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Alvin Sargent (April 12, 1927 - May 9, 2019) was an American screenwriter. He has won two Academy Awards in 1978 and 1981 for his screenplays of Julia and Ordinary People. His most popular contribution has been being involved in the writing of most of the films in Sony's Spider-Man film series (The Amazing Spider-Man 2 is the first exception to ...
Alvin Sargent (April 12, 1927 – May 9, 2019) was an American screenwriter. He won two Academy Awards in 1978 and 1981 for his screenplays of Julia and Ordinary People . Sargent died on May 9, 2019 in Seattle , Washington at the age of 92.
May 10, 2019 · Alvin Sargent, who won Oscars for writing Ordinary People and Julia and was nominated for Paper Moon, has died of natural causes in Seattle. He was 92. Sargent also won WGA Awards for all three of ...
May 13, 2019 · Alvin Sargent, a Hollywood screenwriter who specialized in haunting explorations of characters’ insecurities and imperfections, and who won Academy Awards for “Julia” and “Ordinary People ...
May 11, 2019 · Alvin Sargent, a versatile and prolific screenwriter whose work spanned a wide range of genres and who won two Oscars for the films “Julia” and “Ordinary People,” has died at age 92.
Sep 11, 2019 · Sargent was also famous for saying that his tombstone would one day read, “Finally, a plot.” Thankfully his epitaph is so much more than that. Alvin Sargent on Writing. I was fortunate to interview Alvin Sargent several times for Creative Screenwriting and Script magazine. I learned some valuable writing advice that I still carry with me ...
Philadelphia-born Alvin Sargent was in his mid-30s when he began his career as a screenwriter. He honed his craft penning teleplays for such early 1960s series as "Alfred Hitchcock Presents ...
