When it comes to the winners for best original and adapted screenplays, the Academy highly values auteurs who write from the director’s chair. By Tyler Coates Awards Editor ...

The San Pedro native also wrote 'The Last Detail,' 'Shampoo' and 'Tequila Sunrise' and forged a superstar reputation as a script doctor and consultant. By Duane Byrge, Mike Barnes Robert Towne, the ...

CHICO — Award-winning screenplay writer Lynn Elliott gets inspiration for his works from a variety of places. Elliott, who taught English at Chico State from 1972 to 2005 and served as chair of the ...

Deadline’s Read the Screenplay series spotlighting the year’s most talked-about scripts continues with The Holdovers, Oscar winner Alexander Payne‘s return to filmmaking after a six-year hiatus. The ...

Screenwriter Bo Goldman, who won Oscars for his scripts to “One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest” and “Melvin and Howard” and was among a select group of film scribes including Robert Towne and William ...

NEW YORK — Robert Towne, an Oscar-winning screenplay writer behind some of Hollywood’s greatest films, has died. He was 89 years old. His publicist, Carri McClure, confirmed his death on Tuesday to ...

Robert Towne, the Oscar-winning screenplay writer of “Shampoo,” “The Last Detail” and other acclaimed films, whose work on “Chinatown” became a model of the art form and helped define the jaded allure ...

Robert Towne, the Oscar-winning screenplay writer of "Shampoo," "The Last Detail" and other acclaimed films whose work on "Chinatown" became a model of the art form and helped define the jaded allure ...

Credit: Ian Moore / Mashable Composite; Westend61 / VALERIE MACON / AFP / Getty Alongside his novels, Joe Hill is paid to write a screenplay each year. But he doesn't do it for the money. "I write a ...

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ACCOLADES IN AUSTRALIA A Little Rock writer's screenplay was awarded the top prize at a film festival in Australia earlier this month. "A Treacherous Country" by Jay Jennings won first place in the ...