Billy Wilder & this actor-director are tied for the most Best Original Screenplay nominations:  12 apiece
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The Year in Film: 1960 | News from the Boston Becks  Jul 11, 2010 ... Best Picture: The Apartment; Best Director: Billy Wilder (The Apartment) ... Best Original Screenplay: The Apartment; Best Foreign Film: The Virgin Spring .... 12 different films win Oscars, a number that, while tied several times, won't ... Gantry lead the Golden Globes with 5 nominations apiece, but each only...
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Academy Award for Best Original Screenplay - Wikipedia  The Academy Award for Best Original Screenplay is the Academy Award for the best script not ... Woody Allen has the most nominations in this category with 16, and the most ... Screenwriter and director Billy Wilder (right) received two awards in this ...... Actor  Supporting Actress  Adapted Screenplay; Original Screenplay...
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List of awards and nominations received by Woody Allen - Wikipedia  Throughout his career, American film director, writer, and actor Woody Allen has won numerous ... Allen has won four Academy Awards: three for Best Original Screenplay ... He has more screenwriting Academy Award nominations than any other writer; ... He is tied for third all-time with seven Best Director nominations.
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OSCARS LISTS: RECORDS AND CURIOSITIES - EUdesign  TITANIC shares a different record for most nominations (14 out of 17 possible) ... for 1982, including Best Film, Best Director, Best Original Screenplay, Best Actor. ..... for Best Picture, Directing and Screenplay on the same night: BILLY WILDER, ... The 1968 Oscar awards ceremony was noteable for producing the only tie in...
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The History of the Academy Awards: Best Director (ranked #50  26 ...  Jun 3, 2013 ... All sixteen directors who directed more than six great films are in the final ... also Pat Garrett and Billy the Kid and The Friends of Eddie Coyle. .... it Picture, Director, Screenplay, Actor and Actress nominations. ... year and definitely deserved her win for Best Original Screenplay. ...... 5 June, 2013 at 12:38 am.
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Sunset Boulevard (film) - Wikipedia  Sunset Boulevard is a 1950 American film noir directed and co-written by Billy Wilder, and produced and co-written by Charles Brackett. It was named after the...
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AFI's 100 Greatest American Movies - Greatest Films  AFI's 100 Greatest American Films - 1998 List See also AFI's 100 Greatest American Films - 10th Anniversary Edition (2007) ... 29. Mr. Smith Goes to Washington (1939) ... Alfred Hitchcock and Billy Wilder each directed four films on the list. ..... The highest ranking film that won no Oscars was # 10, Singin' In The Rain (1952).
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IMDb: Oscar-nominated Directors - a list by spearsdw  Oct 1, 2012 ... The most internationally acclaimed Spanish filmmaker since Luis .... Considered one of Australia's "New Wave" directors. ... Award-winning film writer who also earned six Oscar nominations and ... But his biggest success was The Deer Hunter which won the Oscar ..... He made his directorial debut in 1932.
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Mel Brooks Wins Original Screenplay: 1969 Oscars - YouTube  Jan 9, 2013 - 4 min - Uploaded by OscarsMel Brooks wins the Oscar for Writing (Story and Screenplay Written Directly for  the ...
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101 Funniest Screenplays | Writers Guild of America East  Nov 11, 2015 ... I felt many of the people in the audience had the same feelings and the same problems. ... fails to capture what madeTootsie feel hilarious and monumental. ... My job was to make him more subtle, Wilder told Newsweek in 1975, ...... seen in dramatic roles, half-resurrected The Three Stooges as two...
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2005 Academy Awards Winners and History - Greatest Films  Four of the five Best Picture nominees were independently financed, including the .... three wins for Best Director, Best Adapted Screenplay and Best Original Score), ... Best Picture and Director wins than previous Oscar winners Schindler's List (1993) ... his 1966 'non-fiction' book In Cold Blood (later made into the noted film...
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A 'Bridge' too far? Not when it's as good as Wilder's novel - The ...  The Bridge of San Luis Rey, Wilder's second novel, tells the story of five ... preferably one which shall best present the whole atmosphere of American life. ... Fackenthal sent Wilder a confidential note advising him that he had won the 1928 prize. ... Thornton Wilder went on to win two more Pulitzer Prizes in Drama, for Our...
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1960 Academy Awards Winners and History - Greatest Films  The Best Picture Award winner was director/producer/writer Billy Wilder's cynical and risque black and white comedy/tragi-drama The ... The last time a triple win had occurred was director Leo McCarey's win for Going My Way (1944), but in...
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regarding: Adaptation weblog - about a movie by ... - Susan Orlean  David Poland might not have been far off the mark when he said that the ... After the film, Susan, Spike, and Charlie answered some questions. ... Oscar buzz begins :: The SF Chronicle's Edward Guthmann gets the Oscar buzz for Adaptation going ... but the real Charlie Kaufman has a great shot at best adapted screenplay.
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Mr. Saturday Night's Writers: Funny All Week - People  Oct 19, 1992 ... Co-scriptwriter Lowell Ganz was deep into Dickens's Little Dorrit. ... His partner, Babaloo Mandel, was reading a biography, Billy Wilder in ... says Parenthood producer Brian Grazer, who also did Night Shift and Splash with the pair's scripts. If any director wants a really funny movie, it's an automatic call:...
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Splendor in the Grass (1961) - Greatest Films  Splendor in the Grass (1961) is another of director Elia Kazan's dramatic, ... from Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright William Inge's original screenplay - it was Inge's ... (and the film's sole Oscar) for the Best Original Story and Screenplay for his ... such as Picnic (1955) (another filming of a William Inge play), Rebel Without a...
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Robert Altman, Director With Daring, Dies at 81 - The New York Times  Nov 22, 2006 ... The film was nominated for five Academy Awards, including one for ... director and two for producing best-picture nominees, Nashville and ... The only Oscar he received, however, was the honorary one in March. ... I got interested in the project because I don't like westerns, Mr. ..... Go to the previous story...
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Young Frankenstein (1974) - IMDb  Comedy  An American grandson of the infamous scientist, struggling to prove that he is not as ... With Gene Wilder, Madeline Kahn, Marty Feldman, Peter Boyle. ... Gene Wilder (screen story and screenplay), Mel Brooks (screen story and screenplay) | 1 more ... Nominated for 2 Oscars. ... People who liked this also liked.
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Gandhi: 1982 Best Picture  Fikkle Fame  Sep 4, 2014 ... Gandhi won 8 Oscars, including Best Picture, Best Director and Best Actor, at the 55th Academy Awards. ... MOVIES $200: Dustin Hoffman & Alec Guinness were considered for this role that won an Oscar for Ben Kingsley
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Academy Award for Best Original Screenplay - Wikipedia  [edit]. Winners are listed first in colored row, followed by the other nominees. ... Woody Allen earned three Original Screenplay Oscars, for Annie Hall (along with Marshall ... Jane Campion during an interview at a 2010 film festival. ... Alan Ball won in 2000 for 1999's American Beauty.
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TRACK THE FILMS YOU WATCH (2012) in Classic Horror on DVD and Blu ...  Dec 18, 2011 ... HAIRSPRAY (2007) *** ..... After being told by Billy Wilder that he should direct the film himself, .... At the beginning of the film, a director, an actress and a writer are .... couple from this film, are totally engaging, as is the rest of the cast. ..... The young man shoots the stranger with his own gun, but when the...