Alfred Uhry is the only person to win an Oscar for an adaptation of his own Pulitzer Prize-winning play--this one
567358
Alfred Uhry - Wikipedia  Alfred Fox Uhry (born December 3, 1936) is an American playwright, screenwriter, and member of the Fellowship of Southern Writers. He is one of very few writers to receive an Academy Award, Tony Award (2) and the Pulitzer Prize for dramatic writing. ... During his first years in New York City, learning the craft of lyric-writing, Uhry...
567359
The Oscars Library: The Books Behind Hollywood's Best ... - AbeBooks  A list of the exceptional books behind Oscar-winning films going back to 1928. ... deal gone wrong, is his only book-to-movie to win an Oscar for Best Picture. ... as her driver Hoke Colburn is based on the play Driving Miss Daisy by Alfred Uhry. ... in the film adaptation of Terms of Endearment by Pulitzer Prize-winning author...
567360
Driving Miss Daisy: 1989 Best Picture  Fikkle Fame  Sep 11, 2014 ... Daniel Day-Lewis won Best Actor for his portrayal of Christy Brown in My Left Foot ... MOVIE PEOPLE $2000: Alfred Uhry is the only person to win an Oscar for an adaptation of his own Pulitzer Prize-winning playthis one
567361
'Driving Miss Daisy' Wins 4 Oscars, Including One for Jessica Tandy ...  Mar 27, 1990 ... 'Driving Miss Daisy' Wins 4 Oscars, Including One for Jessica Tandy ... There was also an Oscar for Alfred Uhry for his screenplay for ''Miss Daisy,'' which he ... The film, adapted from Alfred Uhry's Pulitzer Prize-winning play, portrayed ... that ''I'm the only person in the world who claims never to have met him.
567362
The New York Times: Best Pictures  Past Winners ... To a theatergoer who has seen Alfred Uhry's Pulitzer Prize-winning play, ... Indeed, the perilous task of fashioning a deft adaptation prompted Mr. Uhry ... based the two main characters on his own grandmother and her chauffeur. ... kind of reaction if I'm careful about making this person the one we all know.
83871
The Subject Was Roses - Wikipedia  The Subject Was Roses is a Pulitzer Prize-winning 1964 play written by Frank D. Gilroy, who also adapted the work in 1968 for a film with the same title. ... According to the journal, "The Subject Was Roses opened on Broadway with a producer ... 1965 Tony Award for Best Author - Frank D. Gilroy; 1965 Tony Award for Best...
517828
Driving Miss Daisy | About the Play | Great Performances | PBS  Alfred Uhry's Pulitzer Prize-winning play, Driving Miss Daisy, a 2010 hit on ... Directed for the stage by David Esbjornson, Driving Miss Daisy airs on Great ... 1987 to the remarkable success of the Oscar-winning film version with Jessica Tandy and ... He is well known for his voiceover work including Darth Vader in the Star...
113374
Hyde Park Progress: The Piano Lesson @ Court Theater  May 17, 2009 ... The fate of this object is the subject of August Wilson's Pulitzer Prize-winning, 1987 play, the fourth ... Argue Over the Family Piano* ... Berniece, Boy Willie's sister, resists her brother's entrepreneurial plans, ... Perhaps the strangest thing about Wilson's play is its reliance on a literal haunting of the piano by a...
83870
Subject Was Roses, The | Samuel French  Winner! 1965 Pulitzer Prize for Drama Winner! Tony Award for Best Play Winner! ... The Subject Was Roses premiered at The Royale Theatre in New York City in May 1964 under the direction of Ulu Grosbard. ... Other Frank D. Gilroy titles:.
299871
A Streetcar Named Desire (1951 film) - Wikipedia  A Streetcar Named Desire is a 1951 American drama film, with elements of film noir, an adaptation of Tennessee Williams's Pulitzer Prize-winning 1947 play of...
497487
Same Initials as Shakespeare - NYTimes.com  May 3, 1998 ... ... adapted from his best-known novel, ''The Human Comedy'' (1943). ... Paris, in self-exile, writing autobiographical works and reflections on his career. ... In her eagerness to defend her author, however, Balakian sometimes loses perspective, ... Discussing his largely forgotten first play, ''My Heart's in the...
62228
Horton Foote, 92, won 2 Oscars, Pulitzer Prize | The Seattle Times  Mar 5, 2009 ... Horton Foote, whose bittersweet stories of heartbreak and regret set in small ... of To Kill a Mockingbird, the Harper Lee novel for which he wrote the film script. ... He won a second Oscar for his original screenplay Tender Mercies in 1983. ... Robert Duvall, who won a best-actor Oscar for his performance.
170903
Sidney Poitier - Awards - IMDb  Oscar, Best Actor in a Leading Role Lilies of the Field (1963). Sidney Poitier became the first African American to win the Best Actor Oscar and the only one until .
439680
A Streetcar Named Desire - Wikipedia  A Streetcar Named Desire is a 1947 play written by American playwright Tennessee Williams which received the Pulitzer Prize for Drama in 1948. The play opened on Broadway on December 3, 1947, and closed on ... After the loss of her family home, Belle Reve, to creditors, Blanche DuBois travels from the small town of...
185637
Gantry: A Musical (BroadwayWorld.com Board)  I saw it & did not think it deserved to close in 1 night ... Based on the 1927 novel Elmer Gantry by Sinclair Lewis, it tells the story of a womanizing, self-righteous, .... We were in the front mezz and could see that Shaw had script pages taped into an open bible that the ... They still have no idea why it didn't transfer to Broadway.
74378
Of Thee I Sing - Wikipedia  Awards, Pulitzer Prize for Drama (1931). Of Thee I Sing is a musical with a score by George Gershwin, lyrics by Ira Gershwin and a book ... In 1932, Of Thee I Sing was the first musical to win the Pulitzer Prize for Drama. ..... In 1998, at the centennial of his birth, he was posthumously awarded an honorary Pulitzer. In his New...
322388
May All Your Fences Have Gates: Essays on the ... - Google Books  Get this book in print ... May All Your Fences Have Gates: Essays on the Drama of August Wilson ... Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright August Wilson, deals individually with his five major plays and also addresses issues crucial for the role of history, the relationship of African ritual to African American drama, gender relations...
322386
May All Your Fences Have Gates | University of Iowa Press  May All Your Fences Have Gates. Essays on the Drama of August Wilson ... make this book indispensable for teachers and students of both modern drama and African ... exploration to date of the work of any single African American playwright.
191312
Tony Award for Best Play - Wikipedia  The Tony Award for Best Play is an annual award celebrating achievements in live American ... Award winners[edit]. Legend:  marks winners of the annual Pulitzer Prize for Drama. indicates the winner.
327498
Oscars 2015: Who are the multiple winners, who said what, who ...  Feb 21, 2015 ... 1 Who was the first African-American to win an Academy Award (for ... 2 Who in 2013 became only the third actor to win Oscars in his ... and three writing wins, the first in 1977, for a film that also won Best Picture, the most recent in 2011? ... in 1925 and shared an Oscar in 1938 for adapting his own play?
313333
The Red Pony (1949) - IMDb  Drama ... A ranch boy is gifted with a colt, grows to love him but the colt escapes, with tragic ... necessarily mean that 'The Red Pony' is going to be the greatest movie of all ... but I didn't feel like Steinbeck's script was nearly as good as his book. ... when it's a Nobel and Pulitzer Prize-winning author doing it to his own work?