In 2001, Mr. Lehman received a lifetime achievement award from the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences; he was the first screenwriter to be so honored.
Mr. Schiff, the fourth screenwriter brought in, said he had been well aware of the pitfalls in adapting the book that Nabokov called "my best work in English".
Not only was their work in transforming a ropey, unpublished play, Everybody Comes To Rick's, given a political twist by a third screenwriter, Howard Koch, but changes were demanded from day to day, not least for the ending.
David Mamet was the first screenwriter to produce a draft, which, according to Ridley Scott and the producers, needed major revisions.
Doug Richardson first garnered national attention as the first screenwriter in Hollywood to sell a spec script for a million dollars.
Oliver had been hired after, you know, they had hired the first screenwriter; Pacino was unhappy with that screenplay.
I became the first screenwriter-as-media-star.
The third Screenwriters' festival began yesterday, with three days of masterclasses and networking sessions involving agents, directors, producers and writers including Ronald Harwood, Stephen Wooley, Christopher Hampton and Mike Leigh.
First-time screenwriter Craig Shilowich first learned of Chubbuck's death after coming upon "a reductive story of her suicide" online.
Disney chairman Jeffrey Katzenberg commissioned Beauty and the Beast as an animated musical with a strong heroine, and hired first-time screenwriter Linda Woolverton, the first woman to pen an animated film, to write it.
