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Writing (Screenplay--based on material from another medium) - Walter Newman, Frank R. Pierson
Feb 5, 2014 · WRITING (Story and Screenplay–written directly for the screen) Blow-Up – Michelangelo Antonioni, Tonino Guerra, Edward Bond The Fortune Cookie – Billy Wilder, I. A. L. Diamond
Feb 9, 2020 · The Academy Award for Best Adapted Screenplay is given each year to a script “based on material from another medium.” That other medium being adapted is often a novel ( The Lord of the Rings ), a stage production ( Fences ), or another film ( A Star is Born ).
The Sound of Music was the first Best Picture winner without a screenwriting nomination since Hamlet, and would be the last until Titanic at the 70th Academy Awards. Othello became the third film (of four to date) to receive four acting nominations without one for Best Picture.
* Writing (Screenplay--based on material from another medium) - Robert Bolt Actor in a Supporting Role - Robert Shaw Actress in a Supporting Role - Wendy Hiller
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. Beginning with the Oscars for 1957, the two categories were combined to honor only the ...
in 1957, the modern division of the award into "original" and "adapted" screenplays was finally implemented - with only two renamed categories: Best Screenplay - Based on Material From Another Medium (Adapted Screenplay) and Best Story and Screenplay Written Directly for the Screen (Original Screenplay); the category of Best Motion Picture ...
