Media by Source - Films by Source, Media Based on Literature, Media Based on Toys, Academy Award for Best Writing, Film Adaptation, I Love Toys (Paperback)

Purchase includes free access to book updates online and a free trial membership in the publisher's book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Excerpt: The Academy Award for Writing Adapted Screenplay is one of the Academy Awards, the most prominent film awards in the United States. It is awarded each year to the writer of a screenplay adapted from another source (usually a novel, play, short story, or TV show but also sometimes another film). All sequels are automatically considered adaptations by this standard (since the sequel must be based on the original story). See also the Academy Award for Writing Original Screenplay, a similar award for screenplays that are not adapted from elsewhere. The first person to win twice in this category is Joseph Mankiewicz, who won the award in two consecutive years, 1950 and 1951. Others to win twice in this category include: George Seaton, Robert Bolt (who also won in two consecutive years), Francis Coppola, Mario Puzo, Alvin Sargent and Ruth Prawer Jhabvala. Michael Wilson also won twice, but because he was blacklisted the second award was given to a front. However, the Academy officially recognized him as the winner years later. Frances Marion was the first woman to win in this category, in 1930. Pierre Collings and Sheridan Gibney were the first to win for adapting their own work, for The Life of Emile Zola. Philip G. Epstein and Julius J. Epstein were the first siblings to win in this category, for Casablanca. James Goldman and William Goldman are the first pair of siblings to win for separate films. Joel Coen and Ethan Coen are the third pair of siblings to win in this category. Mario Puzo is the one of two writers whose work has been adapted resulting in two separate wins in this category. Puzo's novel The Godfather resulted in wins in 1973 and 1975. The other writer is E.M. Forster, whose novels A Room with a View and Howards End resulted in two ... More: http://booksllc.net/?id=61845