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Best Original Screenplay Academy Award winners
- Woody AllenAllan Stewart Konigsberg was born on the 30th of November 1935 at Mount Eden Hospital in Bronx, New York City. He grew up in Brooklyn's Midwood neighborhood…
- Orson WellesGeorge Orson Welles was born the 6th of May 1915, in Kenosha, Wisconsin. His father Richard Head Welles made a fortune inventing a bicycle lamp before…
- Quentin TarantinoQuentin Jerome Tarantino was born in Knoxville, Tennessee on the 27th of March 1963. His father Tony Tarantino left the family before his son's birth.
- Francis Ford CoppolaFrancis Ford Coppola was born on the 7th of April 1939 in Detroit, Michigan. His father Carmine worked as a flautist with the Detroit Symphony Orchestra…
- Kenneth BranaghKenneth Charles Branagh was born on the 10th of December 1960 in Belfast. His father worked as a plumber and joiner while his mother managed their home.
- Michel GondryMichel Gondry grew up in Versailles, France. He was the grandson of inventor Constant Martin. This family history of invention likely influenced his later…
- Tom StoppardOn the 15th of March 1939, the day Nazi forces invaded Czechoslovakia, a five-year-old boy named Tomáš Sträussler fled his hometown of Zlín with his mother…
- Charlie KaufmanCharles Stuart Kaufman was born on the 19th of November 1958 in New York City to a Jewish family. His parents were Helen and Myron Kaufman.
- Michael ArndtMichael Arndt was born in McLean, Virginia. His father served as a member of the Foreign Service. This career path meant young Michael lived in various…