Memorial pages by award

Academy Award for Best Writing, Adapted Screenplay

category of film award

Memorial Pages

38 memorial pages of recipients of the Academy Award for Best Writing, Adapted Screenplay

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Robert Benton

09/29/1932 – 05/11/2025

92 years

American screenwriter and film director

New York City

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Bo Goldman

09/10/1932 – 07/25/2023

90 years

American screenwriter

Helendale

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Larry McMurtry

06/03/1936 – 03/25/2021

84 years

American novelist, essayist, bookseller and screenwriter

Archer City

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Ronald Harwood

11/09/1934 – 09/08/2020

85 years

South African dramatist and playwright

Sussex

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Kurt Luedtke

09/28/1939 – 08/09/2020

80 years

Royal Oak

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Alvin Sargent

04/12/1927 – 05/09/2019

92 years

American screenwriter

Seattle

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Family Tree

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Bernardo Bertolucci

03/16/1941 – 11/22/2018

77 years

Italian film director and screenwriter

Rome

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William Goldman

08/12/1931 – 11/16/2018

87 years

American novelist, screenwriter and playwright

Manhattan

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William Peter Blatty

01/07/1928 – 01/12/2017

89 years

American writer and filmmaker

Bethesda

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Curtis Hanson

03/24/1945 – 09/20/2016

71 years

American filmmaker

Los Angeles

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Peter Shaffer

05/15/1926 – 06/06/2016

90 years

English playwright and screenwriter

County Cork

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Michael Blake

07/05/1945 – 05/02/2015

69 years

American writer

Tucson

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Ruth Prawer Jhabvala

05/07/1927 – 04/03/2013

85 years

German-born British-American author

Manhattan

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Family Tree

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Horton Foote

03/14/1916 – 03/04/2009

92 years

American playwright and screenwriter

Hartford

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Billy Wilder

06/22/1906 – 03/27/2002

95 years

Austrian-born American filmmaker and screenwriter

Beverly Hills

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Julius J. Epstein

08/22/1909 – 12/30/2000

91 years

American screenwriter

Los Angeles

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Mario Puzo

10/15/1920 – 07/02/1999

78 years

American author, screenwriter, and journalist

Long Island

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Cecil Lewis

03/29/1898 – 01/27/1997

98 years

London

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Robert Bolt

08/15/1924 – 02/20/1995

70 years

Petersfield

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Family Tree

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Richard Brooks

05/18/1912 – 03/11/1992

79 years

Studio City

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John Huston

08/05/1906 – 08/28/1987

81 years

Middletown

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Family Tree

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Waldo Salt

10/18/1914 – 03/07/1987

72 years

Los Angeles

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Lawrence Hauben

03/03/1931 – 12/22/1985

54 years

Santa Barbara

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Paddy Chayefsky

01/29/1923 – 08/01/1981

58 years

New York City

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