Academy Award for Best Writing, Original Screenplay

Memorial

Tom Stoppard

07/03/1937 – 11/29/2025

88 years

Czech–English playwright

Dorset

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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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Robert Towne

11/23/1934 – 07/01/2024

89 years

American screenwriter, producer, director and actor

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David Seidler

08/04/1937 – 03/16/2024

86 years

New Zealand

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Bo Goldman

09/10/1932 – 07/25/2023

90 years

American screenwriter

Helendale

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John Briley

06/25/1925 – 12/14/2019

94 years

Sarasota

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William Goldman

08/12/1931 – 11/16/2018

87 years

American novelist, screenwriter and playwright

Manhattan

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Frank Pierson

05/12/1925 – 07/22/2012

87 years

American film director

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Horton Foote

03/14/1916 – 03/04/2009

92 years

American playwright and screenwriter

Hartford

216

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Sidney Sheldon

02/11/1917 – 01/30/2007

89 years

American writer

Rancho Mirage

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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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Frank Tarloff

02/04/1916 – 06/25/1999

83 years

Beverly Hills

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Steve Tesich

09/29/1942 – 07/01/1996

53 years

Sydney

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Maurice Richlin

02/23/1920 – 11/13/1990

70 years

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Robert Pirosh

04/01/1910 – 12/25/1989

79 years

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T. E. B. Clarke

06/07/1907 – 02/11/1989

81 years

London

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I. A. L. Diamond

06/27/1920 – 04/21/1988

67 years

Beverly Hills

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Russell Rouse

11/20/1913 – 10/02/1987

73 years

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Waldo Salt

10/18/1914 – 03/07/1987

72 years

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William Rose

12/12/1914 – 02/10/1987

72 years

Jersey

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Orson Welles

05/06/1915 – 10/10/1985

70 years

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Paddy Chayefsky

01/29/1923 – 08/01/1981

58 years

New York City