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23rd Writers Guild Of America Awards ...
The 23rd Writers Guild of America Awards honored the best film writers and television writers of 1970. Winners were announced in 1971. Winners & Nominees Film Winners are listed first highlighted in boldface. Television Special Awards References External links WGA.org {{WGA Awards Chron 1970 W Writers Guild of America Awards Writers Guild of America Awards Writers Guild of America Awards The Writers Guild of America Awards is an award for film, television, and radio writing including both fiction and non-fiction categories given by the Writers Guild of America, East and Writers Guild of America West since 1949. Eligibility The ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Writers Guild Of America, East
The Writers Guild of America, East (WGAE) is a labor union representing writers in film, television, radio, news, and online media. The Writers Guild of America, East is affiliated with the Writers Guild of America West. Together the guilds administer the Writers Guild of America Awards. It is an affiliate of the International Federation of Journalists, the International Affiliation of Writers Guilds, and the AFL–CIO. History WGAE had its beginnings in 1912, when the Authors' League of America (ALA) was formed by some 350 book and magazine authors, as well as dramatists. In 1921, this group split into two branches of the League: the Dramatists Guild of America for writers of stage and, later, radio drama and the Authors Guild (AG) for novelists and nonfiction book and magazine authors. That same year, the Screen Writers Guild came into existence in Hollywood, California, but was "little more than a social organization", according to the WGAe's website, until the Great Depre ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Neil Simon
Marvin Neil Simon (July 4, 1927 – August 26, 2018) was an American playwright, screenwriter and author. He wrote more than 30 plays and nearly the same number of movie screenplays, mostly film adaptations of his plays. He has received more combined Academy Award, Oscar and Tony Award nominations than any other writer. Simon grew up in New York City during the Great Depression. His parents' financial difficulties affected their marriage, giving him a mostly unhappy and unstable childhood. He often took refuge in movie theaters, where he enjoyed watching early comedians like Charlie Chaplin. After graduating from high school and serving a few years in the United States Army Air Forces, Army Air Force Reserve, he began writing comedy scripts for radio programs and popular early television shows. Among the latter were Sid Caesar's ''Your Show of Shows'' (where in 1950 he worked alongside other young writers including Carl Reiner, Mel Brooks, Woody Allen, Larry Gelbart and Sel ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Airport (1970 Film)
''Airport'' is a 1970 American air disaster–drama film written and directed by George Seaton and starring Burt Lancaster and Dean Martin. Based on Arthur Hailey's 1968 novel of the same name, it originated the 1970s disaster film genre. It is also the first of four films in the ''Airport'' film series. Produced on a $10 million budget, it earned over $128 million. The film is about an airport manager trying to keep his airport open during a snowstorm, while a suicide bomber plots to blow up a Boeing 707 airliner in flight. It takes place at fictional Lincoln International Airport near Chicago. The film was a commercial success and surpassed ''Spartacus'' as Universal Pictures' biggest moneymaker. The movie won Helen Hayes an Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress for her role as an elderly stowaway and was nominated for nine other Academy Awards, including Best Picture, Best Cinematography, and Best Costume Design for designer Edith Head. With attention paid t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Robert Anderson (playwright)
Robert Woodruff Anderson (April 28, 1917 – February 9, 2009) was an American playwright, screenwriter, and theatrical producer. He received two Academy Award nominations for Best Writing, Screenplay Based on Material from Another Medium, for the drama films '' The Nun's Story'' (1959) and ''I Never Sang for My Father'' (1970), the latter based on his play. Life and career Anderson was born in New York City, the son of Myra Esther (Grigg) and James Hewston Anderson, a self-made businessman. He was educated at Phillips Exeter Academy, which he later said he found a lonely experience. While there he fell in love with an older woman, an event which later became the basis of the plot of '' Tea and Sympathy''. Anderson also attended Harvard University, where he took an undergraduate as well as a master's degree. He may be best-remembered as the author of '' Tea and Sympathy''. The play made its Broadway debut in 1953 and was made into a Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer film in 1956; both starred ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
I Never Sang For My Father
''I Never Sang for My Father'' is a 1970 American drama film, based on the 1968 play of the same name. It tells the story of a widowed college professor who feels dominated by his aging father, yet still has regrets about his plan to leave him behind when he remarries and moves to California. It stars Melvyn Douglas, Gene Hackman, Dorothy Stickney, Estelle Parsons, and Elizabeth Hubbard. The film was produced and directed by Gilbert Cates, and Robert Anderson adapted the screenplay from his 1968 Broadway play. It was nominated for Academy Awards for Best Actor in a Leading Role (Melvyn Douglas), Best Actor in a Supporting Role (Gene Hackman), and Best Writing, Screenplay Based on Material from Another Medium (Robert Anderson). Plot summary At the airport, college professor Gene Garrison meets his parents who have returned from Florida. After driving them home, he takes them out to dinner. Back home, he spends the evening with them. The barbs of his father, Tom, run through ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Writers Guild Of America Award For Best Adapted Screenplay
The Writers Guild of America Award for Best Adapted Screenplay is one of the three screenwriting Writers Guild of America Awards, focused specifically for film. The Writers Guild of America began making the distinction between an original screenplay and an adapted screenplay in 1970, when Waldo Salt, screenwriter for ''Midnight Cowboy'', won for "Best Adapted Drama" and Arnold Schulman won "Best Adapted Comedy" for his screenplay of ''Goodbye, Columbus''. Separate awards for dramas and comedies continued until 1985. Winners and nominees 1960s 1970s 1980s 1990s 2000s 2010s 2020s Writers with multiple awards ;3 Awards * Alexander Payne ;2 Awards *Francis Ford Coppola *Blake Edwards *Mario Puzo *Waldo Salt * Alvin Sargent * Jim Taylor Writers with multiple nominations The following writers have received three or more nominations: ;6 Nominations *Steven Zaillian ;5 Nominations *Eric Roth ;4 Nominations * Alexander Payne *Aaron Sorkin ;3 Nominations *Scott Frank *Ru ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
James Lee Barrett
James Lee Barrett (November 19, 1929 – October 15, 1989) was an American author, producer and screenwriter. Biography Barrett was born in 1929 in Charlotte, North Carolina and graduated in 1950 from Anderson University (South Carolina). Prior to his career as a screenwriter, he served in the United States Marines. His first screenplay (based on his teleplay ''The Murder of a Sand Flea'') was for the 1957 film, '' The D.I.'', which starred Jack Webb as a Marine Corps drill instructor at MCRD Parris Island. Barrett had been on Parris Island as a recruit in 1950 and served in the Korean War.We...the Marines: Anonymous. Leatherneck ; Quantico Vol. 53, Iss. 10, (Oct 1970): 72-75. Barrett, along with Peter Udell and Phillip Rose won the 1975 Tony Award for Best Book of a Musical for ''Shenandoah'', which was based on his 1965 film by the same name, which starred James Stewart. Other notable works written by Barrett include the 1965 epic film ''The Greatest Story Ever ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Cheyenne Social Club
''The Cheyenne Social Club'' is a 1970 American Western comedy film written by James Lee Barrett, directed and produced by Gene Kelly, and starring James Stewart, Henry Fonda and Shirley Jones. The film is about an aging cowboy who inherits a brothel and decides to turn it into a respectable boarding house, against the wishes of both the townspeople and the ladies working there. Plot In 1867, John O'Hanlan and Harley Sullivan are aging cowboys working on open cattle ranges in Texas. John gets a letter from an attorney in Cheyenne, Wyoming that his brother, D.J., left him The Cheyenne Social Club in his will. After making the trek to Cheyenne, John and Harley learn The Cheyenne Social Club is a high-class brothel next to the railroad. John falls into disfavor with both the Club's ladies and the men in Cheyenne when he decides to close the Club. John learns his brother's deed had a provision the property would revert to the railroad if the ladies moved. Jenny, the Club's madam, i ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Lawrence D
Lawrence may refer to: Education Colleges and universities * Lawrence Technological University, a university in Southfield, Michigan, United States * Lawrence University, a liberal arts university in Appleton, Wisconsin, United States Preparatory & high schools * Lawrence Academy at Groton, a preparatory school in Groton, Massachusetts, United States * Lawrence College, Ghora Gali, a high school in Pakistan * Lawrence School, Lovedale, a high school in India * The Lawrence School, Sanawar, a high school in India Research laboratories * Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, United States * Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, United States People * Lawrence (given name), including a list of people with the name * Lawrence (surname), including a list of people with the name * Lawrence (band), an American soul-pop group * Lawrence (judge royal) (died after 1180), Hungarian nobleman, Judge royal 1164–1172 * Lawrence (musician), Lawrence Hayward (born 1961), British musician * ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Fred Freeman
Fred Freeman (born December 29, 1943) is a former American football player and coach. He was selected by the New York Giants in the 1967 NFL Draft. Freeman served as the head football coach at Hampton University in Hampton, Virginia Hampton () is an independent city (United States), independent city in the Commonwealth (U.S. state), Commonwealth of Virginia in the United States. As of the 2020 United States Census, 2020 census, the population was 137,148. It is the List ... from 1984 to 1991, compiling a record of 49–31–4. References 1943 births Living people American football tackles Hampton Pirates football coaches Mississippi Valley State Delta Devils football players {{1980s-collegefootball-coach-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Start The Revolution Without Me
''Start the Revolution Without Me'' is a 1970 British-French-American period drama, period comedy film directed by Bud Yorkin and starring Gene Wilder, Donald Sutherland, Hugh Griffith, Jack MacGowran, Billie Whitelaw, Orson Welles (playing himself as narrator) and Victor Spinetti. The comedy is set in revolutionary France where two peasants are mistaken for the famous The Corsican Brothers, Corsican Brothers. The film is considered a parody of a number of works of historical fiction about the French Revolution and History of France, French history in general, including ''A Tale of Two Cities'' (1859) by Charles Dickens and two works by Alexandre Dumas, père, Alexandre Dumas, ''The Corsican Brothers'' (1844) and ''The Vicomte of Bragelonne: Ten Years Later#Part Three: The Man in the Iron Mask (Chapters 181–269), The Man in the Iron Mask'' (1847). Plot Two sets of identical twins are babies switched at birth, accidentally switched at birth. One pair, Phillipe and Pierre DeSisi, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Gabriel Walsh
Gabriel Walsh, born in Dublin, is a writer, publishing books and producing scripts for TV shows and movies. Early years At the age of 15, while working as a waiter in the Shelbourne Hotel in Dublin he met Irish Opera singer Margaret Burke-Sheridan (1889–1958). Margaret Burke-Sheridan convinces his family to allow him to move to the US for education. Walsh attended the Lee Strasberg School of Acting in New York and L.A. Career Since the 1970s, Walsh has either been writing screen plays, acting, co-producing or writing for the Evening Echo newspaper in Cork. In 1970, Walsh wrote the screen-play Quackser Fortune Has a Cousin in the Bronx which stars Gene Wilder as Quackser Fortune and Margot Kidder as Zazel Pierce. Quackser Fortune grabbed the attention of Jean Renoir. Gene Wilder, in his book ''Kiss Me Like A Stranger'' published by St Martin's Press, quotes the legendary French Director as saying "not since Chaplin have I come across such as character as this Quackser ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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