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Best Adapted Screenplay Academy Award winners
- Peter JacksonPeter Jackson saw King Kong at nine, and a few years later tried to remake it with stop-motion models he built himself.
- George Bernard ShawBernard Shaw accepted the 1925 Nobel Prize but rejected the money. He said his audiences gave him enough.
- Emma ThompsonEmma Thompson is the only person to win Oscars for both acting and screenwriting.
- Paul Thomas AndersonPaul Thomas Anderson, the American filmmaker known by his initials PTA, earned a C+ on his very first film school assignment. The task at New York University was simple: write a single page of screenplay. Anderson handed in a page from…
- Academy Award for Best Adapted ScreenplayAn Oscar for best adapted screenplay once went to a man who hadn't written the script.
- Philippa BoyensAll three children of screenwriter Philippa Boyens have appeared in films she helped write.
- Francis Ford CoppolaMarlon Brando won the Godfather role only after a screen test and a reduced fee.
- Billy Bob ThorntonBilly Bob Thornton was working as a waiter at an industry event in Los Angeles when he found himself serving the film director Billy Wilder. Thornton struck up a conversation with him. Wilder's advice was simple: think about becoming a…
- Taika WaititiTaika Waititi played a buffoonish imaginary Hitler in Jojo Rabbit and won an Oscar for its screenplay.
- Chris TerrioChris Terrio spent months checking whether Gatorade existed in December 1979. He needed it for one joke in Argo.