Jewish screenwriters (Academy Award winners)
Jewish recipients of the Jewish screenwriters (Academy Award winners) documented in the ThankJews directory. Jews are about 41% of all recipients — while making up roughly 0.2% of the world's population.
120 documented recipients
Nora Ephron1941
Writer-director ('When Harry Met Sally...', 'Sleepless in Seattle', 'You've Got Mail')
Source: Wikipedia (daughter of Jewish screenwriters Henry and Phoebe Ephron)
Edward Anhalt1964
Screenwriter of Becket (Academy Award 1964) and Panic in the Streets (1950)
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George Axelrod1961
Screenwriter of Breakfast at Tiffany's and The Manchurian Candidate
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Sanford Barnett1964
Screenwriter of Father Goose (Academy Award 1964)
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S.N. Behrman1935
Playwright and screenwriter (Quo Vadis, Anna Karenina)
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Lajos Biro1928
Hungarian screenwriter of early Hollywood (The Last Command, The Private Life of Henry VIII)
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Stuart Blumberg2010
Screenwriter of The Kids Are All Right
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Mark Boal2009
Journalist-screenwriter of The Hurt Locker (two Academy Awards 2009) and Zero Dark Thirty
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Irving Brecher1944
Screenwriter of Meet Me in St. Louis and Marx Brothers films
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Marshall Brickman1977
Co-wrote Annie Hall (Academy Award 1977) and Manhattan with Woody Allen
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Sidney Buchman1941
Screenwriter of Mr. Smith Goes to Washington and Here Comes Mr. Jordan (Academy Award 1941)
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Arthur Caesar1934
Screenwriter of Manhattan Melodrama (Academy Award 1934)
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Paddy Chayefsky1976
Only solo writer with three screenwriting Academy Awards: Marty, The Hospital, Network
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Stan Chervin2011
Screenwriter of Moneyball
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Jerome Chodorov1942
Playwright-screenwriter of My Sister Eileen
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Lisa Cholodenko2010
Writer-director of The Kids Are All Right
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Alfred Cohn1927
Screenwriter of The Jazz Singer (1927), the first talking picture
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Norman Corwin1956
Poet laureate of American radio drama; wrote The Story of Ruth
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Paul Dehn1964
Screenwriter of Goldfinger and the Planet of the Apes sequels
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Helen Deutsch1953
Screenwriter of Lili and National Velvet
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I. A. L. Diamond1960
Billy Wilder's co-writer: Some Like It Hot, The Apartment (Academy Award 1960)
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Harlan Ellison1967
Speculative-fiction master; wrote Star Trek's 'The City on the Edge of Forever'
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Henry Ephron1956
Screenwriter of Carousel with wife Phoebe; father of Nora Ephron
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Phoebe Ephron1956
Screenwriter of Carousel with husband Henry; mother of Nora Ephron
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Julius Epstein1943
Co-wrote Casablanca (Academy Award 1943) with twin brother Philip
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Philip Epstein1943
Co-wrote Casablanca (Academy Award 1943) with twin brother Julius
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Harry Essex1953
Screenwriter of Creature from the Black Lagoon and It Came from Outer Space
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Carl Foreman1952
Blacklisted screenwriter of High Noon and The Bridge on the River Kwai
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Melvin Frank1973
Writer-director of A Touch of Class and Road to Utopia
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George Froeschel1942
Screenwriter of Mrs. Miniver (Academy Award 1942)
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Daniel Fuchs1955
Novelist-screenwriter of Love Me or Leave Me (Academy Award 1955)
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Jules Furthman1935
Screenwriter of To Have and Have Not and Mutiny on the Bounty
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Lowell Ganz1984
Co-writer of Splash, City Slickers and A League of Their Own
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Larry Gelbart1982
Wrote Tootsie and Oh, God!; developed M*A*S*H for television
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Benjamin Glazer1927
Winner of the first screenwriting Academy Award for Seventh Heaven (1927)
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Bo Goldman1975
Two-time Academy Award screenwriter: One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest, Melvin and Howard
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James Goldman1968
Screenwriter of The Lion in Winter (Academy Award 1968); brother of William
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William Goldman1969
Two-time Academy Award screenwriter: Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid, All the President's Men; The Princess Bride
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Akiva Goldsman2001
Screenwriter of A Beautiful Mind (Academy Award 2001)
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Debra Granik2010
Writer-director of Winter's Bone, which launched Jennifer Lawrence
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Moss Hart1947
Broadway legend (You Can't Take It with You); wrote Gentleman's Agreement
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Ronald Harwood2002
Screenwriter of The Pianist (Academy Award 2002) and The Dresser
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Lawrence Hauben1975
Co-wrote One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest (Academy Award 1975)
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Michel Hazanavicius2011
French writer-director of The Artist (Academy Award Best Picture 2011)
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Lukas Heller1962
Screenwriter of What Ever Happened to Baby Jane? and The Dirty Dozen
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Buck Henry1967
Co-wrote The Graduate and Catch-22; co-created Get Smart
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Heinz Herald1937
Co-wrote The Life of Emile Zola (Academy Award 1937)
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Géza Herczeg1937
Co-wrote The Life of Emile Zola (Academy Award 1937)
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Samuel Hoffenstein1944
Screenwriter of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde (1931) and Laura
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Paul Jarrico1954
Blacklisted screenwriter; produced the banned classic Salt of the Earth
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Tamara Jenkins2007
Writer-director of Slums of Beverly Hills and The Savages
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Ruth Prawer Jhabvala1986
Refugee from Nazi Germany; two Academy Awards for A Room with a View and Howards End
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Spike Jonze2013
Writer-director of Her (Academy Award 2013) and Being John Malkovich
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Julian Josephson1929
Screenwriter of Disraeli (1929)
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Garson Kanin1949
Wrote Born Yesterday and, with Ruth Gordon, Adam's Rib
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Michael Kanin1942
Screenwriter of Woman of the Year (Academy Award 1942)
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Charlie Kaufman2004
Screenwriter of Being John Malkovich, Adaptation and Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind (Academy Award 2004)
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Robert Klane1989
Screenwriter of Weekend at Bernie's
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Frederick Kohner1957
Author-screenwriter of Gidget, inspired by his daughter
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Norman Krasna1943
Screenwriter of Princess O'Rourke (Academy Award 1943)
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Jeremy Larner1972
Screenwriter of The Candidate (Academy Award 1972)
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Arthur Laurents1957
Wrote the books of West Side Story and Gypsy; screenwriter of The Way We Were
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John Howard Lawson1938
First president of the Screen Writers Guild; blacklisted as one of the Hollywood Ten
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Ernest Lehman1959
Screenwriter of North by Northwest, West Side Story and The Sound of Music
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Melchior Lengyel1939
Hungarian writer whose story became Ninotchka
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Sonya Levien1955
Pioneering woman screenwriter; Interrupted Melody (Academy Award 1955)
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William Ludwig1955
Co-wrote Interrupted Melody (Academy Award 1955)
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Richard Maibaum1962
Wrote or co-wrote 13 James Bond films, from Dr. No to Licence to Kill
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Babaloo Mandel1984
Co-writer of Splash, City Slickers and A League of Their Own
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Herman J. Mankiewicz1941
Co-wrote Citizen Kane (Academy Award 1941)
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Wolf Mankowitz1955
British screenwriter of A Kid for Two Farthings and The Millionairess
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Abby Mann1961
Screenwriter of Judgment at Nuremberg (Academy Award 1961)
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Mark Medoff1986
Playwright-screenwriter of Children of a Lesser God
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Nicholas Meyer1976
Novelist-screenwriter; directed Star Trek II and wrote The Seven-Per-Cent Solution
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Alfred Neumann1944
German novelist; co-wrote None Shall Escape (1944)
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George Oppenheimer1937
Screenwriter of A Day at the Races; co-founded Viking Press
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Alan Pakula1982
Screenwriter of Sophie's Choice; director of All the President's Men
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Norman Panama1954
Co-writer of White Christmas and Road to Utopia
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S. J. Perelman1956
New Yorker humorist; Around the World in 80 Days (Academy Award 1956) and Marx Brothers scripts
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Eleanor Perry1962
Screenwriter of David and Lisa
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Robert Pirosh1949
Screenwriter of Battleground (Academy Award 1949) and A Day at the Races
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Emeric Pressburger1942
With Michael Powell created The Red Shoes and A Matter of Life and Death; Academy Award for 49th Parallel
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Frederic Raphael1965
Screenwriter of Darling (Academy Award 1965) and Eyes Wide Shut
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Samson Raphaelson1940
Wrote the play behind The Jazz Singer and Lubitsch classics (The Shop Around the Corner)
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Irving Ravetch1963
Co-wrote Hud and Norma Rae with Harriet Frank Jr.
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Walter Reisch1953
Screenwriter of Ninotchka, Gaslight and Titanic (Academy Award 1953)
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Maurice Richlin1959
Co-wrote Pillow Talk (Academy Award 1959) and The Pink Panther
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Robert Riskin1934
Frank Capra's writer: It Happened One Night (Academy Award 1934), Mr. Deeds Goes to Town
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Arthur A. Ross1954
Co-wrote Creature from the Black Lagoon
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Gary Ross1988
Screenwriter of Big and Dave; wrote and directed Seabiscuit and The Hunger Games
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Robert Rossen1949
Writer-director of All the King's Men and The Hustler
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Eric Roth1994
Screenwriter of Forrest Gump (Academy Award 1994), Munich and A Star Is Born
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Bruce Joel Rubin1990
Screenwriter of Ghost (Academy Award 1990)
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Danny Rubin1993
Screenwriter of Groundhog Day
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Morrie Ryskind1935
Marx Brothers writer (A Night at the Opera); Pulitzer for Of Thee I Sing
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David Saperstein1985
Author-screenwriter of Cocoon
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Alvin Sargent1980
Two-time Academy Award screenwriter: Julia, Ordinary People; wrote Spider-Man 2
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Dore Schary1938
Screenwriter of Boys Town (Academy Award 1938); later head of MGM
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Murray Schisgal1982
Playwright; co-wrote Tootsie
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Charles Schnee1952
Screenwriter of The Bad and the Beautiful (Academy Award 1952)
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Budd Schulberg1954
Screenwriter of On the Waterfront (Academy Award 1954); novelist of What Makes Sammy Run?
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Tom Schulman1989
Screenwriter of Dead Poets Society (Academy Award 1989)
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Erich Segal1970
Author-screenwriter of Love Story; co-wrote Yellow Submarine
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Harry Segall1941
Screenwriter of Here Comes Mr. Jordan (Academy Award 1941)
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David Seidler2010
Screenwriter of The King's Speech (Academy Award 2010), drawing on his own stutter
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Steve Shagan1973
Screenwriter of Save the Tiger
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Stanley Shapiro1959
Co-wrote Pillow Talk (Academy Award 1959)
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Melville Shavelson1958
Screenwriter of Houseboat and Cast a Giant Shadow
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Sidney Sheldon1947
Academy Award screenwriter (The Bachelor and the Bobby-Soxer) turned bestselling novelist; created I Dream of Jeannie
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Tess Slesinger1937
Screenwriter of The Good Earth and A Tree Grows in Brooklyn
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Bella Spewack1948
With husband Samuel wrote Kiss Me, Kate and My Favorite Wife
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Samuel Spewack1948
With wife Bella wrote Kiss Me, Kate and My Favorite Wife
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Peter Stone1964
Screenwriter of Charade and Father Goose (Academy Award 1964); wrote 1776
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Jo Swerling1946
Co-wrote It's a Wonderful Life; book of Guys and Dolls
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Daniel Taradash1953
Screenwriter of From Here to Eternity (Academy Award 1953)
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Frank Tarloff1964
Co-wrote Father Goose (Academy Award 1964)
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Alfred Uhry1989
Pulitzer playwright and Academy Award screenwriter of Driving Miss Daisy
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Malvin Wald1948
Screenwriter of The Naked City
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Philip Yordan1954
Screenwriter of Broken Lance (Academy Award 1954); fronted for blacklisted colleagues
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Jim Abrahams1980
Co-creator of Airplane! and The Naked Gun with the Zucker brothers
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