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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 .
3 days ago · SEE‘Chinatown’ Oscar flashback: The 11-time nominee won for Robert Towne’s original screenplay. Besides the Academy Award, “Chinatown” would also earn Towne BAFTA, Golden Globe and WGA ...
4 days ago · Academy Award, any of a number of awards presented annually by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences to recognize achievement in the film industry. The awards were first presented in 1929, and winners receive a gold-plated statuette commonly called Oscar.
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3 days ago · The film Good Will Hunting, co-starring and co-written by Affleck and Damon, was released in 1997 to widespread acclaim and won the Golden Globe and Academy Award for Best Original Screenplay. At the age of 25, Affleck became the youngest writer to ever win an Oscar for screenwriting.
3 days ago · Frances Marion (The Big House) was the first woman to win in any screenplay category, although she won for her original script for Best Writing, which then included both original and adapted screenplays before a separate award for Best Original Screenplay was introduced.
3 days ago · Towne won the Academy Award for best original screenplay for “Chinatown,” which last month celebrated 50 years since being released. Towne enjoyed an enormously productive period in the 1970s, writing such films as “Shampoo,” starring Warren Beatty, and “The Last Detail,” also starring Nicholson.
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3 days ago · Robert Towne, the celebrated Hollywood screenwriter who won an Academy Award for writing the movie 'Chinatown,' died on Monday, July 1 at his home in Los Angeles, as multiple outlets reported ...
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