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Sturges won the first-ever Academy Award for Writing Original Screenplay for The Great McGinty, at which time he was one of the highest paid men in Hollywood. [17] He also received two screenwriting Academy Award nominations in the same year, for 1944's Hail the Conquering Hero and The Miracle of Morgan's Creek, a feat since matched by Frank Butler, Francis Ford Coppola, and Oliver Stone.
Best Original Screenplay: Preston Sturges: Nominated National Board of Review Awards [33] Top Ten Films: 3rd Place Best Acting Betty Hutton: Won National Film Preservation Board: National Film Registry: Inducted New York Film Critics Circle Awards [34] Best Director: Preston Sturges Nominated
It was Sturges's first film as a director; he sold the story to Paramount Pictures for just $10 on condition he direct the film. [1] Sturges received an Oscar for Best Original Screenplay. For the U.K. release, the film was retitled Down Went McGinty, alluding to the 1889 song.
Feb. 29—Hey, look, it's my favorite category! Okay, best picture is my favorite category, but best original screenplay is the clear second option. Sitting down and writing a single page of a ...
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. Beginning with the Oscars for 1957, the two categories were combined to honor only the ...
Variety Awards Circuit section is the home for all awards news and related content throughout the year, featuring the following: the official predictions for the upcoming Oscars, Emmys, Grammys ...
One of the best rock musicals in recent years, Sing Street follows a teenage boy (an excellent Ferdia Walsh-Peelo) in 1985 who starts a New Wave band to impress aspiring model Raphina (Lucy Boynton).
Sturges offered the script to Lasky for $62,475, but Lasky instead structured a deal in which Sturges got $17,500 upon signing, 3 1 ⁄ 2 % of the first $500,000 in receipts, 5% of the next $500,000, and 7% of all receipts over $1,000,000. Such a percentage deal was highly unusual at that time, and caused an uproar among producers and writers.