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2 days ago · 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.
5 hours ago · Awards won: Gordon won Best Actress in a Supporting Role and Polanski won Best Writing, Screenplay Based on Material from Another Medium at the 1969 Oscars. Farrow won Best Actress at the 1969 BAFTA Awards.
15 hours ago · The Color Purple is a 1985 American epic coming-of-age period drama film directed by Steven Spielberg and written by Menno Meyjes.It is based on the Pulitzer Prize–winning 1982 novel of the same name by Alice Walker and was Spielberg's eighth film as a director, marking a turning point in his career as it was a departure from the summer blockbusters for which he had become known.
4 days ago · The eleventh Oscar for which "West Side Story" was nominated was Best Writing, Screenplay Based on Material from Another Medium.
2 days ago · "Servicing the Future" (This Film's Significance to Linklater's Career): SubUrbia marks the first time Linklater directed a film that he didn't write, and Eric Bogosian's grim script is a bad match for the director's style. It wouldn't be the last time Linklater would film someone else's words, but at least future endeavors would be more watchable.
5 days ago · "Precious" (based on the novel "Push" by Sapphire) won him an Academy Award for Best Adapted Screenplay in 2010. He was the first African-American to ever win an Oscar for writing.
3 days ago · Recent successful recreations of this type include features such as Ridley Scott’s Academy Award-winning film Gladiator (2000), Zack Snyder’s blockbuster 300 (2007), and Brett Ratner’s popular hit Hercules (2014); on television, the most costly and critically lauded is the HBO premium cable series, Rome (2005–2007), and the most ambitious is the multiple-season run of the brawny STARZ series Spartacus (2010–2013). Such recreations—whether set in a more or less authentic ...
