* Rupert Hughes, well known novelist and Oscar-winning screenwriter.

* Dudley Nichols, Oscar-winning screenwriter

Next year, the Slumdog Millionaires Oscar-winning screenwriter Simon Beaufoy had been hired to work on the project.

* Neil Paterson, Oscar-winning screenwriter, was a resident of Crieff until his death in 1995

* Ted Tally, Oscar-winning screenwriter, * The Silence of the Lambs

Mankiewicz's younger brother was Joseph L. Mankiewicz, also an Oscar-winning Hollywood director, screenwriter, and producer.

Grammy-winning rock singer Dave Bickler, former lead singer of the group Survivor, and Diablo Cody, Oscar-winning screenwriter of Juno, graduated from Benet, as did former Illinois Attorney General and gubernatorial candidate Jim Ryan.

* William Goldman ( class of 1948 ) is a two-time Oscar-winning screenwriter ( Butch Cassidy and All the President's Men ), and author of The Princess Bride.

Ring Lardner, Jr., Oscar-winning screenwriter of such films as Woman of the Year and M * A * S * H, came to Bush Stadium to see what the buzz was all about.

* Julian Fellowes, Oscar-winning screenwriter

* Oscar-winning screenwriter Sidney Buchman ( Class of 1923 );

* Oscar-winning screenwriter William Ludwig ( Class of 1932 );

* Oscar-winning screenwriter I. A. L.

* Julius J. Epstein, Oscar-winning screenwriter, brother of Philip G. Epstein

* Philip G. Epstein, Oscar-winning screenwriter, brother to Julius J. Epstein

* Budd Schulberg, Oscar-winning screenwriter

Anders Thomas Jensen first received acclaim as Oscar-winning writer-director of three short films, Ernst & lyset ( 1996 ), Wolfgang ( 1997 ) and Valgaften ( 1998 ), then as screenwriter of such feature films as Mifune's Last Song ( 1999 ), Open Hearts ( 2002 ), Wilbur Wants to Kill Himself ( 2002 ), Stealing Rembrandt ( 2003 ) and Brothers ( 2004 ); and finally as a director of dark and profound feature comedies like The Green Butchers ( 2003 ) and Adam's Apples ( 2005 ).

He is best known as the screenwriter and director of Shine, the Oscar-winning biopic of pianist David Helfgott.

He is, however, best known as the screenwriter and director of Shine, the Oscar-winning biopic of pianist David Helfgott.

Other area landmarks include historic Los Angeles High School, alma mater of composer John Cage, author Ray Bradbury, actor Dustin Hoffman, writer / poet Charles Bukowski, singer Mel Tormé, Oscar-winning screenwriter Budd Schulberg, attorney Johnnie Cochran, and Charles Francis Richter, who invented the Richter Scale.

Eisner then recruited his friend Michael Ovitz, one of the founders of the Creative Artists Agency, to be President, with minimal involvement from Disney's board of directors ( which at the time included Oscar-winning actor Sidney Poitier, the CEO of Hilton Hotels Corporation Stephen Bollenbach, former U. S. Senator George Mitchell, Yale dean Robert A. M. Stern, and Eisner's predecessors Raymond Watson and Card Walker ).

Sydney is the daughter of famous diplomat and Oscar-winning actor Sidney Poitier.

In 1930, the book was adapted as an Oscar-winning film of the same name, directed by Lewis Milestone.

* A hugely popular yet heavily fictionalized perpetuation of the story came in Peter Shaffer's play Amadeus ( 1979 ) and the Oscar-winning 1984 film directed by Miloš Forman based upon it.

In that same year Lerner also wrote the Oscar-winning original screenplay for An American in Paris, produced by Arthur Freed and directed by Vincente Minnelli.

* 1962: Dylan Thomas, a short, Oscar-winning, documentary film with Richard Burton as narrator, directed by Jack Howells.

In 1989 Coppola teamed up with fellow Oscar-winning directors Martin Scorsese and Woody Allen for an anthology film called New York Stories.

He adapted it for a Broadway production in 1959 and an Oscar-winning feature film in 1962, starring Anne Bancroft and Patty Duke.

* Anthony Quinn, Oscar-winning Mexican actor.

Cagney's Oscar-winning role in Yankee Doodle Dandy ( 1942 ) allowed him to sing and dance, and he considered it to be one of his finest moments.

* 15-Hume Cronyn, 91, Canadian-born American actor ; husband of Oscar-winning actress Jessica Tandy.

Sand-coated puppet animation was used in the Oscar-winning 1977 film The Sand Castle, produced by Dutch-Canadian animator Co Hoedeman.

The film was well-received, but not as much as Erin Brockovich ( 2000 ), written by Susannah Grant and starring Julia Roberts in her Oscar-winning role as a single mother taking on industry in a civil action.

The designers of the Oscar-winning Roman epic Gladiator used the paintings of Alma-Tadema as a central source of inspiration.

In 1966, the play was made into the successful film A Man for All Seasons directed by Fred Zinnemann, adapted for the screen by the playwright himself, and starring Paul Scofield in an Oscar-winning performance.

In 1981, he composed the score for the Oscar-winning film Chariots of Fire, which won him the Academy Award for Best Original Music Score.

The event featured a light show by German artist Gert Hof and was filmed for a future video release by Oscar-winning British filmmaker Hugh Hudson.

Many 1950s and 1960s war films, including the Oscar-winning films Patton, Lawrence of Arabia, and Spartacus, were shot in Spain, which had large supplies of both Allied and Axis equipment.

Framestore is a British Oscar-winning visual effects company based near Oxford Street in London.

In 2009, Tracy provided inspiration for the character Carl in Pixar's Oscar-winning film Up.

In 1988, several Looney Tunes characters appeared in cameo roles in Disney and Amblin's Oscar-winning epic, Who Framed Roger Rabbit.

* A character named Balliol, portrayed by British actor Bernard Horsfall, appears in Mel Gibson's 1995 Oscar-winning epic, Braveheart, an heroic tale of Scottish national hero William Wallace.

In contrast to the cold drab greys of Brook and Kozintsev, Kurosawa's film is full of vibrant colour: external scenes in yellows, blues and greens, interiors in browns and ambers, and Emi Wada's Oscar-winning colour-coded costumes for each family member's soldiers.

In reviewing the film's sequel twenty-three years later, Variety noted that though the original film was " Intended as a cautionary tale on the pitfalls of unchecked ambition and greed, Stone's 1987 original instead had the effect of turning Douglas ' hugely charismatic ( and Oscar-winning ) villain into a household name and boardroom icon -- an inspiration to the very power players and Wall Street wannabes for whom he set such a terrible example.

This made her the only Oscar-winning child of Oscar-winning parents.

* In 1956, a British-Italian epic titled Helen of Troy was released, directed by Oscar-winning director Robert Wise and starring Italian actress Rossana Podestà in the title role.