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- Divorce Italian Style, or Divorzio all’italiana, was the third foreign language film to win the Academy Award for Best Original Screenplay. The script features some brilliant dialogue, and a clearly defined story arc.
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Feb 5, 2014 · WRITING (Original Story) Bachelor Mother – Felix Jackson Love Affair – Mildred Cram, Leo McCarey Mr. Smith Goes to Washington – Lewis R. Foster Ninotchka – Melchior Lengyel Young Mr. Lincoln – Lamar Trotti. WRITING (Screenplay) Gone with the Wind – Sidney Howard Goodbye, Mr. Chips – R. C. Sherriff, Claudine West, Eric Maschwitz
* Writing (Original Story) - Dore Schary, Eleanore Griffin Directing - Norman Taurog Outstanding Production - Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Writing (Screenplay) - John Meehan, Dore Schary
The 12th Academy Awards ceremony, held on February 29, 1940 by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences (AMPAS), honored the best in film for 1939 at a banquet in the Coconut Grove at The Ambassador Hotel in Los Angeles. It was hosted by Bob Hope, in his first of nineteen turns as host.
in 1940, the Academy started a new category - Best Original Screenplay, in addition to the other two categories: Best Original Story and Best Screenplay (adaptation). Best Original Story was intended to give credit to the authors of performance works (not novels) that films were based on.
1927–28: original story: Ben Hecht ( Underworld ); title writing: Joseph Farnham (no specific film was mentioned); special award: Charles Chaplin for acting, writing, directing, and producing The Circus. 1928–29: none. 1929–30: writing: Frances Marion ( The Big House) 1930–31: original story: John Monk Saunders ( The Dawn Patrol)
- The Editors of Encyclopaedia Britannica
Bette Davis in Dark Victory, Warner Bros.-. First National. Irene Dunne in Love Affair, RKO Radio. Greta Garbo in Ninotchka, Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer. Greer Garson in Goodbye, Mr. Chips, Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer. (UK) Vivien Leigh in Gone with the Wind, Selznick International Pictures; Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer.
Screenwriter Lamar Trotti was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Writing/Original Story . In 2003, Young Mr. Lincoln was selected for preservation in the United States National Film Registry by the Library of Congress as being "culturally, historically, or aesthetically significant". Plot.
