He also frequently wrote screenplays for other directors.

He recalled earning $ 1750 average fee for 18 screenplays in two years and said, " None was very good.

During the 1980s, macro programs – originally SmartKey, then SuperKey, KeyWorks, Prokey – were very popular, first as a means to automatically format screenplays, then for a variety of user input tasks.

Sinatra recorded a public service announcement for Deejay Ra's ' Hip-Hop Literacy ' campaign, encouraging reading of Tarantino screenplays and related books.

Gordon and Kanin collaborated on the screenplays for the Katharine Hepburn – Spencer Tracy films Adam's Rib ( 1949 ) and Pat and Mike ( 1952 ).

Gordon and Kanin received Academy Awards nominations for both of those screenplays, as well as for that of a prior film, A Double Life ( 1947 ), which was also directed by Cukor.

He won two Academy Awards for his screenplays — one before his imprisonment and blacklisting ( for Woman of the Year in 1942 ), and one after ( for M * A * S * H in 1970 ).

Leone began writing screenplays during the 1950s, primarily for the ' sword and sandal ' ( a. k. a. ' peplum ') historical epics, popular at the time.

Being a proficient writer, he wrote screenplays, lyrics and directed music for several Marathi films.

He wrote the screenplays for most of the 37 feature films he directed, many of which are today considered classics: The Maltese Falcon ( 1941 ), The Treasure of the Sierra Madre ( 1948 ), Key Largo ( 1948 ), The Asphalt Jungle ( 1950 ), The African Queen ( 1951 ), Moulin Rouge ( 1952 ), The Misfits ( 1961 ), and The Man Who Would Be King ( 1975 ).

Bertolucci has also written many screenplays, both for his own films as well as for films directed by others, two of which he also produced.

David Mamet and John Sayles, for instance, fund the movies they direct themselves, usually from their own screenplays, by writing and doctoring scripts for others.

He is remembered as a writer of classic Twilight Zone episodes, such as " The Howling Man ", " Miniature ", " Printer's Devil ", and " Number Twelve Looks Just Like You ", but also penned the screenplays for several films, among them 7 Faces of Dr. Lao, The Intruder and The Masque of the Red Death.

Hart also wrote some screenplays, including Gentleman's Agreement ( 1947 ) – for which he received an Oscar nomination – Hans Christian Andersen ( 1952 ) and A Star Is Born ( 1954 ).

See also the Academy Award for Best Writing ( Original Screenplay ), a similar award for screenplays that are not adapted from elsewhere.

Towne is the author of many notable film scripts, including Chinatown ( 1974 ), for which he received an Academy Award, plus its sequel, The Two Jakes ( 1990 ), and Oscar-nominated screenplays The Last Detail and Shampoo as well as the first two Mission Impossible films.

The term surfaced during the 1950s with wide usage to distinguish television plays from stage plays for the theater and screenplays written for films.

In 1947, he became assistant to film director Marc Allégret, whom he met while working at the Theatre Sarah Bernhardt, and for whom he worked on several screenplays.

Stone is perhaps best remembered by the general public for the screenplays he wrote or co-wrote in the mid 1960s, Charade ( 1963 ), Father Goose ( 1964 ) and Mirage ( 1965 ).

As a lyricist, Maschwitz wrote the screenplays of several successful films in the 1930s and 1940s, but is perhaps best remembered for his lyrics to 1940s popular songs such as " A Nightingale Sang in Berkeley Square " ( music by Manning Sherwin and Jack Strachey ) and " These Foolish Things " ( music by Jack Strachey ).

This perhaps ultimately led to his occasional work in screenplays and as an actor.

A few zarzuelas ( Spanish operetta ) were even adapted as screenplays during the silent era.

In an era when the fledgling film industry saw actors and other film studio personnel frequently pitch in to do multiple tasks, Cunard was no exception, and wrote close to one hundred screenplays.

Apart from his credentials as a director, Schrader is most known for his screenplays for Martin Scorsese ’ s Taxi Driver and Raging Bull.

While his films were easily categorized by genre and were most often based on another writer ’ s story, his screenplays often became vehicles for a message he wanted to offer to audiences .< p >

He was not interested in Hollywood ’ s social scene, preferring to entertain guests at his home with tennis and movies when he wasn ’ t working on screenplays or other projects.

He left behind him two unmade screenplays: Justified Sinner, an adaptation of James Hogg ’ s celebrated novel, and Flying Horse, based on the life of pre-cinema pioneer Eadweard Muybridge.

He also wrote the screenplays for two of South Africa ’ s earliest feature films – The Symbol of Sacrifice, about the Anglo-Zulu War of 1879, and The Voice of the Waters.

Prior to publishing his first original works of fiction, Pressfield wrote several Hollywood screenplays, most notably 1988's Above the Law starring Steven Seagal and directed by Andrew Davis, 1992 ’ s Freejack, a work of science fiction starring Emilio Estevez, Mick Jagger, and Anthony Hopkins, and 1993's Joshua Tree ( a. k. a. Army Of One ) starring Dolph Lundgren and George Segal.

On 20 December 2010 Panahi, after being prosecuted for “ assembly and colluding with the intention to commit crimes against the country ’ s national security and propaganda against the Islamic Republic ,” was handed a six-year jail sentence and a 20-year ban on making or directing any movies, writing screenplays, giving any form of interview with Iranian or foreign media as well as leaving the country.

Lahav authored screenplays, including the 1996 Israeli crime film Kesher Dam, and two novels: Andre ’ s Wooden Clogs ( Kinneret, 2002 ), based on the true-life story of a boy's survival of The Holocaust in Holland ( in Hebrew, also translated to Dutch, Italian and English ), and The Swamp Queen Does The Tango ( Am Oved, 2004 ), an adult fairy tale ( in Hebrew ).

For Buster ’ s Bedroom und Roussel, she collaborated with German writer Martin Mosebach on the respective screenplays.

“ Raphaelson took the giddiest inspirations and then polished his dialogue until it had the gleam of appliquéd butterfly wings on a Ziegfield girl ’ s toque, but the skeletal strength of his screenplays was what made it possible for the ideas and the words to take flight .”

One of Raphaelson ’ s best known screenplays is “ Suspicion ,” ( 1941 ) directed by Alfred Hitchcock.

She wrote 34 screenplays during that period, most of which were adaptations.

Propaganda films may be packaged in numerous ways, but are most often documentary-style productions or fictional screenplays, that are produced to convince the viewer on a specific political point or influence the opinions or behavior of the viewer, often by providing subjective content that may be deliberately misleading.

Although he was best known for his original play A Man for All Seasons-a depiction of Sir Thomas More's clash with King Henry VIII over his divorce from Catherine of Aragon-which won awards on the stage and in its film version, most of his writing was screenplays for films or television.

While many criticized Bolt for focusing more on the personal aspects of his protagonists than the broader political context ( particularly with Lawrence and Man ), most critics and audiences alike praised his screenplays.

Adolph Green ( December 2, 1914 – October 23, 2002 ) was an American lyricist and playwright who, with long-time collaborator Betty Comden, penned the screenplays and songs for some of the most beloved movie musicals, particularly as part of Arthur Freed's production unit at MGM, during the genre's heyday.

Betty Comden ( May 3, 1917 November 23, 2006 ) was one-half of the musical-comedy duo Comden and Green, who provided lyrics, libretti, and screenplays to some of the most beloved and successful Hollywood musicals and Broadway shows of the mid-20th century.

They wrote the screenplays for Good News and The Barkleys of Broadway ( which reunited Fred Astaire and Ginger Rogers ), and then adapted On the Town for Frank Sinatra and Gene Kelly, scrapping most of Bernstein's music at the request of Arthur Freed, who did not care for the Bernstein score.

Schrader turned in his script, which Spielberg called, " one of the most embarrassing screenplays ever professionally turned in to a major film studio or director.

He wrote the screenplays for most of his early movies, and wrote one novel, Pink.

As a consequence of this arrangement, during the remainder of his working life, Raven became one of Britain's most prolific writers in a range of genres including fiction, essays, personal reminiscences, polemics, theatre, screenplays and magazine journalism.

Often Thea von Harbou would take her screenplays and make them into full length novels to coincide with the release of the film, however this was not the case with Metropolis, one of her most famous works.

Francesca Lia Block ( born December 3, 1962 ) is the author of adult and young adult fiction, short stories, screenplays and poetry, most famously the Weetzie Bat series.

Back in the United States following the outbreak of World War II, Elliot Paul turned to screenwriting where in Hollywood, between 1941 and 1953, he participated in the writing of ten screenplays, the most remembered of which is the 1945 production, Rhapsody in Blue ; he also wrote the screenplay for the Poverty Row production of New Orleans, a fictional history of Storyville jazz featuring Billie Holiday in her only acting role.

Burnett kept busy, producing a novel or more a year and turning most into screenplays ( some as many as three times ).

Beinhart also writes screenplays, most recently an adaptation of his own novel, " The Librarian.

One reason for this is that, when rendered in studio format, most screenplays will transfer onto the screen at the rate of approximately one page per minute.

He is most noted for his plays for the British stage as well as the screenplays for The Dresser ( for which he was nominated for an Oscar ) and The Pianist, for which he won the 2003 Academy Award for Best Adapted Screenplay.

Working from Chandler's original words and adding spins of their own, the writers ( William Faulkner, Jules Furthman and Leigh Brackett ) wrote one of the most quotable of screenplays: it's unusual to find yourself laughing in a movie not because something is funny but because it's so wickedly clever.

In addition to acting, Naschy also wrote the screenplays for most of his films and directed a number of them as well.

Many producers followed this practice, but Katzman, with his insatiable need for screenplays, was more deeply involved in using " blacklisted " talent than most.

She has written the screenplays for several feature films, including Running on Empty ( for which she received an Academy Award nomination for Best Original Screenplay and won a Golden Globe Award for the same category ), Losing Isaiah, and most recently Bee Season.