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Writing (Screenplay Adapted from Other Material) - Screenplay by Mordecai Richler; Adaptation by Lionel Chetwynd
Feb 5, 2014 · BEST PICTURE. Barry Lyndon – Stanley Kubrick. Dog Day Afternoon – Martin Bregman, Martin Elfand. Jaws – Richard D. Zanuck, David Brown. Nashville – Robert Altman. One Flew over the Cuckoo’s Nest – Saul Zaentz, Michael Douglas.
award presented annually by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences, located in Beverly Hills, California. It honors outstanding achievement by screenwriters for a screenplay adapted from another work, such as a play or novel, from a given year, as determined by the academy’s voting members.
The 48th Academy Awards were presented Monday, March 29, 1976, at the Dorothy Chandler Pavilion in Los Angeles, California. The ceremonies were presided over by Walter Matthau , Robert Shaw , George Segal , Goldie Hawn , and Gene Kelly .
The Godfather Part II also won Academy Awards for Best Supporting Actor (Robert De Niro), Art Direction-Set Decoration (Dean Tavoularis, Angelo Graham, and George R. Nelson), Directing (Francis Ford Coppola), Music – Original Dramatic Score (Nino Rota and Carmine Coppola), and Writing – Screenplay adapted from other material (Francis Ford ...
The Academy Award for Best Adapted Screenplay is the Academy Award for the best screenplay adapted from previously established material. The most frequently adapted media are novels, but other adapted narrative formats include stage plays, musicals, short stories, TV series, and other films and film characters.
Jun 1, 2024 · Every year the Academy evaluates a year's worth of brilliant original screenplays and picks what they believe to be the best of the best, nominating these for the most prestigious writing awards in cinema: the Oscars. This in itself is an honor - just to be nominated for an Academy Award.
