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Michael Blake was an American author and screenwriter, best known for the film adaptation of his novel Dances with Wolves, for which he won an Oscar. He also wrote other novels, non-fiction books, and humanitarian works, and died in 2015.
Michael Blake is an American politician and former Vice Chair of the Democratic National Committee. He served as a New York Assemblyman from 2015 to 2021 and ran for New York City Public Advocate and U.S. House of Representatives.
May 5, 2015 · Michael Blake, who had been washing dishes in a Chinese restaurant when an old friend, Kevin Costner, asked him to adapt his own novel into a screenplay, which became the Oscar-winning script for...
May 10, 2015 · Michael Blake, who has died of cancer at the age of 69, was a writer whose novel Dances With Wolves became a hit film that earned him an Academy Award for the screenplay. He wrote the book at...
May 2, 2015 · Michael Blake, who won an Academy Award for adapting the screenplay for Dances With Wolves from his own novel, has died. He was 69. Blake died peacefully after a lengthy illness on Saturday in...
May 2, 2015 · Michael Blake was a novelist and screenwriter who won an Oscar for his adaptation of his own book Dances with Wolves. He wrote several other novels, mostly set in the American West, and died in 2015.
Learn how Michael Blake wrote the novel and co-produced the movie Dances With Wolves, a historical epic about Native Americans and the Civil War. Discover the challenges, the triumphs and the legacy of this groundbreaking film that won seven Oscars and changed Hollywood.
