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Michael Wilson (July 1, 1914 – April 9, 1978) was an American screenwriter known for his work on Lawrence of Arabia (1962), Planet of the Apes (1968), Friendly Persuasion (1956), A Place in the Sun (1951), and The Bridge on the River Kwai (1957). The latter two screenplays won him Academy Awards.
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 ...
Michael McEachern McDowell (June 1, 1950 – December 27, 1999) was an American novelist and screenwriter described by author Stephen King as "the finest writer of paperback originals in America today". [1] [2] His best-known work is the screenplay for the Tim Burton film Beetlejuice.
Michael Crichton wrote it "completely from beginning to end". Then his brother rewrote it from beginning to end, and then Crichton rewrote it again. [16] This novel was made into a movie in 1972. Around this time Crichton also wrote and sold an original film script, Morton's Run. [16] He also wrote the screenplay Lucifer Harkness in Darkness. [31]
Michael Arndt is an American screenwriter, who has written for the films Little Miss Sunshine (2006), Toy Story 3 (2010), and Star Wars: The Force Awakens (2015).. Arndt won the Academy Award for Best Original Screenplay for Little Miss Sunshine and was nominated for Best Adapted Screenplay for Toy Story 3.
Dances with Wolves was the result; Kevin Costner then asked him to write a screenplay for the film based on the novel. He went on to do humanitarian work, and continued to write. Michael Blake had three brothers, James A. Webb, David Webb and Dan Webb, former principal of John Muir High School in Pasadena, California. [3]
Best Screenplay, Adapted or Original: The Inevitable Defeat of Mister & Pete: Nominated [9] Independent Spirit Awards: March 1, 2014: Outstanding Best First Screenplay Nominated [10] Black Reel Awards: February 7, 2019: Outstanding Writing, TV Movie/Limited Series When They See Us: Nominated [11] Primetime Emmy Award: September 14–15, 2019
Michael Cunningham (born November 6, 1952) [1] is an American novelist and screenwriter. He is best known for his 1998 novel The Hours, which won the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction [2] and the PEN/Faulkner Award [3] in 1999. Cunningham is Professor in the Practice of Creative Writing at Yale University. [4]