Shapiro
      Stanley Shapiro

      Stanley Shapiro was an Academy Award-winning United States screenwriter and film producer responsible for three of Doris Day's most successful films....
      , Paul Henning
      Paul Henning

      Paul Henning was an United States Television producer and writer. Most famous for the successful sitcom The Beverly Hillbillies, he was crucial in the development of several "rural" comedies for CBS....
  • 1962
    1962 in film

    The year 1962 in film involved some significant events....
     Divorce, Italian Style
    Divorce, Italian Style

    Divorce, Italian Style is a 1961 Italy comedy film directed by Pietro Germi, written by Ennio De Concini, Pietro Germi, Alfredo Giannetti and Agenore Incrocci, and starring Marcello Mastroianni, Daniela Rocca, Stefania Sandrelli, Lando Buzzanca and Leopoldo Trieste....
     - Ennio de Concini
    Ennio de Concini

    Ennio De Concini was an Italian screenwriter and film director, winning the Academy Awards in 1962 for the "Best Original Screenplay" for Divorce, Italian Style....
    , Pietro Germi
    Pietro Germi

    Pietro Germi was an Italy actor, screenwriter, and Film director. Germi was born in Genoa, Liguria, to a lower-middle class family. He was a messenger and briefly attended nautical school before deciding on a career in acting....
    , Alfredo Giannetti
    Alfredo Giannetti

    Alfredo Giannetti is an Italy screenwriter and film editor. He won the Academy Award for Best Original Screenplay in 35th Academy Awards for his work in Divorce, Italian Style....
    • Freud - Story by Charles Kaufman, Screenplay by Charles Kaufman and Wolfgang Reinhardt
      Wolfgang Reinhardt (producer)

      Wolfgang Reinhardt was a Germany film producer and screenwriter. He produced ten films between 1940 in film and 1973 in film. He was nominated for an Academy Award for Academy Award for Writing Original Screenplay in 1962 in film for the film Freud the Secret Passion....
    • Last Year at Marienbad
      Last Year at Marienbad

      L'ann?e derni?re ? Marienbad is a 1961 France film directed by Alain Resnais, starring Delphine Seyrig, Giorgio Albertazzi, Sacha Pito?ff. The screenplay is by Alain Robbe-Grillet....
       - Alain Robbe-Grillet
      Alain Robbe-Grillet

      Alain Robbe-Grillet , was a France writer and filmmaker. He was along with Nathalie Sarraute, Michel Butor and Claude Simon one of the figures most associated with the trend of the Nouveau Roman....
    • That Touch of Mink
      That Touch of Mink

      That Touch of Mink is a romantic comedy starring Cary Grant and Doris Day. The film co-stars Gig Young, John Astin, Audrey Meadows, and Dick Sargent....
       - Stanley Shapiro
      Stanley Shapiro

      Stanley Shapiro was an Academy Award-winning United States screenwriter and film producer responsible for three of Doris Day's most successful films....
      , Nate Monaster
    • Through a Glass Darkly
      Through a Glass Darkly (film)

      Through a Glass Darkly is a 1961 in film Cinema of Sweden written and director by Ingmar Bergman, and produced by Allan Ekelund. The film is a Three act structure ?chamber film,? in which four family members act as mirrors for each other....
       - Ingmar Bergman
      Ingmar Bergman

      Ernst Ingmar Bergman was a Sweden director, writer and Film producer for film, stage and television. He depicted bleakness and despair as well as comedy and hope in his explorations of the human condition....
  • 1963
    1963 in film

    The year 1963 in film involved some significant events....
     How the West Was Won
    How the West Was Won (film)

    How the West Was Won is a 1962 in film Epic Western Western which follows four generations of a family as they move ever westward, from western New York state to the Pacific Ocean....
     - James Webb
    James R. Webb

    James R. Webb was elected as the President of the United States Judo Association in 2006.He is a former national judo champion,national coach and international referee,...
    • 8½
      8½

      8? is a 1963 in film directed by Italy film director Federico Fellini. Co-scripted by Fellini, Tullio Pinelli, Ennio Flaiano, and Brunello Rondi, it stars Marcello Mastroianni as Guido Anselmi, a famous Italian film director....
       - Federico Fellini
      Federico Fellini

      Federico Fellini, Italian orders of merit was an Italy film director. Known for a distinct style which meshes fantasy and baroque images, he is considered as one of the most influential and widely revered filmmakers of the 20th century....
      , Ennio Flaiano
      Ennio Flaiano

      Ennio Flaiano , was an Italy screenwriter, playwright, novelist, journalist and drama critic. He is best known for his work with Federico Fellini....
      , Tullio Pinelli
      Tullio Pinelli

      Tullio Pinelli was an award-winning Italian screenwriter best known for his work on the Federico Fellini classics I Vitelloni, La strada, La Dolce Vita and 8?....
      , Brunello Rondi
    • America, America
      America, America

      America, America is a 1963 in film black-and-white United States dramatic film directed, produced and written by Elia Kazan, from his own book....
       - Elia Kazan
      Elia Kazan

      Elia Kazan, September 7 1909 – September 28 2003, was an United States award-winning film director and Theatre direction, film producer and theatrical producer, screenwriter, novelist and co-founder of the influential Actors Studio in New York in 1947....
    • The Four Days of Naples
      The Four Days of Naples

      The Four Days of Naples is a 1962 Italian film, directed by Nanni Loy and set during the Four days of Naples which gives its name. It stars Regina Bianchi, Aldo Giuffr?, Lea Massari, Jean Sorel, Franco Sportelli, Charles Belmont, Gian Maria Volont? and Frank Wolff ....
       - Story by Pasquale Festa Campanile
      Pasquale Festa Campanile

      Pasquale Festa Campanile was a Academy Award nominated Italy screenwriter and film director....
      , Massimo Franciosa
      Massimo Franciosa

      Massimo Franciosa was a Italy screenwriter and film director. He wrote for 72 films between 1955 in film and 1991 in film. He also directed nine films between 1963 in film and 1971 in film....
      , Nanni Loy
      Nanni Loy

      Nanni Loy was an Italy film, theatre and TV director.Loy was born in Cagliari, Sardinia. He became famous for introducing in Italy the candid camera with his show Specchio segreto in 1965....
      , Vasco Pratolini
      Vasco Pratolini

      Vasco Pratolini was one of the most noted Italy writers of the twentieth century.Born in Florence, Pratolini worked at various jobs before entering the literary world thanks to his acquaintance with Elio Vittorini....
      ; Screenplay by Carlo Bernari, Massimo Franciosa
      Massimo Franciosa

      Massimo Franciosa was a Italy screenwriter and film director. He wrote for 72 films between 1955 in film and 1991 in film. He also directed nine films between 1963 in film and 1971 in film....
      , Pasquale Festa Campanile
      Pasquale Festa Campanile

      Pasquale Festa Campanile was a Academy Award nominated Italy screenwriter and film director....
      , Nanni Loy
      Nanni Loy

      Nanni Loy was an Italy film, theatre and TV director.Loy was born in Cagliari, Sardinia. He became famous for introducing in Italy the candid camera with his show Specchio segreto in 1965....
    • Love with the Proper Stranger
      Love with the Proper Stranger

      Love with the Proper Stranger is a romantic comedy drama film made by Alan Pakula-Robert Mulligan Productions and Boardwalk Productions and released by Paramount Pictures....
       - Arnold Schulman
      Arnold Schulman

      Arnold Schulman is an American playwright, screenwriter, Theatrical producer, a songwriter and novelist. He was a stage actor long associated with the American Theatre Wing and the Actors Studio....
  • 1964
    1964 in film

    The year 1964 in film involved some significant events....
     Father Goose
    Father Goose (film)

    Father Goose is a 1964 in film romantic comedy film set in World War II, starring Cary Grant, Leslie Caron, and Trevor Howard. The name derives from "Mother Goose" which is a codename unwillingly used by Grant's character....
     - Peter Stone
    Peter Stone

    Peter Stone was a writer for theater, television and movies. He was born in Los Angeles, California. His father John Stone was the writer and producer of many silent films, including Shirley Temple and Charlie Chan movies....
    , Frank Tarloff
    • A Hard Day's Night
      A Hard Day's Night (film)

      A Hard Day's Night is a 1964 Cinema of the United Kingdom comedy film written by Alun Owen starring The Beatles?John Lennon, Paul McCartney, George Harrison and Ringo Starr?during the Beatlemania....
       - Alun Owen
      Alun Owen

      Alun Owen was a United Kingdom screenwriter, predominantly active in television but best remembered by a wider audience for writing the screenplay of The Beatles' debut feature film A Hard Day's Night in 1964....
    • One Potato, Two Potato
      One Potato, Two Potato

      One Potato, Two Potato is a 1964 in film black-and-white drama film directed by Larry Peerce The principal roles are played by Barbara Barrie and Bernie Hamilton....
       - Screenplay by Raphael Hayes; Story by Orville H. Hampton
    • The Organizer - Agenore Incrocci
      Agenore Incrocci

      Agenore Incrocci , also called Age, was one of the greatest Italy screenwriters.Incrocci was born to a family including several actors, such as his sister Zoe Incrocci, and spent his youth moving with them to numerous places of Italy....
      , Furio Scarpelli
      Furio Scarpelli

      Furio Scarpelli , also called Scarpelli, was one of the greatest Italy screenwriters.Son of a director of a journalist, had a quite childhood....
      , Mario Monicelli
      Mario Monicelli

      Mario Monicelli is an Italy director and screenwriter, one of the masters of the Commedia all'Italiana ....
    • That Man from Rio
      L'Homme de Rio

      That Man From Rio is a popular 1964 adventure film, directed by Philippe de Broca and starring Jean-Paul Belmondo and Fran?oise Dorl?ac, the sister of Catherine Deneuve....
       - Jean-Paul Rappeneau
      Jean-Paul Rappeneau

      Jean-Paul Rappeneau is a French film director, screenwriter, and actor.He started out in film as an assistant and screenwriter collaborating with Louis Malle on Zazie dans le metro in 1960 and A Very Private Affair in 1961....
      , Ariane Mnouchkine
      Ariane Mnouchkine

      Ariane Mnouchkine is a world-renowned French Stage theatre director. She founded the Parisian avant-garde stage ensemble Th??tre du Soleil in 1964....
      , Daniel Boulanger
      Daniel Boulanger

      Daniel Boulanger is a French novelist, playwright, poet and screenwriter. He has also played secondary roles in films and has been a member of the Acad?mie Goncourt since 1983....
      , Philippe de Broca
      Philippe de Broca

      Philippe de Broca was a France film director.Born Philippe Claude Alex de Broca de Ferrussac in Neuilly-sur-Seine, Hauts-de-Seine, the son of a photographer of noble origins....
  • 1965
    1965 in film

    The year 1965 in film involved some significant events....
     Darling
    Darling (film)

    Darling is a 1965 in film Cinema of the United Kingdom which tells the story of an amoral model who sleeps her way to success. It stars Julie Christie, Dirk Bogarde and Laurence Harvey....
     - Frederic Raphael
    Frederic Raphael

    Frederic Michael Raphael is an American-born, British-educated screenwriter, and also a prolific novelist and journalist....
    • Casanova 70
      Casanova 70

      Casanova 70 is a 1965 in film Italy comedy produced by Carlo Ponti, directed by Mario Monicelli and starring Marcello Mastroianni, Virna Lisi, and Michele Mercier....
       - Agenore Incrocci
      Agenore Incrocci

      Agenore Incrocci , also called Age, was one of the greatest Italy screenwriters.Incrocci was born to a family including several actors, such as his sister Zoe Incrocci, and spent his youth moving with them to numerous places of Italy....
      , Furio Scarpelli
      Furio Scarpelli

      Furio Scarpelli , also called Scarpelli, was one of the greatest Italy screenwriters.Son of a director of a journalist, had a quite childhood....
      , Mario Monicelli
      Mario Monicelli

      Mario Monicelli is an Italy director and screenwriter, one of the masters of the Commedia all'Italiana ....
      , Tonino Guerra
      Tonino Guerra

      Tonino Guerra is an Italy poet, writer and screenwriter who has collaborated with some of the most prominent writers of the world....
      , Giorgio Salvioni, Suso Cecchi d'Amico
      Suso Cecchi d'Amico

      Suso Cecchi d'Amico is an Academy Award nominee Italian screenwriter.She worked with the best Italian directors: Vittorio De Sica, Luchino Visconti, Michelangelo Antonioni, Zeffirelli....
    • Those Magnificent Men in Their Flying Machines
      Those Magnificent Men in Their Flying Machines

      Those Magnificent Men in their Flying Machines, Or How I Flew from London to Paris in 25 Hours 11 Minutes is a United Kingdom comedy film directed by Ken Annakin....
       - Jack Davies
      Jack Davies (screenwriter)

      Jack Davies was an England screenwriter, producer, editor and actor.Jack Davies led a prolific film career as a comedy screenwriter in forty-eight films....
      , Ken Annakin
      Ken Annakin

      Ken Annakin, Order of the British Empire is an England film director. His career in films followed his work experience in documentaries. He made his directing debut in 1947 at the Rank Organisation, although the following year he moved to Gainsborough Pictures to helm three films about Here Come the Huggetts, a working class family living in...
    • The Train
      The Train

      The Train is a 1964 in film war movie written by Franklin Coen and Frank Davis and directed by John Frankenheimer. It starred Burt Lancaster, Paul Scofield and Jeanne Moreau....
       - Franklin Coen, Frank Davis
    • The Umbrellas of Cherbourg - Jacques Demy
      Jacques Demy

      Jacques Demy was one of the most approachable filmmakers to appear in the wake of the French New Wave. Uninterested in the formal experimentation of Alain Resnais, or the political agitation of Jean-Luc Godard, Demy instead created a self-contained fantasy world closer to that of Fran?ois Truffaut, drawing on musicals, fairytales and the gol...
  • 1966
    1966 in film

    The year 1966 in film involved some significant events....
     A Man and a Woman
    A Man and a Woman

    A Man and a Woman is a 1966 in film French film. The movie was written by Claude Lelouch and Pierre Uytterhoeven, and directed by Lelouch. It is notable for its lush photography , which features frequent segues between full color, black-and-white, and Sepia tone shots, and for its memorable musical score by Francis Lai....
     - Story by Claude Lelouch
    Claude Lelouch

    Claude Lelouch is a France film director, screenwriter, cinematographer, actor and film producer....
    ; Screenplay by Claude Lelouch
    Claude Lelouch

    Claude Lelouch is a France film director, screenwriter, cinematographer, actor and film producer....
    , Pierre Uytterhoeven
    Pierre Uytterhoeven

    Pierre Uytterhoeven is a screenwriter. He won the Academy Award for Best Original Screenplay in 39th Academy Awards for his work with Claude Lelouch in A Man and a Woman....
    • Blowup
      Blowup

      Blowup is a 1966 in film British-Italian art film directed by Michelangelo Antonioni and was that director's first English language film. It tells the story of a photographer's involvement with a murder case....
       - Story by Michelangelo Antonioni
      Michelangelo Antonioni

      Michelangelo Antonioni, Italian orders of merit was an Italian people modernist film director....
      ; Screenplay by Michelangelo Antonioni
      Michelangelo Antonioni

      Michelangelo Antonioni, Italian orders of merit was an Italian people modernist film director....
      , Tonino Guerra
      Tonino Guerra

      Tonino Guerra is an Italy poet, writer and screenwriter who has collaborated with some of the most prominent writers of the world....
      , Edward Bond
      Edward Bond

      Edward Bond is an England playwright, theatre director, poet, theorist and screenwriter. He is the author of the play Saved , the production of which was instrumental in the abolition of theatre censorship in the United Kingdom....
    • The Fortune Cookie
      The Fortune Cookie

      The Fortune Cookie is a 1966 in film film starring Walter Matthau and Jack Lemmon in their first on screen collaboration, and directed by Billy Wilder....
       - Billy Wilder
      Billy Wilder

      Billy Wilder was an Austrian-United States journalist, filmmaker, screenwriter, and film producer, whose career spanned more than 50 years and 60 films....
      , I.A.L. Diamond
    • Khartoum
      Khartoum (film)

      Khartoum is a 1966 in film film written by Robert Ardrey and directed by Basil Dearden.The film stars Charlton Heston as Charles George Gordon, with Laurence Olivier as the Mahdi , and is based on Gordon's defence of the Sudanese city of Khartoum from the forces of the Mahdist army during the Battle of Khartoum....
       - Robert Ardrey
      Robert Ardrey

      Robert Ardrey was an United States playwright and screenwriter who returned to his Academia in anthropology and the behavioral sciences in the 1950s....
    • The Naked Prey
      The Naked Prey

      The Naked Prey is a adventure film starring Cornel Wilde, who also directed and produced. It was released by Paramount Pictures.Set in the South African veldt, the film is a wilderness survival story loosely based on the experiences of an explorer, John Colter, who was pursued by Blackfoot warriors through frontier Wyoming in 1809....
       - Clint Johnston, Don Peters
  • 1967
    1967 in film

    The year 1967 in film involved some significant events. It is widely considered as one of the most ground-breaking years in film....
     Guess Who's Coming to Dinner
    Guess Who's Coming to Dinner

    Guess Who's Coming to Dinner is a drama film starring Spencer Tracy, Sidney Poitier and Katharine Hepburn, and featuring Katharine Houghton....
     - William Rose
    William Rose (screenwriter)

    William Rose was a major United States screenwriter of Great Britain and Hollywood, California films.Although born in Jefferson City, Missouri, after the 1939 outbreak of World War II Rose went to Canada and volunteered to fight overseas with the The Black Watch of Canada....
    • Bonnie and Clyde
      Bonnie and Clyde (film)

      Bonnie and Clyde is a Cinema of the United States crime film about Bonnie and Clyde, the bank robbers who operated in the central United States during the Great Depression....
       - David Newman
      David Newman (filmmaker)

      David Newman was an American filmmaker. From the late 1960s through the early 1980s he frequently collaborated with Robert Benton. He was married to fellow writer Leslie Newman, with whom he had two children, until the time of his death....
      , Robert Benton
      Robert Benton

      Robert Benton is an United States, Academy Award winning screenwriter and film director.He has enjoyed a highly successful career in film, winning numerous prestigious awards for both writing and directing....
    • Divorce American Style
      Divorce American Style

      Divorce American Style is a 1967 in film United States satire comedy film directed by Bud Yorkin. The screenplay by Norman Lear is based on a story by Robert Kaufman and focuses on a married couple that opts for divorce when Relationship counseling fails to help them resolve their various problems....
       - Story by Robert Kaufman; Screenplay by Norman Lear
      Norman Lear

      Norman Milton Lear is an American television writer and Television producer who produced such popular sitcoms as All in the Family, Sanford and Son, One Day at a Time, The Jeffersons, Good Times and Maude ....
    • La Guerre Est Finie - Jorge Semprún
      Jorge Semprún

      Jorge de Sempr?n y Maura is a Spanish Lists of authors and politics. His mother Susana Maura y Gamazo was a daughter of Antonio Maura....
    • Two for the Road - Frederic Raphael
      Frederic Raphael

      Frederic Michael Raphael is an American-born, British-educated screenwriter, and also a prolific novelist and journalist....
  • 1968
    1968 in film

    The year 1968 in film involved some significant events....
     The Producers
    The Producers (1968 film)

    The Producers is a comedy film written and directed by Mel Brooks, which tells the story of a theatrical producer and an accountant who attempt to cheat their investors by deliberately producing a flop show on Broadway theatre....
     - Mel Brooks
    Mel Brooks

    Mel Brooks is an United States film director, writer, composer, lyricist, comedian, actor and Film producer, best known as a creator of broad film farces and comic parody....
    • 2001: A Space Odyssey
      2001: A Space Odyssey (film)

      2001: A Space Odyssey is a 1968 in film science fiction film directed by Stanley Kubrick, written by Kubrick and Arthur C. Clarke. The film deals with thematic elements of human evolution, technology, artificial intelligence, and extraterrestrial life, and is notable for its scientific realism, pioneering special effects, ambiguous and of...
       - Stanley Kubrick
      Stanley Kubrick

      Stanley Kubrick was an influential American-British filmmaker, screenwriter, Film producer and photographer. He directed a number of highly acclaimed and often controversial films....
      , Arthur C. Clarke
      Arthur C. Clarke

      Sri Lankabhimanya Sir Arthur Charles Clarke, Order of the British Empire was a British people science fiction author, inventor, and Futurology, most famous for the novel 2001: A Space Odyssey , written in collaboration with director Stanley Kubrick, a collaboration which also produced the 2001: A Space Odyssey ; and as a host and comment...
    • The Battle of Algiers
      The Battle of Algiers (film)

      The Battle of Algiers is a 1966 in film black-and-white film by Gillo Pontecorvo based on events during the 1954-1962 Algerian War against French rule in Algeria....
       - Franco Solinas, Gillo Pontecorvo
      Gillo Pontecorvo

      Gillo Pontecorvo was an Italian Cinema of Italy, best known for The Battle of Algiers although he directed several movies before its release in 1966, such as the drama Kap? , which takes place in a World War II concentration camp....
    • Faces
      Faces (film)

      Faces was a 1968 movie, directed by John Cassavetes and starring John Marley, Cassavetes' wife Gena Rowlands, Seymour Cassel and Lynn Carlin, who both received Academy Award nominations for this film....
       - John Cassavetes
      John Cassavetes

      John Nicholas Cassavetes was an United Statesn actor, screenwriter and film director. He appeared in many Hollywood films, and is considered a pioneer of independent film....
    • Hot Millions - Ira Wallach
      Ira Wallach (writer)

      Ira Wallach was an United States screenwriter and novelist.Born in New York City, He wrote the novel Muscle Beach and collaborated with Peter Ustinov on the screenplay for Hot Millions....
      , Peter Ustinov
      Peter Ustinov

      Sir Peter Alexander Ustinov CBE or ;, born Peter Alexander Baron von Ustinow, was a British actor, writer and dramatist.Ustinov was also renowned as a filmmaker, theatre director and opera director, film director, stage designer, screenwriter, comedian, humorist, newspaper and magazine columnist, radio broadcaster and television pres...
  • 1969
    1969 in film

    The year 1969 in film involved some significant events....
     Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid
    Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid

    Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid is a American Revisionist Western that tells the story of bank robbers Butch Cassidy and his partner Harry Longabaugh , based loosely on historical fact....
     - William Goldman
    William Goldman

    William Goldman is an United Statesn novelist, playwright and two-time Academy Awards-winning screenwriter. He lives in New York City....
    • Bob & Carol & Ted & Alice
      Bob & Carol & Ted & Alice

      This article is about the 1969 film. For the 1973 television series based on this film, see Bob & Carol & Ted & Alice .'Bob & Carol & Ted & Alice' is a 1969 in film comedy-drama film directed by Paul Mazursky....
       - Paul Mazursky
      Paul Mazursky

      Paul Mazursky is an United States film director, screenplay writer and actor....
      , Larry Tucker
    • The Damned
      The Damned (film)

      The Damned is a 1969 film by Luchino Visconti.The Damned has often been regarded as the first of Visconti's films described as 'The German Trilogy'....
       - Story by Nicola Badalucco
      Nicola Badalucco

      Nicola Badalucco is a Italy screenwriter. He has written for 38 films since 1969 in film. He was nominated for an Academy Award at the 42nd Academy Awards in the category Academy Award for Writing Original Screenplay for the film The Damned ....
      ; Screenplay by Nicola Badalucco
      Nicola Badalucco

      Nicola Badalucco is a Italy screenwriter. He has written for 38 films since 1969 in film. He was nominated for an Academy Award at the 42nd Academy Awards in the category Academy Award for Writing Original Screenplay for the film The Damned ....
      , Enrico Medioli, Luchino Visconti
      Luchino Visconti

      Luchino House of Visconti di Modrone, Count of Lonate Pozzolo was an Italian theatre director and film director and writer, best known for films such as The Leopard and Death in Venice ....
    • Easy Rider
      Easy Rider

      Easy Rider, a Cinema of the United States road movie written by Peter Fonda, Dennis Hopper and Terry Southern and directed by Hopper, about two bikers who travel through the Southwest United States and U.S....
       - Peter Fonda
      Peter Fonda

      Peter Henry Fonda is an American actor. He is the son of Henry Fonda, the brother of Jane Fonda, and the father of Bridget Fonda. Fonda is associated with Western culture counterculture of the 1960s, and the infomercial culture of the 2000s....
      , Dennis Hopper
      Dennis Hopper

      Dennis Lee Hopper is an Academy Award-nominated United Statesn actor and filmmaker, known for playing psychotic and villain characters....
      , Terry Southern
      Terry Southern

      Terry Southern was a highly influential American author, essayist, screenwriter and university lecturer, noted for a distinctive satirical style....
    • The Wild Bunch
      The Wild Bunch

      The Wild Bunch , directed by Sam Peckinpah, is a Western film about an aging outlaw gang at the Texas-Mexico border trying to exist in the modern world of 1913....
       - Story by Walon Green
      Walon Green

      Walon Green is an American documentary film director and screenwriter for both TV and films....
      , Roy N. Sickner; Screenplay by Walon Green
      Walon Green

      Walon Green is an American documentary film director and screenwriter for both TV and films....
      , Sam Peckinpah
      Sam Peckinpah

      David Samuel "Sam" Peckinpah was an United States film director who achieved iconic status following the release of his 1969 Western epic The Wild Bunch....
(In 1969, the category was renamed: "Story and Screenplay - based on material not previously published or produced)

1970s

  • 1970
    1970 in film

    The year 1970 in film involved some significant events....
     Patton
    Patton (film)

    Patton is a Biography film war film about U.S. General George S. Patton during World War II. It stars George C. Scott, Karl Malden, Michael Bates , and Karl Michael Vogler....
     - Francis Ford Coppola
    Francis Ford Coppola

    Francis Ford "Frank" Coppola is a five-time Academy Award-winning United States film director, Film producer and screenwriter. Away from showbusiness, Coppola is also a vintner, publisher and Hotel manager....
    , Edmund H. North
    Edmund H. North

    Edmund Hall North , was an United States screenwriter who shared an Academy Award for "Academy Award for Writing Original Screenplay" with Francis Ford Coppola in 1970 for their script for Patton ....
    • Five Easy Pieces
      Five Easy Pieces

      Five Easy Pieces is a 1970 in film film written by Carole Eastman and Bob Rafelson, and directed by Rafelson. It tells the story of Bobby Dupea , a former piano prodigy who is estranged from his artistic upper class family....
       - Screenplay by "Adrien Joyce" (aka Carole Eastman
      Carole Eastman

      Carole Eastman , was an American screenwriter. Among her relatively few credits were screenplays for Monte Hellman The Shooting , Bob Rafelson Five Easy Pieces , and Mike Nichols? The Fortune ....
      ); Story by "Adrien Joyce", Bob Rafelson
      Bob Rafelson

      Robert "Bob" Rafelson is an United States film director, writer and producer. He is most famous for directing and co-writing the film Five Easy Pieces, starring Jack Nicholson, as well as being one of the creators of the pop group and TV series, The Monkees ....
    • Joe
      Joe (film)

      Joe is a 1970 in film drama film starring Peter Boyle, Dennis Patrick, and Susan Sarandon in her film debut. The film was directed by John G....
       - Norman Wexler
      Norman Wexler

      Norman Wexler was a screenwriter whose work included such films as Saturday Night Fever, Serpico and Joe, for which he received an Oscar nomination in 1971....
    • Love Story
      Love Story (1970 film)

      Love Story is a 1970 in film romantic drama film written by Erich Segal based on his 1970 best-seller Love Story . It was directed by Arthur Hiller....
       - Erich Segal
      Erich Segal

      Erich Wolf Segal is an United States author, screenwriter, and educator....
    • My Night at Maud's
      My Night at Maud's

      My Night at Maud's is a 1969 film by ?ric Rohmer. The original French language title is Ma nuit chez Maud. It is the third movie in the series of the Six Moral Tales....
       - Éric Rohmer
      Éric Rohmer

      ?ric Rohmer is a French film director and screenwriter. He is regarded as a key figure in the post-war French New Wave and is a former editor of influential French film journal Cahiers du cin?ma....
  • 1971
    1971 in film

    The year 1971 in film involved some significant events....
     The Hospital
    The Hospital

    The Hospital is a 1971 black comedy film directed by Arthur Hiller and starring George C. Scott as Dr. Herbert Bock. The script was written by Paddy Chayefsky, who was awarded the 1972 in film Academy Award for Best Original Screenplay ....
     - Paddy Chayefsky
    Paddy Chayefsky

    Sidney Aaron Chayefski known as Paddy Chayefsky was an acclaimed dramatist and novelist who made a transition from the Golden Age of Television in the 1950s to a successful career as a playwright and screenwriter....
    • Investigation of a Citizen Above Suspicion
      Investigation of a Citizen Above Suspicion

      Investigation of a Citizen Above Suspicion is a 1970 Italian film crime drama directed by Elio Petri. It is a dramatic, psychological, black-humoured satire on corruption in high office, telling the story of a top police officer who kills his lover and then tests whether the police would accuse him for this....
       - Elio Petri
      Elio Petri

      Elio Petri was an Italy political filmmaker....
      , Ugo Pirro
      Ugo Pirro

      Ugo Pirro was an Italy screenwriter.Born Ugo Mattone in Salerno, he debuted as screenwriter for director Carlo Lizzani .Heis most notable for writing the screenplays of the 1970s films Indagine su un cittadino al di sopra di ogni sospetto and Il giardino dei Finzi-Contini, for which he won two Academy Awards as Best Foreign...
    • Klute
      Klute

      Klute is a 1971 in film film which tells the story of a prostitute who assists a detective in solving a mystery. It stars Jane Fonda, Donald Sutherland, Charles Cioffi, Dorothy Tristan, Vivian Nathan, and Roy Scheider....
       - Andy Lewis, David Lewis
    • Summer of '42
      Summer of '42

      Summer of '42 is a 1971 in film Cinema of the United States "Bildungsroman" film drama based on the memoirs of screenwriter Herman Raucher. It tells the story of Raucher as a boy, in his early teens on his 1942 summer vacation on Nantucket, Massachusetts, off the coast of New England, who embarked on a one-sided romance with a woman, Doro...
       - Herman Raucher
      Herman Raucher

      Herman Raucher is an American author who has written several novels and screenplays, among them the popular Summer of '42 and The Great Santini....
    • Sunday Bloody Sunday
      Sunday Bloody Sunday (film)

      Sunday Bloody Sunday is a 1971 in film British film directed by John Schlesinger. It tells the story of a young bisexual designer and his simultaneous relationships with a recruitment consultant and a Jewish doctor ....
       - Penelope Gilliatt
      Penelope Gilliatt

      Penelope Gilliatt was an England novelist, short story writer, screenwriter, and film critic.She was born in London, England. Her father, Cyril Conner, was originally a barrister, while her mother was Marie Stephanie Douglass....
  • 1972
    1972 in film

    The year 1972 in film involved some significant events....
     The Candidate
    The Candidate (1972 film)

    The Candidate is an United States film released in 1972 in film, starring Robert Redford. Themes of the film include that of how the political machine corrupts, and the pointlessness of politics....
     - Jeremy Larner
    Jeremy Larner

    Jeremy Larner is an award-winning author, poet, journalist and speechwriter. He won an Academy Award in 1972 for Best Original Screenplay, for writing The Candidate....
    • The Discreet Charm of the Bourgeoisie
      The Discreet Charm of the Bourgeoisie

      The Discreet Charm of the Bourgeoisie is a 1972 surrealism film written and directed by Luis Bu?uel, the famous Spain filmmaker associated with the surrealism....
       - Luis Buñuel
      Luis Buñuel

      Luis Bu?uel Portol?s was a Spanish people-born filmmaker who worked mainly in France and Mexico, but also in his native Spain and in the United States....
      , Jean-Claude Carrière
      Jean-Claude Carrière

      Jean-Claude Carri?re is an award-winning screenwriter and actor. Alumnus of the ?cole normale sup?rieure de Saint-Cloud, he was a frequent collaborator with Luis Bu?uel....
    • Lady Sings the Blues - Terrence McCloy, Chris Clark
      Chris Clark (singer)

      Chris Clark is an United States soul music singer who recorded for Motown Records. Clark became famous in England as the "White British Negress" , because the six-foot platinum blonde, blue-eyed soul singer toured with fellow Motown artists who were predominantly African American....
      , Suzanne de Passe
      Suzanne de Passe

      Suzanne de Passe is an United States entertainment executive; the CEO of television production company de Passe Entertainment; and the first and only African-American woman to be nominated for an Academy Award for screen writing....
    • Murmur of the Heart
      Murmur of the Heart

      Murmur of the Heart is a 1971 Cinema of France by French director Louis Malle that tells a coming of age story about a 14-year-old boy who is growing up in bourgeois surroundings in Dijon, France....
       - Louis Malle
      Louis Malle

      Louis Malle was a French film director, working in both French and English....
    • Young Winston
      Young Winston

      Young Winston is a 1972 in film British film based on the early years of Prime Minister of the United Kingdom Winston Churchill.The film was based on the book My Early Life by Winston Churchill....
       - Carl Foreman
      Carl Foreman

      Carl Foreman CBE was an United States screenwriter and film producer who was Hollywood ten by the Hollywood movie studio bosses in the 1950s....
  • 1973
    1973 in film

    The year 1973 in film involved some significant events....
     The Sting
    The Sting

    The Sting is a 1973 caper film set in September 1936 and revolving around a complicated plot by two professional Confidence trick to confidence trick a mob boss ....
     - David S. Ward
    David S. Ward

    David Stephen Ward is an United States film director and award winning screen writer.Ward has degrees from Pomona College , as well as both University of Southern California and the UCLA Film School ....
    • American Graffiti
      American Graffiti

      American Graffiti is a 1973 period piece coming of age film directed by George Lucas, and written by Lucas, Gloria Katz and Willard Huyck. The film stars Richard Dreyfuss, Ron Howard, Paul Le Mat, Charles Martin Smith, Candy Clark, Mackenzie Phillips, Cindy Williams and Wolfman Jack and features Harrison Ford....
       - George Lucas
      George Lucas

      George Walton Lucas, Jr. is an Academy Award-nominated United States film director, film producer, screenwriter and chairman of Lucasfilm Ltd. He is best known for being the creator of the Epic film Sci-Fi franchise Star Wars and the archaeologist-adventurer character Indiana Jones....
      , Gloria Katz
      Gloria Katz

      Gloria Katz is an United Statesn screenwriter and film producer, best known for her association with George Lucas. Along with her husband Willard Huyck, Katz has created the screenplays of films including American Graffiti, Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom and the notorious Howard the Duck ....
      , Willard Huyck
      Willard Huyck

      Willard Huyck is an United Statesn screenwriter, Film director and Film producer, best known for his association with George Lucas. Along with his wife Gloria Katz, Huyck has created the screenplays of films including American Graffiti and Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom....
    • Cries and Whispers
      Cries and Whispers

      Cries and Whispers is a 1973 Sweden film about two sisters who watch over their third sister on her deathbed, torn between fearing she might die and hoping that she will....
       - Ingmar Bergman
      Ingmar Bergman

      Ernst Ingmar Bergman was a Sweden director, writer and Film producer for film, stage and television. He depicted bleakness and despair as well as comedy and hope in his explorations of the human condition....
    • Save the Tiger
      Save the Tiger

      Save the Tiger is a 1973 in film film which tells a story of moral conflict in modern America. It stars Jack Lemmon, Jack Gilford, Laurie Heineman, Thayer David, Lara Parker and Liv Lindeland....
       - Steve Shagan
    • A Touch of Class - Melvin Frank
      Melvin Frank

      Melvin Frank was an United States screenwriter, film producer and film director. He collaborated with a former schoolfriend, Norman Panama to form a writing partnership which endured for 3 decades....
      , Jack Rose
      Jack Rose (screenwriter)

      Jack Rose was an United States screenwriter and producer born on November 4, 1911, in Warsaw, Russian Empire. He died on October 21, 1995, in Los Angeles, California....
  • 1974
    1974 in film

    The year 1974 in film involved some significant events....
     Chinatown
    Chinatown (film)

    Chinatown is a Cinema of the United States neo-noir film, directed by Roman Polanski. The film features many elements of the film noir genre, particularly a multi-layered story that is part Mystery fiction and part psychology drama....
     - Robert Towne
    Robert Towne

    Robert Burton Towne is an United States screenwriter and film director. He is the author of many notable film scripts, including Chinatown , for which he received an Academy Award, plus its sequel, The Two Jakes , and Oscar-nominated screenplays The Last Detail and Shampoo as well as the first two Mission: Impossible f...
    • Alice Doesn't Live Here Anymore
      Alice Doesn't Live Here Anymore

      .Alice Doesn't Live Here Anymore is a 1974 in film which tells the story of a widow who moves with her young son to Tucson, Arizona to start her life over again, and finds a job working at a diner....
       - Robert Getchell
      Robert Getchell

      Robert Getchell is a BAFTA Award-winning screenwriter who was born in Kansas City, Missouri....
    • The Conversation
      The Conversation

      The Conversation is a mystery film Thriller about audio surveillance, written and directed by Francis Ford Coppola and starring Gene Hackman, John Cazale, Allen Garfield, Cindy Williams and Frederic Forrest, and featuring Harrison Ford, Teri Garr and an uncredited appearance from Robert Duvall....
       - Francis Ford Coppola
      Francis Ford Coppola

      Francis Ford "Frank" Coppola is a five-time Academy Award-winning United States film director, Film producer and screenwriter. Away from showbusiness, Coppola is also a vintner, publisher and Hotel manager....
    • Day for Night
      Day for Night (film)

      La Nuit am?ricaine is a 1974 French language film directed by Fran?ois Truffaut. It stars Jacqueline Bisset and Jean-Pierre L?aud. In French, day for night is a technical process whereby sequences shot during the daytime are made to appear as if they are taking place at night....
       - François Truffaut
      François Truffaut

      Fran?ois Roland Truffaut was an influential filmmaker and one of the founders of the French New Wave; and remains an icon of the Cinema of France industry....
      , Jean-Louis Richard, Suzanne Schiffman
      Suzanne Schiffman

      Suzanne Schiffman was a screenwriter and film director for numerous motion pictures. She often worked with Francois Truffaut.Her Jewish mother was detained by the Gestapo during the war, but Klochendler and her sibling were hidden by an order of nuns....
    • Harry and Tonto
      Harry and Tonto

      Harry and Tonto is a 1974 film directed by Paul Mazursky and starring Art Carney as Harry Coombes, an elderly widower who is forced from his condemned New York City apartment against his will....
       - Paul Mazursky
      Paul Mazursky

      Paul Mazursky is an United States film director, screenplay writer and actor....
      , Josh Greenfeld
      Josh Greenfeld

      Josh Greenfeld is an author and screenwriter mostly known for his screenplay for the 1974 film Harry and Tonto along with Paul Mazursky which earned them an Academy Award Nomination and Art Carney, the Oscar itself for Best Actor....
  • 1975
    1975 in film

    The year 1975 in film involved some significant events....
     Dog Day Afternoon
    Dog Day Afternoon

    Dog Day Afternoon is a 1975 in film American crime film drama film directed by Sidney Lumet and written by Frank Pierson. The film stars Al Pacino, John Cazale, Chris Sarandon, James Broderick, and Charles Durning....
     - Frank Pierson
    • Amarcord
      Amarcord

      Amarcord , directed by Federico Fellini, is a semi-autobiographical bildungsroman that combines poignancy with bawdy comedy. It tells the story of a wild cast of characters inhabiting the fictional Borgo based on Fellini?s hometown of Rimini in 1930s Fascist Italy....
       - Federico Fellini
      Federico Fellini

      Federico Fellini, Italian orders of merit was an Italy film director. Known for a distinct style which meshes fantasy and baroque images, he is considered as one of the most influential and widely revered filmmakers of the 20th century....
      , Tonino Guerra
      Tonino Guerra

      Tonino Guerra is an Italy poet, writer and screenwriter who has collaborated with some of the most prominent writers of the world....
    • And Now My Love
      And Now My Love

      And Now My Love, known in France as Toute une vie, is a film released in 1974 in film by French writer/director Claude Lelouch, starring Marthe Keller, Andr? Dussollier, Charles Denner, and Charles G?rard....
       - Claude Lelouch
      Claude Lelouch

      Claude Lelouch is a France film director, screenwriter, cinematographer, actor and film producer....
      , Pierre Uytterhoeven
      Pierre Uytterhoeven

      Pierre Uytterhoeven is a screenwriter. He won the Academy Award for Best Original Screenplay in 39th Academy Awards for his work with Claude Lelouch in A Man and a Woman....
    • Lies My Father Told Me
      Lies My Father Told Me

      Lies My Father Told Me is a 1975 Canadian film made in Montreal Quebec. It was directed by J?n Kad?r and stars Jeffrey Lynas as an orthodox Jewish boy growing up in 1920s Montreal....
       - Ted Allan
      Ted Allan

      Ted Allan was a Jewish Canadian writer, several of whose books were made into motion pictures.Ted Allan was born in Montreal as Alan Herman....
    • Shampoo
      Shampoo (film)

      Shampoo is a 1975 in film film that is directed by Hal Ashby and stars Warren Beatty, Julie Christie, Goldie Hawn, Lee Grant, Jack Warden, Carrie Fisher and Tony Bill....
       - Robert Towne
      Robert Towne

      Robert Burton Towne is an United States screenwriter and film director. He is the author of many notable film scripts, including Chinatown , for which he received an Academy Award, plus its sequel, The Two Jakes , and Oscar-nominated screenplays The Last Detail and Shampoo as well as the first two Mission: Impossible f...
      , Warren Beatty
      Warren Beatty

      Warren Beatty is an United States Academy Award- and Golden Globe-winning actor, film producer, screenwriter and film director....
  • 1976
    1976 in film

    The year 1976 in film involved some significant events....
     Network
    Network (film)

    Network is a satire about a fictional television network, Union Broadcasting System , and its struggle with poor Nielsen Ratings. It was written by Paddy Chayefsky and directed by Sidney Lumet, and stars Faye Dunaway, William Holden, Peter Finch and Robert Duvall and features Wesley Addy, Ned Beatty and Beatrice Straight....
     - Paddy Chayefsky
    Paddy Chayefsky

    Sidney Aaron Chayefski known as Paddy Chayefsky was an acclaimed dramatist and novelist who made a transition from the Golden Age of Television in the 1950s to a successful career as a playwright and screenwriter....
    • Cousin, cousine
      Cousin, cousine

      Cousin, cousine is a 1975 in film French language film which tells the story of cousins-by-marriage who have an affair when they discover that their spouses have been unfaithful....
       - Story and Screenplay by Jean-Charles Tacchella
      Jean-Charles Tacchella

      Jean-Charles Tacchella is a French people screenwriter and film director. He was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Original Screenplay for his film Cousin, Cousine , which was also nominated for the Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film....
      ; Adaptation by Daniele Thompson
      Danièle Thompson

      'Dani?le Thompson' is a French film director and screenwriter. She is the daughter of film director G?rard Oury and actress Jacqueline Roma.Dani?le Thompson has written the screenplay for a number of highly successful films including Cousin, cousine, La Boum, Belph?gor - Le fant?me du Louvre, La Reine Margot and D?calage...
    • The Front
      The Front

      The Front , written by Walter Bernstein, directed by Martin Ritt and featuring Woody Allen and Zero Mostel, is a film about the blacklist during the age of live television....
       - Walter Bernstein
      Walter Bernstein

      Walter Bernstein is an United States screenwriter and film producer who was Hollywood blacklist by the Hollywood movie studio bosses in the 1950s....
    • Rocky
      Rocky

      Rocky is a 1976 film written by and starring Sylvester Stallone and directed by John G. Avildsen. It tells the rags-to-riches American Dream story of Rocky Balboa , an uneducated but good-hearted debt collector for a loan shark in Philadelphia....
       - Sylvester Stallone
      Sylvester Stallone

      Sylvester Gardenzio Stallone , nicknamed Sly Stallone, is an 48th Academy Awards-nominated American actor, film director, film producer and screenwriter....
    • Seven Beauties
      Seven Beauties

      Pasqualino Settebellezze is a 1975 Italian language film written and directed by Lina Wertm?ller starring Giancarlo Giannini in the main role....
       - Lina Wertmüller
      Lina Wertmüller

      Lina Wertm?ller is an Italy film director of aristocratic Switzerland descent. In 1976, she became the first woman ever to be nominated for an Academy Award for Directing with Seven Beauties....
(In 1976, the category was renamed: "Screenplay written directly for the Screen - Based on factual material or on story material not previously published or produced")
  • 1977
    1977 in film

    The year 1977 in film involved some significant events....
     Annie Hall
    Annie Hall

    Annie Hall is an Cinema of the United States romantic comedy film directed by Woody Allen from a script co-written with Marshall Brickman. One of Allen's most popular films, it won numerous awards at the time of its release, including four Academy Awards, and in 2002 Roger Ebert referred to it as "just about everyone's favorite Woody All...
     - Woody Allen
    Woody Allen

    Woody Allen is an Cinema of the United States film director, writer, actor, comedian, musician and playwright.Allen's distinctive films, which run the gamut from dramas to Screwball comedy film, have made him one of the most respected living American directors....
    , Marshall Brickman
    Marshall Brickman

    Marshall Brickman is an Academy Awards winning screenwriter, best known for his collaborations with Woody Allen. He is also known for being an excellent banjo player together with Eric Weissberg back in the 1960s....
    • The Goodbye Girl
      The Goodbye Girl

      The Goodbye Girl is a 1977 United States comedy film. Directed by Herbert Ross, the film stars Richard Dreyfuss, Marsha Mason, Quinn Cummings, and Paul Benedict....
       - Neil Simon
      Neil Simon

      Marvin Neil Simon is an American playwright and screenwriter. He is one of the most reliable hitmakers in Broadway history, as well as one of the most performed playwrights in the world....
    • The Late Show
      The Late Show (film)

      The Late Show is a 1977 in film comedy film, neo-noir, romance film, mystery film film written and directed by Robert Benton. It is produced by Hollywood legend, Robert Altman....
       - Robert Benton
      Robert Benton

      Robert Benton is an United States, Academy Award winning screenwriter and film director.He has enjoyed a highly successful career in film, winning numerous prestigious awards for both writing and directing....
    • Star Wars
      Star Wars

      Star Wars is an epic film space opera Media franchise initially conceived by George Lucas. The first film in the franchise was simply titled Star Wars Episode IV: A New Hope, but later had the subtitle Episode IV: A New Hope added to distinguish it from its sequels and prequels....
       - George Lucas
      George Lucas

      George Walton Lucas, Jr. is an Academy Award-nominated United States film director, film producer, screenwriter and chairman of Lucasfilm Ltd. He is best known for being the creator of the Epic film Sci-Fi franchise Star Wars and the archaeologist-adventurer character Indiana Jones....
    • The Turning Point
      The Turning Point (1977 film)

      The Turning Point was written by Arthur Laurents and directed by Herbert Ross. In starring roles were Shirley MacLaine, Anne Bancroft, Mikhail Baryshnikov, Leslie Browne, Tom Skerritt, Martha Scott, Anthony Zerbe, Marshall Thompson and James Mitchell ....
       - Arthur Laurents
      Arthur Laurents

      Arthur Laurents is an award-winning United States playwright, librettist, stage director, and screenwriter. His credits include the stage musicals West Side Story and Gypsy: A Musical Fable and the film The Way We Were....
  • 1978
    1978 in film

    The year 1978 in film involved some significant events....
     Coming Home
    Coming Home

    Coming Home is a 1978 in film drama film which tells the story of an injured Vietnam War veteran's difficulty in re-entering civilian life after his return from the war....
     - Screenplay by Robert C. Jones
    Robert C. Jones

    Robert C. Jones , sometimes credited as Robert Jones, is a screenwriter and film editor. He received an Academy Award for Writing Original Screenplay#1970s for the screenplay of the film Coming Home ....
    , Waldo Salt
    Waldo Salt

    Waldo Pressman Salt was an United States screenwriter who was Hollywood blacklist by the Hollywood movie studio bosses during the era of McCarthyism....
    ; Story by Nancy Dowd
    • Autumn Sonata
      Autumn Sonata

      Autumn Sonata is a 1978 Academy Award nominated Sweden language film written and directed by Ingmar Bergman....
       - Ingmar Bergman
      Ingmar Bergman

      Ernst Ingmar Bergman was a Sweden director, writer and Film producer for film, stage and television. He depicted bleakness and despair as well as comedy and hope in his explorations of the human condition....
    • The Deer Hunter
      The Deer Hunter

      The Deer Hunter is a War film drama film about a trio of Russian American steel worker friends and their infantry service in the Vietnam War....
       - Screenplay by Deric Washburn; Story by Michael Cimino
      Michael Cimino

      Michael Cimino is an United States, Academy Award-winning film director. He is often cited as an example of meteoric rises and falls that were seen in Hollywood in the 1970s....
      , Deric Washburn, Louis Garfinkle, Quinn K. Redeker
    • Interiors
      Interiors

      Interiors is a 1978 drama film written and directed by Woody Allen. Featured performers are Kristin Griffith, Mary Beth Hurt, Richard Jordan, Diane Keaton, E.G....
       - Woody Allen
      Woody Allen

      Woody Allen is an Cinema of the United States film director, writer, actor, comedian, musician and playwright.Allen's distinctive films, which run the gamut from dramas to Screwball comedy film, have made him one of the most respected living American directors....
    • An Unmarried Woman
      An Unmarried Woman

      An Unmarried Woman is a 1978 American drama film that tells the story of the wealthy New York wife Erica whose ?perfect? life is shattered when her stockbroker husband Martin leaves her for a younger woman....
       - Paul Mazursky
      Paul Mazursky

      Paul Mazursky is an United States film director, screenplay writer and actor....
(In 1978, the category was renamed: "Screenplay written directly for the screen")
  • 1979
    1979 in film

    The year 1979 in film involved some significant events....
     Breaking Away
    Breaking Away

    Breaking Away is a 1979 in film coming of age film that tells the story of four teenagers in Bloomington, Indiana who have graduated from high school and are not sure what they want to do with their lives, other than hang out and go swimming in an abandoned Indiana Limestone quarry....
     - Steve Tesich
    Steve Tesich

    Steve Tesich was a Serbian-United States Academy Awards-winning screenwriter, playwright and novelist. He won the Academy Award for Best Original Screenplay in 1979 for the movie Breaking Away....
    • All That Jazz
      All That Jazz

      All That Jazz is a 1979 in film United States musical film directed by Bob Fosse. The screenplay by Robert Alan Aurthur and Fosse is a autobiographical novel fantasy based on aspects of the dancer, choreographer, and director's life and career....
       - Robert Alan Aurthur
      Robert Alan Aurthur

      Robert Alan Aurthur was an United States screenwriter, film director and TV producer....
       (posthumous nomination
      List of posthumous Academy Award winners and nominees

      This is a list of posthumous Academy Award winners and nominees. The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences annually presents Academy Awards in both competitive and honorary categories....
      ), Bob Fosse
      Bob Fosse

      Robert Louis ?Bob? Fosse was an American musical theater choreographer and theatre director, and a film director. He won an unprecedented eight Tony Awards for choreography, as well as one for direction....
    • ...And Justice for All
      ...And Justice for All (film)

      ...And Justice For All is a film directed by Norman Jewison.The movie stars Al Pacino, Jack Warden, Lee Strasberg, Jeffrey Tambor, Christine Lahti, Craig T....
       - Valerie Curtin
      Valerie Curtin

      Valerie Curtin is an American actress and Oscar-nominated screenwriter....
      , Barry Levinson
      Barry Levinson

      Barry Levinson is an Academy Award-winning United States screenwriter, film director, actor, and Film producer of film and television....
    • The China Syndrome
      The China Syndrome

      The China Syndrome is a 1979 in film thriller film which tells the story of a reporter and cameraman who discover safety coverups at a nuclear power plant....
       - Mike Gray
      Mike Gray

      Mike Gray is a writer, screenwriter, cinematographer, film producer and director. He is the author of The China Syndrome and Drug Crazy....
      , T.S. Cook, James Bridges
      James Bridges

      James Bridges was an United States screenwriter and film director.Bridges was born in Paris, Arkansas. He got his start as a writer for Alfred Hitchcock Presents, and one of his episodes, "An Unlocked Window", earned him a 1966 Edgar Award from the Mystery Writers of America for Best Episode in a TV Series....
    • Manhattan
      Manhattan (film)

      Manhattan is a 1979 in film romantic comedy film about Isaac Davis , a twice-divorced 42-year-old comedy writer dating a 17-year-old high school girl ....
       - Woody Allen
      Woody Allen

      Woody Allen is an Cinema of the United States film director, writer, actor, comedian, musician and playwright.Allen's distinctive films, which run the gamut from dramas to Screwball comedy film, have made him one of the most respected living American directors....
      , Marshall Brickman
      Marshall Brickman

      Marshall Brickman is an Academy Awards winning screenwriter, best known for his collaborations with Woody Allen. He is also known for being an excellent banjo player together with Eric Weissberg back in the 1960s....


1980s

  • 1980
    1980 in film

    The year 1980 in film involved some significant events....
     Melvin and Howard
    Melvin and Howard

    Melvin and Howard is a 1980 in film United States comedy-drama film directed by Jonathan Demme. The screenplay by Bo Goldman was inspired by real-life Utah service station owner Melvin Dummar, who was listed as the beneficiary of $156 million in a will allegedly handwritten by Howard Hughes that was discovered in the headquarters of The...
     - Bo Goldman
    Bo Goldman

    Robert "Bo" Goldman is an American writer, Broadway theatre playwright and Academy Award winning screenwriter.Goldman is a screenwriter's screenwriter, and one of the most honored in motion picture history....
    • Brubaker
      Brubaker

      Brubaker is an United States 1980 in film film about a prison in distress and the Warden Henry Brubaker who attempts to reform the system....
       - Screenplay by W. D. Richter
      W. D. Richter

      W. D. Richter is a screenwriter and has occasionally film director and film producer. He is best known for adapting Invasion of the Body Snatchers , directing The Adventures of Buckaroo Banzai Across the 8th Dimension, and helping write Big Trouble in Little China....
      ; Story by Arthur A. Ross and W. D. Richter
      W. D. Richter

      W. D. Richter is a screenwriter and has occasionally film director and film producer. He is best known for adapting Invasion of the Body Snatchers , directing The Adventures of Buckaroo Banzai Across the 8th Dimension, and helping write Big Trouble in Little China....
    • Fame
      Fame (film)

      Fame is a 1980 musical film conceived and produced by David De Silva, directed by Alan Parker, and written by Christopher Gore. The film follows a group of students through their studies at the New York High School of Performing Arts ....
       - Christopher Gore
    • Mon oncle d'Amérique
      Mon oncle d'Amérique

      Mon oncle d'Am?rique, sometimes released as My American Uncle, is a 1980 France film directed by Alain Resnais....
       - Jean Gruault
      Jean Gruault

      Jean Gruault , is a France screenwriter and actor. He wrote for 25 films between 1960 in film and 1995 in film. He was nominated for an Academy Award for Academy Award for Writing Original Screenplay for the 1980 film Mon oncle d'Am?rique....
      , Henri Laborit
      Henri Laborit

      Henri Laborit was a French physician, writer and philosopher.Laborit was born in Hanoi, Vietnam and started his career as a neurosurgery in the French_Marines and then moved on to fundamental research....
    • Private Benjamin
      Private Benjamin

      Private Benjamin is a 1980 comedy film starring Goldie Hawn. The film was one of the biggest box office hits of 1980, and also spawned a short-lived television series....
       - Nancy Meyers
      Nancy Meyers

      Nancy Jane Meyers is an United States film director, Film producer and screenwriter Her second solo venture, What Women Want , was the most successful film ever directed by a woman, taking in $183 million in the United States ....
      , Charles Shyer
      Charles Shyer

      Charles Shyer is an United States film film director, screenwriter and film producer....
      , Harvey Miller
  • 1981
    1981 in film

    Events*January 19 - Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer acquires beleaguered concurrent United Artists. UA was humiliated by the astronomical losses on the $40,000,000 movie Heaven's Gate , a major factor in the decision of owner Transamerica Corporation to sell it....
     Chariots of Fire
    Chariots of Fire

    Chariots of Fire is a United Kingdom film released in 1981 in film. Written by Colin Welland and directed by Hugh Hudson, it is based on the true story of British athletes preparing for and competing in the 1924 Summer Olympics....
     - Colin Welland
    Colin Welland

    Colin Welland . His parents were Jack and Nora Williams. He is an England actor and screenwriter and a Rugby League fanatic. He appeared as PC David Graham in the BBC television series Z-Cars, and in films, including Kes , before also concentrating on writing....
    • Absence of Malice
      Absence of Malice

      Absence of Malice is a 1981 film which tells the story of Michael Gallagher , the son of a dead Mafia boss who discovers that he has become a front-page story in the local Miami newspaper, indicating that he is being investigated for a murder he didn't commit....
       - Kurt Luedtke
    • Arthur
      Arthur (film)

      Arthur is a 1981 film set in New York City which tells the story of drunken playboy millionaire Arthur Bach , who is on the brink of an arranged marriage to a wealthy heiress, Susan Johnson ....
       - Steve Gordon
    • Atlantic City
      Atlantic City (film)

      Atlantic City is a film directed by Louis Malle. Filmed in late 1979, it was released in France and Germany in 1980 and in the United States in 1981....
       - John Guare
      John Guare

      John Guare is an American playwright. He is best known as the author of The House of Blue Leaves, Six Degrees of Separation , and Landscape of the Body....
    • Reds - Warren Beatty
      Warren Beatty

      Warren Beatty is an United States Academy Award- and Golden Globe-winning actor, film producer, screenwriter and film director....
      , Trevor Griffiths
      Trevor Griffiths

      Trevor Griffiths is an England dramatist.Raised as a Catholic, he attended the local Catholic school before being accepted into Manchester University in 1952 to read English language....
  • 1982
    1982 in film

    for use in movie theaters.* Hugh Grant makes his film debut.*October 8th = Angelina Jolie makes her film debut as a child actress appearing with her father Jon Voight, in Lookin' to Get Out....
     Gandhi
    Gandhi (film)

    Gandhi is a film about Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi, who was a leader of the nonviolent resistance movement against British Raj in India during the first half of the 20th century....
     - John Briley
    • Diner
      Diner (film)

      Diner is a 1982 in film comedy-drama film written and directed by Barry Levinson which along with Avalon , Tin Men, and Liberty Heights constitutes his series of "Baltimore films"....
       - Barry Levinson
      Barry Levinson

      Barry Levinson is an Academy Award-winning United States screenwriter, film director, actor, and Film producer of film and television....
    • E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial
      E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial

      E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial is a 1982 in film American science fiction film co-produced and directed by Steven Spielberg, written by Melissa Mathison and starring Henry Thomas, Robert MacNaughton, Drew Barrymore, Dee Wallace-Stone and Peter Coyote....
       - Melissa Mathison
      Melissa Mathison

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    • An Officer and a Gentleman
      An Officer and a Gentleman

      An Officer and a Gentleman is a 1982 in film film which tells the story of a United States Navy aviation Officer Candidate who comes into conflict with the Marine Corps Gunnery Sergeant who trains him....
       - Douglas Day Stewart
      Douglas Day Stewart

      Douglas Day Stewart is an United States screenwriter. He graduated from Claremont McKenna College....
    • Tootsie
      Tootsie

      Tootsie is a 1982 in film comedy film that tells the story of a talented but volatile actor whose reputation for being difficult forces him to go to extreme lengths to land a job....
       - Screenplay by Larry Gelbart
      Larry Gelbart

      Larry Simon Gelbart is an American comedy writer and playwright with over sixty years of credits....
      , Murray Schisgal
      Murray Schisgal

      Murray Schisgal is an award-winning United States playwright and screenwriter.Native New York City Schisgal won his first recognition for the 1963 off-Broadway double-bill The Typists and The Tiger, which won him the Drama Desk Award....
      ; Story by Don McGuire and Larry Gelbart
      Larry Gelbart

      Larry Simon Gelbart is an American comedy writer and playwright with over sixty years of credits....
  • 1983
    1983 in film

    Events*February 11 - The Rolling Stones concert film Let's Spend the Night Together opens in New York...
     Tender Mercies
    Tender Mercies

    Tender Mercies is a 1983 United States drama film starring Robert Duvall as Mac Sledge, a recovering alcoholic country music singer who seeks to turn his life around through his relationship with a young widow and her son in rural Texas....
     - Horton Foote
    Horton Foote

    Albert Horton Foote, Jr. was an United States of America playwright and screenwriter, perhaps best known for his screenplay for the 1962 film To Kill a Mockingbird , for which he received an Academy Award....
    • The Big Chill
      The Big Chill (film)

      The Big Chill is a 1983 film about a group of baby boomer college friends who reunite after many years and explore the aftermath of the 1960s....
       - Lawrence Kasdan
      Lawrence Kasdan

      Lawrence Kasdan is an American Film Film producer, film director and screenwriter. Raised in Morgantown, West Virginia, West Virginia, where he graduated from Morgantown High School in 1966, he went on to attend the University of Michigan as an education major....
      , Barbara Benedek
    • Fanny and Alexander
      Fanny and Alexander

      Fanny and Alexander is a 1982 in film Sweden film written and film director by Ingmar Bergman. It was originally conceived as a four part TV movie which spanned 312 minutes....
       - Ingmar Bergman
      Ingmar Bergman

      Ernst Ingmar Bergman was a Sweden director, writer and Film producer for film, stage and television. He depicted bleakness and despair as well as comedy and hope in his explorations of the human condition....
    • Silkwood
      Silkwood

      Silkwood is a 1983, Academy Award-nominated film which dramatizes the story of Karen Silkwood, who died in a car accident under suspicious circumstances while investigating alleged wrongdoing at the Kerr-McGee plutonium plant where she worked....
       - Nora Ephron
      Nora Ephron

      Nora Ephron is an United States film director, film producer, screenwriter, novelist, journalist, and weblog.She is best known for her romantic comedy and is a triple nominee for the Academy Award for Writing Original Screenplay; for Silkwood, When Harry Met Sally... and Sleepless in Seattle....
      , Alice Arlen
    • WarGames
      WarGames

      WarGames is a 1983 in film drama film/thriller film written by Lawrence Lasker and Walter F. Parkes and directed by John Badham. The film starred Matthew Broderick in his second major film role, and featured Ally Sheedy, Dabney Coleman, John Wood , and Barry Corbin....
       - Lawrence Lasker
      Lawrence Lasker

      Lawrence C. Lasker is a screenwriter and film producer who entered American film in 1983 as writer of the movie WarGames. He is the son of actor Jane Greer and producer Edward Lasker ....
      , Walter F. Parkes
      Walter F. Parkes

      Walter F. Parkes is an United States film producer, writer and former studio head....
  • 1984
    1984 in film

    Events* The Walt Disney Company founds Touchstone Pictures to release movies with subject matter deemed inappropriate for the Disney name.*TriStar Entertainment, a joint venture of Columbia Pictures, HBO, and CBS, releases its first film....
     Places in the Heart
    Places in the Heart

    Places in the Heart is a 1984 in film drama film that tells the story of a Southern widow who tries to keep her farm together with the help of a blind man and an African-American man....
     - Robert Benton
    Robert Benton

    Robert Benton is an United States, Academy Award winning screenwriter and film director.He has enjoyed a highly successful career in film, winning numerous prestigious awards for both writing and directing....
    • Beverly Hills Cop
      Beverly Hills Cop

      Beverly Hills Cop is a 1984 in film Cinema of the United States action film-comedy film directed by Martin Brest and starring Eddie Murphy. Murphy stars as Axel Foley, a street-smart Detroit cop, who heads to Beverly Hills, California to solve the death of his best friend....
       - Screenplay by Daniel Petrie, Jr.
      Daniel Petrie, Jr.

      Daniel Petrie, Jr. , the son of Daniel Petrie, Sr., is perhaps best known as the one of the screenwriters of the mid-1980s hit Film, Beverly Hills Cop and The Big Easy as well as the director of Toy Soldiers....
      ; Story by Danilo Bach
      Danilo Bach

      Danilo Bach is a screenwriter and producer....
       and Daniel Petrie, Jr.
      Daniel Petrie, Jr.

      Daniel Petrie, Jr. , the son of Daniel Petrie, Sr., is perhaps best known as the one of the screenwriters of the mid-1980s hit Film, Beverly Hills Cop and The Big Easy as well as the director of Toy Soldiers....
    • Broadway Danny Rose
      Broadway Danny Rose

      Broadway Danny Rose is a black and white 1984 in film Academy Award-nominated film written, directed by and starring Woody Allen....
       - Woody Allen
      Woody Allen

      Woody Allen is an Cinema of the United States film director, writer, actor, comedian, musician and playwright.Allen's distinctive films, which run the gamut from dramas to Screwball comedy film, have made him one of the most respected living American directors....
    • El Norte
      El Norte (film)

      El Norte is an United States and England film, directed by Gregory Nava. The screenplay was written by Nava and Anna Thomas. The movie was first presented at the Telluride Film Festival in 1983 in film, and its wide release was in January 1984 in film....
       - Gregory Nava
      Gregory Nava

      Gregory Nava is a film director, Film producer and screenplay writer, of Mexican and Basque people heritage.Nava met his future wife Anna Thomas while working on his master's degree at UCLA....
      , Anna Thomas
      Anna Thomas

      Anna Thomas is a film screenwriter, film producer and writer. She was born in Stuttgart, Germany, to a Polish family and came to the United States as an infant....
    • Splash
      Splash (film)

      Splash is a 1984 in film fantasy film and romantic comedy film directed by Ron Howard and written by Lowell Ganz and Babaloo Mandel. The film was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Original Screenplay#1980s....
       - Screenplay by Lowell Ganz
      Lowell Ganz

      Lowell Ganz is an American screenwriter, television writer, and television producer. He is the long-time writing partner of Babaloo Mandel.Ganz grew up in Queens, New York....
      , Babaloo Mandel
      Babaloo Mandel

      Marc "Babaloo" Mandel is an United States writer. His writing credits include the television series Happy Days and the movie Night Shift . He is the long-time writing partner of Lowell Ganz....
      , Bruce Jay Friedman
      Bruce Jay Friedman

      Bruce Jay Friedman is an United States novelist, screenwriter, and playwright.Raised in the Bronx by Irving and Mollie Friedman, Bruce attended the University of Missouri?Columbia as a journalism major then served as a First Lieutenant#US Army, US Air Force, US Marine Corps in the United States Air Force from 1951 to 1953....
      ; Screen Story by Bruce Jay Friedman
      Bruce Jay Friedman

      Bruce Jay Friedman is an United States novelist, screenwriter, and playwright.Raised in the Bronx by Irving and Mollie Friedman, Bruce attended the University of Missouri?Columbia as a journalism major then served as a First Lieutenant#US Army, US Air Force, US Marine Corps in the United States Air Force from 1951 to 1953....
      , Story by Brian Grazer
      Brian Grazer

      Brian Grazer is an Academy Award- and Emmy Award-winning United States film and television producer who founded Imagine Entertainment with partner Ron Howard ....
  • 1985
    1985 in film

    Events* 3 December - Roger Moore steps down from the role of James Bond after twelve years and seven films. He is replaced by Timothy Dalton....
     Witness
    Witness (1985 film)

    Witness is a 1985 in film Cinema of the United States thriller film released by Paramount Pictures, and starring Harrison Ford, Kelly McGillis and Lukas Haas....
     - Screenplay by William Kelley, Earl Wallace; Story by William Kelley, Pamela Wallace
    Pamela Wallace

    Pamela Wallace is an United States screenwriter and author. She won an Academy Award for co-writing the screenplay for the movie Witness ....
    , Earl Wallace
    • Back to the Future
      Back to the Future

      Back to the Future is a 1985 science fiction film adventure film directed by Robert Zemeckis, co-written by Bob Gale and produced by Steven Spielberg....
       - Robert Zemeckis
      Robert Zemeckis

      Robert Lee "Bob" Zemeckis is an Academy Award- and Golden Globe-winning American film director, Film producer and screenwriter. Zemeckis first came to public attention in the 1980s as the director of the comedic time-travel Back to the Future trilogy films as well as the live-action/animated film Who Framed Roger Rabbit , though in t...
      , Bob Gale
      Bob Gale

      Michael Robert "Bob" Gale , is an Academy Awards-nominated screenwriter who co-wrote the science fiction film Back to the Future with writing partner Robert Zemeckis, and the screen plays for the film's two sequels....
    • Brazil
      Brazil (film)

      Brazil is a 1985 dystopian feature film directed by Terry Gilliam. It was written by Gilliam, Charles McKeown, and Tom Stoppard and stars Jonathan Pryce....
       - Terry Gilliam
      Terry Gilliam

      Terrence Vance Gilliam is an American-born British writer, filmmaker, animator and member of the Monty Python comedy troupe. Gilliam is also known for directing several well-regarded films including Brazil , Twelve Monkeys , and Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas ....
      , Tom Stoppard
      Tom Stoppard

      Sir Tom Stoppard Order of Merit , Order of the British Empire, FRSL is a British screenwriter and playwright. He has written plays such as The Coast of Utopia, Arcadia , Rosencrantz & Guildenstern Are Dead, and Rock 'n' Roll ....
      , Charles McKeown
      Charles McKeown

      Charles McKeown is a British actor and writer, perhaps best known for his collaborations with Terry Gilliam. The two met while shooting Monty Python's Life of Brian, while McKeown was doing bit parts in the film....
    • The Official Story
      The Official Story

      The Official Story is an Argentina drama film directed by Luis Puenzo and written by Puenzo and A?da Bortnik. It has also been released as The Official Version in the United Kingdom and elsewhere....
       - Luis Puenzo
      Luis Puenzo

      Luis Adalberto Puezo is a film director, Film producer and screenplay writer.He works mainly in the cinema of Argentina, but has worked in the United States....
      , Aída Bortnik
      Aída Bortnik

      A?da Bortnik is an Demographics of Argentina screenwriter, nominated for an Academy Award for her work in the film La historia oficial ....
    • The Purple Rose of Cairo
      The Purple Rose of Cairo

      The Purple Rose of Cairo is an award-winning 1985 in film film written and directed by Woody Allen. Inspired by Sherlock, Jr., Hellzapoppin and Luigi Pirandello's Six Characters in Search of an Author, it is the tale of a film character who leaves the film and enters the real world....
       - Woody Allen
      Woody Allen

      Woody Allen is an Cinema of the United States film director, writer, actor, comedian, musician and playwright.Allen's distinctive films, which run the gamut from dramas to Screwball comedy film, have made him one of the most respected living American directors....
  • 1986
    1986 in film

    Events*April 12 - Actor Morgan Mason marries The Go-Go's Belinda Carlisle*Actor Arnold Schwarzenegger marries television journalist Maria Shriver....
     Hannah and Her Sisters
    Hannah and Her Sisters

    Hannah and Her Sisters is a 1986 in film comedy film drama film which tells the intertwined stories of an extended family, told mostly during a year that begins and ends with a family Thanksgiving#Thanksgiving dinner....
     - Woody Allen
    Woody Allen

    Woody Allen is an Cinema of the United States film director, writer, actor, comedian, musician and playwright.Allen's distinctive films, which run the gamut from dramas to Screwball comedy film, have made him one of the most respected living American directors....
    • Crocodile Dundee
      Crocodile Dundee

      Crocodile Dundee is a Australian films of the 1980s Cinema of Australia comedy film set in the Australian Outback and in New York City. It stars Paul Hogan as the weathered Michael "Crocodile" Dundee and Linda Kozlowski as Sue Charlton....
       - Screenplay by Paul Hogan, Ken Shadie, John Cornell
      John Cornell

      John Cornell is a film producer, actor and businessman.Born in Kalgoorlie, Western Australia Cornell once managed Paul Hogan and often appeared alongside Hogan in his popular television show The Paul Hogan Show as Strop, a dim-witted dinkum Aussie surf lifesaver....
      ; Story by Paul Hogan
    • My Beautiful Laundrette
      My Beautiful Laundrette

      My Beautiful Laundrette is a 1985 in film film directed by Stephen Frears. The screenplay was written by Hanif Kureishi....
       - Hanif Kureishi
      Hanif Kureishi

      Hanif Kureishi Order of the British Empire is an England playwright, screenwriter and filmmaker, novelist and short story writer. The themes of his work have touched on topics of Race , nationalism, immigration, and human sexuality....
    • Platoon
      Platoon (film)

      Platoon is a 1986 in film war film written and directed by Oliver Stone and starring Charlie Sheen, Tom Berenger, Willem Dafoe, Forest Whitaker, Kevin Dillon, Keith David, John C....
       - Oliver Stone
      Oliver Stone

      William Oliver Stone is an United Statesn film director and screenwriter. Stone came to prominence as a director with a series of films about the Vietnam War, in which he had participated as an American infantry soldier, and his work continues to focus frequently on contemporary political and cultural issues, often controversially....
    • Salvador
      Salvador (film)

      Salvador is a 1986 film which tells the story of an American journalist in El Salvador covering the Salvadoran civil war. While trying to get footage, he becomes entangled with both leftist guerrillas and the right wing military....
       - Oliver Stone
      Oliver Stone

      William Oliver Stone is an United Statesn film director and screenwriter. Stone came to prominence as a director with a series of films about the Vietnam War, in which he had participated as an American infantry soldier, and his work continues to focus frequently on contemporary political and cultural issues, often controversially....
      , Richard Boyle
  • 1987
    1987 in film

    Events*January 31 - The Cure for Insomnia premieres at The School of the Art Institute in Chicago, Illinois, to officially become the world's longest film according to Guinness World Records....
     Moonstruck
    Moonstruck

    Moonstruck is a 1987 in film romantic comedy film directed by Norman Jewison. The movie was released on December 18, 1987, and earned largely positive reviews from critics....
     - John Patrick Shanley
    John Patrick Shanley

    John Patrick Shanley is an American playwright. It is rumored that he insists in his contract that not a single word can be changed in the screenplays that he writes, but Shanley has denied that this rumor is true....
    • Au revoir, les enfants
      Au revoir, les enfants

      Au revoir, les enfants is a 1987 in film film written, produced and directed by Louis Malle. The screenplay was published by Gallimard in the same year....
       - Louis Malle
      Louis Malle

      Louis Malle was a French film director, working in both French and English....
    • Broadcast News
      Broadcast News (film)

      Broadcast News is a 1987 in film romantic comedy film written, produced and directed by James L. Brooks, about a virtuoso television news television producer , who has daily emotional breakdowns, a brilliant yet prickly reporter and his charismatic but far less seasoned rival ....
       - James L. Brooks
      James L. Brooks

      James L. Brooks is an United States Film producer, screenwriter and film director. He is known for producing television programs such as The Mary Tyler Moore Show, The Simpsons , Rhoda and Taxi ....
    • Hope and Glory - John Boorman
      John Boorman

      John Boorman is an England filmmaker, currently based in Ireland, best known for his feature films such as Point Blank , Deliverance, Excalibur , Hope and Glory , The General and Zardoz....
    • Radio Days
      Radio Days

      Radio Days is an Academy Award-nominated 1987 in film film directed by Woody Allen. The film looks back on American family life during the Golden Age of Old-time radio....
       - Woody Allen
      Woody Allen

      Woody Allen is an Cinema of the United States film director, writer, actor, comedian, musician and playwright.Allen's distinctive films, which run the gamut from dramas to Screwball comedy film, have made him one of the most respected living American directors....
  • 1988
    1988 in film

    Events* Michael Jackson's first film was MoonwalkerTop grossing films source: http://boxofficemojo.com/yearly/chart/?yr=1988&p=.htm...
     Rain Man
    Rain Man

    Rain Man is a 1988 in film drama film written by Barry Morrow and Ronald Bass and directed by Barry Levinson. It tells the story of an abrasive, selfish yuppie, Charlie Babbitt, who discovers that his father has left all of his millionaire estate to his brother, Raymond, an Autism Savant syndrome, of whose existence he was unaware....
     - Ronald Bass
    Ronald Bass

    Ronald Jay Bass , sometimes WGA screenwriting credit system as Ron Bass, is an United States screenwriter. Also a film producer, Bass's work is characterized as being highly in demand, and he is thought to be among the most highly paid writers in Hollywood....
    , Barry Morrow
    Barry Morrow

    Barry Morrow is an United States screen writer and producer.Morrow was born in Austin, Minnesota. He graduated from St. Olaf College in 1970....
    • Big - Gary Ross
      Gary Ross

      Gary Ross is an United States writer, film director and actor. He is best known for directing Pleasantville and Seabiscuit , both of which had Tobey Maguire in the lead role....
      , Anne Spielberg
      Anne Spielberg

      Anne Spielberg is a screenwriter and the sister of film director Steven Spielberg.She was born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania in 1949. After working for her brother's production company, Amblin Entertainment, she co-wrote the movie Big in 1988 in film, for which she was nominated for an Academy Awards for Best Writing of an Original S...
    • Bull Durham
      Bull Durham

      Bull Durham is a 1988 in film Cinema of the United States film about love and baseball. It is based upon the minor league baseball experiences of writer/Film director Ron Shelton and depicts the players and fans of the Durham Bulls, a minor league baseball team in Durham, North Carolina....
       - Ron Shelton
      Ron Shelton

      Ron Shelton is a United States film director, most notable for making Films about sports. Shelton is an alumnus of Santa Barbara High School and of the University of Arizona and Westmont College....
    • A Fish Called Wanda
      A Fish Called Wanda

      A Fish Called Wanda is a comedy film written by John Cleese and Charles Crichton and directed by Charles Crichton, and starring Cleese, Jamie Lee Curtis, Kevin Kline and Michael Palin....
       - Screenplay by John Cleese
      John Cleese

      'John Marwood Cleese' is an Academy Award-nominated English actor, comedian, writer, film producer and singer, who is known as being a member of Monty Python, a group of comedians responsible for the sketch show Monty Python's Flying Circus and for all of the four Monty Python films: And Now for Something Completely Different, Monty...
      ; Story by John Cleese
      John Cleese

      'John Marwood Cleese' is an Academy Award-nominated English actor, comedian, writer, film producer and singer, who is known as being a member of Monty Python, a group of comedians responsible for the sketch show Monty Python's Flying Circus and for all of the four Monty Python films: And Now for Something Completely Different, Monty...
       and Charles Crichton
      Charles Crichton

      Charles Crichton was an England film director who became best known for his comedies produced at Ealing Studios. Crichton enjoyed an extremely long career, directing many films and television programmes over a period exceeding 40 years....
    • Running on Empty
      Running on Empty (film)

      Running on Empty is a 1988 in film featuring River Phoenix, Judd Hirsch, Christine Lahti, and Martha Plimpton, directed by Sidney Lumet, and was produced by Lorimar....
       - Naomi Foner
      Naomi Foner Gyllenhaal

      Naomi Foner Gyllenhaal is an United States screenwriter.Gyllenhaal has written the screenplays for several feature films, including Running on Empty , Losing Isaiah, and most recently Bee Season . She is the Naomi from the Love of Chair segment of The Electric Company, where she was an associate producer for two se...
  • 1989
    1989 in film

    Events* "Batman " is released on June 23rd, and went on to become the biggest blockbuster of the year; Grossing over $250 million at the box office....
     Dead Poets Society
    Dead Poets Society

    Dead Poets Society is a 1989 in film film directed by Peter Weir. Set in 1959 at a conservative and aristocratic boys prep school, it tells the story of an English teacher who inspires his students to change their lives of conformity through his teaching of poetry and literature....
     - Tom Schulman
    Tom Schulman

    Tom Schulman is an United States screenwriter most famous for his screenplay Dead Poets Society which won the Best Screenplay Academy Awards for 1989....
    • Crimes and Misdemeanors
      Crimes and Misdemeanors

      Crimes and Misdemeanors is a black comedy/thriller film written and directed by Woody Allen. It stars Allen, Martin Landau, Mia Farrow, Anjelica Huston, Jerry Orbach, Alan Alda, Sam Waterston and Joanna Gleason....
       - Woody Allen
      Woody Allen

      Woody Allen is an Cinema of the United States film director, writer, actor, comedian, musician and playwright.Allen's distinctive films, which run the gamut from dramas to Screwball comedy film, have made him one of the most respected living American directors....
    • Do the Right Thing
      Do the Right Thing

      Do the Right Thing is a 1989 in film written, produced and directed by Spike Lee. The film tells a tale of bigotry and racial conflict in a multi-ethnic community in the Bedford-Stuyvesant neighborhood of Brooklyn, New York on the hottest day of the year....
       - Spike Lee
      Spike Lee

      Shelton Jackson "Spike" Lee is an Emmy Award-winning and Academy Award-nominated United States film director, Film producer, screenwriter, and actor, noted for his films dealing with controversial Society and Politics issues....
    • Sex, Lies, and Videotape
      Sex, lies, and videotape

      sex, lies, and videotape is a 1989 in film independent film that brought film director Steven Soderbergh to prominence. It tells the story of a man who films women discussing their sexuality, and his impact on the relationship of a troubled married couple....
       - Steven Soderbergh
      Steven Soderbergh

      Steven Andrew Soderbergh is an American film film producer, screenwriter, cinematographer, film editing, and an Academy Award-winning film director....
    • When Harry Met Sally...
      When Harry Met Sally...

      When Harry Met Sally... is a 1989 romantic comedy film written by Nora Ephron and directed by Rob Reiner. It stars Billy Crystal as Harry and Meg Ryan as Sally....
       - Nora Ephron
      Nora Ephron

      Nora Ephron is an United States film director, film producer, screenwriter, novelist, journalist, and weblog.She is best known for her romantic comedy and is a triple nominee for the Academy Award for Writing Original Screenplay; for Silkwood, When Harry Met Sally... and Sleepless in Seattle....


1990s

  • 1990
    1990 in film

    The year 1990 in film involved some significant events....
     Ghost
    Ghost (film)

    Ghost is a 1990 in film romance film fantasy film starring Patrick Swayze, Demi Moore, Tony Goldwyn and Whoopi Goldberg, written by Bruce Joel Rubin and directed by Jerry Zucker ....
     - Bruce Joel Rubin
    Bruce Joel Rubin

    Bruce Joel Rubin is a screenwriter best known for the supernatural romance, Ghost for which he won the 1991 Academy Awards for Best Original Screenplay....
    • Alice
      Alice (1990 film)

      Alice is a 1990 in film film directed by Woody Allen and starring Joe Mantegna, Mia Farrow and Alec Baldwin. The film is a loose reworking of Federico Fellini's 1965 film Juliet of the Spirits...
       - Woody Allen
      Woody Allen

      Woody Allen is an Cinema of the United States film director, writer, actor, comedian, musician and playwright.Allen's distinctive films, which run the gamut from dramas to Screwball comedy film, have made him one of the most respected living American directors....
    • Avalon
      Avalon (1990 film)

      Avalon is an Academy Award-nominated feature film directed by Barry Levinson. It is a mostly autobiography story of a family of Eastern European Jewish immigration to the United States who settle in Baltimore, Maryland, Maryland, at the beginning of the 20th century....
       - Barry Levinson
      Barry Levinson

      Barry Levinson is an Academy Award-winning United States screenwriter, film director, actor, and Film producer of film and television....
    • Green Card
      Green Card (film)

      Green Card is a 1990 romantic comedy directed by Peter Weir.The film stars G?rard Depardieu, Andie MacDowell, Bebe Neuwirth, Gregg Edelman and Ethan Phillips....
       - Peter Weir
      Peter Weir

      Peter Lindsay Weir Order of Australia is an Australian film director. After exerting a strong influence on the Australian New Wave with his films Picnic at Hanging Rock , The Last Wave and Gallipoli , Weir directed a diverse group of U.S....
    • Metropolitan
      Metropolitan (film)

      Metropolitan is the first film by director and screenwriter Whit Stillman. It received an Academy Awards nomination for Best Original Screenplay....
       - Whit Stillman
      Whit Stillman

      Whit Stillman is an Academy Award-nominated United States of America film writer-film director known for his sly depictions of the "urban haute bourgeoisie" ....


  • 1991
    1991 in film

    The year 1991 in film involved some significant events....
     Thelma and Louise
    Thelma and Louise

    Thelma & Louise is a 1991 in film Cinema of the United States road movie which breaks with tradition by featuring two female leads. Directed by Ridley Scott and written by Callie Khouri, the film's plot revolves around Thelma and Louise's escape from their troubled caged lives....
     - Callie Khouri
    Callie Khouri

    Callie Khouri is an American Academy Award winning screenwriter and film director....
    • Boyz N the Hood
      Boyz N the Hood

      Boyz N the Hood is an Academy Award-nominated 1991 in film hood film written and directed by John Singleton. Starring Ice Cube, Cuba Gooding, Jr., Morris Chestnut, Nia Long, Angela Bassett, Regina King, and Larry Fishburne, the film depicts life in poor South Central Los Angeles, California, and was filmed and released in the summer of 1...
       - John Singleton
      John Singleton

      John Daniel Singleton is an United States Academy Award-nominated film director, screenwriter, and Film producer. A native of South Los Angeles, many of his films consider the implications of inner-city violence like the critically acclaimed and popular Boyz N the Hood, Poetic Justice, Higher Learning and Baby Boy , and even...
    • Bugsy
      Bugsy

      Bugsy is a 1991 in film film which tells the story of mobster Bugsy Siegel. It stars Warren Beatty, Annette Bening, Harvey Keitel, Ben Kingsley, Elliott Gould, Joe Mantegna, Bebe Neuwirth and Bill Graham ....
       - James Toback
      James Toback

      James Toback is an American screenwriter and film director....
    • The Fisher King
      The Fisher King (film)

      The Fisher King is a comedy-drama film made in 1991 in film, written by Richard LaGravenese and directed by Terry Gilliam. It stars Jeff Bridges, Robin Williams, Mercedes Ruehl, Amanda Plummer and Michael Jeter....
       - Richard LaGravenese
      Richard LaGravenese

      Richard LaGravenese is an American film writer and director. In 1994, he was invited by Steven Spielberg and Kathleen Kennedy to try his hand at adapting James Waller's "The Bridges of Madison County"....
    • Grand Canyon - Lawrence
      Lawrence Kasdan

      Lawrence Kasdan is an American Film Film producer, film director and screenwriter. Raised in Morgantown, West Virginia, West Virginia, where he graduated from Morgantown High School in 1966, he went on to attend the University of Michigan as an education major....
       and Meg Kasdan


  • 1992
    1992 in film

    The year 1992 in film involved many significant films. ...
     The Crying Game
    The Crying Game

    The Crying Game is a 1992 in film Cinema of Ireland/Cinema of the United Kingdom drama film written and film director by Neil Jordan. The film explores themes of race, gender, nationality, and sexuality against the backdrop of the Irish The Troubles....
     - Neil Jordan
    Neil Jordan

    Neil Jordan is an Academy Award-winning Ireland filmmaker and novelist. He received the Academy Award for The Crying Game....
    • Husbands and Wives
      Husbands and Wives

      Husbands and Wives is a 1992 in film United States film directed and written by Woody Allen. The films stars Allen, Mia Farrow, Sydney Pollack, Judy Davis, Juliette Lewis, Liam Neeson and Blythe Danner....
       - Woody Allen
      Woody Allen

      Woody Allen is an Cinema of the United States film director, writer, actor, comedian, musician and playwright.Allen's distinctive films, which run the gamut from dramas to Screwball comedy film, have made him one of the most respected living American directors....
    • Lorenzo's Oil
      Lorenzo's oil

      Lorenzo's oil is a 4:1 mixture of glycerol trioleate and glycerol trierucate used in the preventive treatment of adrenoleukodystrophy . The oil was formulated by Augusto and Michaela Odone after their son Lorenzo Odone was diagnosed with the disease in 1984, at the age of five....
       - Nick Enright
      Nick Enright

      Nick Enright was an Australian playwright....
       and George Miller
      George Miller (producer)

      Dr George Miller is an Academy-Award winning Australian filmmaker, screenwriter, Film producer, and Physician. He is probably most well known for his work on the Mad Max movies, but has been involved in a wide range of projects, including the Oscar-winning Happy Feet....
    • Passion Fish
      Passion Fish

      Passion Fish is an United States film released in 1992 in film, written and directed by John Sayles. The movie was stars Mary McDonnell, Alfre Woodard, Vondie Curtis-Hall, David Strathairn and Leo Burmester....
       - John Sayles
      John Sayles

      John Thomas Sayles is an United States independent film film director and screenwriter who frequently plays small roles in his own and other indie films....
    • Unforgiven
      Unforgiven

      Unforgiven is a 1992 Western film which was produced and directed by Clint Eastwood with the screenplay written by David Peoples. The film tells the story of William Munny, an aging and retired gunslinger who takes on one more job years after he had hung up his guns and turned to farming....
       - David Peoples
      David Peoples

      This article is about David Peoples the screenwriter, for the golfer of the same name, see David Peoples .David Webb Peoples is an United States screenwriter....


  • 1993
    1993 in film

    The year 1993 in film involved many significant films. ...
     The Piano
    The Piano

    The Piano is a 1993 film about a mute female pianist and her daughter, set during the mid-19th century in a rainy, muddy frontier New Zealand backwater....
     - Jane Campion
    Jane Campion

    Jane Campion is an Academy Awards-winning film maker and screenplay writer. She is one of the most internationally successful New Zealand directors, although most of her work has been made in or financed by other countries, principally Australia ? where she now lives ? and the U.S....
    • Dave
      Dave (film)

      Dave is a 1993 comedy-drama film written by Gary Ross, directed by Ivan Reitman, and starring Kevin Kline , Sigourney Weaver, Frank Langella, Kevin Dunn, Ving Rhames, Ben Kingsley, and Laura Linney....
       - Gary Ross
      Gary Ross

      Gary Ross is an United States writer, film director and actor. He is best known for directing Pleasantville and Seabiscuit , both of which had Tobey Maguire in the lead role....
    • In the Line of Fire
      In the Line of Fire

      In the Line of Fire is a 1993 in film Academy Award-nominated thriller film about a Psychopathy who attempts to Assassination the President of the United States of the United States and the United States Secret Service agent who tracks him....
       - Jeff Maguire
      Jeff Maguire

      Jeff Maguire is an United States screenwriter. Regarded for his talent for writing List of sports films, Jeff Maguire got his first screenwriting break with his script Escape to Victory, a film about Football directed by John Huston in 1981 in film....
    • Philadelphia
      Philadelphia (film)

      Philadelphia is a 1993 in film film revolving around HIV/AIDS, homosexuality and prevailing attitudes concerning gay people and homophobia. It was written by Ron Nyswaner and directed by Jonathan Demme....
       - Ron Nyswaner
      Ron Nyswaner

      Ronald L. Nyswaner is an United States screenwriter and film director.Nyswaner wrote his first screenplay for the Susan Seidelman film Smithereens....
    • Sleepless in Seattle
      Sleepless in Seattle

      Sleepless in Seattle is a 1993 in film Cinema of the United States romantic comedy film written and directed by Nora Ephron. Based on a story by Jeff Arch, it stars Tom Hanks as Sam Baldwin and Meg Ryan as Annie Reed....
       - Jeff Arch (story and screenplay), Nora Ephron
      Nora Ephron

      Nora Ephron is an United States film director, film producer, screenwriter, novelist, journalist, and weblog.She is best known for her romantic comedy and is a triple nominee for the Academy Award for Writing Original Screenplay; for Silkwood, When Harry Met Sally... and Sleepless in Seattle....
       and David S. Ward
      David S. Ward

      David Stephen Ward is an United States film director and award winning screen writer.Ward has degrees from Pomona College , as well as both University of Southern California and the UCLA Film School ....


  • 1994
    1994 in film

    The year 1994 in film involved some significant events....
     Pulp Fiction
    Pulp Fiction (film)

    Pulp Fiction is a 1994 in film United States crime film by director Quentin Tarantino, who cowrote its screenplay with Roger Avary. The film is known for its rich, eclecticism dialogue, irony Black comedy, nonlinear storyline, and host of cinematic and popular culture references....
     - Quentin Tarantino
    Quentin Tarantino

    Quentin Jerome Tarantino is an American film director, screenwriter, Film producer, cinematographer and actor. He rose to fame in the early 1990s as an independent film filmmaker whose films used nonlinear and aestheticization of violence....
     (story and screenplay) and Roger Avary
    Roger Avary

    Roger Roberts Avary is a Canada-born film director, producer, and Academy Awards-winning screenwriter....
     (story)
    • Bullets Over Broadway
      Bullets Over Broadway

      Bullets Over Broadway is a Cinema of the United States crime film-comedy film screenwriter by Woody Allen and Douglas McGrath and film director by Woody Allen....
       - Woody Allen
      Woody Allen

      Woody Allen is an Cinema of the United States film director, writer, actor, comedian, musician and playwright.Allen's distinctive films, which run the gamut from dramas to Screwball comedy film, have made him one of the most respected living American directors....
       and Douglas McGrath
      Douglas McGrath

      Douglas Geoffrey McGrath is an United States Academy Award nominated screenwriter. He is also a film director and actor.McGrath was nominated for a both an Academy Award and a BAFTA award for his Bullets Over Broadway screenplay....
    • Four Weddings and a Funeral
      Four Weddings and a Funeral

      Four Weddings and a Funeral is a 1994 in film United Kingdom romantic comedy film directed by Mike Newell . It was the first of several films by screenwriter Richard Curtis to feature Hugh Grant....
       - Richard Curtis
      Richard Curtis

      Richard Whalley Anthony Curtis, Order of the British Empire is a BAFTA Awards, Primetime Emmy Award- winning and Academy Award - nominated United Kingdom screenwriter, music producer, actor and film director, known primarily for romantic comedy films such as Four Weddings and a Funeral, ''Bridget Jones's Diary , ''Notting Hill and '...
    • Heavenly Creatures
      Heavenly Creatures

      Heavenly Creatures is an acclaimed 1994 in film drama directed by Peter Jackson and written with his partner Fran Walsh. It is based on the notorious 1954 Parker-Hulme murder, committed by two teenage girls in Christchurch, New Zealand....
       - Peter Jackson
      Peter Jackson

      Peter Robert Jackson, New Zealand Order of Merit is a three-time Academy Award-winning New Zealand filmmaker, film producer and screenwriter, best known for The Lord of the Rings film trilogy trilogy adapted from the The Lord of the Rings by J....
       and Fran Walsh
      Fran Walsh

      Frances Walsh, New Zealand Order of Merit, , is a Grammy and Academy Awards-winning screenwriter, film producer and musician. She has been the partner of filmmaker Peter Jackson since 1987....
    • Three Colours: Red (Trois couleurs: Rouge) - Krzysztof Kieslowski
      Krzysztof Kieslowski

      Krzysztof Kieslowski , was an influential Academy Awards-nominated Poland film film director and screenwriter, known internationally for his film cycles The Decalogue and Three Colors....
       and Krzysztof Piesiewicz
      Krzysztof Piesiewicz

      Krzysztof Marek Piesiewicz is a Poland lawyer, screenwriter, and politician, who is currently a member of the Sejm and head of the Ruch Spoleczny or Social Movement Party....


  • 1995
    1995 in film

    The year 1995 in film involved some significant events....
     The Usual Suspects
    The Usual Suspects

    The Usual Suspects is a 1995 Cinema of the United States neo-noir film written by Christopher McQuarrie and directed by Bryan Singer. The film tells the story of Roger "Verbal" Kint , a small-time Confidence trick who is the subject of a police interrogation....
     - Christopher McQuarrie
    Christopher McQuarrie

    Christopher McQuarrie is an Academy Award-winning United States screenwriter, producer and director....
    • Braveheart
      Braveheart

      Braveheart is an Academy Award-Winning, 1995 historical action-drama movie film producer and Film director by Mel Gibson, who also starred in the title role....
       - Randall Wallace
      Randall Wallace

      Randall Wallace is an American songwriter, screenwriter, film producer, and film director who wrote the screenplay for the Mel Gibson film Braveheart, for which he received an Academy Awards nomination for Best Original Screenplay and a Writers Guild of America award for Best Screenplay Adapted Directly for the Screen....
    • Mighty Aphrodite
      Mighty Aphrodite

      Mighty Aphrodite is a 1995 in film United States comedy film written and directed by Woody Allen. The screenplay was inspired by the mythology tale of Pygmalion ....
       - Woody Allen
      Woody Allen

      Woody Allen is an Cinema of the United States film director, writer, actor, comedian, musician and playwright.Allen's distinctive films, which run the gamut from dramas to Screwball comedy film, have made him one of the most respected living American directors....
    • Nixon
      Nixon (film)

      Nixon is a 1995 in film USA biographical film directed by Oliver Stone for Cinergi Pictures that tells the story of the political and personal life of former President of the United States Richard Nixon, played by Anthony Hopkins....
       - Stephen J. Rivele, Christopher Wilkinson and Oliver Stone
      Oliver Stone

      William Oliver Stone is an United Statesn film director and screenwriter. Stone came to prominence as a director with a series of films about the Vietnam War, in which he had participated as an American infantry soldier, and his work continues to focus frequently on contemporary political and cultural issues, often controversially....
    • Toy Story
      Toy Story

      Toy Story is a 1995 in film Cinema of the United States computer animation family film, directed by John Lasseter and starring Tom Hanks and Tim Allen....
       - Screenplay by Joss Whedon
      Joss Whedon

      Joseph Hill "Joss" Whedon is an Academy Award-nominated and Hugo Award winning American writer, television director, executive producer, occasional actor, and creator and head writer of the well-known television programs Buffy the Vampire Slayer , Angel , Firefly , and Dollhouse ....
      , Andrew Stanton
      Andrew Stanton

      Andrew Christopher Stanton Jr. is an American film director, screenwriter, Film Producer, and occasional voice actor based at Pixar. His most notable film work includes writing and directing Finding Nemo and WALL-E, both of which earned him Academy Awards....
      , Joel Cohen
      Joel Cohen & Alec Sokolow

      Joel Cohen & Alec Sokolow are screenwriting partners who have been nominated for an Academy-Award for writing Toy Story....
      , Alec Sokolow
      Joel Cohen & Alec Sokolow

      Joel Cohen & Alec Sokolow are screenwriting partners who have been nominated for an Academy-Award for writing Toy Story....
      ; Story by John Lasseter
      John Lasseter

      John Alan Lasseter is an Academy Award-winning United States animator and the chief creative officer at Pixar and Walt Disney Animation Studios....
      , Peter Docter
      Peter Docter

      Peter Docter is an United States film director from Bloomington, Minnesota. He is best known for directing the Pixar film Monsters, Inc..He graduated from John F....
      , Andrew Stanton
      Andrew Stanton

      Andrew Christopher Stanton Jr. is an American film director, screenwriter, Film Producer, and occasional voice actor based at Pixar. His most notable film work includes writing and directing Finding Nemo and WALL-E, both of which earned him Academy Awards....
      , Joe Ranft
      Joe Ranft

      Joseph Henry "Joe" Ranft was a Magic , animator, storyboard artist, and voice actor who worked for Pixar and The Walt Disney Company. His brother Jerome Ranft is a sculptor who also worked on several Pixar movies....


  • 1996
    1996 in film

    The year '1996 in film' involved some significant events. Major releases this year included Fargo , Trainspotting , The English Patient , Independence Day , Twister , Scream, Jerry Maguire and Madonna 's Evita ....
     Fargo
    Fargo (film)

    Fargo is a Cinema of the United States film produced, directed and written by brothers Coen brothers. Set in Minnesota, it is the story of a car salesman who hires two men to kidnap his wife for an $80,000 ransom....
     - Ethan and Joel Coen
    • Jerry Maguire
      Jerry Maguire

      Jerry Maguire is a 1996 in film United States comedy-drama film starring Tom Cruise, Cuba Gooding, Jr., and Ren?e Zellweger. It was written and directed by Cameron Crowe....
       - Cameron Crowe
      Cameron Crowe

      Cameron Bruce Crowe is an Academy Award-winning United States screenwriter and film director. Before moving into the film industry, Crowe was a contributing editor at Rolling Stone magazine, for which he still frequently writes....
    • Lone Star - John Sayles
      John Sayles

      John Thomas Sayles is an United States independent film film director and screenwriter who frequently plays small roles in his own and other indie films....
    • Secrets & Lies
      Secrets & Lies

      Secrets & Lies is a 1996 in film British film directed by Mike Leigh and starring Brenda Blethyn and Marianne Jean-Baptiste.Storyline...
       - Mike Leigh
      Mike Leigh

      Mike Leigh, Order of the British Empire is an England writer and director of film and theatre. He studied theatre at the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art and did his early acting with the Royal Shakespeare Company ....
    • Shine
      Shine (film)

      Shine is a 1996 Australian film based on the life of piano David Helfgott, who suffered a mental breakdown and spent years in institutions. It stars Geoffrey Rush, Lynn Redgrave, Armin Mueller-Stahl, Noah Taylor, John Gielgud, Googie Withers, Justin Braine, Sonia Todd, Chris Haywood, and Alex Rafalowicz....
       - Jan Sardi
      Jan Sardi

      Jan Sardi is an award-winning Australian screenwriter.In 1997 he received an Academy Award Nomination for his screenplay for Shine, an account of the life of pianist David Helfgott, as well as a BAFTA nomination, a Writers? Guild of America nomination and a Golden Globe nomination....
       and Scott Hicks
      Scott Hicks

      Robert Scott Hicks is an Academy Awards nominated film director from South Australia.Hicks graduated from Flinders University of South Australia in 1975 and was awarded an honorary doctorate in 1997....
       (story)


  • 1997
    1997 in film

    The year 1997 in film involved some significant events....
     Good Will Hunting
    Good Will Hunting

    Good Will Hunting is a 1997 in film drama film directed by Gus Van Sant and written by Matt Damon and Ben Affleck, both of whom star in the film....
     - Ben Affleck
    Ben Affleck

    Ben Affleck is an United Statesn actor, film director and screenwriter. He became known in the mid 1990s, after his involvement in the film Mallrats , and has since become an Academy Award winner for his screenplay in Good Will Hunting in 1997....
    , Matt Damon
    Matt Damon

    Matthew Paige Damon is an American actor and philanthropist. He won the Academy Award for Writing Original Screenplay for his screenwriting in Good Will Hunting, and was nominated for his lead performance in the same film....
    • As Good as It Gets
      As Good as It Gets

      As Good as It Gets is a 1997 film from TriStar Pictures that tells the story of an Obsessive-compulsive disorder, Misanthropy, and Bigotryed Romance novel named Melvin Udall , and how his personality softens and changes....
       - Mark Andrus (story and screenplay) and James L. Brooks
      James L. Brooks

      James L. Brooks is an United States Film producer, screenwriter and film director. He is known for producing television programs such as The Mary Tyler Moore Show, The Simpsons , Rhoda and Taxi ....
    • Boogie Nights
      Boogie Nights

      Boogie Nights is a United States drama film written and directed by Paul Thomas Anderson. Set in Southern California in the late 1970s and early 1980s, the screenplay focuses on a young nightclub Dishwashing who becomes the popular star of pornographic films and finds himself slowly descending into a nightmare of drug abuse when his fame...
       - Paul Thomas Anderson
      Paul Thomas Anderson

      Paul Thomas Anderson is a five-time Academy Award-nominated United States filmmaker....
    • Deconstructing Harry
      Deconstructing Harry

      Deconstructing Harry is a film by Woody Allen released in 1997. The title of the film comes from the philosophy of Deconstruction, of which many elements are represented throughout the film....
       - Woody Allen
      Woody Allen

      Woody Allen is an Cinema of the United States film director, writer, actor, comedian, musician and playwright.Allen's distinctive films, which run the gamut from dramas to Screwball comedy film, have made him one of the most respected living American directors....
    • The Full Monty
      The Full Monty

      The Full Monty is a 1997 in film United Kingdom comedy film. It tells the story of six unemployed men, four of them steel workers, who decide to form a male striptease act in order to gather enough money to get somewhere else and for main character Gaz to be able to see his son....
       - Simon Beaufoy
      Simon Beaufoy

      Simon Beaufoy is an Academy Award, Golden Globe Award and BAFTA award-winning England screenwriter. Born in Keighley, he was educated at Ermysted's Grammar School and Sedbergh School, he read English at St Peter?s College, Oxford and graduated from the Arts Institute at Bournemouth....


  • 1998
    1998 in film

    The year 1998 in film involved some significant events....
     Shakespeare in Love
    Shakespeare in Love

    Shakespeare in Love is a 1998 in film romantic comedy/drama film. The film was directed by John Madden and written by Marc Norman and playwright Tom Stoppard....
     - Marc Norman
    Marc Norman

    Marc Norman is an American screenwriter.He won, with Tom Stoppard the Oscar for Best Original Screenplay, in the 71st Academy Awards of 1998, for his script of "Shakespeare in Love"....
     and Tom Stoppard
    Tom Stoppard

    Sir Tom Stoppard Order of Merit , Order of the British Empire, FRSL is a British screenwriter and playwright. He has written plays such as The Coast of Utopia, Arcadia , Rosencrantz & Guildenstern Are Dead, and Rock 'n' Roll ....
    • Bulworth
      Bulworth

      Bulworth is a 1998 in film Academy Award-nominated Cinema of the United States which was co-screenwriter, co-film producer and film director by the film's star, Warren Beatty....
       - Warren Beatty
      Warren Beatty

      Warren Beatty is an United States Academy Award- and Golden Globe-winning actor, film producer, screenwriter and film director....
       and Jeremy Pikser
      Jeremy Pikser

      Jeremy Pikser is an award-winning screenwriter.Best known for Bulworth which he co-wrote with Warren Beatty, Pikser got his start working as an uncredited consultant on the film Reds ....
    • Life Is Beautiful (La vita è bella)
      Life Is Beautiful

      Life Is Beautiful is a 1997 in film Italian language film which tells the story of a Italian Jews, Guido Orefice , who must learn how to use his fertile imagination to help his son survive their internment in a Nazi concentration camp....
       - Roberto Benigni
      Roberto Benigni

      Roberto Remigio Benigni, Italian orders of merit is an Academy Awards-winning Italian actor, comedian, writer and film director of film, theatre and television....
       and Vincenzo Cerami
    • Saving Private Ryan
      Saving Private Ryan

      Saving Private Ryan is a 1998 in film Cinema of the United States war film set during the Invasion of Normandy of Normandy in World War II. It was film director by Steven Spielberg and Screenplay by Robert Rodat....
       - Robert Rodat
      Robert Rodat

      Robert Rodat is an United States screenwriter. After noticing his son's birthday shared the same date as the Battle of Normandy, he was inspired to write his Academy Awards-nominated script for Saving Private Ryan ....
    • The Truman Show
      The Truman Show

      The Truman Show is a 1998 dystopia comedy-drama film directed by Peter Weir and written by Andrew Niccol. The cast includes Jim Carrey as Truman Burbank, as well as Laura Linney, Noah Emmerich, Ed Harris and Natascha McElhone....
       - Andrew Niccol
      Andrew Niccol

      Andrew M. Niccol is a screenwriter, Film producer, and film director. He wrote and directed Gattaca, S1m0ne, and Lord of War. He also wrote and co-produced The Truman Show, which earned him an Academy Award nomination for Academy Award for Writing Original Screenplay in 1999....


  • 1999
    1999 in film

    The year 1999 in film involved some significant events and was arguably the most successful year for films released in the 1990s. Several new feature films, including Star Wars Episode I: The Phantom Menace, The Sixth Sense, new sequel Toy Story 2, first of The Matrix, Disney's animated Tarzan , The Mummy , and the hig...
     American Beauty - Alan Ball
    Alan Ball (screenwriter)

    Alan E. Ball is an United States Film director, writer, actor and Film producer for film, theatre and television. He is noted for writing American Beauty , and creating and producing the HBO television shows Six Feet Under and True Blood....
    • Being John Malkovich
      Being John Malkovich

      Being John Malkovich is a 1999 in film film written by Charlie Kaufman and directed by Spike Jonze. It stars John Cusack, Cameron Diaz, and Catherine Keener, as well as the actor John Malkovich, who plays a fictionalized version of himself....
       - Charlie Kaufman
      Charlie Kaufman

      Charles Stuart Kaufman is an American playwright, film producer, theater director and film director, and an Academy Awards, BAFTA, and Independent Spirit Award for Best First Screenplay-winning screenwriter....
    • Magnolia
      Magnolia (film)

      Magnolia is a 1999 Cinema of the United States drama film, written and directed by Paul Thomas Anderson, and stars John C. Reilly, Tom Cruise, Julianne Moore, Philip Seymour Hoffman, William H....
       - Paul Thomas Anderson
      Paul Thomas Anderson

      Paul Thomas Anderson is a five-time Academy Award-nominated United States filmmaker....
    • The Sixth Sense
      The Sixth Sense

      The Sixth Sense is a 1999 psychological thriller film written and directed by M. Night Shyamalan. It tells the story of Cole Sear, a troubled, isolated boy who claims to be able to see and talk to the dead, and an equally troubled child psychologist who tries to help him....
       - M. Night Shyamalan
      M. Night Shyamalan

      Manoj Nelliyattu Shyamalan , known professionally as M. Night Shyamalan, is a two-time Academy Award nominated India-born United States filmmaker and script writer of Major film studio, known for making movies with contemporary supernatural plots that usually climax with a twist ending....
    • Topsy-Turvy
      Topsy-Turvy

      Topsy-Turvy is a musical film drama film about the creation of Gilbert and Sullivan's The Mikado in 1884 and 1885. It was written and directed by Mike Leigh and stars Allan Corduner as Sir Arthur Sullivan and Jim Broadbent as W....
       - Mike Leigh
      Mike Leigh

      Mike Leigh, Order of the British Empire is an England writer and director of film and theatre. He studied theatre at the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art and did his early acting with the Royal Shakespeare Company ....


2000s

  • 2000
    2000 in film

    The year 2000 in film involved some significant events....
     (73rd
    73rd Academy Awards

    The 73rd Academy Awards ceremony was the last to take place at the Los Angeles, California Shrine Auditorium. It was hosted by first-time host Steve Martin, who was nominated for an Emmy Awards for his presentation....
    ) Almost Famous
    Almost Famous

    Almost Famous is a 2000 in film comedy-drama film written and directed by Cameron Crowe, writer and director of Jerry Maguire, Singles and Say Anything....
     – Cameron Crowe
    Cameron Crowe

    Cameron Bruce Crowe is an Academy Award-winning United States screenwriter and film director. Before moving into the film industry, Crowe was a contributing editor at Rolling Stone magazine, for which he still frequently writes....
    • Billy Elliot
      Billy Elliot

      Billy Elliot is a 2000 in film film written by Lee Hall and directed by Stephen Daldry. Set in the fictional town of 'Everington' in the real County Durham, UK, it stars Jamie Bell as 11-year-old Billy, an aspiring dancer, Gary Lewis as his coal miner father, Jamie Draven as Billy's older brother, and Julie Walters as his ballet teacher...
       – Lee Hall
      Lee Hall (playwright)

      Lee Hall is an England playwright and screenwriter....
    • Erin Brockovich
      Erin Brockovich (film)

      Erin Brockovich is a 2000 in film docudrama which dramatizes the story of Erin Brockovich's first fight against the West Coast of the United States energy giant Pacific Gas and Electric Company known as PG&E....
       – Susannah Grant
      Susannah Grant

      Susannah Grant , is an award-winning United States screenwriter and film director. She wrote the screenplays for Ever After, Steven Soderbergh's Erin Brockovich , 28 Days and Disney's Pocahontas ....
    • Gladiator – David Franzoni
      David Franzoni

      David Harold Franzoni is an United States screenwriter. His most well known movie scripts include: King Arthur , Gladiator , Amistad , and Jumpin' Jack Flash ....
      , John Logan
      John Logan (writer)

      John David Logan is an United States screenwriter and film producer....
       and William Nicholson
      William Nicholson (writer)

      William Nicholson is a BAFTA-, Academy Award- and Tony Awards-nominated British people screenwriter, playwright, and novelist....
    • You Can Count on Me
      You Can Count on Me

      You Can Count on Me is a 2000 in film movie, starring Laura Linney, Mark Ruffalo, Rory Culkin and Matthew Broderick, written and directed by Kenneth Lonergan....
       – Kenneth Lonergan
      Kenneth Lonergan

      Kenneth Lonergan is a playwright, screenwriter, and director born in the Bronx, New York City, New York. He began writing in high school, later graduating from the New York University Playwriting Program....


  • 2001
    2001 in film

    The year 2001 in film involved some significant events. ...
     (74th
    74th Academy Awards

    The 74th Academy Awards honored the 2001 in film and were held on March 24 2002, for the first time at the Kodak Theatre in Hollywood, Los Angeles, California....
    ) Gosford Park
    Gosford Park

    Gosford Park is a 2001 in film film directed by Robert Altman. The screenplay is by Julian Fellowes, based on an idea by Altman and producer Bob Balaban....
     – Julian Fellowes
    Julian Fellowes

    Julian Alexander Kitchener-Fellowes Deputy Lieutenant , known as Julian Fellowes, is an England actor, novelist and screenwriter.Fellowes is the youngest son of Peregrine Fellowes and his first wife, Olwen....
    • Amélie (Le fabuleux destin d'Amélie Poulain)
      Amélie

      Le Fabuleux Destin d'Am?lie Poulain is a 2010 in film France film directed by Jean-Pierre Jeunet and starring Audrey Tautou. Written by Jeunet with Guillaume Laurant, the film is a whimsical and somewhat idealised depiction of contemporary Parisian life, set in Montmartre....
       – Jean-Pierre Jeunet
      Jean-Pierre Jeunet

      Jean-Pierre Jeunet is a France film director....
       and Guillaume Laurant
    • Memento – Christopher Nolan
      Christopher Nolan

      Christopher Allen James Nolan is a British-American filmmaker, screenwriter and Film producer. The son of an English people father and American mother, Nolan is a multiple citizenship of the United Kingdom and the United States....
       and Jonathan Nolan
      Jonathan Nolan

      Jonathan "Jonah" Nolan is an Academy Award-nominated author who was born in London and raised in the Chicago area. His most famous work is the short story "Memento Mori ", which was used by his brother, director Christopher Nolan, as the basis for the screenplay for the critically acclaimed film Memento ....
    • Monster's Ball
      Monster's Ball

      Monster's Ball is a 2001 in film drama film Film director by Marc Forster and screenwriter by Milo Addica and Will Rokos. It was produced by Lions Gate and Lee Daniels Entertainment....
       – Milo Addica and Will Rokos
    • The Royal Tenenbaums
      The Royal Tenenbaums

      The Royal Tenenbaums is a 2001 in film Comedy-drama dark comedy directed by Wes Anderson about three gifted siblings who experience great success in youth, and even greater disappointment and failure after their eccentricity father leaves them in their adolescent years....
       – Wes Anderson
      Wes Anderson

      Wesley Wales Anderson is an United States Film director, scriptwriter, actor, and film producer of film, short subjects and Television commercial....
       and Owen Wilson
      Owen Wilson

      Owen Cunningham Wilson is an actor and Academy Award for Writing Original Screenplay-nominated United States writer. Wilson is perhaps best known for his roles in the films Cars , Shanghai Noon, Wedding Crashers, Marley & Me and Zoolander....


  • 2002
    2002 in film

    The year '2002 in film' involved some significant events. The first significant releases of sequels took place between Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets, Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers, Star Wars Episode II: Attack of the Clones, Men in Black II, Analyze That, Spy Kids 2: The Island of Lost Dreams, Stuart Litt...
     (75th
    75th Academy Awards

    The 75th Academy Awards honored the 2002 in film, were held on March 23, 2003, at the Kodak Theatre in Hollywood, Los Angeles, California. It was produced by Gilbert Cates and hosted by Steve Martin, who also hosted the 73rd Academy Awards....
    ) Talk to Her (Hable con ella)
    Talk to Her

    Talk to Her is a 2002 in film film written and directed by the Spanish director Pedro Almod?var, starring Javier C?mara, Dar?o Grandinetti, Leonor Watling, Geraldine Chaplin and Rosario Flores....
     – Pedro Almodóvar
    Pedro Almodóvar

    Pedro Almod?var Caballero is a Spanish film director, screenwriter and Film producer.Almod?var is arguably the most successful and internationally known Spanish filmmaker of his generation....
    • Far from Heaven
      Far from Heaven

      Far from Heaven is a 2002 film written and directed by Todd Haynes and starring Julianne Moore, Dennis Quaid, Ryan Ward, Dennis Haysbert, and Patricia Clarkson....
       – Todd Haynes
      Todd Haynes

      Todd Haynes is an award-winning United States film director best known for the films Poison , Academy Award-nominated Far From Heaven, and I'm Not There....
    • Gangs of New York
      Gangs of New York

      Gangs of New York is a 2002 in film USA historical film crime film set in the mid-19th century in the Five Points, Manhattan district of New York City....
       – Jay Cocks
      Jay Cocks

      Jay Cocks is a film critic and motion picture screenwriter.He is a graduate of Kenyon College. He was a critic for Time magazine, Newsweek, and Rolling Stone, among other magazines, before graduating to film writing....
      , Kenneth Lonergan
      Kenneth Lonergan

      Kenneth Lonergan is a playwright, screenwriter, and director born in the Bronx, New York City, New York. He began writing in high school, later graduating from the New York University Playwriting Program....
       and Steven Zaillian
      Steven Zaillian

      Steven Ernest Bernard Zaillian is an American screenwriter, film director, film editor and film producer. He won an Academy Awards for his screenplay for Schindler's List and he has been nominated two times for Awakenings and Gangs of New York....
    • My Big Fat Greek Wedding
      My Big Fat Greek Wedding

      My Big Fat Greek Wedding is an Academy Award nominated 2002 in film romantic comedy film written by and starring Nia Vardalos and directed by Joel Zwick....
       – Nia Vardalos
      Nia Vardalos

      Nia Vardalos is a Golden Globe-nominated Canadian-American actor, Academy Award-nominated screenwriter and Film producer....
    • And Your Mother Too (Y tu mamá también) – Alfonso Cuarón
      Alfonso Cuarón

      Alfonso Cuar?n Orozco is an Academy Award-nominated Mexico filmmaker, screenwriter and film producer. Some of his works include Y tu mam? tambi?n, Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban , A_Little_Princess_ and Children of Men....
       and Carlos Cuarón
      Carlos Cuarón

      Carlos Jos? Cuar?n Orozco is an Academy Award-nominated Mexico screenwriter, film producer and film director. He is the brother of Alfonso Cuar?n....


  • 2003
    2003 in film

    The year '2003 in film' involved some significant events. Releases of sequels took place with movies like 2 Fast 2 Furious, The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King , Charlie's Angels: Full Throttle, The Matrix Reloaded, The Matrix Revolutions, Terminator 3: Rise of the Machines, Freddy vs Jason, X2: X-Men Uni...
     (76th
    76th Academy Awards

    The 76th Academy Awards ceremony honored the 2003 in film and was broadcast from the Kodak Theatre in Hollywood, California on American Broadcasting Company beginning at 5:30 p.m....
    ) Lost in Translation
    Lost in Translation (film)

    Lost in Translation is a 2003 in film comedy-drama film starring Bill Murray and Scarlett Johansson. It was the second feature film written and directed by Sofia Coppola, after The Virgin Suicides ....
     – Sofia Coppola
    Sofia Coppola

    Sofia Carmina Coppola is an American film director, actor, film producer and Academy Awards-winning screenwriter. She is the third female director, and only American woman, to be nominated for an Academy Award for Directing, the other two being Lina Wertm?ller and Jane Campion....
    • The Barbarian Invasions (Les invasions barbares)
      Les Invasions barbares

      The Barbarian Invasions is a French Canadian comedy film/drama film directed by Denys Arcand. It is the sequel to Arcand's earlier film The Decline of the American Empire and is followed by Days of Darkness....
       – Denys Arcand
      Denys Arcand

      Georges-Henri Denys Arcand, Order of Canada, National Order of Quebec is an Academy Awards-winning Canadian film director, screenwriter and Film producer....
    • Dirty Pretty Things
      Dirty Pretty Things (film)

      Dirty Pretty Things is a film directed by Stephen Frears and written by Steven Knight, a drama about two illegal immigrants in London. It was produced by the Celador production company....
       – Steven Knight
      Steven Knight

      Steven Knight is a United Kingdom screenwriter. Knight has written scripts for numerous British television programmes such as the British version of Who Wants to Be a Millionaire? , BBC's Commercial Breakdown, The Detectives and others....
    • Finding Nemo
      Finding Nemo

      Finding Nemo is a 2002 in film CGI animation film. It was written by Andrew Stanton, directed by Stanton and Lee Unkrich and produced by Pixar and Walt Disney Pictures....
       – Andrew Stanton
      Andrew Stanton

      Andrew Christopher Stanton Jr. is an American film director, screenwriter, Film Producer, and occasional voice actor based at Pixar. His most notable film work includes writing and directing Finding Nemo and WALL-E, both of which earned him Academy Awards....
      , Bob Peterson and David Reynolds
    • In America
      In America

      In America is an Academy Award-nominated 2002 in film Ireland drama film directed by Jim Sheridan. The semi-autobiography screenplay by Sheridan and his daughters Naomi and Kirsten Sheridan focuses on an immigrant Irish family's efforts to survive in New York City, as seen through the eyes of the elder daughter....
       – Jim
      Jim Sheridan

      Jim Sheridan is an Republic of Ireland film director. A six-time Academy Award nominee, Sheridan is perhaps best known for My Left Foot , In the Name of the Father , and In America....
      , Kirsten
      Kirsten Sheridan

      Kirsten Sheridan is an Republic of Ireland film director and screenwriter. The director of August Rush and Disco Pigs , Sheridan was nominated for an Academy Award for co-writing the semi-autobiographical film In America with her father, director Jim Sheridan, and her sister, Naomi Sheridan....
       and Naomi


  • 2004
    2004 in film

    The year '2004 in film' involved some significant events. Major releases of sequels took place. It included blockbuster films like Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban ,The Passion of the Christ, Meet the Fockers, Shrek 2, Blade: Trinity, Spider-Man 2, Alien vs....
     (77th
    77th Academy Awards

    The 77th Academy Awards honored the 2004 in film and were held on February 27, 2005, at the Kodak Theatre in Hollywood, California. They were hosted by comedian Chris Rock....
    ) Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind
    Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind

    Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind is a 2004 in film United States drama film film by France director Michel Gondry. The film uses elements of science fiction film and neosurrealism to explore the nature of memory and Romantic love....
     – Pierre Bismuth
    Pierre Bismuth

    Pierre Bismuth is a contemporary artist. Through efficient and often humorous gestures, Bismuth interrupts pre-established codes of reading the images and objects that pervade daily life, from headline stories in newspapers to magazine clippings from gentlemen's magazines, to even the color of the walls....
    , Michel Gondry
    Michel Gondry

    Michel Gondry, born May 8, 1963, is a French Academy Awards-winning screenwriter, film, Television commercial and music video film director. He is noted for his inventive visual style and manipulation of mise en sc?ne....
     and Charlie Kaufman
    Charlie Kaufman

    Charles Stuart Kaufman is an American playwright, film producer, theater director and film director, and an Academy Awards, BAFTA, and Independent Spirit Award for Best First Screenplay-winning screenwriter....
    • The Aviator
      The Aviator

      The Aviator is an Cinema of the United States biographical film drama film, film director by Martin Scorsese and based on the life of Howard Hughes....
       – John Logan
      John Logan (writer)

      John David Logan is an United States screenwriter and film producer....
    • Hotel Rwanda
      Hotel Rwanda

      Hotel Rwanda is a 2004 in film historical drama film about the hotelier Paul Rusesabagina during the Rwandan Genocide of 1994. The film, which has been called an African Schindler's List, documents Rusesabagina's acts to save the lives of his family and more than a thousand other refugees, by granting them shelter in the besieged H?t...
       – Terry George
      Terry George

      Terry George is an Irish people screenwriting and film director. Born and raised in Belfast, Northern Ireland much of his film work involves the Troubles in Northern Ireland....
       and Keir Pearson
    • The Incredibles
      The Incredibles

      The Incredibles is a computer-animated feature film produced by Pixar Animation Studios and distributed by Walt Disney Pictures, centering on a family of superheroes....
       – Brad Bird
      Brad Bird

      Phillip Bradley "Brad" Bird is a two-time Academy Award-winning United States Film director. His best known works are Walt Disney Pictures/Pixar's The Incredibles and Ratatouille ....
    • Vera Drake
      Vera Drake

      Vera Drake is a 2004 in film Cinema of the United Kingdom Film director by Mike Leigh. It tells the story of a working class woman in London in 1950, whose values conflict with the social mores of the period....
       – Mike Leigh
      Mike Leigh

      Mike Leigh, Order of the British Empire is an England writer and director of film and theatre. He studied theatre at the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art and did his early acting with the Royal Shakespeare Company ....


  • 2005
    2005 in film

    The year 2005 in film involved some significant events. Releases of sequels took place with movies like Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire,The Devil's Rejects, Saw II, Cheaper by the Dozen 2, ''The Ring Two, ''Star Wars Episode III: Revenge of the Sith, ''xXx: State of the Union, ''Miss Congeniality 2: Armed and Fabulous...
     (78th
    78th Academy Awards

    The 78th Academy Awards honored the 2005 in film and were held on March 5 2006 at the Kodak Theatre in Hollywood, Los Angeles, California. They were hosted by The Daily Show host Jon Stewart....
    ) Crash
    Crash (2004 film)

    Crash is a 2005 in film Cinema of the United States/Cinema of Germany drama film, written, produced, and directed by Paul Haggis. It premiered at the Toronto Film Festival in September 2004, and was released internationally in 2005....
     – Paul Haggis
    Paul Haggis

    Paul Edward Haggis is an Academy Awards-winning Canada-United States screenwriter, Film producer and film director who spent his early career producing and directing various American and Canadian television network series....
     and Bobby Moresco
    Robert Moresco

    Robert "Bobby" Moresco is a Hollywood screenwriter. His credits include 10th & Wolf and Crash , the latter of which he won an Academy Award for....
    • Good Night, and Good Luck.
      Good Night, and Good Luck.

      Good Night, and Good Luck. is a 2005 in film directed by George Clooney and written by Clooney and Grant Heslov that portrays the conflict between veteran radio and television journalist Edward R....
       – George Clooney
      George Clooney

      George Timothy Clooney is an Academy Award- and Golden Globe Award-winning United States of America actor, Film director, film producer and screenwriter....
       and Grant Heslov
      Grant Heslov

      Grant Heslov is an United States actor and Academy Awards-nominated film producer and screenwriter. His acting credits include films like True Lies, Dante's Peak, Enemy of the State , The Scorpion King and Good Night, and Good Luck. and several credits in TV series ....
    • Match Point
      Match Point

      Match Point is a dramatic thriller film written and directed by Woody Allen, and starring Jonathan Rhys Meyers, Scarlett Johansson, Emily Mortimer, Matthew Goode, Brian Cox and Penelope Wilton....
       – Woody Allen
      Woody Allen

      Woody Allen is an Cinema of the United States film director, writer, actor, comedian, musician and playwright.Allen's distinctive films, which run the gamut from dramas to Screwball comedy film, have made him one of the most respected living American directors....
    • The Squid and the Whale
      The Squid and the Whale

      The Squid and the Whale is a 2005 in film dramatic film written and directed by Noah Baumbach. It tells the semi-autobiographical story of two boys in Brooklyn dealing with their parents' divorce in the 1980s....
       – Noah Baumbach
      Noah Baumbach

      Noah Baumbach is an Academy Award-nominated United States writer, Film director and independent film auteur....
    • Syriana
      Syriana

      Syriana is a 2005 in film Geopolitics thriller film written and directed by Stephen Gaghan, and executive produced by George Clooney, who also stars in the film with an ensemble cast....
       – Stephen Gaghan
      Stephen Gaghan

      Stephen Gaghan is an Academy Award and Emmy Award-winning United States film writer and director. He is noted for writing the screenplay for Steven Soderbergh's film Traffic , based on a Channel 4 series, for which he won the Academy Award, as well as the Academy Award nominated Syriana which he directed and wrote....


  • 2006
    2006 in film

    The year '2006 in film' involved some significant events. Releases of sequels took place with Saw III, Superman Returns, Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man's Chest, Ice Age: The Meltdown, Casino Royale , Clerks II, X-Men: The Last Stand, Mission: Impossible III, Final Destination 3 and Scary Movie 4....
     (79th
    79th Academy Awards

    The 79th Academy Awards ceremony , honored the 2006 in film and took place on February 25, 2007 at the Kodak Theatre in Hollywood, Los Angeles, California on American Broadcasting Company....
    ) Little Miss Sunshine
    Little Miss Sunshine

    Little Miss Sunshine is a 2006 in film Cinema of the United States comedy-drama film, and the directorial film debut of the husband-wife team of Jonathan Dayton and Valerie Faris....
     – Michael Arndt
    Michael Arndt

    Michael Arndt is an United States screenwriter. After graduating from New York University, Arndt was a script reader for some time before choosing to write screenplays instead....
    • Babel
      Babel (2006 film)

      Babel is a 2006 film, directed by Alejandro Gonz?lez I??rritu and written by Guillermo Arriaga, starring an ensemble cast. The multi-narrative drama completes Gonz?lez I??rritu's Death Trilogy, which also consists of Amores perros and 21 Grams....
       – Guillermo Arriaga
      Guillermo Arriaga

      Guillermo Arriaga Jord?n is a Mexico author, screenwriter, Film director and film producer. He received the 2005 Cannes Film Festival Best Screenplay Award for The Three Burials of Melquiades Estrada....
    • Letters from Iwo Jima
      Letters from Iwo Jima

      is a 2006 in film war film directed and co-produced by Clint Eastwood whose cast includes Ken Watanabe and Kazunari Ninomiya. The film portrays the Battle of Iwo Jima from the perspective of the Japanese Imperial Japanese Army and is a companion piece to Eastwood's Flags of Our Fathers , which depicts the same battle from the American viewpoin...
       – Paul Haggis
      Paul Haggis

      Paul Edward Haggis is an Academy Awards-winning Canada-United States screenwriter, Film producer and film director who spent his early career producing and directing various American and Canadian television network series....
       and Iris Yamashita
      Iris Yamashita

      Iris Yamashita is an Academy Award-nominated Japanese-American screenwriter.She was hired by Clint Eastwood to write the Japanese side of the story of the Battle of Iwo Jima, once rumored to be titled Lamps Before the Wind, then called Red Sun, Black Sand, before being released as Letters from Iwo Jima....
       (screenplay and story)
    • Pan's Labyrinth (El laberinto del fauno)
      Pan's Labyrinth

      Pan's Labyrinth is a 2006 in film Spanish films of 2006 Spanish language fantasy film written and directed by Mexico film-maker Guillermo del Toro....
       – Guillermo del Toro
      Guillermo del Toro

      Guillermo del Toro G?mez is an Academy Award-nominated Mexican filmmaker. He is one of the film directors known as the Three Amigos that include Alfonso Cuar?n and Alejandro Gonz?lez I??rritu....
    • The Queen
      The Queen (film)

      The Queen is a 2006 in film United Kingdom drama film Film director by Stephen Frears, screenwriter by Peter Morgan and stars Helen Mirren in the title role, Elizabeth II of the United Kingdom....
       – Peter Morgan
      Peter Morgan (screenwriter)

      Peter Morgan is an Academy Award nominated English people screenwriter and playwright, best known for writing the plays and films The Deal , The Queen , Frost/Nixon and The Last King of Scotland....


  • 2007
    2007 in film

    The year '2007 in film' saw major releases such as Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix ,The Simpsons Movie, National Treasure: Book of Secrets, Transformers , TMNT , Saw IV, and Live Free or Die Hard as well as releases of third installment films, such as: The Bourne Ultimatum , Pirates of the Caribbean:...
     (80th
    80th Academy Awards

    The 80th Academy Awards ceremony honored the best films in 2007 in film and was broadcast from the Kodak Theatre in Hollywood, Los Angeles, California on American Broadcasting Company beginning at 5:30 p.m....
    ) Juno
    Juno (film)

    Juno is a 2007 in film Cinema of Canada-Cinema of the United States comedy-drama directed by Jason Reitman and written by Diablo Cody. Ellen Page stars as the title character, an independent-minded teenager confronting an unplanned pregnancy and the subsequent events that put pressures of adult life onto her....
     – Diablo Cody
    Diablo Cody

    Brook Busey , better known by the pen name Diablo Cody, is an American Academy Award & BAFTA-winning screenwriter, writer, blogger, journalist and author....
    • Lars and the Real Girl
      Lars and the Real Girl

      Lars and the Real Girl is a 2007 in film United States dramedy film directed by Craig Gillespie. The screenplay by Nancy Oliver focuses on a shy, lonely, socially inept young man who develops a relationship with a life-sized, anatomically-correct doll he orders Electronic commerce....
       – Nancy Oliver
      Nancy Oliver

      Nancy Oliver is an United States playwright and screenwriter. Best known for her work on the successful TV series Six Feet Under , Oliver was nominated for an Academy Award for Writing Original Screenplay in 2008 for her debut screenplay, Lars and the Real Girl....
    • Michael Clayton
      Michael Clayton (film)

      Michael Clayton is a 2007 in film United States drama film written and directed by Tony Gilroy and produced by Sydney Pollack. It stars George Clooney, Tom Wilkinson , Tilda Swinton, and Sydney Pollack....
       – Tony Gilroy
      Tony Gilroy

      Anthony Joseph Gilroy is an United States screenwriter and Film director. He wrote the screenplays for the Jason Bourne series starring Matt Damon....
    • Ratatouille
      Ratatouille (film)

      Ratatouille is a 2007 computer-animated film produced by Pixar and distributed by Walt Disney Pictures. The film was the eighth movie produced by Pixar, and was directed by Brad Bird, who took over from Jan Pinkava in 2005....
       – Brad Bird
      Brad Bird

      Phillip Bradley "Brad" Bird is a two-time Academy Award-winning United States Film director. His best known works are Walt Disney Pictures/Pixar's The Incredibles and Ratatouille ....
    • The Savages
      The Savages (film)

      The Savages is a 2007 in film Cinema of the United States comedy-drama film, written and directed by Tamara Jenkins. It stars Philip Seymour Hoffman and Laura Linney and premiered at the Sundance Film Festival....
       – Tamara Jenkins
      Tamara Jenkins

      Tamara Jenkins is an Academy Award-nominated screenwriter, actress and Film director. She is best known for her two feature films, Slums of Beverly Hills and The Savages ....


  • 2008
    2008 in film

    The year '2008 in film' saw many new films released worldwide, including several major mainstream sequels such as Rambo , The Chronicles of Narnia: Prince Caspian, Harold & Kumar Escape from Guantanamo Bay, Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull, Hellboy II: The Golden Army, The Dark Knight , The X-Files: I...
     (81st
    81st Academy Awards

    The 81st Academy Awards ceremony was held by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences to honor its selection of the best 2008 in film on February 22, 2009, at the Kodak Theatre in Los Angeles, California....
    ) Milk
    Milk (film)

    Milk is a 2008 in film biographical film on the life of gay rights activist and politician Harvey Milk, who was the first openly gay man to be elected to public office in California as a member of the San Francisco Board of Supervisors....
     - Dustin Lance Black
    Dustin Lance Black

    Dustin "Lance" Black is an Academy Award and two-time WGA awards winning United States screenwriter, film director, film producer and television producer, and gay activist best known for his work on the television series Big Love and the 2008 in film Milk ....
    • Frozen River
      Frozen River

      Frozen River is a 2008 drama film written and directed by Courtney Hunt . The film stars Melissa Leo and Misty Upham as working class women who turn to illegal immigrant smuggling to make ends meet....
       – Courtney Hunt
      Courtney Hunt

      Courtney Hunt is an Academy Award-nominated USA screenwriter and film director. She has received much critical acclaim for debut film, Frozen River, for which she has gained an Academy Award nomination, two Independent Spirit nominations, and a Satellite Award nod for the film....
    • Happy-Go-Lucky
      Happy-Go-Lucky

      Happy-Go-Lucky is a 2008 in film British comedy film, directed by Mike Leigh. The film was made in 2007 and released on 18 April 2008. The film is Leigh's first film shot in widescreen....
       – Mike Leigh
      Mike Leigh

      Mike Leigh, Order of the British Empire is an England writer and director of film and theatre. He studied theatre at the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art and did his early acting with the Royal Shakespeare Company ....
    • In Bruges
      In Bruges

      In Bruges is a 2008 in film film directed and written by Martin McDonagh. The film stars Colin Farrell and Brendan Gleeson as hitmen in hiding, with Ralph Fiennes as their gangster boss....
       – Martin McDonagh
      Martin McDonagh

      Martin McDonagh is a contemporary English-born Irish people playwright and film director....
    • WALL-E
      WALL-E

      WALL-E is a 2008 in film computer animation science fiction film produced by Pixar Animation Studios. The film was directed by Andrew Stanton....
       – Andrew Stanton
      Andrew Stanton

      Andrew Christopher Stanton Jr. is an American film director, screenwriter, Film Producer, and occasional voice actor based at Pixar. His most notable film work includes writing and directing Finding Nemo and WALL-E, both of which earned him Academy Awards....
      , Jim Reardon
      Jim Reardon

      Jim Reardon is an animation director and storyboard consultant, best known for his work on the animated TV series The Simpsons. He has directed over 30 episodes of the series, and was credited as a supervising director for seasons 9 through 15....
       and Pete Docter


See also

  • Academy Awards
    Academy Awards

    The Academy Awards, popularly known as the Oscars, are presented annually by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences to recognize excellence of professionals in the film industry, including directors, actors, and writers....
  • List of Academy Awards ceremonies
    List of Academy Awards ceremonies

    This is a list of Academy Awards ceremonies complete with date of each event, list of years in film, ceremony host, and the Academy Award for Best Picture award winner....
  • Academy Award for Writing Adapted Screenplay
    Academy Award for Writing Adapted Screenplay

    The Academy Award for Writing Adapted Screenplay is one of the Academy Awards, the most prominent film awards in the United States. It is awarded each year to the screenwriter of a Adapted_screenplay from another source ....
  • Academy Award for Best Story
    Academy Award for Best Story

    The Academy Award for Best Story was an Academy Awards given from the beginning of the Academy Awards until 1957, when it was eliminated in favor of the Academy Award for Writing Original Screenplay, which had been introduced in 1940....


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