William Ludwig (screenwriter)
American screenwriter
William Ludwig | |
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| Born | (1912-05-16)May 16, 1912 New York City, U.S. |
| Died | February 7, 1999(1999-02-07) (aged 86) |
| Education | Columbia University (BA) |
| Occupation(s) | Writer, screenwriter |
| Years active | 1938–1961 |
| Spouses | Susan Riesenfeld (?–1999) |
| Awards | Academy Award for Best Original Screenplay (1955) |
William Ludwig (May 16, 1912 – February 7, 1999) was an American screenwriter.
Ludwig graduated from Columbia University in 1932.[1] He was a member of the Philolexian Society at Columbia.[1] In 1937 he joined MGM and his first screenplay was Love Finds Andy Hardy. He won, with Sonya Levien, an Oscar for "Best Writing, Story and Screenplay" in 1955 for Interrupted Melody.[2] He remained a contract writer at MGM for 20 years, an industry record.[3]
Other notable works include the screenplay for the 1955 production of Oklahoma!.
He died of complications from Parkinson disease.[4]
References
- ^ a b "Columbia College Today". www.college.columbia.edu. Retrieved August 7, 2022.
- ^ "The 28th Academy Awards (1956) Nominees and Winners". Oscars.org (Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences). Retrieved June 1, 2019.
- ^ "20-Year Author Run Ends". Variety. February 13, 1957. p. 4. Retrieved June 10, 2019 – via Archive.org.
- ^ Obituaries in the Performing Arts, 1999: Film, Television, Radio, Theatre, Dance, Music, Cartoons and Pop Culture. October 24, 2008. ISBN 9780786452040.
External links
- William Ludwig at IMDb
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- Preston Sturges (1940)
- Herman J. Mankiewicz and Orson Welles (1941)
- Michael Kanin and Ring Lardner Jr. (1942)
- Norman Krasna (1943)
- Lamar Trotti (1944)
- Richard Schweizer (1945)
- Muriel Box and Sydney Box (1946)
- Sidney Sheldon (1947)
- No award (1948)
- Robert Pirosh (1949)
- Charles Brackett, D. M. Marshman Jr., and Billy Wilder (1950)
- Alan Jay Lerner (1951)
- T. E. B. Clarke (1952)
- Charles Brackett, Richard L. Breen, and Walter Reisch (1953)
- Budd Schulberg (1954)
- Sonya Levien and William Ludwig (1955)
- Albert Lamorisse (1956)
- George Wells (1957)
- Nathan E. Douglas and Harold Jacob Smith (1958)
- Clarence Greene, Maurice Richlin, Russell Rouse, and Stanley Shapiro (1959)
- I. A. L. Diamond and Billy Wilder (1960)
- William Inge (1961)
- Ennio de Concini, Pietro Germi, and Alfredo Giannetti (1962)
- James Webb (1963)
- S. H. Barnett, Peter Stone and Frank Tarloff (1964)
- Frederic Raphael (1965)
- Claude Lelouch and Pierre Uytterhoeven (1966)
- William Rose (1967)
- Mel Brooks (1968)
- William Goldman (1969)
- Francis Ford Coppola and Edmund H. North (1970)
- Paddy Chayefsky (1971)
- Jeremy Larner (1972)
- David S. Ward (1973)
- Robert Towne (1974)
- Frank Pierson (1975)
- Paddy Chayefsky (1976)
- Woody Allen and Marshall Brickman (1977)
- Robert C. Jones, Waldo Salt, and Nancy Dowd (1978)
- Steve Tesich (1979)
- Bo Goldman (1980)
- Colin Welland (1981)
- John Briley (1982)
- Horton Foote (1983)
- Robert Benton (1984)
- William Kelley, Pamela Wallace, and Earl W. Wallace (1985)
- Woody Allen (1986)
- John Patrick Shanley (1987)
- Ronald Bass and Barry Morrow (1988)
- Tom Schulman (1989)
- Bruce Joel Rubin (1990)
- Callie Khouri (1991)
- Neil Jordan (1992)
- Jane Campion (1993)
- Quentin Tarantino and Roger Avary (1994)
- Christopher McQuarrie (1995)
- Joel Coen and Ethan Coen (1996)
- Ben Affleck and Matt Damon (1997)
- Marc Norman and Tom Stoppard (1998)
- Alan Ball (1999)
- Cameron Crowe (2000)
- Julian Fellowes (2001)
- Pedro Almodóvar (2002)
- Sofia Coppola (2003)
- Pierre Bismuth, Michel Gondry and Charlie Kaufman (2004)
- Paul Haggis and Bobby Moresco (2005)
- Michael Arndt (2006)
- Diablo Cody (2007)
- Dustin Lance Black (2008)
- Mark Boal (2009)
- David Seidler (2010)
- Woody Allen (2011)
- Quentin Tarantino (2012)
- Spike Jonze (2013)
- Alejandro G. Iñárritu, Nicolás Giacobone, Alexander Dinelaris Jr., and Armando Bo (2014)
- Tom McCarthy and Josh Singer (2015)
- Kenneth Lonergan (2016)
- Jordan Peele (2017)
- Nick Vallelonga, Brian Currie and Peter Farrelly (2018)
- Bong Joon-ho and Han Jin-won (2019)
- Emerald Fennell (2020)
- Kenneth Branagh (2021)
- Daniel Kwan and Daniel Scheinert (2022)
- Justine Triet and Arthur Harari (2023)
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