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1999: AFI's 100 Years...100 Stars — the 50 greatest American "screen legends" of all time (25 women and 25 men) AFI defined an "American screen legend" as "an actor or a team of actors with a significant screen presence in American feature-length films whose screen debut occurred in or before 1950, or whose screen debut occurred after 1950 ...
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 ...
The first of the AFI 100 Years... series of cinematic milestones, AFI's 100 Years... 100 American Movies is a list of the 100 best American movies, as determined by the American Film Institute from a poll of more than 1,500 artists and leaders in the film industry who chose from a list of 400 nominated movies. The 100-best list American films ...
All anime original sequels are automatically considered adaptations since the sequel must be based on the original story. See Academy Award for Best Original Screenplay and Academy Award for Best Adapted Screenplay for examples of adapted and original screenplays.
The Black List tallies the number of "likes" various screenplays are given by development executives, and then ranks them accordingly. The most-liked screenplay is The Imitation Game, which topped the list in 2011 with 133 likes; it went on to win the Academy Award for Best Adapted Screenplay at the 87th Academy Awards in 2015.
The Academy Award for Best Adapted Screenplay is the Academy Award for the best screenplay adapted from previously established material. The most frequently adapted media are novels, but other adapted narrative formats include stage plays, musicals, short stories, TV series, and other films and film characters.
Year Film Nominees 1950: All About Eve: Joseph L. Mankiewicz: The Asphalt Jungle: Ben Maddow and John Huston: Sunset Boulevard: Charles Brackett, Billy Wilder, and D ...
When the award was first introduced, it was handed out as two awards: Mini-Series Screenplay and Telefeature Screenplay. [2] The name was changed to Best Screenplay in a Mini-Series or Television Drama in 1990, [3] and the following year it became Best Screenplay in a Television Drama until 2003 [4] where the award was renamed to its current title.