It also received two further nominations: Best Cinematography, for Arthur Edeson, and Best Writing Achievement for Abbott, Anderson and Andrews.

* Best Food Writing ( 2002, 2004 )

Chaplin had originally been nominated for Best Production, Best Director in a Comedy Picture, Best Actor and Best Writing ( Original Story ) for The Circus.

* 13th Academy Awards ( 1941 ): Best Actor and Best Writing, nominations, for The Great Dictator.

* The Best American Science Writing 2004 ( editor )

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 ).

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.

** Oscar nomination for Best Writing, Original Screenplay

Lucas was nominated for four Academy Awards: Best Directing and Writing for American Graffiti, and Best Directing and Writing for Star Wars.

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

* Best Original Screenplay, 1951 An American in Paris

* Best Original Song, 1958 Gigi

* Best Original Song, 1968 Camelot

* Best Original Score, 1975 The Little Prince

* Best Original Score, 1957 My Fair Lady and 1974 Gigi

Category: Best Original Screenplay Academy Award winners

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

The following year, he received the Academy Award for Best Original Score for Limelight, the only competitive Academy Award he won during his career.

Chaplin also received his only competitive Oscar for his composition work, receiving the Academy Award for Best Original Score for Limelight ( along with Raymond Rasch and Larry Russell ) in 1973.

Chaplin also received three Academy Awards, one competitive award for Best Original Score, and two Honorary Awards, and was nominated for three more:

* 45th Academy Awards ( 1973 ): Best Original Score, win, for Limelight.

Category: Best Original Music Score Academy Award winners

The film is also notable for its memorable theme by Greek composer Vangelis, who won an Academy Award for Best Original Score.

In 1953, Day appeared as the title character in the comedic western-themed musical, Calamity Jane, winning the Academy Award for Best Original Song for " Secret Love " ( her recording of which became her fourth U. S. No. 1 recording ).

She sang only two songs in the film, " Que Sera, Sera ( Whatever Will Be, Will Be )" which won an Academy Award for Best Original Song and " We'll Love Again ".

It also received a nomination for an Academy Award for Best Original Song.

The songwriters ( Sager, Ingram, and Clif Mangess ) were nominated for an Academy Award for Best Original Song and Parton and Ingram performed the song on the awards telecast.

Parton earned her second Academy Award nomination for Best Original Song for " Travelin ' Thru ," which she wrote specifically for the feature film Transamerica ( 2005 ).

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

* Best Adapted Screenplay, 1958 Gigi

Category: Best Adapted Screenplay Academy Award winners

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

The book was nominated for the 1992 Nebula Award for Best Novel, the 1993 John W. Campbell Memorial Award for Best Science Fiction Novel, and the 1993 Locus Award for Best Science Fiction Novel.

In 2003, Morris won the Best Documentary Oscar at the Academy Awards, for his film The Fog of War, about the career of Robert S. McNamara, who was famous for having been the Secretary of Defense who had led the nation into the Vietnam War under Presidents John Fitzgerald Kennedy and Lyndon Johnson, and who was also crucially involved in having helped President Kennedy avoid a Third World War over the issue of Soviet nuclear missiles in Cuba.

* Best Supporting Actor – John Hannah ( lost to Samuel L. Jackson for Pulp Fiction )

He briefly held the record for winning the most Best Director Oscars when he won for the third time in 1938, until this record was matched by John Ford in 1941, and then later surpassed by Ford in 1952.

John Huston won the Academy Award for direction and screenplay and his father won Best Supporting Actor, but the film had mediocre box office results.

* The Best of John Wyndham ( 1973 )

Category: John W. Campbell Award for Best New Writer winners

In 2000, John Updike selected his short story " Gold Coast " for his collection Best American Short Stories of the Century ( Houghton Mifflin ).

Both Voight and co-star Hoffman were nominated for Best Actor, but lost out to John Wayne in True Grit.

He lost to Coldplay's Viva La Vida for best Rock Album and John Mayer's " Say " for Best Male Pop / Rock Performance.

De Niro won the National Society of Film Critics award for Best Supporting Actor for his role as John " Johnny Boy " Civello.

* The Best of Mississippi John Hurt recordings ( 1970 )

Fairyland won the 1996 Arthur C. Clarke Award and the 1997 John W. Campbell Memorial Award for Best SF Novel.

In 2001, Crowe's portrayal of mathematician and Nobel Prize winner John F. Nash in the biopic A Beautiful Mind brought him numerous awards, including an BAFTA Award for Best Actor in a Leading Role, a Golden Globe Award for Best Actor category Motion Picture Drama and a Screen Actors Guild Award for Outstanding Performance by a Male Actor in a Leading Role.

In March 2010, Russell Crowe & The Ordinary Fear of God's version of the John Williamson song " Winter Green " was included on a new compilation album The Absolute Best of John Williamson: 40 Years True Blue, commemorating the singer-songwriter's milestone of 40 years in the Australian music industry.

Among the most respected awards for science fiction are the Hugo Award, presented by the World Science Fiction Society at Worldcon ; the Nebula Award, presented by SFWA and voted on by the community of authors ; and the John W. Campbell Memorial Award for Best Science Fiction Novel and Theodore Sturgeon Memorial Award for short fiction.

He is best known for his collaborations with writer Charlie Kaufman, which include the 1999 film Being John Malkovich ( that gave him an Academy Award for Best Director nomination ) and the 2002 film Adaptation, and as the co-writer / director of the 2009 film Where the Wild Things Are.

* The Tale of Sweeney Todd ( 1998 ), a television movie directed by John Schlesinger, commissioned by British Sky Broadcasting for which Ben Kingsley received a Screen Actors Guild Best Actor nomination for his portrayal of the title role.

* Trimalchio's Feast is alluded to in the short story " Toga Party " by John Barth, which was included in The Best American Short Stories 2007, in reference to Tom and Patsy Hardison's lavish toga party.

Travesties was a Broadway hit which won two Tony Awards ( Best Performance by an Actor for John Wood and Best Comedy ), as well as the New York Drama Critics Circle Award ( Best Play ), and Curry's performance as the famous dadaist Tristan Tzara received good reviews.