JEWISH
RECIPIENTS
OF THE ACADEMY AWARD
FOR BEST ADAPTED SCREENPLAY
(33% of
recipients)
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- Benjamin Glazer (1927/1928), Seventh Heaven
- Robert Riskin (1934), It Happened One Night
- Heinz Herald (1937), The Life of Emil Zola
- Géza Herczeg (1937), The Life of Emil Zola
- Sidney Buchman (1941), Here Comes Mr. Jordan
- George Froeschel (1942), Mrs. Miniver
- Julius Epstein (1943), Casablanca
- Philip Epstein (1943), Casablanca
- Howard Koch (1943), Casablanca
- Billy Wilder (1945), The Lost Weekend
- Joseph L. Mankiewicz (1949), A Letter to Three Wives
- Joseph L. Mankiewicz (1950), All About Eve
- Charles Schnee (1952), The Bad and the Beautiful
- Daniel Taradash (1953), From Here to Eternity
- Paddy Chayefsky (1955), Marty
- S. J. Perelman (1956), Around the World in Eighty Days
- Carl Foreman (1957), The Bridge on the River Kwai
- Alan Jay Lerner (1958), Gigi
- Richard Brooks (1960), Elmer Gantry
- Abby Mann (1961), Judgment at Nuremberg
- Edward Anhalt (1964), Becket
- James Goldman (1968), The
Lion in Winter
- Bo Goldman (1975), One Flew over the Cuckoo's Nest
- Lawrence Hauben (1975), One Flew over the Cuckoo's Nest
- William Goldman (1976), All the President's Men
- Oliver Stone 1 (1978), Midnight
Express
- James L. Brooks (1983), Terms of Endearment
- Peter Shaffer (1984), Amadeus
- Ruth Prawer Jhabvala (1986), A Room with a View
- Alfred Uhry (1989), Driving Miss Daisy
- Ruth Prawer Jhabvala (1992), Howards End
- Eric Roth (1994), Forrest Gump
- Akiva Goldsman (2001), A Beautiful Mind
- Ronald Harwood (2002), The Pianist
- Ethan Coen (2007), No Country for Old Men
- Joel Coen (2007), No Country for Old Men
NOTES
1. Jewish father, non-Jewish
mother.
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