Academy Awards out of three nominations.
Contents
1 Early life and education 2 Military service 3 Early career
3.1 Broadway 3.2 Television
4 Film work
4.1 One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest 4.2 The Rose and Melvin and Howard 4.3 Shoot the Moon 4.4 Scent of a Woman 4.5 City Hall 4.6 Meet Joe Black 4.7 The Perfect Storm
5 A Writer's Writer 6 Filmography 7 Awards 8 References 9 External links
Early life and education[edit]
Goldman was born in New York City, the son of Lillian (Levy), a hat
model, and Julian Goldman.[1] Goldman's father was a Broadway
producer, and owned a chain of well known eastern department stores
called The Goldman Stores, and as an early pioneer of "time payments",
his business thrived.
Franklin Delano Roosevelt
Franklin Delano Roosevelt was a close friend and
also his attorney. Goldman Store ads typically featured men in
business suits and fashionably dressed women in furs. While this was
an old strategy for appealing to those with dreams of upper-class
status, the ad copy explicitly addressed middle-income customers. "He
makes only $3,000 a year," blazoned one Goldman ad, "But is worth
$112,290!" Julian loved the theatre, and was an "angel" or backer, to
many Broadway Shows and reviews. His young son, Robert "Bo,"
accompanied Julian to an average of two shows a week. This influenced
what the boy would choose to do later in life, convinced from an early
age that he was meant to work in the theatre. In 1939 Julian was
looking for a school where he could send his son. Eleanor Roosevelt
admired the work of Helen Parkhurst and was in the midst of expanding
the population and resources of the
Dalton School
Dalton School by promoting a
merger between the Todhunter School for girls (founded by Winifred
Todhunter). Julian Goldman became an early backer, and it was this
school where Bo would begin his education. He followed this by
skipping his last year at Dalton in favor of fast tracking through
Exeter, NH, an experience that informed a script he would write years
later, Scent of a Woman.[2]
Goldman is not related to William Goldman, another
two-time-Oscar-winning screenwriter who won the
Academy Award
Academy Award for All
The President's Men the year after Bo won for One Flew Over the
Cuckoo's Nest.
He attended
Princeton University
Princeton University where he wrote, produced, composed
the lyrics and was president of the famed Princeton Triangle Club, a
proving ground for
James Stewart
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James Stewart and director Joshua Logan. His 1953
production, Ham 'n Legs, was presented on The Ed Sullivan
Show – the first Triangle production ever to appear on National
Television.
Military service[edit]
Upon graduation from Princeton, Goldman had a three-year stint in the
U.S. Army
U.S. Army stationed on
Enewetak
Enewetak as personnel sergeant,[3] an atoll in
the
Marshall Islands
Marshall Islands of the central
Pacific Ocean
Pacific Ocean used for nuclear
bomb testing.
Early career[edit]
Broadway[edit]
After leaving the service Goldman headed straight to Broadway and
became the lyricist for First Impressions, a musical based on Jane
Austen's Pride and Prejudice. Produced by composer Jule Styne,
directed by Abe Burrows, and starring Hermione Gingold, Polly Bergen
and Farley Granger, the play received decent notices but had a very
short run. Just 25 years old, Goldman wasn't the least bit
discouraged, still convinced he would spend the rest of his life in
the theatre. However, it was not meant to be. He would spend the next
few years trying to get his second show, a civil war play, Hurrah Boys
Hurrah, onto Broadway – but with no success.
Television[edit]
Now married, and with 4 small children at home, he soon found a steady
income working in the new world of live television at CBS.[4] Goldman
was mentored by
Fred Coe (the "D.W. Griffith of dramatic television")
and became part of the twilight of The Golden Age, associate producing
and script editing Coe's prestigious Playhouse 90's, Days of Wine and
Roses directed by a young John Frankenheimer, The Plot To Kill Stalin
starring Eli Wallach, and Horton Foote's Old Man. Goldman went on to
himself produce and write for public television on the award-winning
NET Playhouse. After working together at NET
Burt Lancaster
Burt Lancaster encouraged
Goldman to try his hand at screenwriting, which resulted in an early
version of Shoot the Moon. The script became Goldman's calling card,
and he would soon be "known for some of the best screenplays of the
1970s and 80s".[5]
Film work[edit]
One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest[edit]
Main article: One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest (film)
After reading Shoot the Moon,
Miloš Forman
Miloš Forman asked Goldman to write the
screenplay for One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest. The film won all five
top
Academy Awards
Academy Awards including an
Academy Award
Academy Award for Best Adapted
Screenplay for Goldman. This was the first film to win the top five
awards since Frank Capra's
It Happened One Night
It Happened One Night in 1934. For his work
on the film Goldman also received the Writers Guild Award and the
Golden Globe Award.
The Rose and Melvin and Howard[edit]
Main articles:
The Rose (film)
The Rose (film) and Melvin and Howard
He next wrote The Rose (1979), which was nominated for four Academy
Awards. This was followed by his original screenplay Melvin and Howard
(1980) which garnered Goldman his second Oscar, second Writers Guild
Award, and the
New York Film Critics Circle Award for Screenplay of
the Year.
Shoot the Moon[edit]
Main article: Shoot the Moon
Goldman's calling card, Shoot the Moon, was then filmed by Alan Parker
and starred
Diane Keaton
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Diane Keaton and Albert Finney. The film received
international acclaim and was embraced by some of America's most
respected film critics:
However, due to a previous agreement
Warren Beatty
Warren Beatty had negotiated with
MGM
MGM the studio was bound that no film could be released with Diane
Keaton in the same year as Beatty's Reds. Consequently, Shoot the Moon
was effectively dumped – and subsequently released with little
or no fanfare the following February – long after the fourth
quarter "awards season." Nonetheless, Goldman's peers remembered and
the following year he earned his third Writers Guild Award nomination.
Shoot the Moon
Shoot the Moon received international acclaim and was embraced by
America's most respected film critics:
Pauline Kael – The New Yorker:
"
Shoot the Moon
Shoot the Moon is perhaps the most revealing American movie of the
era."[6]
David Denby – New York Magazine:
"The picture seems like a miracle. A beautiful achievement."[7]
David Edelstein – The New York Post:
"One of the best films of the decade."[8]
However, due to the poor domestic release in the years before video,
the film was all but forgotten until
Warner Bros.
Warner Bros. acquried MGM's home
video library and released the DVD in the summer of 2007. To this day
Shoot the Moon
Shoot the Moon has a perfect 100% score on the critic site Rotten
Tomatoes.
"The great Bo Goldman. He's the pre-eminent screenwriter –– in my mind as good as it gets."[9]
Eric Roth, New York Times, 1998.
Los Angeles -- The Screen Writers Guild strike brings motion picture
and television production very nearly to a halt. Several famous
writers are shown here picketing at the 20th Century-Fox Studios;
including Richard Brooks, Bo Goldman,
Gore Vidal
Gore Vidal and Billy Wilder
(1981)
For the next few years, Goldman contributed uncredited work to many
scripts including Miloš Forman's Ragtime (1981) starring James Cagney
and Donald O'Connor,
The Flamingo Kid
The Flamingo Kid (1984) starring Matt Dillon, and
Warren Beatty's Dick Tracy (1990).
Scent of a Woman[edit]
Main article: Scent of a Woman (1992 film)
He followed this with Scent of a Woman (1992) receiving his second
Golden Globe Award
Golden Globe Award and third
Academy Award
Academy Award nomination. In the film Al
Pacino plays Frank Slade, a blind, retired army colonel--a character
Goldman said he based on someone he "knew from his days in the army."
[4] After being nominated seven times for roles as varied as Michael
Corleone in Francis Coppola's
The Godfather
The Godfather and
Frank Serpico
Frank Serpico in
Sidney Lumet's Serpico, his portrayal of Frank Slade finally earned
him the
Academy Award
Academy Award for Best Actor. The film was beloved by critics
who along with Pacino's performance singled out Goldman's screenplay:
Janet Maslin – The New York Times:
"Mr. Pacino roars through this story with show-stopping intensity. Bo Goldman's screenplay provides him with a string of indelible wisecracks. Mr. Pacino's contribution, in the sort of role for which Oscar nominations were made, is to remind viewers that a great American actor is too seldom on the screen."[10]
Roger Ebert – Chicago Sun-Times :
"The screenplay is by
Bo Goldman
Bo Goldman (Melvin and Howard), who is more
interested in the people than the plot. By the end of "Scent of a
Woman," we have arrived at the usual conclusion of the coming-of-age
movie, and the usual conclusion of the prep school movie. But rarely
have we been taken there with so much intelligence and skill."[11]
The film has an 88% score on the critic site Rotten Tomatoes.
City Hall[edit]
Main article:
City Hall
City Hall (film)
Next up was Harold Becker's
City Hall
City Hall (1996) again starring Al Pacino
and also John Cusack. Pacino played the corrupt Mayor of New York
City. The film is peppered with musical theatre references – a
clear homage to Goldman's father and his own Broadway days.
Meet Joe Black[edit]
Main article:
Meet Joe Black
Meet Joe Black (film)
After this was
Meet Joe Black
Meet Joe Black (1998) starring
Brad Pitt
Brad Pitt and Anthony
Hopkins. Critics gave the film mixed reviews. Pitt and the director,
Martin Brest, took the biggest thumping. The main complaint centered
not on content, but pace. Kenneth Turan of the Los Angeles Times
wrote, "Where
Meet Joe Black
Meet Joe Black runs into most of its trouble is that
everything happens so terribly slowly.
Martin Brest has felt the need
to inflate the tale until it floats around like one of those ungainly
balloons in Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade. Not helping the time go
faster is the way star
Brad Pitt
Brad Pitt has ended up playing Death.
Ordinarily the most charismatic of actors, with an eye-candy smile and
a winning ease, Pitt approaches this role largely on a leash, hanging
around more like the protagonist of I Walked With a Zombie than a
flesh-and-blood leading man."[12]
The Perfect Storm[edit]
Main article: The Perfect Storm (film)
In 2000, Goldman did a page one uncredited rewrite of The Perfect
Storm. It was his script that green lit the movie at
Warner Bros.
Warner Bros. and
convinced
George Clooney
George Clooney to star. The film went on to earn
$329,000,000.
In recent years, Goldman was rumored to be working on an adaptation of
Jules Dassin's
Du rififi chez les hommes
Du rififi chez les hommes for Al Pacino.
A Writer's Writer[edit]
In a 1998 interview with the
New York Times
New York Times screenwriter Eric Roth
said, "The great Bo Goldman. He's the pre-eminent screenwriter -- in
my mind as good as it gets. He has the most varied and intelligent
credits, from Cuckoo's Nest to Shoot the Moon, the best divorce movie
ever made, to Scent of a Woman, to the great satire Melvin and Howard.
He rarely makes mistakes, and he manages to maintain a distinctive
American voice. And he manages to stay timely."[9]
Roth once again expressed his admiration for Goldman in an October
2017
New York Magazine
New York Magazine article entitled "The 100 Best Screenwriters of
All Time." Here Roth writes, "The man whose work made the biggest
impression on me, because of his audacious originality, his
understanding of social mores, his ironic sense of humor, and his
outright anger at being human, and all with his soft spoken grace and
eloquent simplicity is Bo Goldman. This degenerate horse player of a
man lived his life like he lived his politics, never shying from a
fight. His words were silk, never wasted or misplaced, and he would
throw away what others would consider glorious and did it all without
a moment’s fanfare.”[13]
Filmography[edit]
The Paradine Case
The Paradine Case (1962) (TV)
One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest (1975)
The Rose (1979)
Melvin and Howard
Melvin and Howard (1980)
Ragtime (1981) (uncredited)
Shoot the Moon
Shoot the Moon (1982)
Swing Shift (1984) (uncredited)
The Flamingo Kid
The Flamingo Kid (1984) (uncredited)
Little Nikita
Little Nikita (1988)
Dick Tracy (1990) (uncredited)
Scent of a Woman (1992)
City Hall
City Hall (with Ken Lipper, Paul Schrader, and Nicholas Pileggi)
(1996)
Meet Joe Black
Meet Joe Black (with Ron Osborn & Jeff Reno and Kevin Wade) (1998)
The Perfect Storm (2000) (uncredited)
Rules Don't Apply (2016) (story with Warren Beatty)
Awards[edit]
Awards and achievements
Academy Awards
Preceded by
Francis Ford Coppola
Francis Ford Coppola and Mario Puzo
for
The Godfather
The Godfather Part II
Best Adapted Screenplay
Bo Goldman
1976
for One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest
Succeeded by
William Goldman
for All the President's Men
Golden Globes
Preceded by Robert Towne for Chinatown Best Screenplay Bo Goldman 1976 for One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest Succeeded by Paddy Chayefsky for Network
Writers Guild of America Awards
Preceded by Robert Towne for Chinatown Best Screenplay – Adapted Bo Goldman 1976 for One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest Succeeded by Paddy Chayefsky for Network
New York Film Critics Circle Awards
Preceded by Steve Tesich for Breaking Away Best Screenplay Bo Goldman 1980 for Melvin and Howard Succeeded by John Guare for Atlantic City
National Society of Film Critics Awards
Preceded by Steve Tesich for Breaking Away Best Screenplay Bo Goldman 1981 for Melvin and Howard Succeeded by John Guare for Atlantic City
Boston Society of Film Critics
Preceded by
None
Best Screenplay
Bo Goldman
1980
for Melvin and Howard
Succeeded by
Wallace Shawn
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Wallace Shawn and Andre Gregory
for My Dinner with Andre
Writers Guild of America Awards
Preceded by
Mike Gray and T.S. Cook and James Bridges
for The China Syndrome
Best Screenplay – Original
Bo Goldman
1981
for Melvin and Howard
Succeeded by
Warren Beatty
Warren Beatty and Trevor Griffiths
for Reds
Academy Awards
Preceded by Steve Tesich for Breaking Away Best Original Screenplay Bo Goldman 1981 for Melvin and Howard Succeeded by Colin Welland for Chariots of Fire'
Golden Globes
Preceded by Callie Khouri for Thelma & Louise Best Screenplay Bo Goldman 1993 for Scent of a Woman Succeeded by Steven Zaillian for Schindler's List
Writers Guild of America
Preceded by Robert Towne Laurel Award for Screenwriting Achievement Bo Goldman 1998 Given to a writer who has consistently "advanced the art form." Succeeded by Paul Schrader
References[edit]
^ http://www.filmreference.com/film/72/Bo-Goldman.html
^ Calder, Lendol. Financing the American Dream.
^ Harris, Michael. The Atomic Times: My H-Bomb Year at the Pacific
Proving Ground.
^ a b "Legendary
Screenwriter
Screenwriter
Bo Goldman
Bo Goldman discusses his craft".
^ Weinraub, Bernard (February 25, 1993). "A
Screenwriter
Screenwriter Profits From
His Years of Pain". New York Times.
^ Kael, Pauline (January 18, 1982). "The Current Cinema". The New
Yorker.
^ Denby, David (January 1982). "Cinema Reviews". New York
Magazine.
^ Edelstein, David (January 1982). "Shoot the Moon". New York
Post.
^ a b Willens, Michele (September 13, 1998). "The New Season/Film:
Looking Ahead; Awaiting Kubrick, Malick, 'Mail'". New York
Times.
^ Maslin, Janet (December 23, 1992). "A Lust For Life". New York
Times.
^ Ebert, Roger (December 23, 1992). "Scent of a Woman". Chicago
Sun-Times.
^ Turan, Kenneth (November 13, 1998). "Dead Man Goes a-Courtin = Los
Angeles Times".
^ "The 100 Best Screenwriters of All Time". New York Magazine. October
2, 2017.
External links[edit]
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Academy Award
Academy Award for Best Original Screenplay
1940–1960
Preston Sturges
Preston Sturges (1940)
Herman J. Mankiewicz
Herman J. Mankiewicz and
Orson Welles
Orson Welles (1941)
Michael Kanin
Michael Kanin and
Ring Lardner Jr.
Ring Lardner Jr. (1942)
Norman Krasna (1943)
Lamar Trotti (1944)
Richard Schweizer (1945)
Muriel Box and
Sydney Box (1946)
Sidney Sheldon (1947)
No award (1948)
Robert Pirosh (1949)
Charles Brackett,
D. M. Marshman Jr. and
Billy Wilder
Billy Wilder (1950)
Alan Jay Lerner
Alan Jay Lerner (1951)
T. E. B. Clarke (1952)
Charles Brackett,
Richard L. Breen and
Walter Reisch (1953)
Budd Schulberg
Budd Schulberg (1954)
Sonya Levien and
William Ludwig (1955)
Albert Lamorisse
Albert Lamorisse (1956)
George Wells (1957)
Nathan E. Douglas and
Harold Jacob Smith (1958)
Clarence Greene, Maurice Richlin,
Russell Rouse and Stanley Shapiro
(1959)
I. A. L. Diamond and
Billy Wilder
Billy Wilder (1960)
1961–1980
William Inge
William Inge (1961)
Ennio de Concini, Pietro Germi, and
Alfredo Giannetti (1962)
James Webb (1963)
Peter Stone and
Frank Tarloff (1964)
Frederic Raphael (1965)
Claude Lelouch
Claude Lelouch and
Pierre Uytterhoeven (1966)
William Rose (1967)
Mel Brooks
Mel Brooks (1968)
William Goldman
William Goldman (1969)
Francis Ford Coppola
Francis Ford Coppola and
Edmund H. North (1970)
Paddy Chayefsky
Paddy Chayefsky (1971)
Jeremy Larner (1972)
David S. Ward
David S. Ward (1973)
Robert Towne
Robert Towne (1974)
Frank Pierson
Frank Pierson (1975)
Paddy Chayefsky
Paddy Chayefsky (1976)
Woody Allen
Woody Allen and
Marshall Brickman (1977)
Robert C. Jones, Waldo Salt, and
Nancy Dowd (1978)
Steve Tesich
Steve Tesich (1979)
Bo Goldman
Bo Goldman (1980)
1981–2000
Colin Welland (1981)
John Briley (1982)
Horton Foote (1983)
Robert Benton (1984)
William Kelley,
Pamela Wallace and
Earl W. Wallace (1985)
Woody Allen
Woody Allen (1986)
John Patrick Shanley
John Patrick Shanley (1987)
Ronald Bass and
Barry Morrow (1988)
Tom Schulman (1989)
Bruce Joel Rubin (1990)
Callie Khouri
Callie Khouri (1991)
Neil Jordan
Neil Jordan (1992)
Jane Campion
Jane Campion (1993)
Quentin Tarantino
Quentin Tarantino and
Roger Avary
Roger Avary (1994)
Christopher McQuarrie
.jpg/440px-Christopher_McQuarrie_(2).jpg)
Christopher McQuarrie (1995)
Joel Coen and Ethan Coen (1996)
Ben Affleck
Ben Affleck and
Matt Damon
Matt Damon (1997)
Marc Norman and
Tom Stoppard
.jpg)
Tom Stoppard (1998)
Alan Ball (1999)
Cameron Crowe
Cameron Crowe (2000)
2001–present
Julian Fellowes
Julian Fellowes (2001)
Pedro Almodóvar
Pedro Almodóvar (2002)
Sofia Coppola
Sofia Coppola (2003)
Pierre Bismuth,
Michel Gondry
Michel Gondry and
Charlie Kaufman
_(cropped).jpg/480px-Charlie_Kaufman_Fantastic_Fest_2015-0257_(27441349145)_(cropped).jpg)
Charlie Kaufman (2004)
Paul Haggis
Paul Haggis and Bobby Moresco (2005)
Michael Arndt
Michael Arndt (2006)
Diablo Cody
Diablo Cody (2007)
Dustin Lance Black
.jpg/460px-Dustin_Lance_Black_on_Forum_Stage_at_Web_Summit_2017_(24373767078).jpg)
Dustin Lance Black (2008)
Mark Boal
Mark Boal (2009)
David Seidler (2010)
Woody Allen
Woody Allen (2011)
Quentin Tarantino
Quentin Tarantino (2012)
Spike Jonze
.jpg/440px-Spike_Jonze_Her_Premiere_NYFF_2013_(cropped).jpg)
Spike Jonze (2013)
Alejandro G. Iñárritu, Nicolás Giacobone, Alexander Dinelaris Jr.,
and Armando Bo (2014)
Tom McCarthy and
Josh Singer (2015)
Kenneth Lonergan
.jpg/440px-Kenneth_Lonergan_Viennale_2016_opening_4_(cropped).jpg)
Kenneth Lonergan (2016)
Jordan Peele
.jpg/440px-Jordan_Peele_Peabody_2014_(cropped).jpg)
Jordan Peele (2017)
v t e
Academy Award
Academy Award for Best Adapted Screenplay
1928–1950
Benjamin Glazer (1928)
Hanns Kräly (1929)
Frances Marion
Frances Marion (1930)
Howard Estabrook
Howard Estabrook (1931)
Edwin J. Burke (1932)
Victor Heerman
Victor Heerman and
Sarah Y. Mason
Sarah Y. Mason (1933)
Robert Riskin
Robert Riskin (1934)
Dudley Nichols (1935)
Pierre Collings
Pierre Collings and
Sheridan Gibney (1936)
Heinz Herald, Geza Herczeg, and
Norman Reilly Raine
Norman Reilly Raine (1937)
Ian Dalrymple, Cecil Arthur Lewis, W. P. Lipscomb, and George Bernard
Shaw (1938)
Sidney Howard
Sidney Howard (1939)
Donald Ogden Stewart
Donald Ogden Stewart (1940)
Sidney Buchman and
Seton I. Miller (1941)
George Froeschel, James Hilton, Claudine West, and Arthur Wimperis
(1942)
Philip G. Epstein, Julius J. Epstein, and
Howard E. Koch (1943)
Frank Butler, and Frank Cavett (1944)
Charles Brackett and
Billy Wilder
Billy Wilder (1945)
Robert Sherwood (1946)
George Seaton
George Seaton (1947)
John Huston
John Huston (1948)
Joseph L. Mankiewicz
Joseph L. Mankiewicz (1949)
Joseph L. Mankiewicz
Joseph L. Mankiewicz (1950)
1951–1975
Harry Brown and Michael Wilson (1951)
Charles Schnee (1952)
Daniel Taradash (1953)
George Seaton
George Seaton (1954)
Paddy Chayefsky
Paddy Chayefsky (1955)
John Farrow, S. J. Perelman, and
James Poe (1956)
Carl Foreman
Carl Foreman and Michael Wilson (1957)
Alan Jay Lerner
Alan Jay Lerner (1958)
Neil Paterson (1959)
Richard Brooks
Richard Brooks (1960)
Abby Mann (1961)
Horton Foote (1962)
John Osborne
John Osborne (1963)
Edward Anhalt (1964)
Robert Bolt (1965)
Robert Bolt (1966)
Stirling Silliphant (1967)
James Goldman (1968)
Waldo Salt (1969)
Ring Lardner Jr.
Ring Lardner Jr. (1970)
Ernest Tidyman (1971)
Francis Ford Coppola
Francis Ford Coppola and
Mario Puzo
Mario Puzo (1972)
William Peter Blatty
William Peter Blatty (1973)
Francis Ford Coppola
Francis Ford Coppola and
Mario Puzo
Mario Puzo (1974)
Bo Goldman
Bo Goldman and
Lawrence Hauben (1975)
1976–2000
William Goldman
William Goldman (1976)
Alvin Sargent (1977)
Oliver Stone
Oliver Stone (1978)
Robert Benton (1979)
Alvin Sargent (1980)
Ernest Thompson
Ernest Thompson (1981)
Costa-Gavras
Costa-Gavras and
Donald E. Stewart (1982)
James L. Brooks
James L. Brooks (1983)
Peter Shaffer (1984)
Kurt Luedtke (1985)
Ruth Prawer Jhabvala
Ruth Prawer Jhabvala (1986)
Bernardo Bertolucci
Bernardo Bertolucci and
Mark Peploe (1987)
Christopher Hampton
Christopher Hampton (1988)
Alfred Uhry
Alfred Uhry (1989)
Michael Blake (1990)
Ted Tally (1991)
Ruth Prawer Jhabvala
Ruth Prawer Jhabvala (1992)
Steven Zaillian (1993)
Eric Roth (1994)
Emma Thompson
.jpg/440px-Emma_Thompson_at_2013_TIFF_1_(cropped).jpg)
Emma Thompson (1995)
Billy Bob Thornton
Billy Bob Thornton (1996)
Curtis Hanson
Curtis Hanson and
Brian Helgeland (1997)
Bill Condon (1998)
John Irving
.jpg/440px-John_Irving_at_Cologne_2010_(7108).jpg)
John Irving (1999)
Stephen Gaghan
.jpg)
Stephen Gaghan (2000)
2001–present
Akiva Goldsman
Akiva Goldsman (2001)
Ronald Harwood (2002)
Philippa Boyens, Peter Jackson, and
Fran Walsh (2003)
Alexander Payne
Alexander Payne and Jim Taylor (2004)
Larry McMurtry
Larry McMurtry and
Diana Ossana (2005)
William Monahan
William Monahan (2006)
Joel Coen and Ethan Coen (2007)
Simon Beaufoy (2008)
Geoffrey S. Fletcher
Geoffrey S. Fletcher (2009)
Aaron Sorkin
Aaron Sorkin (2010)
Alexander Payne, Jim Rash, and
Nat Faxon
.jpg/440px-Nat_Faxon_July_14,_2014_(cropped).jpg)
Nat Faxon (2011)
Chris Terrio (2012)
John Ridley
John Ridley (2013)
Graham Moore (2014)
Adam McKay
.jpg/440px-Adam_McKay_(cropped).jpg)
Adam McKay and
Charles Randolph (2015)
Barry Jenkins
.jpg/440px-Barry_Jenkins_(cropped).jpg)
Barry Jenkins and
Tarell Alvin McCraney
.jpg/440px-Tarell_McCraney_(32303406504).jpg)
Tarell Alvin McCraney (2016)
James Ivory
.jpg/440px-James_Ivory_(1991.09).jpg)
James Ivory (2017)
v t e
Golden Globe Award
Golden Globe Award for Best Screenplay
Robert Bolt (1965)
Robert Bolt (1966)
Stirling Silliphant (1967)
Stirling Silliphant (1968)
Bridget Boland, John Hale and Richard Sokolove (1969)
Erich Segal
Erich Segal (1970)
Paddy Chayefsky
Paddy Chayefsky (1971)
Francis Ford Coppola
Francis Ford Coppola and
Mario Puzo
Mario Puzo (1972)
William Peter Blatty
William Peter Blatty (1973)
Robert Towne
Robert Towne (1974)
Bo Goldman
Bo Goldman and
Lawrence Hauben (1975)
Paddy Chayefsky
Paddy Chayefsky (1976)
Neil Simon
Neil Simon (1977)
Oliver Stone
Oliver Stone (1978)
Robert Benton (1979)
William Peter Blatty
William Peter Blatty (1980)
Ernest Thompson
Ernest Thompson (1981)
John Briley (1982)
James L. Brooks
James L. Brooks (1983)
Peter Shaffer (1984)
Woody Allen
Woody Allen (1985)
Robert Bolt (1986)
Bernardo Bertolucci,
Mark Peploe and Enzon Ungari (1987)
Naomi Foner (1988)
Oliver Stone
Oliver Stone and
Ron Kovic
Ron Kovic (1989)
Michael Blake (1990)
Callie Khouri
Callie Khouri (1991)
Bo Goldman
Bo Goldman (1992)
Steven Zaillian (1993)
Quentin Tarantino
Quentin Tarantino (1994)
Emma Thompson
Emma Thompson (1995)
Scott Alexander and Larry Karaszewski (1996)
Ben Affleck
Ben Affleck and
Matt Damon
Matt Damon (1997)
Marc Norman and
Tom Stoppard
Tom Stoppard (1998)
Alan Ball (1999)
Stephen Gaghan
Stephen Gaghan (2000)
Akiva Goldsman
Akiva Goldsman (2001)
Alexander Payne
Alexander Payne and Jim Taylor (2002)
Sofia Coppola
Sofia Coppola (2003)
Alexander Payne
Alexander Payne and Jim Taylor (2004)
Larry McMurtry
Larry McMurtry and
Diana Ossana (2005)
Peter Morgan (2006)
Joel Coen and Ethan Coen (2007)
Simon Beaufoy (2008)
Jason Reitman
Jason Reitman and
Sheldon Turner (2009)
Aaron Sorkin
Aaron Sorkin (2010)
Woody Allen
Woody Allen (2011)
Quentin Tarantino
Quentin Tarantino (2012)
Spike Jonze
Spike Jonze (2013)
Alejandro G. Iñárritu, Nicolás Giacobone, Alexander Dinelaris Jr.,
and Armando Bo (2014)
Aaron Sorkin
Aaron Sorkin (2015)
Damien Chazelle
.jpg/440px-Damien_Chazelle_on_the_set_of_La_La_Land_(cropped).jpg)
Damien Chazelle (2016)
Martin McDonagh
Martin McDonagh (2017)
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National Society of Film Critics Award for Best Screenplay
1967–2000
David Newman and
Robert Benton (1967)
John Cassavetes
John Cassavetes (1968)
Paul Mazursky
Paul Mazursky and Larry Tucker (1969)
Éric Rohmer
Éric Rohmer (1970)
Penelope Gilliatt (1971)
Ingmar Bergman
Ingmar Bergman (1972)
George Lucas,
Gloria Katz and
Willard Huyck (1973)
Ingmar Bergman
Ingmar Bergman (1974)
Robert Towne
Robert Towne and
Warren Beatty
Warren Beatty (1975)
Alain Tanner
Alain Tanner and
John Berger
.jpg/440px-John_Berger-2009_(6).jpg)
John Berger (1976)
Woody Allen
Woody Allen and
Marshall Brickman (1977)
Paul Mazursky
Paul Mazursky (1978)
Steve Tesich
Steve Tesich (1979)
Bo Goldman
Bo Goldman (1980)
John Guare
John Guare (1981)
Murray Schisgal and
Larry Gelbart
Larry Gelbart (1982)
Bill Forsyth
Bill Forsyth (1983)
Lowell Ganz,
Babaloo Mandel and
Bruce Jay Friedman (1984)
Albert Brooks
Albert Brooks and
Monica Johnson (1985)
Hanif Kureishi
Hanif Kureishi (1986)
John Boorman
John Boorman (1987)
Ron Shelton (1988)
Gus Van Sant
Gus Van Sant and Daniel Yost (1989)
Charles Burnett (1990)
David Cronenberg
David Cronenberg (1991)
David Webb Peoples (1992)
Jane Campion
Jane Campion (1993)
Quentin Tarantino
Quentin Tarantino and
Roger Avary
Roger Avary (1994)
Amy Heckerling (1995)
Albert Brooks
Albert Brooks and
Monica Johnson (1996)
Curtis Hanson
Curtis Hanson and
Brian Helgeland (1997)
Scott Frank (1998)
Charlie Kaufman
Charlie Kaufman (1999)
Kenneth Lonergan
Kenneth Lonergan (2000)
2001–present
Julian Fellowes
Julian Fellowes (2001)
Ronald Harwood (2002)
Shari Springer Berman and Robert Pulcini
Shari Springer Berman and Robert Pulcini (2003)
Alexander Payne
Alexander Payne and Jim Taylor (2004)
Noah Baumbach
Noah Baumbach (2005)
Peter Morgan (2006)
Tamara Jenkins
Tamara Jenkins (2007)
Mike Leigh
_cropped.jpg/440px-Mike_Leigh_(Berlinale_2012)_cropped.jpg)
Mike Leigh (2008)
Joel Coen and Ethan Coen (2009)
Aaron Sorkin
Aaron Sorkin (2010)
Asghar Farhadi
Asghar Farhadi (2011)
Tony Kushner
Tony Kushner (2012)
Richard Linklater, Ethan Hawke, and
Julie Delpy
Julie Delpy (2013)
Wes Anderson
Wes Anderson (2014)
Tom McCarthy and
Josh Singer (2015)
Kenneth Lonergan
Kenneth Lonergan (2016)
Greta Gerwig
Greta Gerwig (2017)
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Writers Guild of America Award for Best Original Screenplay
Original Drama (1969–1983, retired)
William Goldman
William Goldman (1969)
Francis Ford Coppola
Francis Ford Coppola and
Edmund H. North (1970)
Penelope Gilliatt (1971)
Jeremy Larner (1972)
Steve Shagan (1973)
Robert Towne
Robert Towne (1974)
Frank Pierson
Frank Pierson (1975)
Paddy Chayefsky
Paddy Chayefsky (1976)
Arthur Laurents
Arthur Laurents (1977)
Nancy Dowd,
Robert C. Jones and
Waldo Salt (1978)
Mike Gray,
T. S. Cook and
James Bridges (1979)
Bo Goldman
Bo Goldman (1980)
Warren Beatty
Warren Beatty and
Trevor Griffiths (1981)
Melissa Mathison
Melissa Mathison (1982)
Horton Foote (1983)
Original Comedy (1969–1983, retired)
Paul Mazursky
Paul Mazursky and Larry Tucker (1969)
Neil Simon
Neil Simon (1970)
Paddy Chayefsky
Paddy Chayefsky (1971)
Peter Bogdanovich, Buck Henry, David Newman and
Robert Benton (1972)
Melvin Frank and Jack Rose (1973)
Mel Brooks, Norman Steinberg, Andrew Bergman,
Richard Pryor
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Richard Pryor and Alan
Uger (1974)
Robert Towne
Robert Towne and
Warren Beatty
Warren Beatty (1975)
Bill Lancaster
Bill Lancaster (1976)
Woody Allen
Woody Allen and
Marshall Brickman (1977)
Larry Gelbart
Larry Gelbart and
Sheldon Keller (1978)
Steve Tesich
Steve Tesich (1979)
Nancy Meyers, Harvey Miller and
Charles Shyer
Charles Shyer (1980)
Steve Gordon (1981)
Don McGuire,
Larry Gelbart
Larry Gelbart and
Murray Schisgal (1982)
Lawrence Kasdan
Lawrence Kasdan and Barbara Benedek (1983)
Original Screenplay (1984–present)
Woody Allen
Woody Allen (1984)
William Kelley and
Earl W. Wallace (1985)
Woody Allen
Woody Allen (1986)
John Patrick Shanley
John Patrick Shanley (1987)
Ron Shelton (1988)
Woody Allen
Woody Allen (1989)
Barry Levinson
Barry Levinson (1990)
Callie Khouri
Callie Khouri (1991)
Neil Jordan
Neil Jordan (1992)
Jane Campion
Jane Campion (1993)
Richard Curtis
Richard Curtis (1994)
Randall Wallace (1995)
Joel Coen and Ethan Coen (1996)
James L. Brooks
James L. Brooks and
Mark Andrus (1997)
Marc Norman and
Tom Stoppard
Tom Stoppard (1998)
Alan Ball (1999)
Kenneth Lonergan
Kenneth Lonergan (2000)
Julian Fellowes
Julian Fellowes (2001)
Michael Moore
_9.jpg/440px-Michael_Moore_66ème_Festival_de_Venise_(Mostra)_9.jpg)
Michael Moore (2002)
Sofia Coppola
Sofia Coppola (2003)
Charlie Kaufman
Charlie Kaufman (2004)
Paul Haggis
Paul Haggis and Bobby Moresco (2005)
Michael Arndt
Michael Arndt (2006)
Diablo Cody
Diablo Cody (2007)
Dustin Lance Black
Dustin Lance Black (2008)
Mark Boal
Mark Boal (2009)
Christopher Nolan
.jpg/440px-Christopher_Nolan,_London,_2013_(crop).jpg)
Christopher Nolan (2010)
Woody Allen
Woody Allen (2011)
Mark Boal
Mark Boal (2012)
Spike Jonze
Spike Jonze (2013)
Wes Anderson
Wes Anderson and
Hugo Guinness (2014)
Tom McCarthy and
Josh Singer (2015)
Barry Jenkins
Barry Jenkins and
Tarell Alvin McCraney
Tarell Alvin McCraney (2016)
Jordan Peele
Jordan Peele (2017)
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Writers Guild of America Award for Best Adapted Screenplay
Adapted Drama (1969–1983, retired)
Waldo Salt (1969)
Robert Anderson (1970)
Ernest Tidyman (1971)
Francis Ford Coppola
Francis Ford Coppola and
Mario Puzo
Mario Puzo (1972)
Waldo Salt and
Norman Wexler (1973)
Francis Ford Coppola
Francis Ford Coppola and
Mario Puzo
Mario Puzo (1974)
Bo Goldman
Bo Goldman and
Lawrence Hauben (1975)
William Goldman
William Goldman (1976)
Denne Bart Petitclerc
Denne Bart Petitclerc (1977)
Oliver Stone
Oliver Stone (1978)
Robert Benton (1979)
Alvin Sargent (1980)
Ernest Thompson
Ernest Thompson (1981)
Costa-Gavras
Costa-Gavras and
Donald E. Stewart (1982)
Julius J. Epstein (1983)
Adapted Comedy (1969–1983, retired)
Arnold Schulman (1969)
Ring Lardner Jr.
Ring Lardner Jr. (1970)
John Paxton (1971)
Jay Presson Allen
Jay Presson Allen (1972)
Alvin Sargent (1973)
Lionel Chetwynd and
Mordecai Richler
Mordecai Richler (1974)
Neil Simon
Neil Simon (1975)
Blake Edwards
Blake Edwards and
Frank Waldman (1976)
Larry Gelbart
Larry Gelbart (1977)
Elaine May
Elaine May and
Warren Beatty
Warren Beatty /
Bernard Slade (1978)
Jerzy Kosiński
.jpg/440px-Jerzy_Kosinsky_(1969).jpg)
Jerzy Kosiński (1979)
Jim Abrahams, David Zucker, and
Jerry Zucker
.jpg/440px-Jerry_Zucker_(cropped).jpg)
Jerry Zucker (1980)
Gerard Ayres (1981)
Blake Edwards
Blake Edwards (1982)
James L. Brooks
James L. Brooks (1983)
Adapted Screenplay (1984–present)
Bruce Robinson
Bruce Robinson (1984)
Richard Condon and Janet Roach (1985)
Ruth Prawer Jhabvala
Ruth Prawer Jhabvala (1986)
Steve Martin
Steve Martin (1987)
Christopher Hampton
Christopher Hampton (1988)
Alfred Uhry
Alfred Uhry (1989)
Michael Blake (1990)
Ted Tally (1991)
Michael Tolkin
Michael Tolkin (1992)
Steven Zaillian (1993)
Eric Roth (1994)
Emma Thompson
Emma Thompson (1995)
Billy Bob Thornton
Billy Bob Thornton (1996)
Curtis Hanson
Curtis Hanson and
Brian Helgeland (1997)
Scott Frank (1998)
Alexander Payne
Alexander Payne and Jim Taylor (1999)
Stephen Gaghan
Stephen Gaghan (2000)
Akiva Goldsman
Akiva Goldsman (2001)
David Hare (2002)
Shari Springer Berman and Robert Pulcini
Shari Springer Berman and Robert Pulcini (2003)
Alexander Payne
Alexander Payne and Jim Taylor (2004)
Larry McMurtry
Larry McMurtry and
Diana Ossana (2005)
William Monahan
William Monahan (2006)
Joel Coen and Ethan Coen (2007)
Simon Beaufoy (2008)
Jason Reitman
Jason Reitman and
Sheldon Turner (2009)
Aaron Sorkin
Aaron Sorkin (2010)
Alexander Payne, Jim Rash, and
Nat Faxon
Nat Faxon (2011)
Chris Terrio (2012)
Billy Ray (2013)
Graham Moore (2014)
Adam McKay
Adam McKay and
Charles Randolph (2015)
Eric Heisserer (2016)
James Ivory
James Ivory (2017)
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