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Apr 14, 2017 · On this day in 1969 Mel Brooks took home the Oscar for Writing (Story and Screenplay Written Directly for the Screen) for The Producers at the 41st Academy Awards.
Memorable Moments. Mike Nichols. Best Directing winner for The Gradaute, with presenter Leslie Caron. In the Heat of the Night. Film Editing winner Hal Ashby, director Norman Jewison, Best Actor Rod Steiger and Best Picture-winning producer Walter Mirisch. Gregory Peck. Jean Hersholt Humanitarian Award recipient, with presenter Rosalind Russell.
* Writing (Story and Screenplay--written directly for the screen) - Billy Wilder, I. A. L. Diamond Actor - Jack Lemmon Actor in a Supporting Role - Jack Kruschen Actress - Shirley MacLaine Cinematography (Black-and-White) - Joseph LaShelle
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Get Out. by Jordan Peele. Call Me By Your Name. by James Ivory (Based on the novel by André Aciman) 2016. Manchester By The Sea. by Kenneth Lonergan. Moonlight. by Barry Jenkins (screenplay) and Tarell Alvin McCraney (story)
Feb 5, 2014 · WRITING (Screenplay–based on material from another medium) Cool Hand Luke – Donn Pearce, Frank R. Pierson The Graduate – Calder Willingham, Buck Henry In Cold Blood – Richard Brooks In the Heat of the Night – Stirling Silliphant Ulysses – Joseph Strick, Fred Haines. WRITING (Story and Screenplay–written directly for the screen)
It honors outstanding achievement by screenwriters for an original screenplay (not one adapted from another work, such as a play or novel) from a given year, as determined by the academy’s voting members. At the inaugural Academy Awards ceremony, in 1929, the award recognized the work in films released from August 1, 1927, to August 1, 1928.
