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  2. 5 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 .

  3. May 9, 2024 · 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).

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  4. May 15, 2024 · 4.4K votes. 619 voters. 2 reranks. 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.

  5. 2 days ago · By staying true to McCarthy’s vision while making strategic adjustments for the screen, “No Country for Old Men” earned widespread praise and won four Academy Awards, including Best Picture and Best Adapted Screenplay. “The Social Network” (2010): Directed by David Fincher and written by Aaron Sorkin, “The Social Network ...

  6. 2 days ago · Titanic (1997 film) Titanic. (1997 film) Titanic is a 1997 American epic romantic disaster film directed, written, produced, and co-edited by James Cameron. Incorporating both historical and fictionalized aspects, it is based on accounts of the sinking of RMS Titanic in 1912. Leonardo DiCaprio and Kate Winslet star as members of different ...

  7. 5 days ago · Academy Award for Best Adapted Screenplay; Country: United States: Presented by: Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences (AMPAS) First awarded: 1929: Most recent winner: Cord Jefferson, American Fiction : Website: oscars.org

  8. 2 days ago · Ben Affleck is American actor and filmmaker who starred in action, drama, and comedy films and gained renown as a screenwriter, director, and producer. He and Matt Damon won the Oscar for best original screenplay for Good Will Hunting (1997), and Affleck later earned acclaim for The Town (2010) and Argo (2012).