JEWISH
RECIPIENTS
OF THE ACADEMY AWARD
FOR BEST ORIGINAL SCREENPLAY*
(36% of
recipients)
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- Herman J. Mankiewicz (1941), Citizen Kane
- Michael Kanin (1942), Woman of the Year
- Norman Krasna (1943), Princess O'Rourke
- Sidney Sheldon (1947), The Bachelor and the Bobby-Soxer
- Robert Pirosh (1949), Battleground
- Billy Wilder (1950), Sunset Boulevard
- Alan Jay Lerner (1951), An American in Paris
- Walter Reisch (1953), Titanic
- Budd Schulberg (1954), On the Waterfront
- Sonya Levien (1955), Interrupted Melody
- William Ludwig (1955), Interrupted Melody
- Maurice Richlin (1959), Pillow Talk
- Stanley Shapiro (1959), Pillow Talk
- I. A. L. Diamond (1960), The Apartment
- Billy Wilder (1960), The Apartment
- Sanford Barnett (1964), Father Goose
- Peter Stone (1964), Father Goose
- Frank Tarloff (1964), Father Goose
- Frederic Raphael (1965), Darling
- Claude Lelouch (1966), A Man and a Woman
- Mel Brooks (1968), The
Producers
- William Goldman (1969), Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid
- Paddy Chayefsky (1971), Hospital
- Jeremy Larner (1972), The Candidate
- Paddy Chayefsky (1976), Network
- Woody Allen (1977), Annie Hall
- Marshall Brickman (1977), Annie Hall
- Bo Goldman (1980), Melvin and Howard
- Woody Allen (1986), Hannah
and Her Sisters
- Tom Schulman (1989), Dead Poets Society
- Bruce Joel Rubin (1990), Ghost
- Ethan Coen (1996), Fargo
- Joel Coen (1996), Fargo
- Sir Tom Stoppard (1998), Shakespeare in Love
- Charlie Kaufman (2004), Eternal
Sunshine of the Spotless Mind
NOTES
* Between the
years 1927 and 1956, Oscars were also awarded in
the separate category of Best Original Motion Picture Story.
Jewish recipients, who won approximately
one-third of these awards, included:
- Ben Hecht (1927/1928), Underworld
- Arthur Caesar (1934), Manhattan Melodrama
- Ben Hecht (1935), The Scoundrel
- Dore Schary (1938), Boys Town
- Benjamin Glazer (1940), Arise, My Love
- Harry Segall (1941), Here Comes Mr. Jordan
- Emeric Pressburger (1942), The Invaders
- David Wechsler (1948), The Search
- Edward Anhalt (1950), Panic
in the Streets
- Paul Dehn (1951), Seven Days to Noon
- Philip Yordan (1954), Broken
Lance
- Daniel Fuchs (1955), Love
Me or Leave Me
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