Academy Award for Best Screenplay

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The Academy Award for Best Screenplay is a former Oscar category that honored outstanding original or adapted screenwriting before it was split into separate writing awards.

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Predicate Object
instanceOf Academy Awards category
film award
alsoKnownAs Oscar for Best Screenplay NERFINISHED
associatedWith Hollywood film industry NERFINISHED
awardFor film screenplay
screenwriting
awardLevel international
categoryType writing award
country United States of America
surface form: United States
honours adapted screenplays
original screenplays
languageOfMajorityEligibleWorks English
linkedToEvent annual Academy Awards ceremony
medium feature films
organizer Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences NERFINISHED
partOf Academy Awards NERFINISHED
presentedBy Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences
selectionMethod voted on by Academy members
separatedInto Academy Award for Best Adapted Screenplay NERFINISHED
Academy Award for Best Original Screenplay NERFINISHED
status defunct

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The Quiet Man nominatedFor Academy Award for Best Screenplay
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this entity surface form: Academy Award for Best Writing, Screenplay
Ninotchka nominatedFor Academy Award for Best Screenplay
Hold Back the Dawn oscarNominatedFor Academy Award for Best Screenplay
this entity surface form: Academy Award for Best Writing, Screenplay
From Here to Eternity award Academy Award for Best Screenplay
Going My Way awardReceived Academy Award for Best Screenplay
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subject surface form: Sabrina (1954 film)
A Star Is Born (1937 film) academyAwardNomination Academy Award for Best Screenplay
The Dark Angel (1935 film) nominatedFor Academy Award for Best Screenplay
this entity surface form: Academy Award for Best Writing, Screenplay
Seven Brides for Seven Brothers nominatedFor Academy Award for Best Screenplay
Philip G. Epstein awardReceived Academy Award for Best Screenplay
this entity surface form: Academy Award for Best Writing, Screenplay
Howard Koch awardReceived Academy Award for Best Screenplay
this entity surface form: Academy Award for Best Writing, Screenplay
Father of the Bride nominatedFor Academy Award for Best Screenplay
subject surface form: Father of the Bride (1950 film)
this entity surface form: Academy Award for Best Writing, Screenplay
John Lee Mahin awardReceived Academy Award for Best Screenplay
this entity surface form: Academy Award for Best Writing, Screenplay
John Lee Mahin nominatedFor Academy Award for Best Screenplay
this entity surface form: Academy Award for Best Writing, Screenplay
A Letter to Three Wives award Academy Award for Best Screenplay
this entity surface form: Academy Award for Best Writing, Screenplay
An Officer and a Gentleman nominatedFor Academy Award for Best Screenplay
Mildred Pierce (1945 film) nominatedFor Academy Award for Best Screenplay
A Place in the Sun award Academy Award for Best Screenplay
this entity surface form: Academy Award for Best Writing, Screenplay
Robert E. Sherwood awardReceived Academy Award for Best Screenplay
this entity surface form: Academy Award for Best Writing, Screenplay
The Awful Truth AcademyAwardNominated Academy Award for Best Screenplay
A Double Life nominatedFor Academy Award for Best Screenplay
The Rose Tattoo nominatedFor Academy Award for Best Screenplay
this entity surface form: Academy Award for Best Written American Drama
The Story of Louis Pasteur awardReceived Academy Award for Best Screenplay
Ring Lardner Jr. awardReceived Academy Award for Best Screenplay
this entity surface form: Academy Award for Best Writing, Screenplay
Pygmalion (1938 film) awardReceived Academy Award for Best Screenplay
Born Yesterday nominatedFor Academy Award for Best Screenplay
Since You Went Away nominatedFor Academy Award for Best Screenplay
this entity surface form: Academy Award for Best Writing, Screenplay
Goodbye, Mr. Chips nominatedFor Academy Award for Best Screenplay
Watch on the Rhine awardReceived Academy Award for Best Screenplay
this entity surface form: Academy Award for Best Writing, Screenplay
Mrs. Miniver wonAward Academy Award for Best Screenplay
this entity surface form: Academy Award for Best Writing, Screenplay
The Life of Emile Zola awardReceived Academy Award for Best Screenplay
this entity surface form: Academy Award for Best Writing, Screenplay
Champion nominatedFor Academy Award for Best Screenplay
subject surface form: Champion (1949 film)
this entity surface form: Academy Award for Best Writing, Screenplay
Peyton Place nominatedFor Academy Award for Best Screenplay
The Big House awardReceived Academy Award for Best Screenplay
this entity surface form: Academy Award for Best Writing, Achievement
1959 film The Diary of Anne Frank nominatedFor Academy Award for Best Screenplay
subject surface form: The Diary of Anne Frank (1959 film)
Dudley Nichols awardReceived Academy Award for Best Screenplay
this entity surface form: Academy Award for Best Writing, Screenplay
Dudley Nichols wasFirstToRefuse Academy Award for Best Screenplay
this entity surface form: Academy Award for Best Writing, Screenplay
Irma von Cube nominatedFor Academy Award for Best Screenplay
this entity surface form: Academy Award for Writing (Screenplay) for "Johnny Belinda"
Norman Reilly Raine awardReceived Academy Award for Best Screenplay
this entity surface form: Academy Award for Best Writing, Screenplay