American screenwriter
William Ludwig (May 16, 1912 – February 7, 1999) was an American screenwriter.
Ludwig graduated fromColumbia University in 1932.[1] He was a member of thePhilolexian Society at Columbia.[1] In 1937 he joinedMGM and his first screenplay wasLove Finds Andy Hardy. He won, withSonya Levien, anOscar for "Best Writing, Story and Screenplay" in 1955 forInterrupted Melody.[2] He remained a contract writer at MGM for 20 years, an industry record.[3]
Other notable works include the screenplay for the 1955 production ofOklahoma!.
He died of complications from Parkinson disease.[4]
- ^ab"Columbia College Today".www.college.columbia.edu. RetrievedAugust 7, 2022.
- ^"The 28th Academy Awards (1956) Nominees and Winners". Oscars.org (Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences). RetrievedJune 1, 2019.
- ^"20-Year Author Run Ends".Variety. February 13, 1957. p. 4. RetrievedJune 10, 2019 – viaArchive.org.
- ^Obituaries in the Performing Arts, 1999: Film, Television, Radio, Theatre, Dance, Music, Cartoons and Pop Culture. October 24, 2008.ISBN 9780786452040.
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| 1940–1975 | - Preston Sturges (1940)
- Herman J. Mankiewicz andOrson Welles (1941)
- Michael Kanin andRing Lardner Jr. (1942)
- Norman Krasna (1943)
- Lamar Trotti (1944)
- Richard Schweizer (1945)
- Muriel Box andSydney Box (1946)
- Sidney Sheldon (1947)
- No award (1948)
- Robert Pirosh (1949)
- Charles Brackett,D. M. Marshman Jr., andBilly Wilder (1950)
- Alan Jay Lerner (1951)
- T. E. B. Clarke (1952)
- Charles Brackett,Richard L. Breen, andWalter Reisch (1953)
- Budd Schulberg (1954)
- Sonya Levien andWilliam Ludwig (1955)
- Albert Lamorisse (1956)
- George Wells (1957)
- Nathan E. Douglas andHarold Jacob Smith (1958)
- Clarence Greene,Maurice Richlin,Russell Rouse, andStanley Shapiro (1959)
- I. A. L. Diamond andBilly Wilder (1960)
- William Inge (1961)
- Ennio De Concini,Pietro Germi, andAlfredo Giannetti (1962)
- James Webb (1963)
- S. H. Barnett,Peter Stone andFrank Tarloff (1964)
- Frederic Raphael (1965)
- Claude Lelouch andPierre Uytterhoeven (1966)
- William Rose (1967)
- Mel Brooks (1968)
- William Goldman (1969)
- Francis Ford Coppola andEdmund H. North (1970)
- Paddy Chayefsky (1971)
- Jeremy Larner (1972)
- David S. Ward (1973)
- Robert Towne (1974)
- Frank Pierson (1975)
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