Category: Best Adapted Screenplay Academy Award winners

* Lady for a Day ( 1933 )— Adapted by Robert Riskin, who suggested the name change from Runyon's title " Madame La Gimp ," the film garnered Academy Award nominations for Best Picture, Best Director ( Frank Capra ), Best Actress ( May Robson ), and Best Adaptation for the Screen ( Riskin ).

It won three Academy Awards, including his second for Best Writing ( Adapted Screenplay ) ( with Puzo ), Best Picture and Best Actor ( for Brando ) and a nomination for Best Director and was instrumental in cementing his position as a prominent American film director.

The film was highly praised and won him three Academy Awards — for Best Adapted Screenplay, Best Director and Best Picture.

The near 3-hour-long epic, which chronicled the saga of the Corleone family, received overwhelmingly positive reviews from critics, and fetched Coppola the Academy Award for Best Adapted Screenplay, which he shared with Mario Puzo, and two Golden Globe Awards-for Best Director and Best Screenplay.

It went on to win multiple awards, including Academy Award for Best Adapted Screenplay for Coppola.

It was nominated for 11 Academy Awards and received 6 Oscars, including 3 for Coppola: Best Picture, Best Adapted Screenplay and Best Director.

Category: Best Adapted Screenplay Academy Award winners

The film won the 1981 British Academy of Film and Television Arts ( Film ) Best Screenplay Award, as well as the 1980 Writers Guild of America Award ( Screen ) for Best Comedy Adapted from Another Medium.

Though not a financial success, the film received positive reviews and was nominated for six Academy Awards, two of which ( for Best Director and Best Adapted Screenplay ) went to Petersen himself ; he was also nominated for a BAFTA Award and DGA Award.

Cuarón shared an Academy Award nomination for Best Original Screenplay with co-writer and brother Carlos Cuarón.

* 2001: Best Screenplay ( Y tu mamá también, won )

* Best Original Screenplay, 1951 An American in Paris

Category: Best Original Screenplay Academy Award winners

" The Great Dictator received five Academy Award nominations, including Best Picture, Best Original Screenplay and Best Actor.

* 20th Academy Awards ( 1948 ): Best Screenplay, nomination, for Monsieur Verdoux

Category: Genie Award winners for Best Screenplay

He directed and starred in Easy Rider ( 1969 ), winning an award at the Cannes Film Festival and was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Original Screenplay as co-writer.

* ( 1970 ) Nominated – Best Original Screenplay / Easy Rider ( shared with Peter Fonda and Terry Southern )

The film was nominated for five Academy Awards: Best Actress in a Leading Role, Best Actor in a Supporting Role, Best Director, Best Picture, and Best Writing in a Screenplay Written Directly for the Screen.

He co-wrote the script for Patton ( 1970 ), which won him an Academy Award for Best Writing ( Original Screenplay ).

* Best Original Song, 1958 Gigi

)" Together they produced the films Apache ( 1954 ), Vera Cruz ( 1954 ), Marty ( 1955 ) ( which won both the Academy Award for Best Picture and the Palme d ' Or award at the Cannes Film Festival ), The Kentuckian ( 1955 ), Trapeze ( 1956 ), The Bachelor Party ( 1956 ), Sweet Smell of Success ( 1957 ), Run Silent, Run Deep ( 1958 ), Separate Tables ( 1958 ), ( 1959 ), Take a Giant Step ( 1959 ), Summer of the Seventeenth Doll ( 1960 ), and ( 1960 ).

In 1955, Hiroshi Inagaki won an Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film for Part I of his Samurai trilogy and in 1958 won the Golden Lion at the Venice Film Festival for Rickshaw Man.

Kon Ichikawa directed two anti-war dramas: The Burmese Harp ( 1956 ), which was nominated for Best Foreign Language Film at the Academy Awards, and Fires On The Plain ( 1959 ), along with Enjo ( 1958 ), which was adapted from Yukio Mishima's novel Temple Of The Golden Pavilion.

* 1958 – Nomination for Golden Laurel Award for Best Male Musical Performance in Les Girls.

* 1958: Best Play — The Dark at the Top of the Stairs

* 1958: Best Director — The Dark at the Top of the Stairs

At the end of 1958, the National Board of Review named Tracy the year's Best Actor.

Fonda shared the Academy Award and Golden Globe nominations with co-producer Reginald Rose and won the 1958 BAFTA Award for Best Actor for his performance as " Juror # 8 ", who with logic and persistence eventually sways all the jurors to an acquittal.

He was awarded the 1958 Academy Award for Best Actor in Separate Tables.

He won the 1958 Academy Award for Best Actor for his role as Major Pollock in Separate Tables, his only nomination for an Oscar.

A filmed version of Arms and the Man in German entitled Helden ( Heroes ) starring O. W. Fischer and Liselotte Pulver was runner up for the Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film in 1958.

MGM took notice and commissioned them to write the film musical Gigi ( 1958 ), which won nine Academy Awards, including Best Picture.

* Words and Music: Only four musicals have won the Tony Award for Best Musical when a person had ( co -) written the Book ( non-sung dialogue and storyline ) and the Score ( music and lyrics ): 1958 winner The Music Man ( Meredith Willson – award for Book and Score did not exist that year ), 1986 winner The Mystery of Edwin Drood ( Rupert Holmes – who also won for Book and Score ), 1996 winner Rent ( Jonathan Larson – who also won for Book and Score ), and 2011 winner The Book of Mormon ( Trey Parker, Robert Lopez, and Matt Stone also won for Book and Score ).

In 1958, she returned to Broadway in The Marriage-Go-Round, for which she was nominated for a Best Actress Tony Award.

* 1958 Nominated Best Actor in a Leading Role, Witness for the Prosecution

In 1958, Signoret acted in the English set Room at the Top ( 1959 ), which won her numerous awards including the Best Female Performance Prize at Cannes and the Academy Award for Best Actress.

* 1958: Emmy Award for " Best Single Performance by an Actor " for An Evening with Fred Astaire

The following year he was nominated for an Oscar for Best Actor in another drama, The Defiant Ones ( 1958 ).

Segovia won the 1958 Grammy Award for Best Classical Performance, Instrumentalist for his recording Segovia Golden Jubilee.

She won the Oscar for Best Supporting Actress in 1959 for the film Separate Tables ( 1958 ), as a lonely hotel manageress and mistress of Burt Lancaster.

Remembered today primarily as a regular panelist on the long-running To Tell The Truth, Cass was best known for her performance as Agnes Gooch in Auntie Mame on both Broadway and in the film version ( 1958 ), a role for which she won the Tony Award for Best Supporting Actress, and later received an Oscar nomination for Best Supporting Actress.