Friday, October 11

1959 Academy Awards – Writing (Original Screenplay) Winner and Nominees

1959 Academy Awards – Writing (Original Screenplay) Winner

The Defiant Ones Nedrick Young

The Defiant Ones

Nedrick Young

Two escaped convicts chained together, white and black, must learn to get along in order to elude capture.

1959 Academy Awards – Writing (Original Screenplay) Nominees

Houseboat Melville Shavelson
Houseboat
Melville Shavelson
Teacher's Pet Fay Kanin
Teacher’s Pet
Fay Kanin
The Goddess Paddy Chayefsky
The Goddess
Paddy Chayefsky
The Sheepman William Bowers
The Sheepman
William Bowers