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Robert Towne, the Oscar-winning screenplay writer of "Shampoo," "The Last Detail" and other acclaimed films whose work on "Chinatown" became a model of the art form and helped define the jaded ...
Robert Towne accepts the Academy Award for best original screenplay from James A. Michener at the 1975 Oscars. A lifelong screenwriter, Towne has seen the film industry transform from the New ...
Chinatown is a 1974 American neo-noir mystery film directed by Roman Polanski from a screenplay by Robert Towne. It stars Jack Nicholson and Faye Dunaway in the principal roles, with supporting performances by John Huston , John Hillerman , Perry Lopez , Burt Young , and Diane Ladd .
Towne received acclaim and was nominated in the Best Original and Adapted Screenplay categories for his scripts The Last Detail (1973), Chinatown (1974), and Shampoo (1975). He won for Chinatown . [ 16 ] [ 17 ] [ 18 ] He later said it was inspired by a chapter in Carey McWilliams's Southern California Country: An Island on the Land (1946) and a ...
For Robert Towne — who died Monday, having written and reshaped some of the most important films of the 1970s — finding the best way to wrap up a film was a career-long challenge. In the ...
NEW YORK (AP) — Robert Towne, the Oscar-winning screenplay writer of "Shampoo," "The Last Detail" and other acclaimed films whose work on "Chinatown" became a model of the art form and helped define the jaded allure of his native Los Angeles, has died. He was 89.
Paddy Chayefsky garnered two solo wins The Hospital (1971) and Network (1976) The screenwriter of Chinatown, Robert Towne, received this award. Woody Allen earned three Original Screenplay Oscars, for Annie Hall (along with Marshall Brickman), Hannah and Her Sisters, and Midnight in Paris. He has received sixteen nominations total, the most of ...
Robert Towne, the screenwriting icon who won an Academy Award for "Chinatown," has died. He was 89. Robert Towne, Oscar-winning screenwriting icon behind 'Chinatown,' dies at 89