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* Writing (Screenplay Written Directly for the Screen) - Steve Tesich Actress in a Supporting Role - Barbara Barrie Directing - Peter Yates Music (Original Song Score and Its Adaptation -or- Adaptation Score) - Adaptation Score by Patrick Williams Best Picture - Peter Yates, Producer
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. Beginning with the Oscars for 1957, the two categories were combined to honor only the ...
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Coal Miner’s Daughter – Bernard Schwartz The Elephant Man – Jonathan Sanger Ordinary People – Ronald L. Schwary Raging Bull – Irwin Winkler, Robert Chartoff Tess– Claude Berri, Timothy Burrill
The Elephant Man – David Lynch Ordinary People – Robert Redford Raging Bull – Martin Scorsese The Stunt Man – Richard Rush Tess– Roman Polanski
Robert De Niro – Raging Bull Robert Duvall – The Great Santini John Hurt – The Elephant Man Jack Lemmon – Tribute Peter O’Toole – The Stunt Man
Ellen Burstyn – Resurrection Goldie Hawn – Private Benjamin Mary Tyler Moore – Ordinary People Gena Rowlands – Gloria Sissy Spacek – Coal Miner’s Daughter
Judd Hirsch – Ordinary People Timothy Hutton – Ordinary People Michael O’Keefe – The Great Santini Joe Pesci – Raging Bull Jason Robards – Melvin and Howard
Eileen Brennan – Private Benjamin Eva Le Gallienne – Resurrection Cathy Moriarty – Raging Bull Diana Scarwid – Inside Moves Mary Steenburgen – Melvin and Howard
Breaker Morant – Jonathan Hardy, David Stevens, Bruce Beresford Coal Miner’s Daughter – Tom Rickman The Elephant Man – Christopher DeVore, Eric Bergren, David Lynch Ordinary People – Alvin Sargent The Stunt Man– Lawrence B. Marcus, Richard Rush
“Fame” – Fame – Music by Michael Gore; Lyric by Dean Pitchford “Nine To Five” – Nine to Five – Music, Lyric by Dolly Parton “On The Road Again” – Honeysuckle Rose – Music, Lyric by Willie Nelson “Out Here On My Own” – Fame – Music by Michael Gore; Lyric by Lesley Gore “People Alone” – The Competition– Music by Lalo Schifrin; Lyric by Wilbur Jenning...
Coal Miner’s Daughter – Arthur Schmidt The Competition – David Blewitt The Elephant Man – Anne V. Coates Fame – Gerry Hambling Raging Bull– Thelma Schoonmaker
The Blue Lagoon – Nestor Almendros Coal Miner’s Daughter – Ralf D. Bode The Formula – James Crabe Raging Bull – Michael Chapman Tess– Geoffrey Unsworth, Ghislain Cloquet
8 wins & 16 nominations. Academy Awards, USA. 1981 Nominee Oscar. Best Writing, Screenplay Written Directly for the Screen. Christopher Gore. 1981 Nominee Oscar. Best Sound. Michael J. Kohut. Aaron Rochin. Jay M. Harding. Christopher Newman. 1981 Nominee Oscar. Best Film Editing. Gerry Hambling. 1981 Winner Oscar. Best Music, Original Song.
Starting with the 13th ceremony (1940), original writing received two awards, one for best original story and one for best original screenplay, with the exception of the 21st ceremony (1948), wherein only one award was given, for best screenplay.
- The Editors of Encyclopaedia Britannica
Writing (Screenplay Written Directly for the Screen) - Screenplay by W. D. Richter; Story by W. D. Richter, Arthur Ross C 7 NOMINATIONS, 1 WIN
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Won by Herman J. Mankiewicz and Orson Welles. These are all the movies that won the Oscar for Best Original Screenplay (aka Screenplay Written Directly for the Screen). The writers that won the Oscar are listed in the description. The category was first given out in 1940, and it became one of the two screenplay categories now given after the ...
