Oscar Crew
by IceBreaker14 | created - 20 Jul 2016 | updated - 20 Jul 2016 | Public1. Alejandro G. Iñárritu
Director | Biutiful
Alejandro González Iñárritu (ih-nyar-ee-too), born August 15th, 1963, is a Mexican film director.
González Iñárritu is the first Mexican director to be nominated for the Academy Award for Best Director and by the Directors Guild of America for Best Director. He is also the first Mexican-born ...
For Birdman or (The Unexpected Virtue of Ignorance) (2014); shared with Nicolás Giacobone, Alexander Dinelaris, and Armando Bo
2. Nicolás Giacobone
Writer | Birdman or (The Unexpected Virtue of Ignorance)
Nicolás Giacobone is known for Birdman or (The Unexpected Virtue of Ignorance) (2014), Biutiful (2010) and The Revenant (2015).
For Birdman or (The Unexpected Virtue of Ignorance) (2014); shared with Alejandro G. Iñárritu, Alexander Dinelaris, and Armando Bo
3. Alexander Dinelaris
Writer | Birdman or (The Unexpected Virtue of Ignorance)
Alexander Dinelaris is known for Birdman or (The Unexpected Virtue of Ignorance) (2014), The Revenant (2015) and Jekyll & Hyde.
For Birdman or (The Unexpected Virtue of Ignorance) (2014); shared with Alejandro G. Iñárritu, Nicolás Giacobone, and Armando Bo
4. Armando Bo
Writer | Birdman or (The Unexpected Virtue of Ignorance)
Armando Bo is known for Birdman or (The Unexpected Virtue of Ignorance) (2014), The Last Elvis (2012) and Biutiful (2010).
5. Spike Jonze
Producer | Her
Spike Jonze made up one-third (along with Andy Jenkins and Mark Lewman) of the triumvirate of genius minds behind Dirt Magazine, the brother publication of the much lamented ground-breaking Sassy Magazine. These three uncommon characters were all editors for Grand Royal Magazine as well, under the ...
For Her (2013)
6. Quentin Tarantino
Writer | Reservoir Dogs
Quentin Jerome Tarantino was born in Knoxville, Tennessee. His father, Tony Tarantino, is an Italian-American actor and musician from New York, and his mother, Connie (McHugh), is a nurse from Tennessee. Quentin moved with his mother to Torrance, California, when he was four years old.
In January of...
7. Woody Allen
Writer | Annie Hall
Woody Allen was born on November 30, 1935, as Allen Konigsberg, in The Bronx, NY, the son of Martin Konigsberg and Nettie Konigsberg. He has one younger sister, Letty Aronson. As a young boy, he became intrigued with magic tricks and playing the clarinet, two hobbies that he continues today.
Allen ...
8. David Seidler
Writer | The King's Speech
David Seidler was born on July 13, 1937 in London, England, UK. He was a writer and producer, known for The King's Speech (2010), Onassis: The Richest Man in the World (1988) and Tucker: The Man and His Dream (1988). He was married to Mary Ann Tharaldsen, Huia Newton and Jacqueline Feather. He died...
9. Mark Boal
Producer | Zero Dark Thirty
Mark Boal was born on January 23, 1973 in New York, USA. He is a producer and writer, known for Zero Dark Thirty (2012), The Hurt Locker (2008) and Detroit (2017).
10. Dustin Lance Black
Writer | Milk
Dustin Lance Black was born on June 10, 1974 in Sacramento, California, USA. He is a writer and producer, known for Milk (2008), Under the Banner of Heaven (2022) and J. Edgar (2011). He has been married to Tom Daley since May 6, 2017. They have one child.
For Milk (2008)
11. Diablo Cody
Writer | Juno
Diablo Cody is originally from Chicago, Illinois, and moved to Minnesota to live with her Internet boyfriend, Jonny who later became her husband. While there, she decided on a whim to take up stripping as a hobby of sorts.
She was working at an ad agency and got a promotion. The job wore her ragged ...
For Juno (2007)
12. Paul Haggis
Writer | Crash
Paul Haggis established himself over twenty years with an extensive career in television, before his big break into features arrived when he became the first screenwriter to garner two Best Film Academy Awards back-to-back for his scripts: "Million Dollar Baby" (2004) directed by Clint Eastwood, ...
For Crash (2004) (story/screenplay); shared with Bobby Moresco (screenplay)
13. Bobby Moresco
Producer | Crash
Academy Award winning writer, director and producer Bobby Moresco started out as an actor in New York City, where he was raised in the Hell's Kitchen district of Manhattan, three blocks and a world away from Broadway.
After studying acting with the widely respected Wynn Handman and Peggy Fuery, ...
For Crash (2004) (screenplay); shared with Paul Haggis (story/screenplay)
14. Pierre Bismuth
Writer | Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind
Pierre Bismuth was born on June 6, 1953 in Neuilly-sur-Seine, France. He is an actor and writer, known for Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind (2004), Where Is Rocky II? (2016) and The Barn (2018).
For Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind (2004) (story); shared with Michel Gondry (story) and Charlie Kaufman (story/screenplay)
15. Michel Gondry
Director | Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind
He grew up in Versailles with a family who was very influenced by pop music. When he was young, Gondry wanted to be a painter or an inventor. In the 80s he entered in an art school in Paris where he could develop his graphic skills and where he also met friends with whom he created a pop-rock band ...
For Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind (2004) (story); shared with Pierre Bismuth (story) and Charlie Kaufman (story/screenplay)
16. Charlie Kaufman
Writer | I'm Thinking of Ending Things
Avid reader Charlie Kaufman wrote plays and made short films as a young student. He moved from Massapequa, New York to West Hartford, Connecticut in 1972 where he attended high school. As a comedic actor, he performed in school plays and, after graduation, he enrolled at Boston University but soon ...
For Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind (2004) (story/screenplay); shared with Pierre Bismuth (story) and Michel Gondry (story)
17. Sofia Coppola
Actress | The Godfather Part III
Sofia Coppola was born on May 14, 1971 in New York City, New York, USA as Sofia Carmina Coppola. She is a director, known for Somewhere (2010), Lost in Translation (2003), and Marie Antoinette (2006). She has been married to Thomas Mars since August 27, 2011. They have two daughters, Romy and ...
18. Pedro Almodóvar
Writer | Hable con ella
The most internationally acclaimed Spanish filmmaker since Luis Buñuel was born in a small town (Calzada de Calatrava) in the impoverished Spanish region of La Mancha. He arrived in Madrid in 1968, and survived by selling used items in the flea-market called El Rastro. Almodóvar couldn't study ...
19. Julian Fellowes
Writer | Gosford Park
Julian Fellowes was born on August 17, 1949 in Cairo, Egypt. He is a writer and producer, known for Gosford Park (2001), Downton Abbey (2010) and From Time to Time (2009). He has been married to Emma Joy Kitchener-Fellowes since April 28, 1990. They have one child.
20. Cameron Crowe
Writer | Almost Famous
Certainly idiosyncratic as a writer, Cameron Crowe has created a series of scripts that, while liked by the critics, were considered offbeat and difficult to market.
Cameron Bruce Crowe was born in Palm Springs, California, to Alice Marie Crowe (née George), a teacher and activist, and James A. ...
21. Alan Ball
Producer | American Beauty
Alan Ball is an American writer, director, and producer who is known for writing the acclaimed film American Beauty and creating the HBO series True Blood starring Anna Paquin. He also wrote the films Towelhead and Uncle Frank. He also created Here and Now, Six Feet Under, and Banshee. He won ...
22. Marc Norman
Writer | Shakespeare in Love
Marc Norman was born on February 10, 1941 in Los Angeles, California, USA. He is a writer and director, known for Shakespeare in Love (1998), Cutthroat Island (1995) and Breakout (1975). He has been married to Dale Moore since 1967. They have two children.
For Shakespeare in Love (1998); shared with Tom Stoppard
23. Tom Stoppard
Writer | Shakespeare in Love
Tom Stoppard was born on July 3, 1937 in Zlín, Czechoslovakia [now in Czech Republic]. He is a writer and producer, known for Shakespeare in Love (1998), Brazil (1985) and Rosencrantz & Guildenstern Are Dead (1990). He has been married to Sabrina Guinness since 2014. He was previously married ...
For Shakespeare in Love (1998); shared with Marc Norman
24. Ben Affleck
Producer | Argo
Benjamin Géza "Ben" Affleck-Boldt was born on August 15, 1972 in Berkeley, California and raised in Cambridge, Massachusetts, to mother Chris Anne (Boldt), a school teacher, and father Timothy Byers "Tim" Affleck, a social worker. Ben has a younger brother, actor Casey Affleck, who was born in 1975...
For Good Will Hunting (1997); shared with Matt Damon
25. Matt Damon
Actor | Good Will Hunting
Matthew Paige Damon was born on October 8, 1970, in Boston, Massachusetts, to Kent Damon, a stockbroker, realtor and tax preparer, and Nancy Carlsson-Paige, an early childhood education professor at Lesley University. Matt has an older brother, Kyle, a sculptor. His father was of English and ...
For Good Will Hunting (1997); shared with Ben Affleck
26. Joel Coen
Producer | The Ballad of Buster Scruggs
Joel Daniel Coen is an American filmmaker who regularly collaborates with his younger brother Ethan. They made Raising Arizona, Barton Fink, Fargo, The Big Lebowski, True Grit, O Brother Where Art Thou?, Burn After Reading, A Serious Man, Inside Llewyn Davis, Hail Caesar and other projects. Joel ...
For Fargo (1996); shared with Ethan Coen
27. Ethan Coen
Producer | The Ballad of Buster Scruggs
The younger brother of Joel, Ethan Coen is an Academy Award and Golden Globe winning writer, producer and director coming from small independent films to big profile Hollywood films. He was born on September 21, 1957 in Minneapolis, Minnesota. In some films of the brothers- Ethan & Joel wrote, Joel...
For Fargo (1996); shared with Joel Coen
28. Christopher McQuarrie
Writer | The Usual Suspects
Christopher McQuarrie is an acclaimed producer, director and an Academy Award® winning writer. McQuarrie grew up in Princeton Junction, New Jersey and in lieu of college, he spent the first five years out of school traveling and working at a detective agency. He later moved to Los Angeles to pursue...
29. Quentin Tarantino
Writer | Reservoir Dogs
Quentin Jerome Tarantino was born in Knoxville, Tennessee. His father, Tony Tarantino, is an Italian-American actor and musician from New York, and his mother, Connie (McHugh), is a nurse from Tennessee. Quentin moved with his mother to Torrance, California, when he was four years old.
In January of...
For Pulp Fiction (1994) (story/screenplay); shared with Roger Avary (story)
30. Roger Avary
Writer | Pulp Fiction
Award-winning filmmaker Roger Avary first began experimenting in Beta I video and 8mm film formats during the late 1970s. In 1983, his Super-8mm supernatural thriller The Worm Turns won Best Film from the Los Angeles Film Teachers Association Film Expo. He went on to attend the Pasadena Art Center ...
For Pulp Fiction (1994) (story); shared with Quentin Tarantino (story/screenplay)
31. Jane Campion
Writer | Bright Star
Jane Campion was born in Wellington, New Zealand, and now lives in Sydney, New South Wales, Australia. Having graduated with a BA in Anthropology from Victoria University of Wellington in 1975, and a BA, with a painting major, at Sydney College of the Arts in 1979, she began filmmaking in the early...
For The Piano (1993)
32. Neil Jordan
Writer | The Crying Game
Neil Jordan was born on February 25, 1950 in Sligo, Ireland. He is a writer and producer, known for The Crying Game (1992), Greta (2018) and Breakfast on Pluto (2005). He has been married to Brenda Rawn since June 30, 2004. They have two children. He was previously married to Vivienne Shields.
33. Callie Khouri
Producer | Thelma & Louise
Raised in Texas and Kentucky by her doctor father and mother. Went to Purdue University to study landscape architecture but switched to drama. Moved to Nashville after college to be with her family before heading to Los Angeles in 1982 to study at the Strasburg Institute. Worked for a commercials ...
34. Bruce Joel Rubin
Writer | Ghost
Bruce Joel Rubin was born on March 10, 1943 in Detroit, Michigan, USA. He is a writer and producer, known for Ghost (1990), Deep Impact (1998) and Stuart Little 2 (2002). He has been married to Blanche Rubin since January 29, 1970. They have two children.
For Ghost (1990)
35. Tom Schulman
Writer | Dead Poets Society
Tom Schulman graduated from Vanderbilt University with a B.A. in Philosophy. He studied at the USC Graduate School of Cinema, the Actors and Directors Lab with Jack Garfein, and more recently with director Joan Darling. He directed the Actors' Studio, West production of Harold Pinter's The ...
36. Ron Bass
Writer | Rain Man
Ron Bass was born on March 26, 1942 in Los Angeles, California, USA. He is a writer and producer, known for Rain Man (1988), My Best Friend's Wedding (1997) and Entrapment (1999). He has been married to Christine Ann Thomas since June 3, 1978. They have two children. He was previously married to ...
For Rain Man (1988) (screenplay); shared with Barry Morrow (story/screenplay)
37. Barry Morrow
Writer | Rain Man
Barry Morrow is an Emmy and Academy Award winning writer/producer best known for his original story and screenplay for the 1988 Best Picture, "Rain Man (1988)". Morrow's autobiographical story, "Bill (1981)", starring Dennis Quaid and the late Mickey Rooney, was hailed by the New York Times as ...
For Rain Man (1988) (story/screenplay); shared with Ron Bass
38. John Patrick Shanley
Writer | Moonstruck
John Patrick Shanley was born on October 3, 1950 in The Bronx, New York City, New York, USA. He is a writer and director, known for Moonstruck (1987), Doubt (2008) and Congo (1995).
39. Woody Allen
Writer | Annie Hall
Woody Allen was born on November 30, 1935, as Allen Konigsberg, in The Bronx, NY, the son of Martin Konigsberg and Nettie Konigsberg. He has one younger sister, Letty Aronson. As a young boy, he became intrigued with magic tricks and playing the clarinet, two hobbies that he continues today.
Allen ...
40. William Kelley
Writer | Witness
William Kelley was born on May 27, 1929 in Staten Island, New York, USA. He was a writer and producer, known for Witness (1985), Gunsmoke (1955) and How the West Was Won (1976). He was married to Nina Kelley. He died on February 3, 2003 in Bishop, California, USA.
For Witness (1985) (story/screenplay); shared with Earl W. Wallace (story/screenplay) and Pamela Wallace (story)
41. Earl W. Wallace
Writer | Witness
Earl W. Wallace was born on October 23, 1942. He was a writer, known for Witness (1985), How the West Was Won (1976) and Supertrain (1979). He was married to Pamela Wallace. He died on May 12, 2018.
For Witness (1985) (story/screenplay); shared with William Kelley (story/screenplay) and Pamela Wallace (story)
42. Pamela Wallace
Writer | Witness
Pamela Wallace is known for Witness (1985), The Place God Forgot and Love's Unending Legacy (2007). She was previously married to Earl W. Wallace.
For Witness (1985) (story); shared with William Kelley (story/screenplay) and Earl W. Wallace (story/screenplay)
43. Robert Benton
Writer | Kramer vs. Kramer
Robert Douglas Benton is an American screenwriter and filmmaker from Waxahachie, Texas who is known for screenwriting Bonnie & Clyde, Kramer vs. Kramer and Superman. He won two Academy Awards for writing and directing Kramer vs. Kramer. He directed other feature films including Twilight, Bad ...
44. Horton Foote
Writer | To Kill a Mockingbird
Horton Foote, the Pulitzer Prize-winning dramatist and Oscar-winning screenwriter, was born on March 14, 1916, in Wharton, Texas. He says at the age of ten, he had a "calling" to become an actor, and when he was 16 he convinced his parents to allow him to go to acting school. With their blessing he...
45. John Briley
Writer | Gandhi
John Briley was born on June 25, 1925 in Kalamazoo, Michigan, USA. He was a writer and producer, known for Gandhi (1982), Molokai (1999) and Christopher Columbus: The Discovery (1992). He was married to Nancy Helmich Whitcomb , Dorothy Reichart and Valerie Belsky. He died on December 14, 2019 in ...
For Gandhi (1982)
46. Colin Welland
Actor | Straw Dogs
In a career of over 30 years this Lancashire-born former art teacher has achieved great success in acting, both in television and film and writing, for television, film and stage.
His first film appearance is perhaps still his best-loved, the sympathetic Mr Farthing in Kes (1969), for which he won a...
47. Bo Goldman
Writer | One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest
There are but a few select screenwriters who are spoken of with the kind of reverence usually reserved for film directors - Robert Towne, Alvin Sargent and Bo Goldman. Goldman is a screenwriter's screenwriter, and one of the most honored in motion picture history. The recipient of two Academy ...
48. Steve Tesich
Writer | Breaking Away
Born in Yugoslavia, Tesich was 14 when he came to America and settled in East Chicago, Indiana. His father, a machinist, died in 1962. He graduated from Indiana University in 1965 and did graduate work at Columbia University where he began to write plays. 'Breaking Away (1979)' won Tesich an Oscar ...
49. Robert C. Jones
Editor | It's a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World
Robert C. Jones was born on March 30, 1936 in Los Angeles, California, USA. He was an editor and writer, known for It's a Mad Mad Mad Mad World (1963), Coming Home (1978) and Guess Who's Coming to Dinner (1967). He was married to Sylvia Lee Hirsch and Jean Joyce Lunkley. He died on February 1, 2021...
For Coming Home (1978) (screenplay); shared with Waldo Salt (screenplay) and Nancy Dowd (story)
50. Waldo Salt
Writer | Midnight Cowboy
Waldo Salt was one of the many people blacklisted in Hollywood during the Red Scare, but unlike others, Salt recovered triumphantly. He wrote his first scripts in the late 1930s (MGM contract writer, 1936-42) and also served as a civilian consultant to the Office of War Information from 1942- 1945 ...
For Coming Home (1978) (screenplay); shared with Robert C. Jones (screenplay) and Nancy Dowd (story)
51. Nancy Dowd
Writer | Slap Shot
Nancy Dowd was born in 1945 in Framingham, Massachusetts, USA. She is a writer and director, known for Slap Shot (1977), Coming Home (1978) and Love (1982).
For Coming Home (1978) (story); shared with Robert C. Jones (screenplay) and Waldo Salt (screenplay)
52. Woody Allen
Writer | Annie Hall
Woody Allen was born on November 30, 1935, as Allen Konigsberg, in The Bronx, NY, the son of Martin Konigsberg and Nettie Konigsberg. He has one younger sister, Letty Aronson. As a young boy, he became intrigued with magic tricks and playing the clarinet, two hobbies that he continues today.
Allen ...
For Annie Hall (1977); shared with Marshall Brickman
53. Marshall Brickman
Writer | Annie Hall
Marshall Brickman was born on August 25, 1939 in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. He is a writer and producer, known for Annie Hall (1977), Sleeper (1973) and Manhattan (1979). He has been married to Nina Feinberg since 1973. They have two children.
For Annie Hall (1977); shared with Woody Allen
54. Paddy Chayefsky
Writer | Marty
Author, producer, and composer who earned a Bachelor of Science degree from CCNY, then a Purple Heart during World War II while serving in the US Army. Joining ASCAP in 1955, his chief musical collaborators included George Bassman and Harry Warren. His popular-song compositions include "Marty" and ...
For Network (1976)
55. Frank Pierson
Writer | Dog Day Afternoon
Frank Pierson was born on May 12, 1925 in Chappaqua, New York, USA. He was a producer and writer, known for Dog Day Afternoon (1975), Presumed Innocent (1990) and Cool Hand Luke (1967). He was married to Helene Szamet, Dori Pierson and Polly Stokes. He died on July 22, 2012 in Los Angeles, ...
56. Robert Towne
Writer | Chinatown
Writer, director, producer, actor. Born in Los Angeles, California, USA, and raised in the seaport town of San Pedro. Got his start acting and writing for legendary exploitation director/producer Roger Corman. Came into his own during the 1970s when he was regarded as one of the finest ...
For Chinatown (1974)
57. David S. Ward
Writer | The Sting
David S. Ward was born on October 25, 1945 in Providence, Rhode Island, USA. He is a writer and director, known for The Sting (1973), Major League II (1994) and Sleepless in Seattle (1993). He is married to Marie-Louis White. He was previously married to Christine Atwood and Rosanna DeSoto.
For The Sting (1973)
58. Jeremy Larner
Writer | The Candidate
Jeremy Larner was born on March 20, 1937 in Olean, New York, USA. He is a writer, known for The Candidate (1972), Drive, He Said (1971) and The 45th Annual Academy Awards (1973). He was previously married to Susan Rhoda Berlin.
59. Paddy Chayefsky
Writer | Marty
Author, producer, and composer who earned a Bachelor of Science degree from CCNY, then a Purple Heart during World War II while serving in the US Army. Joining ASCAP in 1955, his chief musical collaborators included George Bassman and Harry Warren. His popular-song compositions include "Marty" and ...
60. Francis Ford Coppola
Producer | Apocalypse Now
Francis Ford Coppola was born in 1939 in Detroit, Michigan, but grew up in a New York suburb in a creative, supportive Italian-American family. His father, Carmine Coppola, was a composer and musician. His mother, Italia Coppola (née Pennino), had been an actress. Francis Ford Coppola graduated ...
For Patton (1970); shared with Edmund H. North
61. Edmund H. North
Writer | Patton
Edmund H. North was born on March 12, 1911 in New York City, New York, USA. He was a writer and actor, known for Patton (1970), In a Lonely Place (1950) and The Day the Earth Stood Still (1951). He was married to Colette Ford. He died on August 28, 1990 in Santa Monica, California, USA.
For Patton (1970); shared with Francis Ford Coppola
62. William Goldman
Writer | Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid
Screenwriter, novelist, playwright, non-fiction author. Born in Highland Park, Illinois, USA, began his career as a novelist in 1957. Started writing screenplays in 1965 with "Masquerade". A two-time Academy Award Winner, he is one of the most successful screenwriters and script doctors in ...
63. Mel Brooks
Actor | Spaceballs
Mel Brooks was born Melvin Kaminsky on June 28, 1926 in Brooklyn, New York. He served in WWII, and afterwards got a job playing the drums at nightclubs in the Catskills. Brooks eventually started a comedy act and also worked in radio and as Master Entertainer at Grossinger's Resort before going to ...
64. William Rose
Writer | Guess Who's Coming to Dinner
William Rose was born on August 31, 1918 in Jefferson City, Missouri, USA. He was a writer, known for Guess Who's Coming to Dinner (1967), The Ladykillers (1955) and It's a Mad Mad Mad Mad World (1963). He was married to Tania Rose. He died on February 10, 1987 in Jersey, Channel Islands, UK.
65. Claude Lelouch
Director | Un homme et une femme
He started off by making short films for television on which he was producer,screenwriter and cameraman. This was interrupted by military service in the army but only partly as he was put into the army film unit where he made over 100 films. Demobbed in 1960 he used family money for his first ...
For Un homme et une femme (1966) (story/screenplay); shared with Pierre Uytterhoeven (screenplay)
66. Pierre Uytterhoeven
Writer | Un homme et une femme
Pierre Uytterhoeven is known for A Man and a Woman (1966), And Now My Love (1974) and Life Love Death (1969).
For Un homme et une femme (1966) (screenplay); shared with Claude Lelouch (story/screenplay)
67. Frederic Raphael
Writer | Eyes Wide Shut
Frederic Raphael was born on August 14, 1931 in Chicago, Illinois, USA. He is a writer and actor, known for Eyes Wide Shut (1999), Two for the Road (1967) and Darling (1965). He has been married to Sylvia Betty Glatt since January 17, 1955.
For Darling (1965)
68. Peter Stone
Writer | Charade
Peter Stone was born on February 27, 1930 in Los Angeles, California, USA. He was a writer and actor, known for Charade (1963), The Taking of Pelham One Two Three (1974) and Father Goose (1964). He was married to Mary O'Hanley. He died on April 26, 2003 in Manhattan, New York City, New York, USA.
For Father Goose (1964); shared with S.H. Barnett and Frank Tarloff
69. Frank Tarloff
Writer | Father Goose
Frank Tarloff was born on February 4, 1916 in Brooklyn, New York, USA. He was a writer, known for Father Goose (1964), A Guide for the Married Man (1967) and The Double Man (1967). He was married to Lee Tarloff. He died on June 25, 1999 in Beverly Hills, Los Angeles, California, USA.
For Father Goose (1964); shared with S.H. Barnett and Peter Stone
70. James R. Webb
Writer | How the West Was Won
James R. Webb was born on October 4, 1910 in Denver, Colorado, USA. He was a writer, known for How the West Was Won (1962), Cape Fear (1962) and Cape Fear (1991). He died on September 27, 1974 in Los Angeles, California, USA.
71. Ennio De Concini
Writer | Divorzio all'italiana
Ennio De Concini was born on December 9, 1923 in Rome, Lazio, Italy. He was a writer and director, known for Divorce Italian Style (1961), The Facts of Murder (1959) and Son of Samson (1960). He died on November 17, 2008 in Rome, Lazio, Italy.
For Divorzio all'italiana (1961); shared with Pietro Germi and Alfredo Giannetti
72. Pietro Germi
Writer | Il ferroviere
Pietro Germi was born on September 14, 1914 in Genoa, Liguria, Italy. He was a writer and director, known for The Railroad Man (1956), Divorce Italian Style (1961) and The Birds, the Bees and the Italians (1966). He was married to Olga D'Aiello and Anna Bancio. He died on December 5, 1974 in Rome, ...
For Divorzio all'italiana (1961); shared with Ennio De Concini and Alfredo Giannetti
73. Alfredo Giannetti
Writer | Divorzio all'italiana
Alfredo Giannetti was born on April 16, 1924 in Rome, Lazio, Italy. He was a writer and director, known for Divorce Italian Style (1961), Day by Day, Desperately (1961) and The Facts of Murder (1959). He died on July 30, 1995 in Rome, Lazio, Italy.
For Divorzio all'italiana (1961); shared with Ennio De Concini and Pietro Germi
74. William Inge
Writer | Splendor in the Grass
William (Motter) Inge brought small-town life in the American Midwest to Broadway with four successive dramatic triumphs: "Come Back Little Sheba" (1950), "Picnic" (1953; Pulitzer Prize), "Bus Stop" (1955) and "The Dark at the Top of the Stairs" (1957). With the exception of his Academy ...
75. I.A.L. Diamond
Writer | The Apartment
I.A.L. Diamond was born on June 27, 1920 in Ungheni, Romania [now Moldova]. He was a writer and producer, known for The Apartment (1960), Some Like It Hot (1959) and The Private Life of Sherlock Holmes (1970). He was married to Barbara Diamond. He died on April 21, 1988 in Beverly Hills, California...
For The Apartment (1960); shared with Billy Wilder
76. Billy Wilder
Writer | The Apartment
Originally planning to become a lawyer, Billy Wilder abandoned that career in favor of working as a reporter for a Viennese newspaper, using this experience to move to Berlin, where he worked for the city's largest tabloid. He broke into films as a screenwriter in 1929 and wrote scripts for many ...
For The Apartment (1960); shared with I.A.L. Diamond
77. Clarence Greene
Producer | The Well
Clarence Greene was born on August 10, 1913 in New York City, New York, USA. He was a producer and writer, known for The Well (1951), Pillow Talk (1959) and The Thief (1952). He died on June 17, 1995 in California, USA.
For Pillow Talk (1959) (story); shared with Maurice Richlin (screenplay), Russell Rouse (story), and Stanley Shapiro (screenplay)
78. Maurice Richlin
Writer | The Pink Panther
Maurice Richlin was born on February 23, 1920 in Omaha, Nebraska, USA. He was a writer and producer, known for The Pink Panther (1963), Pillow Talk (1959) and Operation Petticoat (1959). He died on November 13, 1990 in Los Angeles, California, USA.
For Pillow Talk (1959) (screenplay); shared with Clarence Greene (story), Russell Rouse (story), and Stanley Shapiro (screenplay)
79. Russell Rouse
Writer | The Well
Russell Rouse was born on November 20, 1913 in New York City, New York, USA. He was a writer and producer, known for The Well (1951), The Thief (1952) and Pillow Talk (1959). He was married to Beverly Michaels and Ethel Frank. He died on October 2, 1987 in Los Angeles, California, USA.
For Pillow Talk (1959) (story); shared with Clarence Greene (story), Maurice Richlin (screenplay), and Stanley Shapiro (screenplay)
80. Stanley Shapiro
Writer | That Touch of Mink
Stanley Shapiro was born on July 16, 1925 in New York City, New York, USA. He was a writer and producer, known for That Touch of Mink (1962), Pillow Talk (1959) and Lover Come Back (1961). He was married to Willi Koopman. He died on July 21, 1990 in Los Angeles, California, USA.
For Pillow Talk (1959) (screenplay); shared with Clarence Greene (story), Maurice Richlin (screenplay), and Russell Rouse (story)
81. Nedrick Young
Writer | The Defiant Ones
Nedrick Young was born on March 23, 1914 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA. He was an actor and writer, known for The Defiant Ones (1958), Inherit the Wind (1960) and Gun Crazy (1950). He was married to Elizabeth MacRae and Frances Sage. He died on September 16, 1968 in Los Angeles, California, ...
For The Defiant Ones (1958); shared with Harold Jacob Smith
82. Harold Jacob Smith
Writer | The Defiant Ones
Harold Jacob Smith was born on July 2, 1912 in New York, USA. He was a writer and actor, known for The Defiant Ones (1958), Inherit the Wind (1960) and Enchanted Island (1958). He died on December 28, 1970 in Los Angeles, California, USA.
For The Defiant Ones (1958); shared with Nedrick Young
83. George Wells
Writer | Designing Woman
The son of vaudevillian Billy K. Wells graduated from New York University and began as a writer for radio ('The Jack Pearl Show','Lux Radio Theater'). In 1943, he joined MGM under contract as a screenwriter, rapidly acquiring a reputation for lending a deft touch and inventiveness to light comedies...
84. Albert Lamorisse
Director | Le ballon rouge
A former photographer, he turned to directing short subjects in the late 40s, soon acquiring an international reputation for the poetic quality of his short and medium-length films involving the fantasy world of children. Both his White Mane (1953) and The Red Balloon (1956) received a grand prize ...
85. Sonya Levien
Writer | Interrupted Melody
Sonya, a graduate with a law degree from New York University, briefly practiced law before becoming a magazine editor and fiction writer. After several of her stories were adapted to the screen, she became a screenwriter. Levien wrote several screenplays for Will Rogers films and for Fox studios ...
For Interrupted Melody (1955); shared with William Ludwig
86. William Ludwig
Writer | Interrupted Melody
William Ludwig was born on May 26, 1912 in New York City, New York, USA. He was a writer, known for Interrupted Melody (1955), Oklahoma! (1955) and The Great Caruso (1951). He was married to Susan Riesenfeld. He died on February 7, 1999 in Woodland Hills, Los Angeles, California, USA.
For Interrupted Melody (1955); shared with Sonya Levien
87. Budd Schulberg
Writer | On the Waterfront
Budd Schulberg was born on March 27, 1914 in New York City, New York, USA. He was a writer and producer, known for On the Waterfront (1954), Everglades! (1961) and A Face in the Crowd (1957). He was married to Betsy Ann Langman, Geraldine Brooks, Agnes Victoria Anderson and Virginia Ray. He died on...
88. Charles Brackett
Writer | Sunset Blvd.
Charles Brackett, born in Saratoga Springs, New York, of Scottish ancestry, followed in his attorney-father's footsteps and graduated with a law degree from Harvard University in 1920. He practised law for several years, before commencing work as drama critic for The New Yorker (1925-29), in ...
For Titanic (1953); shared with Richard L. Breen and Walter Reisch
89. Richard L. Breen
Writer | Titanic
Richard L. Breen was born on June 26, 1918 in Chicago, Illinois, USA. He was a writer and director, known for Titanic (1953), A Foreign Affair (1948) and State Fair (1962). He died on February 1, 1967 in Los Angeles County, California, USA.
For Titanic (1953); shared with Charles Brackett and Walter Reisch
90. Walter Reisch
Writer | Gaslight
After completing studies in literature at the University of Vienna, Walter Reisch began his screen career as an extra and title writer in 1918. He eventually made the acquaintance of Stephan Lorant, a refuge from the Horty regime in Hungary, who, within a single year, had made a name for himself in...
For Titanic (1953); shared with Charles Brackett and Richard L. Breen
91. T.E.B. Clarke
Writer | The Lavender Hill Mob
T.E.B. 'Tibby' Clarke graduated with a law degree from Cambridge University, but decided that writing was more his forte. He started on that career path first as writer for a magazine in Australia, than back in London freelancing as a journalist. He also had jobs on Fleet Street, worked in ...
92. Alan Jay Lerner
Writer | An American in Paris
Playwright/lyricist Alan Jay Lerner was born into a wealthy New York City retailing family. His professional association with Frederick Loewe started in 1942 when they teamed up to write "Life of the Party". Their first Broadway success was the 1947 musical fantasy "Brigadoon." Lerner adapted work ...
93. Charles Brackett
Writer | Sunset Blvd.
Charles Brackett, born in Saratoga Springs, New York, of Scottish ancestry, followed in his attorney-father's footsteps and graduated with a law degree from Harvard University in 1920. He practised law for several years, before commencing work as drama critic for The New Yorker (1925-29), in ...
For Sunset Blvd. (1950); shared with D.M. Marshman Jr. and Billy Wilder
94. D.M. Marshman Jr.
Writer | Sunset Blvd.
D.M. Marshman Jr. was born on December 21, 1922 in Cleveland, Ohio, USA. He was a writer, known for Sunset Blvd. (1950), Taxi (1953) and Second Chance (1953). He was married to Ann Chase Lane. He died on September 17, 2015 in Stamford, Connecticut, USA.
For Sunset Blvd. (1950); shared with Charles Brackett and Billy Wilder
95. Billy Wilder
Writer | The Apartment
Originally planning to become a lawyer, Billy Wilder abandoned that career in favor of working as a reporter for a Viennese newspaper, using this experience to move to Berlin, where he worked for the city's largest tabloid. He broke into films as a screenwriter in 1929 and wrote scripts for many ...
For Sunset Blvd. (1950); shared with Charles Brackett and D.M. Marshman Jr.
96. Robert Pirosh
Writer | Battleground
Robert Pirosh enjoyed a lengthy Hollywood career, which began when he was signed by MGM, along with fellow newcomer George Seaton , as a contributing writer in 1934. His most notable success was garnering the Academy Award for his screenplay of Battleground (1949), a film based on the Second World ...
97. Sidney Sheldon
Writer | Easter Parade
Sheldon was born in Chicago on February 17, 1917. He began writing as a youngster and at the age of ten he made his first sale of a poem for $10. During the Depression, he worked at a variety of jobs and while attending Northwestern University he contributed short plays to drama groups.
At seventeen...
98. Muriel Box
Writer | The Seventh Veil
Muriel Box was born on September 22, 1905 in New Malden, Surrey [now in Kingston upon Thames, London], England, UK. She was a writer and director, known for The Seventh Veil (1945), Mr. Lord Says No (1952) and A Novel Affair (1957). She was married to Gerald Gardiner and Sydney Box. She died on May...
For The Seventh Veil (1945); shared with Sydney Box
99. Sydney Box
Producer | The Seventh Veil
Sydney Box was born on April 29, 1907 in Beckenham, Kent, England, UK. He was a producer and writer, known for The Seventh Veil (1945), Holiday Camp (1947) and Forbidden Cargo (1954). He was married to Muriel Box. He died on May 25, 1983 in Perth, Western Australia, Australia.
For The Seventh Veil (1945); shared with Muriel Box
100. Richard Schweizer
Writer | The Search
Richard Schweizer was born on December 23, 1899 in Zurich, Switzerland. He was a writer and director, known for The Search (1948), Marie-Louise (1944) and Kleine Scheidegg (1937). He was married to Ruth Margaret Langnese. He died on March 30, 1965 in Zurich, Switzerland.
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