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Oct 20, 2016 · This multiple Academy Award, BAFTA Award, and WGA Award winning writer was interviewed by Barbara Corday on May 20, 2008. Alvin Sargent is a screenwriter who's known for his work on film ...
Dec 31, 2017 · Conversation with veteran screenwriter whose movie credits run the gamut from Paper Moon and Ordinary People to Spider-Man 2 and Spider-Man 3. Alvin Sargent. From the Writers Guild Foundation series ‘The Writer Speaks’, an hour-long interview with one of the most notable screenwriters in Hollywood: Alvin Sargent.
Sep 11, 2019 · One screenwriter shared a picture of where Sargent kept his Oscars, in a plastic storage bin labeled ALVIN’S AWARDS, which he kept up on a shelf in his garage. Sargent was also famous for saying that his tombstone would one day read, “Finally, a plot.”
May 11, 2019 · The act of writing was always a struggle for Sargent, or so he repeatedly said in interviews. He would begin with ideas for scenes, clearly imagined in his own head, or situations of “people...
Alvin Sargent (April 12, 1927 – May 9, 2019) was an American screenwriter. He won two Academy Awards for Best Adapted Screenplay , for Julia (1977), and Ordinary People (1980). Sargent's other works include screenplays of the films The Sterile Cuckoo (1969), The Effect of Gamma Rays on Man-in-the-Moon Marigolds (1970), Paper Moon (1973), Nuts ...
May 10, 2019 · By Chris Koseluk. May 10, 2019 6:17pm. Stephen Shugerman/Getty. Alvin Sargent, the master of the adapted screenplay who won Oscars for Julia and Ordinary People in a fabled career that ran the...
May 13, 2019 · “When I started doing this stuff for a living back in the late ’70s,” tweets screenwriter and producer Larry Gross (48 Hrs., Porto), “Alvin Sargent was almost universally regarded by writers, producers, agents, everybody in Hollywood as the gold standard for serious, creative screenwriting.”
