At a glance
- Age
- 90
- Born
- November 30, 1935
- From
- The Bronx
- Nationality
- United States
Biography
The line that gets quoted most often comes from a man whose main trade is writing, and the record backs it up: no screenwriter has won the Academy Award for Best Original Screenplay more times, or been nominated for it more often. Three wins from sixteen nominations. That is the work of someone who kept turning in scripts long after he had proved he could.
Born in the Bronx in 1935, he has worked as a filmmaker, actor, writer and comedian across a career of more than seven decades, producing material for film, television and the theatre. The awards run past the four Oscars: ten BAFTA Awards, two Golden Globes, a Grammy, and nominations for a Primetime Emmy and a Tony.
The recognition for the body of work rather than any single piece arrived in stages — an Honorary Golden Lion in 1995, the BAFTA Fellowship in 1997, an Honorary Palme d'Or in 2002, and the Cecil B. DeMille Award at the Golden Globes in 2014. Two of his films have been added to the National Film Registry by the Library of Congress.
The appeal, for anyone arriving from a clip, is usually the volume and the persistence: decades of scripts, and a habit of writing regardless of what the last one did.
Born in the Bronx in 1935, he has worked as a filmmaker, actor, writer and comedian across a career of more than seven decades, producing material for film, television and the theatre. The awards run past the four Oscars: ten BAFTA Awards, two Golden Globes, a Grammy, and nominations for a Primetime Emmy and a Tony.
The recognition for the body of work rather than any single piece arrived in stages — an Honorary Golden Lion in 1995, the BAFTA Fellowship in 1997, an Honorary Palme d'Or in 2002, and the Cecil B. DeMille Award at the Golden Globes in 2014. Two of his films have been added to the National Film Registry by the Library of Congress.
The appeal, for anyone arriving from a clip, is usually the volume and the persistence: decades of scripts, and a habit of writing regardless of what the last one did.
