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Memorable Moments. Jack Lemmon, Jo Van Fleet and Ernest Borgnine. Supporting Actor winner for Mister Roberts, Supporting Actress winner for East of Eden, and Best Actor winner for Marty. Helen Keller in Her Story. Helen Keller, posing with the Documentary Feature award. Joseph L. Mankiewicz and Claudette Colbert.
Apr 3, 2021 · Paddy Chayefsky won two Academy Awards for Best Original Screenplay (The Hospital and Network), as well as one Academy Award for Best Adapted Screenplay (Marty).
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 .
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 28th Academy Awards were held on March 21, 1956 to honor the films of 1955, at the RKO Pantages Theatre in Los Angeles, California. In this year, Jerry Lewis became the host, replacing Bob Hope .
Oscars® Ceremonies. 1956. The 28th Academy Awards Memorable Moments. Best Picture: Marty. Marty also won Academy Awards for Best Actor (Ernest Borgnine), Directing (Delbert Mann), and Writing – Screenplay (Paddy Chayefsky). James Dean was the first actor posthumously nominated for an Academy Award.
Paradoxically, the 34 minute film also won the Best Writing: Original Screenplay Oscar -- without a single line of dialogue. The charming foreign film was the shortest film ever to win a screenplay award -- under Academy rules, that made it a live action short subject film.
