Julian Alexander Kitchener-Fellowes, Baron Fellowes of West Stafford,
DL (born 17 August 1949) is an English actor, novelist, film director
and screenwriter, and a Conservative peer of the House of Lords.
Fellowes is primarily known as the author of several Sunday Times
best-seller novels; for the screenplay for the film Gosford Park,
which won the
Academy Award

Academy Award for Best Original Screenplay in 2002; and
as the creator, writer and executive producer of the multiple
award-winning ITV series
Downton Abbey

Downton Abbey (2010–2015).
Contents
1 Early life and education
2 Career
2.1 Television
2.2 Films
2.3 Novels
2.4 Theatre
2.5 Writing credits
2.6 Parliament
2.7 Fellowes' other interests
2.8 Controversy
3 Family
3.1 Arms
4 Styles and titles
5 See also
6 References
7 Further reading
8 External links
Early life and education[edit]
Fellowes was born in Cairo, Egypt, the youngest son of Peregrine
Edward Launcelot Fellowes, and his British wife, Olwen Mary (née
Stuart-Jones).[1] His father was a diplomat and
Arabist

Arabist who campaigned
to have Haile Selassie, Emperor of Ethiopia, restored to his throne
during World War II.[1]
Fellowes has three older brothers: Nicholas Peregrine James, wordsmith
David Andrew, and playwright Roderick Oliver.[2] The siblings'
childhood home was at Wetherby Place, South Kensington,[3] and
afterwards at Chiddingly, East Sussex, where Fellowes lived from
August 1959 until November 1988, and where his parents are buried.
The house in Chiddingly, which had been owned by the whodunit writer
Clifford Kitchin, was within easy reach of London where his father,
who had been a diplomat, worked for Shell. Fellowes has described his
father as one "of that last generation of men who lived in a pat of
butter without knowing it. My mother put him on a train on Monday
mornings and drove up to London in the afternoon. At the flat she'd be
waiting in a snappy little cocktail dress with a delicious dinner and
drink. Lovely, really." A decided influence to arise from this place
was the friendship that developed with another family in the village,
the Kingsleys. David Kingsley was head of British Lion Films, the
company responsible for many
Peter Sellers

Peter Sellers comedies. Sometimes
"glamorous figures" would visit the Kingsleys' house. Fellowes said
that he thinks he "learnt from David Kingsley that you could actually
make a living in the film business".[4]
Fellowes was educated at several private schools in Britain including
Wetherby School, St Philip's School, and Ampleforth College, which his
father had preferred over Eton. He read English Literature at
Magdalene College, Cambridge, where he was a member of Footlights. He
studied further at the
Webber Douglas Academy of Dramatic Art in
London.[citation needed]
Career[edit]
Television[edit]
Fellowes moved to
Los Angeles

Los Angeles in 1981 and played a number of small
roles on television for the next two years, including a role "Tales of
the Unexpected". He believed that his breakthrough had come when he
was considered to replace
Hervé Villechaize

Hervé Villechaize as the butler on the
television series Fantasy Island, but the role went to actor
Christopher Hewett instead.[5] He was unable to get an audition for
the Disney film Baby: Secret of the Lost Legend (1985) in Los Angeles,
but was offered the role when he was visiting England. When he asked
the film's director why he was not able to get an interview in Los
Angeles, he was told that they felt the best actors were in
Britain.[6]
After this, Fellowes decided to move back to England to further his
career, and in 1991, he played Neville Marsham in Danny Boyle's For
the Greater Good. Other notable acting roles included the role of
Claud Seabrook in the acclaimed 1996
BBC

BBC drama serial Our Friends in
the North and the 2nd Duke of Richmond in the
BBC

BBC drama serial
Aristocrats. He portrayed George IV as the Prince Regent for the
second time (the first was in the film The Scarlet Pimpernel (1982))
in the 1996 adaptation of Bernard Cornwell's novel Sharpe's Regiment,
and Major Dunnett in Sharpe's Rifles. He also played the part of
"Kilwillie" on Monarch of the Glen. He appeared as the leader of "The
Hullabaloos" in the television adaptation of Arthur Ransome's Coot
Club, called "Swallows and Amazons Forever!"
Aside from acting, he launched a new series on
BBC

BBC One in 2004, Julian
Fellowes Investigates: A Most Mysterious Murder, which he wrote and
introduced onscreen. He was the presenter of Never Mind the Full
Stops, a panel-based game show broadcast on
BBC

BBC Four from 2006 to
2007. He created the hugely successful and critically acclaimed period
drama
Downton Abbey

Downton Abbey for
ITV1

ITV1 in 2010.[7] He wrote a new Titanic
miniseries that was shown on
ITV1

ITV1 in March–April 2012.[8]
In April 2015,
The Hollywood Reporter

The Hollywood Reporter reported that Fellowes was at
work on a new period drama series for NBC television, to be set in
late 19th-century New York City, entitled The Gilded Age.[9] In an
interview with The Mail on Sunday, Fellowes suggested that a younger
version of Maggie Smith's Dowager Countess character from his Downton
Abbey drama might appear in the new series, saying: "Robert Crawley
would be in his early teens, Cora would be a child. A young Violet
[the Dowager Countess] could make an appearance."[9] As the title
suggests, the series would be set during the time of America's
so-called
Gilded Age

Gilded Age – the industrial boom era in the United States
in the late 19th and early 20th centuries – and portray the upper
echelons of New York's high society during that period.[9]
Production and writing for The
Gilded Age

Gilded Age was updated in January 2016
indicating that filming would start at the end of 2016. As reported in
RadioTimes: "NBC's The
Gilded Age

Gilded Age is set to start shooting later this
year, Fellowes tells RadioTimes.com. Asked whether he'd written the
script yet, Fellowes replied, 'No I haven't, no. I'm doing that this
year', before adding: 'And then hopefully shooting at the end of the
year.'"[10]
In April 2016, it was announced that Fellowes would be the producer of
The
Gilded Age

Gilded Age when it was reported that Fellowes is "about to begin
writing The
Gilded Age

Gilded Age for NBC, a sort of American Downton about
fortunes made and lost in late 19th century New York, which he will
also produce."[11]
On 4 June 2016, Fellowes was asked by The
Los Angeles

Los Angeles Times, "Where
does The
Gilded Age

Gilded Age stand?" Fellowes replied,
It stands really with me up to my neck in research, and I’m clearing
the decks, so that when I start Gilded Age, I'm only doing Gilded Age.
These people were extraordinary. You can see why they frightened the
old guard, because they saw no boundaries. They wanted to build a
palace, they built a palace. They wanted to buy a yacht, they bought a
yacht. The old guard in New York weren’t like that at all, and
suddenly this whirlwind of couture descended on their heads. The
newcomers redesigned being rich. They created a rich culture that we
still have — people who are rich today are generally rich in a way
that was established in America in the 1880s, ’90s, 1900s. It was
different from Europe. Something like Newport would never have
happened in any other country, where you have huge palaces, and then
about 20 yards away, another huge palace, and 20 yards beyond that
another huge palace. In England right up to the 1930s, when people
made money, they would buy an estate of 5,000 acres and they’d have
to look after Nanny. The Americans of the 1880s and ’90s didn’t
want too much of that.[12]
In August 2016, Fellowes indicated that his plans for The Gilded Age
would not overlap substantially with the characters in Downton Abbey
since most of them would have been children in those earlier "prequel"
decades. Writing for Creative Screenwriting, Sam Roads quoted Fellowes
as stating: "Someone asked if you (referring to Fellowes) would see
any of the Downton characters (in The Gilded Age), but most of them
would be children. They said that Violet wouldn't be a child, and I
replied that 'Yes, I suppose you see a younger Violet'... It might be
fun, but I doubt at the beginning, because I want it to be a new show
with new people."[13]
Fellowes has written an adaptation of Trollope's Doctor Thorne.[14]
The ITV adaptation aired on 6 March 2016.[15]
Films[edit]
Fellowes wrote the script for Gosford Park, which won the Oscar for
Best Screenplay Written Directly for the Screen in 2002.[16] In late
2005, Fellowes made his directorial début with the film Separate
Lies, for which he won the award for Best Directorial Début from the
National Board of Review.[17]
In 2009,
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Momentum Pictures and Sony Pictures released The Young
Victoria, starring Emily Blunt, for which Fellowes wrote the original
screenplay. Other screenwriting credits include Vanity Fair, The
Tourist and From Time to Time, which he also directed, and which won
Best Picture at the Chicago Children's Film Festival, the Youth Jury
Award at the Seattle International Film Festival, Best Picture at the
Fiuggi Family Festival in Rome, and the Young Jury Award at Cinemagic
in Belfast. His greatest commercial success was The Tourist, which
grossed US$278 million worldwide, and for which he co-wrote the
screenplay with
Christopher McQuarrie
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Christopher McQuarrie and Florian Henckel von
Donnersmarck.[18]
Other films in which Fellowes has appeared include Full Circle (1977),
Priest of Love

Priest of Love (1981), The Scarlet Pimpernel (1982), Damage (1992),
Shadowlands (1993), Jane Eyre (1996),
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Tomorrow Never Dies (1997),
Regeneration (1997) and Place Vendôme (1998). He has continued his
acting career while writing. He unsuccessfully auditioned for the role
of
Master of Lake-town

Master of Lake-town in the 2012–2014 The Hobbit series.[16]
Fellowes and other workers on
Downton Abbey

Downton Abbey indicated in April 2016 an
openness to consider possibilities for a feature film production of
the television series, which ended with its sixth season in 2015.[19]
Novels[edit]
Fellowes' novel Snobs was published in 2004. It focuses on the social
nuances of the upper class and concerns the marriage of an upper
middle-class girl to a peer. Snobs was a
Sunday Times

Sunday Times best-seller. In
2009 his novel Past Imperfect was published. Another Sunday Times
best-seller, it deals with the débutante season of 1968, comparing
the world then to the world of 2008. He also wrote, under the
pseudonym Rebecca Greville, several romantic novels in the 1970s.[20]
A period novel, Belgravia began broadcast, in 11 weekly episodes, from
April 2016 and is available, via an app, in audio and text format.[21]
Theatre[edit]
As an actor, Fellowes has appeared in several West End productions,
including Samuel Taylor's A Touch of Spring, Alan Ayckbourn's Joking
Apart and a revival of Noël Coward's Present Laughter. He appeared at
the National Theatre in The Futurists, written by Dusty Hughes. As a
writer, he penned the script to the West End musical Mary Poppins,
produced by Sir
Cameron Mackintosh

Cameron Mackintosh and Disney, which opened on
Broadway in December 2006. He wrote the book for the musical School of
Rock which opened at The Winter Garden on Broadway in December 2015.
In May 2016 he was nominated for a Tony.[22]
Writing credits[edit]
List of television, film and theatre credits
Title
Year
Medium
Notes
Gosford Park
2001
Film
Winner of the
Academy Award

Academy Award for Best Original Screenplay
Mary Poppins
2004
Theatre
Adapted from the novels by
P. L. Travers

P. L. Travers and the 1964 film directed by
Robert Stevenson; screenplay by Bill Walsh and Don DaGradi
Vanity Fair
2004
Film
Screenplay based on the novel by William Makepeace Thackeray
Julian Fellowes

Julian Fellowes Investigates
2004
Television
Writer and creator; also actor
Piccadilly Jim
2004
Film
Screenplay based on the novel by P.G. Wodehouse
Separate Lies
2005
Film
Screenplay based on the novel by Nigel Balchin; also director
The Young Victoria
2009
Film
Original screenplay
From Time to Time
2009
Film
Written by Fellowes, based on the novel by Lucy M. Boston; also
director
The Tourist
2010
Film
Screenplay polish
Downton Abbey
2010–15
(Series One to Six)
Television
Creator, executive producer and
writer (co-written episodes four and six of Season One with Shelagh
Stephenson and
Tina Pepler respectively)
Titanic
2012
Television
Writer of the four-part
ITV1

ITV1 produced miniseries
Romeo and Juliet
2013
Film
Screenplay; adapted from the play by William Shakespeare
Crooked House
2013
Film
Script; adaptation of the novel by Agatha Christie
Gypsy
2013
Film
Screenplay and script; remake of the classic musical starring Ethel
Merman
School of Rock
2015
Theatre
Book; adapted from the 2003 film of the same name by Mike White. Music
by Andrew Lloyd Webber, Lyrics by Glenn Slater
Doctor Thorne
2016
Television
Script; dramatization of the Anthony
Trollope novel
Half a Sixpence
2016
Theatre
Book; A new version based on H. G. Welles' novel
Kipps with original
musical by
David Heneker and Beverly Cross. New music and lyrics by
George Stiles and Anthony Drewe, co-created by Cameron Mackintosh; at
Chichester Festival Theatre
The Wind in the Willows
2016
Theatre
Book; adapted from the novel of the same name by Kenneth Grahame.
Music and lyrics by
George Stiles and Anthony Drewe. Opening in
Plymouth, Salford and Southampton prior to the West End.
The Gilded Age
2017
Television
Script; NBC serial set in New York as prequel to Downton Abbey
Crooked House
2017
Film
Screenplay
Parliament[edit]
On 13 January 2011, Fellowes was elevated to the peerage, being
created Baron Fellowes of West Stafford, of
West Stafford

West Stafford in the
County of Dorset,[23] and on the same day was introduced in the House
of Lords,[24] where he sits on the Conservative Benches.[25]
Fellowes' other interests[edit]
Fellowes is Chairman of the
RNIB appeal for Talking Books. He is a
Vice-President of the Weldmar Hospicecare Trust[26] and
Patron of a
number of charities: the south-west branch of Age UK, Changing Faces,
Living Paintings, the Rainbow Trust Children's Charity, Breast Cancer
Haven and the Nursing Memorial Appeal. He also supports other causes,
including charities concerned with the care of those suffering from
Alzheimer's disease. He recently opened the
Dorset

Dorset office of the
south-west adoption charity, Families for Children.
Fellowes sits on the Appeal Council for the National Memorial
Arboretum and is a
Patron of Moviola, an initiative aimed at
facilitating rural cinema screenings in the West Country.[27] He also
sits on the Arts and Media Honours Committee.
Controversy[edit]
In March 1981, Fellowes wrote to
The Times

The Times newspaper in indignation at
the MP Geoffrey Dickens' taunting of his fellow parliamentarians about
the identity of a paedophile whose name he was about to reveal. In the
version of the letter that was published in The Times, Fellowes said:
"The feeblest student of human nature must surely be aware of how
slight the connexion between pornography and practices need be. To
flirt with fetishes is hardly rare in the best circles [...] now he
has to have his life, public and private, more thoroughly smashed than
if he had murdered his kinsman in broad daylight."[28]
The man in question turned out to be Sir Peter Hayman, who had been
arrested for possessing a large amount of paedophile pornography.
Fellowes maintained that his letter was not intended as a defence of
Hayman, who was a stranger to him, so much as an attack on Dickens'
"enjoyment" of the power granted by parliamentary privilege.[29]
Family[edit]
On 28 April 1990, Fellowes married Emma Joy Kitchener LVO (2000) (born
1963) a
Lady-in-Waiting

Lady-in-Waiting to
HRH

HRH Princess Michael of Kent. She is also a
great-grandniece of Herbert, 1st
Earl

Earl Kitchener.[30] He proposed to
her only 20 minutes after meeting her at a party, "having spent 19
minutes getting up the nerve". On 15 October 1998 the Fellowes family
changed its surname from Fellowes to Kitchener-Fellowes.[31][32][33]
Lord Fellowes publicly expressed his dissatisfaction that the
proposals to change the rules of royal succession were not extended to
hereditary peerages, which had they been would have allowed his wife
to succeed her uncle as The Countess Kitchener in her own right. As he
put it "I find it ridiculous that, in 2011, a perfectly sentient adult
woman has no rights of inheritance whatsoever when it comes to a
hereditary title."[34] Instead, the title became extinct on her
uncle's death because there were no male heirs. On 9 May 2012, The
Queen issued a
Royal Warrant of Precedence granting Lady Emma Fellowes
the same rank and style as the daughter of an Earl, as would have been
due to her if her late father had survived his brother and therefore
succeeded to the earldom.[35]
Lord Fellowes and his wife have one son, the Honourable Peregrine
Charles Morant Kitchener-Fellowes (born 1991).[32]
Fellowes was appointed a
Deputy Lieutenant of
Dorset

Dorset in 2009.[36] He
is also
Lord of the manor

Lord of the manor of
Tattershall

Tattershall in Lincolnshire[37] and
President

President of the Society of
Dorset

Dorset Men. Their main family home is in
Dorset.[38]
His wife, now Lady Fellowes, was story editor for
Downton Abbey

Downton Abbey and
works with charities, including the Nursing Memorial Appeal.[33]
Arms[edit]
This box:
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Coat of arms of Julian Fellowes
Coronet
Coronet

Coronet of a Baron
Crest
A Lion's Head erased Or the Erasure fimbriated Gules gorged with a
Collar dancettée Pean crowned with a Mural
Coronet

Coronet with three
Crenelations manifest Or masoned Sable.
Escutcheon
Azure a Fess dancettée Erminois between three Lions’ Heads erased
Or each charged on the neck with a Covered Cup Gules.
Supporters
Dexter: a Camel Or langued Gules plain gorged and with Bridal
trappings and line pendent reflexed over the back Azure. Sinister: a
Tortoise Azure langued Gules the shell Or.
Motto
Post Proelia Praemia (After battle comes reward)[39]
Styles and titles[edit]
Julian Fellowes, Esq. (1949–1998)
Julian Kitchener-Fellowes, Esq. (1998–2009)
Julian Kitchener-Fellowes, Esq., DL (2009–2011)
The Lord Fellowes of West Stafford, DL (2011–present)
See also[edit]
List of accolades received by Gosford Park
List of accolades received by The Young Victoria
List of awards and nominations received by Downton Abbey
Burke's Landed Gentry

Burke's Landed Gentry 1965 edn, FELLOWES-GORDON of Knochespoch
References[edit]
^ a b Segrave, Elisa (30 April 1999). "Obituary: Peregrine Fellowes".
The Independent. Retrieved 23 January 2013.
^ Walker, Tim (9 May 2013). "
Downton Abbey

Downton Abbey Creator's Brother Comes Out
Fighting with New Play". The Daily Telegraph.
^ (18 December 2011). "
Julian Fellowes

Julian Fellowes Baron Fellowes of West
Stafford".
BBC

BBC Radio 4; retrieved 27 August 2013.
^ "Time and place: Not quite
Gosford Park

Gosford Park - Julian Fellowes".
Louisejohncox.com. Retrieved 26 October 2016.
^ Witchel, Alex (8 September 2011). "Behind the Scenes With the
Creator of 'Downton Abbey'". The New York Times Magazine. Retrieved 14
September 2011.
^ "
Julian Fellowes

Julian Fellowes Interview". YouTube. Emmy TV Legends. Retrieved 3
May 2015.
^ Downton Abbey, Itv.com; accessed 13 June 2015.
^ Starr, Michael (22 March 2011). "Titanic Coming to TV". New York
Post.
^ a b c Alex Ritman - "Downton Abbey's Dowager Countess May Appear in
Julian Fellowes' New NBC Drama; 'The Gilded Age' could feature a
younger version of the character, said Fellowes", The Hollywood
Reporter, April 6, 2015. Retrieved 2015-10-10
^ "Julian Fellowes' NBC period drama The
Gilded Age

Gilded Age will start filming
this year", RadioTimes.com, 21 January 2016.
^ Profile, Telegraph.co.uk, 10 April 2016.
^ Interview with Julian Fellowes, Latimes.com, June 4, 2016.
^ Sam Roads. Interview with Julian Fellowes,
CreativeScreenwriting.com, 11 August 2016.
^ Mulvihill, Mike. "From
Doctor Thorne

Doctor Thorne and The Secret Agent to Maigret
and SS-GB, get ready for these TV scorchers". Dailymail.co.uk.
Retrieved 2016-10-21.
^ "
Doctor Thorne

Doctor Thorne review: Fellowes and
Trollope is a happy marriage".
Telegraph Online. Retrieved 8 March 2016.
^ a b Gilbert, Matthew (5 January 2013). "
Julian Fellowes

Julian Fellowes and 'Downton
Abbey'". The Boston Globe. Retrieved 5 January 2013.
^ "Archived copy". Archived from the original on 21 January 2013.
Retrieved 2012-12-19.
^ "The Tourist". Box Office Mojo. Retrieved 20 August 2013.
^ Elizabeth Grice (2016-04-10). "Downton creator Julian Fellowes: 'Why
the personal attacks hurt so much'". Telegraph.co.uk. Retrieved
2016-10-21.
^ "
Julian Fellowes

Julian Fellowes profile". BFI Screenonline. Retrieved 17 January
2013.
^ "The Telegraph Belgravia". Retrieved 17 April 2016.
^ "Andrew Lloyd Webber's
School of Rock

School of Rock Will Shake Up Broadway Next
Fall". Playbill. 18 December 2014. Retrieved 29 December 2014.
^ "No. 59672". The London Gazette. 17 January 2011. p. 615.
^ "Archived copy". Archived from the original on 15 July 2012.
Retrieved 2012-02-07.
^ Sweney, Mark (19 November 2010). "
Downton Abbey

Downton Abbey creator Julian
Fellowes to become Tory peer". The Guardian. London. Retrieved 19
November 2010.
^ "Weldmar Hospicecare Trust - Caring for Dorset".
Weld-hospice.org.uk. Retrieved 2016-10-21.
^ "Moviola News and Events". Moviola. Retrieved 5 July 2010.
^
The Times

The Times letter quoted, DS Forums, 09-03-2013.
^ "Daily Mail". dailymail.co.uk. Retrieved 9 July 2014.
^ Mosley, Charles (ed.) (2003). Burke's
Peerage & Baronetage,
107th edn. London: Burke's
Peerage & Gentry Ltd. p. 2207
(KITCHENER OF KHARTOUM AND OF BROOME, E).
ISBN 0-9711966-2-1.
^ "No. 55307". The London Gazette. 10 November 1998.
p. 12197.
^ a b Lynn, Barber (28 November 2004). "Jolly good Fellowes". The
Observer. London, UK. Retrieved 20 July 2010.
^ a b Fellowes, Julian (December 2012). "The Most Happy Fellowes".
Vanity Fair. Retrieved 9 November 2012.
^ Singh, Anita. "Julian Fellowes: inheritance laws denying my wife a
title are outrageous". Telegraph. Retrieved 2016-10-21.
^ "London Gazette". 23 May 2012. p. 9975.
^ "No. 58757". The London Gazette. 7 July 2008. p. 10149.
^ "Archived copy". Archived from the original on 12 December 2007.
Retrieved 2007-11-10.
^ Savill, Richard (2002-08-30). "Writer buys his own Gosford Park".
Telegraph. Retrieved 2016-10-21.
^ Zhong, Raymond (3 February 2013). "The Anti-Snobbery of 'Downton
Abbey'". The Wall Street Journal. Retrieved 3 May 2015.
Further reading[edit]
Kamp, David (December 2012). "The most happy Fellowes". Vanity Fair.
628: 130–37, 196–97. Retrieved 9 October 2015.
External links[edit]
Lord Fellowes of
West Stafford

West Stafford profile, parliament.uk; accessed 12 May
2015.
Julian Fellowes

Julian Fellowes on IMDb
Interview with Bella Stander, Bookreporter.com
Author Interview Podcast with Paula Shackleton, BookBuffet.com
The Case of Charles Bravo
Julian Fellowes' BAFTA Screenwriters' Lecture
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Works by Julian Fellowes
Films
Gosford Park

Gosford Park (2001)
Vanity Fair (2004)
Piccadilly Jim

Piccadilly Jim (2004)
Separate Lies

Separate Lies (2005)
From Time to Time (2009)
The Young Victoria

The Young Victoria (2009)
The Tourist (2010)
Romeo & Juliet (2013)
TV series
Julian Fellowes

Julian Fellowes Investigates: A Most Mysterious Murder (2004–2005)
Downton Abbey

Downton Abbey (2010–2015)
Titanic (2012)
Doctor Thorne

Doctor Thorne (2016)
The
Gilded Age

Gilded Age (TBD)
Stage
Mary Poppins (2004)
School of Rock

School of Rock (2015)
Half a Sixpence

Half a Sixpence (2016)
The Wind in the Willows

The Wind in the Willows (2016)
Awards for Julian, Lord Fellowes
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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

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
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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
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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
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Jordan Peele (2017)
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Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Writing for a Limited Series,
Movie, or Dramatic Special
Michael Mann

Michael Mann and Patrick Nolan (1979)
David Chase

David Chase (1980)
Arthur Miller

Arthur Miller (1981)
Barry Morrow (1982)
Marshall Herskovitz

Marshall Herskovitz and
Edward Zwick
.jpg/440px-Jack_Reacher-_Never_Go_Back_Japan_Premiere_Red_Carpet-_Edward_Zwick_(35338298422).jpg)
Edward Zwick (1983)
William Hanley (1984)
Vickie Patik (1985)
Ron Cowen, Daniel Lipman,
Sherman Yellen and David Butler (1986)
Kenneth Blackwell, Tennyson Flowers and
Richard Friedenberg (1987)
William Hanley (1988)
Ron Hutchison,
Abby Mann and Robin Vote (1989)
Terrence McNally

Terrence McNally (1990)
Andrew Davies (1991)
Joshua Brand and
John Falsey (1992)
Jane Anderson (1993)
Bob Randall (1994)
Alison Cross (1995)
Simon Moore (1996)
Horton Foote (1997)
Kario Salem (1998)
Ann Peacock (1999)
David Mills and
David Simon

David Simon (2000)
Loring Mandel (2001)
Larry Ramin and
Hugh Whitemore (2002)
William H. Macy

William H. Macy and
Steven Schachter (2003)
Tony Kushner

Tony Kushner (2004)
Christopher Markus and Stephen McFeely (2005)
Richard Curtis

Richard Curtis (2006)
Frank Deasy (2007)
Kirk Ellis (2008)
Andrew Davies (2009)
Adam Mazer (2010)
Julian Fellowes

Julian Fellowes (2011)
Danny Strong
.jpg/440px-Danny_Strong_2013_(cropped).jpg)
Danny Strong (2012)
Abi Morgan (2013)
Steven Moffat

Steven Moffat (2014)
Jane Anderson (2015)
D.V. DeVincentis (2016)
Charlie Brooker

Charlie Brooker (2017)
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International Emmy Founders Award
Jim Henson
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Jim Henson (1980)
Shaun Sutton /
Roone Arledge (1981)
Michael Landon

Michael Landon (1982)
Herbert Brodkin (1983)
David L. Wolper (1984)
David Attenborough

David Attenborough (1985)
Donald L. Taffner (1986)
Jacques Cousteau
.jpg/440px-Cousteau1972_(cropped).jpg)
Jacques Cousteau (1987)
Goar Mestre (1988)
Paul Fox (1989)
Joan Ganz Cooney

Joan Ganz Cooney (1990)
Adrian Cowell (1991)
Bill Cosby

Bill Cosby (1992)
Richard Dunn (1993)
Film on Four (1994)
Don Hewitt

Don Hewitt (1995)
Reg Grundy

Reg Grundy (1996)
Jac Venza
.jpg/440px-Steve_Kroft_and_Jac_Venza,_May_2004_(1).jpg)
Jac Venza (1997)
Robert Halmi Sr. (1998)
Hisashi Hieda

Hisashi Hieda (1999)
John Hendricks (2000)
Pierre Lescure

Pierre Lescure (2001)
Howard Stringer

Howard Stringer (2002)
HBO

HBO (2003)
MTV International

MTV International (2004)
Oprah Winfrey

Oprah Winfrey (2005)
Steven Spielberg

Steven Spielberg (2006)
Al Gore

Al Gore (2007)
Dick Wolf

Dick Wolf (2008)
David Frost

David Frost (2009)
Simon Cowell

Simon Cowell (2010)
Nigel Lythgoe

Nigel Lythgoe (2011)
Ryan Murphy /
Norman Lear

Norman Lear /
Alan Alda
.jpg/440px-Alan_Alda_2014_(cropped).jpg)
Alan Alda (2012)
J. J. Abrams

J. J. Abrams (2013)
Matthew Weiner

Matthew Weiner (2014)
Julian Fellowes

Julian Fellowes (2015)
Shonda Rhimes

Shonda Rhimes (2016)
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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
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Charlie Kaufman (1999)
Kenneth Lonergan
.jpg/440px-Kenneth_Lonergan_Viennale_2016_opening_4_(cropped).jpg)
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
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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
.jpg/440px-Kenneth_Lonergan_Viennale_2016_opening_4_(cropped).jpg)
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

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
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Tom Stoppard (1998)
Alan Ball (1999)
Kenneth Lonergan
.jpg/440px-Kenneth_Lonergan_Viennale_2016_opening_4_(cropped).jpg)
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
_(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)
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
.jpg/440px-Spike_Jonze_Her_Premiere_NYFF_2013_(cropped).jpg)
Spike Jonze (2013)
Wes Anderson

Wes Anderson and
Hugo Guinness (2014)
Tom McCarthy and
Josh Singer (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)
Jordan Peele
.jpg/440px-Jordan_Peele_Peabody_2014_(cropped).jpg)
Jordan Peele (2017)
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WorldCat Identities
VIAF: 71602452
LCCN: nb2001013552
ISNI: 0000 0000 7825 0318
GND: 132029669
SELIBR: 275954
SUDOC: 070438528
BNF: cb141767988 (data)
BIBSYS: 3004067
BNE: XX1543