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In one memorable scene, New Yorkers all over the city open their windows and shout that warning en masse. Social satire has never been a rarer commodity in American films than today, and Chayefsky’s Swiftian ferocity exhilarates audiences. —Paddy Chayefsky: The Agonies of a Screenwriter by Robert F. Moss, The Saturday Review, May 1981
Sidney Aaron "Paddy" Chayefsky was an American playwright, screenwriter, and novelist. He is the only person to have won three solo Academy Awards for Best Screenplay for "Marty" (1955), "The Hospital" (1971), and "Network" (1976). He is the only person to have won both the Academy Awards for adapted and original screenplays. He was one of the most renowned dramatists of the Golden Age of Television. His intimate, realistic scripts provided a naturalistic style of television drama for the ...
Biography. Arguably the most influential writer to emerge from the Golden Age of television, screenwriter and playwright Paddy Chayefsky demonstrated an informed respect for common people and their everyday problems in a social realism that proved ideal for the new medium. But ultimately it was his scathing satirical bite demonstrated in "The ...
Jan 14, 2024 · Paddy Chayefsky’s inspired, cutting screenplay (for which he also won the Oscar, becoming the only person to win three solo screenwriting Academy Awards), is blackly comic, consistently aware of outside politics and influences (such as the Arab oil boycott of the 70s, which plays into the film’s plot), and of growing audience savviness to the disconnectedness of the corporate billionaires who run our lives.
Paddy Chayefsky was an American playwright, screenwriter, and novelist born on January 29, 1923, in The Bronx, New York. He is best known for his work on the stage and screen, including the films ...
Network (1976 film) Network. (1976 film) Network is a 1976 American satirical black comedy - drama film directed by Sidney Lumet and written by Paddy Chayefsky. It is about a fictional television network and its struggle with poor ratings. The film stars Faye Dunaway, William Holden, Peter Finch (in his final film role), Robert Duvall, Wesley ...
Jan 19, 2022 · Paddy Chayefsky. 4.27. 15 ratings0 reviews. Edward Jessup, a young psycho-physiologist, experiments with different states of consciousness, obsessed with an addiction to truth and knowledge. He injects himself with psychedelic drugs, lies locked in an isolation tank and experiences all the stages of pre-human consciousness until finally ...
