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  1. 2 days ago · The Academy Award for Best Original Screenplay is the Academy Award (also known as an Oscar) for the best screenplay not based upon previously published material. It was created in 1940 as a separate writing award from the Academy Award for Best Story.

  2. 2 days ago · 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.

  3. 4 days ago · With a script written by Academy-Award-winning screenwriter Stirling Silliphant, who found Chandler’s source material outdated and thus wrote 90% of the dialogue himself, Marlowe is a film that not only had its theme song performed by the pop-rock group Orpheus, but is also remembered as Bruce Lee’s first American movie.

  4. Aug 22, 2024 · The winning screenwriters are given a gold-plated statuette known as an Oscar. Woody Allen has won the most Academy Awards for best original screenplay (three). Below is a list of the winning screenwriters and the films for which they won. The years indicate when the eligible films were released.

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  5. 1 day ago · It garnered seven nominations at the 68th Academy Awards ceremony, where Thompson received the Award for Best Screenplay Based on Material Previously Produced or Published, [170] making her the only person to have won an Oscar for both her writing and acting (Thompson won the Best Actress award for Howards End, in 1993).

  6. Aug 28, 2024 · Tucson-born Cord Jefferson won an Academy Award Sunday for best adapted screenplay for writing “American Fiction,” his first film. Jefferson also directed the film. That was a first for him...

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  8. 1 day ago · Matt Damon (born October 8, 1970, Cambridge, Massachusetts, U.S.) is an American actor, screenwriter, and producer who was noted for his clean-cut good looks and intelligent performances. He won an Academy Award for best original screenplay for Good Will Hunting (1997).