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UCLA. Notable works. Slap Shot (1977) Coming Home (1978) Notable awards. Academy Award. Best Original Screenplay. 1979 Coming Home. Nancy Dowd (born 1945) is an Academy Award-winning screenwriter whose credits include the films Slap Shot and Coming Home.
Nancy Dowd is an Oscar-winning writer and director, known for Slap Shot, Coming Home and Love. She was born in 1945 in Framingham, Massachusetts, USA and has a brother named Ned Dowd.
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Feb 19, 2024 · She asked for Ned’s help. Nancy Dowd had shadowed Ned’s team, the Johnstown Jets, for a month during the 1974-75 season of the North American Hockey League (NAHL), about the lowest rung of the...
Nancy Dowd is a writer and director of Slap Shot (1977), Coming Home (1978) and Love (1982). She was born in 1945 in Framingham, Massachusetts, USA and is the sister of Ned Dowd.
Slap Shot is a 1977 American sports comedy film directed by George Roy Hill, written by Nancy Dowd and starring Paul Newman and Michael Ontkean. It depicts a minor league ice hockey team that resorts to violent play to gain popularity in a declining factory town.
Breakout Female Screenwriter of the 70’s. After graduating from Smith College, Nancy enrolls at UCLA determined to forge a career writing for film. Not only does she succeed, she ends up writing some of the most renowned films of the 70s and 80s, and even winning an Oscar for her first feature script COMING HOME, but while the original script ...
Oct 26, 2023 · Nancy Dowd is a female screenwriter who penned some of the most memorable films of the 1970s and 1980s, such as Slap Shot, Coming Home, and Ladies And Gentlemen, The Fabulous Stains. She won an Oscar for Coming Home, but her work is often overlooked or uncredited, despite its wit, sensitivity, and social commentary.
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