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.

41%of all recipients are Jewish

120 documented recipients

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NE

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)

EA

Edward Anhalt1964

Screenwriter of Becket (Academy Award 1964) and Panic in the Streets (1950)

Source: Jinfo.org — Jewish screenwriters

GA

George Axelrod1961

Screenwriter of Breakfast at Tiffany's and The Manchurian Candidate

Source: Jinfo.org — Jewish screenwriters

SB

Sanford Barnett1964

Screenwriter of Father Goose (Academy Award 1964)

Source: Jinfo.org — Jewish screenwriters

SB

S.N. Behrman1935

Playwright and screenwriter (Quo Vadis, Anna Karenina)

Source: Jinfo.org — Jewish screenwriters

LB

Lajos Biro1928

Hungarian screenwriter of early Hollywood (The Last Command, The Private Life of Henry VIII)

Source: Jinfo.org — Jewish screenwriters

SB

Stuart Blumberg2010

Screenwriter of The Kids Are All Right

Source: Jinfo.org — Jewish screenwriters

MB

Mark Boal2009

Journalist-screenwriter of The Hurt Locker (two Academy Awards 2009) and Zero Dark Thirty

Source: Jinfo.org — Jewish screenwriters

IB

Irving Brecher1944

Screenwriter of Meet Me in St. Louis and Marx Brothers films

Source: Jinfo.org — Jewish screenwriters

MB

Marshall Brickman1977

Co-wrote Annie Hall (Academy Award 1977) and Manhattan with Woody Allen

Source: Jinfo.org — Jewish screenwriters

SB

Sidney Buchman1941

Screenwriter of Mr. Smith Goes to Washington and Here Comes Mr. Jordan (Academy Award 1941)

Source: Jinfo.org — Jewish screenwriters

AC

Arthur Caesar1934

Screenwriter of Manhattan Melodrama (Academy Award 1934)

Source: Jinfo.org — Jewish screenwriters

PC

Paddy Chayefsky1976

Only solo writer with three screenwriting Academy Awards: Marty, The Hospital, Network

Source: Jinfo.org — Jewish screenwriters

SC

Stan Chervin2011

Screenwriter of Moneyball

Source: Jinfo.org — Jewish screenwriters

JC

Jerome Chodorov1942

Playwright-screenwriter of My Sister Eileen

Source: Jinfo.org — Jewish screenwriters

LC

Lisa Cholodenko2010

Writer-director of The Kids Are All Right

Source: Jinfo.org — Jewish screenwriters

AC

Alfred Cohn1927

Screenwriter of The Jazz Singer (1927), the first talking picture

Source: Jinfo.org — Jewish screenwriters

NC

Norman Corwin1956

Poet laureate of American radio drama; wrote The Story of Ruth

Source: Jinfo.org — Jewish screenwriters

PD

Paul Dehn1964

Screenwriter of Goldfinger and the Planet of the Apes sequels

Source: Jinfo.org — Jewish screenwriters

HD

Helen Deutsch1953

Screenwriter of Lili and National Velvet

Source: Jinfo.org — Jewish screenwriters

IA

I. A. L. Diamond1960

Billy Wilder's co-writer: Some Like It Hot, The Apartment (Academy Award 1960)

Source: Jinfo.org — Jewish screenwriters

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Harlan Ellison1967

Speculative-fiction master; wrote Star Trek's 'The City on the Edge of Forever'

Source: Jinfo.org — Jewish screenwriters

HE

Henry Ephron1956

Screenwriter of Carousel with wife Phoebe; father of Nora Ephron

Source: Jinfo.org — Jewish screenwriters

PE

Phoebe Ephron1956

Screenwriter of Carousel with husband Henry; mother of Nora Ephron

Source: Jinfo.org — Jewish screenwriters

JE

Julius Epstein1943

Co-wrote Casablanca (Academy Award 1943) with twin brother Philip

Source: Jinfo.org — Jewish screenwriters

PE

Philip Epstein1943

Co-wrote Casablanca (Academy Award 1943) with twin brother Julius

Source: Jinfo.org — Jewish screenwriters

HE

Harry Essex1953

Screenwriter of Creature from the Black Lagoon and It Came from Outer Space

Source: Jinfo.org — Jewish screenwriters

CF

Carl Foreman1952

Blacklisted screenwriter of High Noon and The Bridge on the River Kwai

Source: Jinfo.org — Jewish screenwriters

MF

Melvin Frank1973

Writer-director of A Touch of Class and Road to Utopia

Source: Jinfo.org — Jewish screenwriters

GF

George Froeschel1942

Screenwriter of Mrs. Miniver (Academy Award 1942)

Source: Jinfo.org — Jewish screenwriters

DF

Daniel Fuchs1955

Novelist-screenwriter of Love Me or Leave Me (Academy Award 1955)

Source: Jinfo.org — Jewish screenwriters

JF

Jules Furthman1935

Screenwriter of To Have and Have Not and Mutiny on the Bounty

Source: Jinfo.org — Jewish screenwriters

LG

Lowell Ganz1984

Co-writer of Splash, City Slickers and A League of Their Own

Source: Jinfo.org — Jewish screenwriters

LG

Larry Gelbart1982

Wrote Tootsie and Oh, God!; developed M*A*S*H for television

Source: Jinfo.org — Jewish screenwriters

BG

Benjamin Glazer1927

Winner of the first screenwriting Academy Award for Seventh Heaven (1927)

Source: Jinfo.org — Jewish screenwriters

BG

Bo Goldman1975

Two-time Academy Award screenwriter: One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest, Melvin and Howard

Source: Jinfo.org — Jewish screenwriters

JG

James Goldman1968

Screenwriter of The Lion in Winter (Academy Award 1968); brother of William

Source: Jinfo.org — Jewish screenwriters

WG

William Goldman1969

Two-time Academy Award screenwriter: Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid, All the President's Men; The Princess Bride

Source: Jinfo.org — Jewish screenwriters

AG

Akiva Goldsman2001

Screenwriter of A Beautiful Mind (Academy Award 2001)

Source: Jinfo.org — Jewish screenwriters

DG

Debra Granik2010

Writer-director of Winter's Bone, which launched Jennifer Lawrence

Source: Jinfo.org — Jewish screenwriters

MH

Moss Hart1947

Broadway legend (You Can't Take It with You); wrote Gentleman's Agreement

Source: Jinfo.org — Jewish screenwriters

RH

Ronald Harwood2002

Screenwriter of The Pianist (Academy Award 2002) and The Dresser

Source: Jinfo.org — Jewish screenwriters

LH

Lawrence Hauben1975

Co-wrote One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest (Academy Award 1975)

Source: Jinfo.org — Jewish screenwriters

MH

Michel Hazanavicius2011

French writer-director of The Artist (Academy Award Best Picture 2011)

Source: Jinfo.org — Jewish screenwriters

LH

Lukas Heller1962

Screenwriter of What Ever Happened to Baby Jane? and The Dirty Dozen

Source: Jinfo.org — Jewish screenwriters

BH

Buck Henry1967

Co-wrote The Graduate and Catch-22; co-created Get Smart

Source: Jinfo.org — Jewish screenwriters

HH

Heinz Herald1937

Co-wrote The Life of Emile Zola (Academy Award 1937)

Source: Jinfo.org — Jewish screenwriters

GH

Géza Herczeg1937

Co-wrote The Life of Emile Zola (Academy Award 1937)

Source: Jinfo.org — Jewish screenwriters

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Samuel Hoffenstein1944

Screenwriter of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde (1931) and Laura

Source: Jinfo.org — Jewish screenwriters

PJ

Paul Jarrico1954

Blacklisted screenwriter; produced the banned classic Salt of the Earth

Source: Jinfo.org — Jewish screenwriters

TJ

Tamara Jenkins2007

Writer-director of Slums of Beverly Hills and The Savages

Source: Jinfo.org — Jewish screenwriters

RP

Ruth Prawer Jhabvala1986

Refugee from Nazi Germany; two Academy Awards for A Room with a View and Howards End

Source: Jinfo.org — Jewish screenwriters

SJ

Spike Jonze2013

Writer-director of Her (Academy Award 2013) and Being John Malkovich

Source: Jinfo.org — Jewish screenwriters

JJ

Julian Josephson1929

Screenwriter of Disraeli (1929)

Source: Jinfo.org — Jewish screenwriters

GK

Garson Kanin1949

Wrote Born Yesterday and, with Ruth Gordon, Adam's Rib

Source: Jinfo.org — Jewish screenwriters

MK

Michael Kanin1942

Screenwriter of Woman of the Year (Academy Award 1942)

Source: Jinfo.org — Jewish screenwriters

CK

Charlie Kaufman2004

Screenwriter of Being John Malkovich, Adaptation and Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind (Academy Award 2004)

Source: Jinfo.org — Jewish screenwriters

RK

Robert Klane1989

Screenwriter of Weekend at Bernie's

Source: Jinfo.org — Jewish screenwriters

FK

Frederick Kohner1957

Author-screenwriter of Gidget, inspired by his daughter

Source: Jinfo.org — Jewish screenwriters

NK

Norman Krasna1943

Screenwriter of Princess O'Rourke (Academy Award 1943)

Source: Jinfo.org — Jewish screenwriters

JL

Jeremy Larner1972

Screenwriter of The Candidate (Academy Award 1972)

Source: Jinfo.org — Jewish screenwriters

AL

Arthur Laurents1957

Wrote the books of West Side Story and Gypsy; screenwriter of The Way We Were

Source: Jinfo.org — Jewish screenwriters

JH

John Howard Lawson1938

First president of the Screen Writers Guild; blacklisted as one of the Hollywood Ten

Source: Jinfo.org — Jewish screenwriters

EL

Ernest Lehman1959

Screenwriter of North by Northwest, West Side Story and The Sound of Music

Source: Jinfo.org — Jewish screenwriters

ML

Melchior Lengyel1939

Hungarian writer whose story became Ninotchka

Source: Jinfo.org — Jewish screenwriters

SL

Sonya Levien1955

Pioneering woman screenwriter; Interrupted Melody (Academy Award 1955)

Source: Jinfo.org — Jewish screenwriters

WL

William Ludwig1955

Co-wrote Interrupted Melody (Academy Award 1955)

Source: Jinfo.org — Jewish screenwriters

RM

Richard Maibaum1962

Wrote or co-wrote 13 James Bond films, from Dr. No to Licence to Kill

Source: Jinfo.org — Jewish screenwriters

BM

Babaloo Mandel1984

Co-writer of Splash, City Slickers and A League of Their Own

Source: Jinfo.org — Jewish screenwriters

HJ

Herman J. Mankiewicz1941

Co-wrote Citizen Kane (Academy Award 1941)

Source: Jinfo.org — Jewish screenwriters

WM

Wolf Mankowitz1955

British screenwriter of A Kid for Two Farthings and The Millionairess

Source: Jinfo.org — Jewish screenwriters

AM

Abby Mann1961

Screenwriter of Judgment at Nuremberg (Academy Award 1961)

Source: Jinfo.org — Jewish screenwriters

MM

Mark Medoff1986

Playwright-screenwriter of Children of a Lesser God

Source: Jinfo.org — Jewish screenwriters

NM

Nicholas Meyer1976

Novelist-screenwriter; directed Star Trek II and wrote The Seven-Per-Cent Solution

Source: Jinfo.org — Jewish screenwriters

AN

Alfred Neumann1944

German novelist; co-wrote None Shall Escape (1944)

Source: Jinfo.org — Jewish screenwriters

GO

George Oppenheimer1937

Screenwriter of A Day at the Races; co-founded Viking Press

Source: Jinfo.org — Jewish screenwriters

AP

Alan Pakula1982

Screenwriter of Sophie's Choice; director of All the President's Men

Source: Jinfo.org — Jewish screenwriters

NP

Norman Panama1954

Co-writer of White Christmas and Road to Utopia

Source: Jinfo.org — Jewish screenwriters

SJ

S. J. Perelman1956

New Yorker humorist; Around the World in 80 Days (Academy Award 1956) and Marx Brothers scripts

Source: Jinfo.org — Jewish screenwriters

EP

Eleanor Perry1962

Screenwriter of David and Lisa

Source: Jinfo.org — Jewish screenwriters

RP

Robert Pirosh1949

Screenwriter of Battleground (Academy Award 1949) and A Day at the Races

Source: Jinfo.org — Jewish screenwriters

EP

Emeric Pressburger1942

With Michael Powell created The Red Shoes and A Matter of Life and Death; Academy Award for 49th Parallel

Source: Jinfo.org — Jewish screenwriters

FR

Frederic Raphael1965

Screenwriter of Darling (Academy Award 1965) and Eyes Wide Shut

Source: Jinfo.org — Jewish screenwriters

SR

Samson Raphaelson1940

Wrote the play behind The Jazz Singer and Lubitsch classics (The Shop Around the Corner)

Source: Jinfo.org — Jewish screenwriters

IR

Irving Ravetch1963

Co-wrote Hud and Norma Rae with Harriet Frank Jr.

Source: Jinfo.org — Jewish screenwriters

WR

Walter Reisch1953

Screenwriter of Ninotchka, Gaslight and Titanic (Academy Award 1953)

Source: Jinfo.org — Jewish screenwriters

MR

Maurice Richlin1959

Co-wrote Pillow Talk (Academy Award 1959) and The Pink Panther

Source: Jinfo.org — Jewish screenwriters

RR

Robert Riskin1934

Frank Capra's writer: It Happened One Night (Academy Award 1934), Mr. Deeds Goes to Town

Source: Jinfo.org — Jewish screenwriters

AA

Arthur A. Ross1954

Co-wrote Creature from the Black Lagoon

Source: Jinfo.org — Jewish screenwriters

GR

Gary Ross1988

Screenwriter of Big and Dave; wrote and directed Seabiscuit and The Hunger Games

Source: Jinfo.org — Jewish screenwriters

RR

Robert Rossen1949

Writer-director of All the King's Men and The Hustler

Source: Jinfo.org — Jewish screenwriters

ER

Eric Roth1994

Screenwriter of Forrest Gump (Academy Award 1994), Munich and A Star Is Born

Source: Jinfo.org — Jewish screenwriters

BJ

Bruce Joel Rubin1990

Screenwriter of Ghost (Academy Award 1990)

Source: Jinfo.org — Jewish screenwriters

DR

Danny Rubin1993

Screenwriter of Groundhog Day

Source: Jinfo.org — Jewish screenwriters

MR

Morrie Ryskind1935

Marx Brothers writer (A Night at the Opera); Pulitzer for Of Thee I Sing

Source: Jinfo.org — Jewish screenwriters

DS

David Saperstein1985

Author-screenwriter of Cocoon

Source: Jinfo.org — Jewish screenwriters

AS

Alvin Sargent1980

Two-time Academy Award screenwriter: Julia, Ordinary People; wrote Spider-Man 2

Source: Jinfo.org — Jewish screenwriters

DS

Dore Schary1938

Screenwriter of Boys Town (Academy Award 1938); later head of MGM

Source: Jinfo.org — Jewish screenwriters

MS

Murray Schisgal1982

Playwright; co-wrote Tootsie

Source: Jinfo.org — Jewish screenwriters

CS

Charles Schnee1952

Screenwriter of The Bad and the Beautiful (Academy Award 1952)

Source: Jinfo.org — Jewish screenwriters

BS

Budd Schulberg1954

Screenwriter of On the Waterfront (Academy Award 1954); novelist of What Makes Sammy Run?

Source: Jinfo.org — Jewish screenwriters

TS

Tom Schulman1989

Screenwriter of Dead Poets Society (Academy Award 1989)

Source: Jinfo.org — Jewish screenwriters

ES

Erich Segal1970

Author-screenwriter of Love Story; co-wrote Yellow Submarine

Source: Jinfo.org — Jewish screenwriters

HS

Harry Segall1941

Screenwriter of Here Comes Mr. Jordan (Academy Award 1941)

Source: Jinfo.org — Jewish screenwriters

DS

David Seidler2010

Screenwriter of The King's Speech (Academy Award 2010), drawing on his own stutter

Source: Jinfo.org — Jewish screenwriters

SS

Steve Shagan1973

Screenwriter of Save the Tiger

Source: Jinfo.org — Jewish screenwriters

SS

Stanley Shapiro1959

Co-wrote Pillow Talk (Academy Award 1959)

Source: Jinfo.org — Jewish screenwriters

MS

Melville Shavelson1958

Screenwriter of Houseboat and Cast a Giant Shadow

Source: Jinfo.org — Jewish screenwriters

SS

Sidney Sheldon1947

Academy Award screenwriter (The Bachelor and the Bobby-Soxer) turned bestselling novelist; created I Dream of Jeannie

Source: Jinfo.org — Jewish screenwriters

TS

Tess Slesinger1937

Screenwriter of The Good Earth and A Tree Grows in Brooklyn

Source: Jinfo.org — Jewish screenwriters

BS

Bella Spewack1948

With husband Samuel wrote Kiss Me, Kate and My Favorite Wife

Source: Jinfo.org — Jewish screenwriters

SS

Samuel Spewack1948

With wife Bella wrote Kiss Me, Kate and My Favorite Wife

Source: Jinfo.org — Jewish screenwriters

PS

Peter Stone1964

Screenwriter of Charade and Father Goose (Academy Award 1964); wrote 1776

Source: Jinfo.org — Jewish screenwriters

JS

Jo Swerling1946

Co-wrote It's a Wonderful Life; book of Guys and Dolls

Source: Jinfo.org — Jewish screenwriters

DT

Daniel Taradash1953

Screenwriter of From Here to Eternity (Academy Award 1953)

Source: Jinfo.org — Jewish screenwriters

FT

Frank Tarloff1964

Co-wrote Father Goose (Academy Award 1964)

Source: Jinfo.org — Jewish screenwriters

AU

Alfred Uhry1989

Pulitzer playwright and Academy Award screenwriter of Driving Miss Daisy

Source: Jinfo.org — Jewish screenwriters

MW

Malvin Wald1948

Screenwriter of The Naked City

Source: Jinfo.org — Jewish screenwriters

PY

Philip Yordan1954

Screenwriter of Broken Lance (Academy Award 1954); fronted for blacklisted colleagues

Source: Jinfo.org — Jewish screenwriters

JA

Jim Abrahams1980

Co-creator of Airplane! and The Naked Gun with the Zucker brothers

Source: Jinfo.org — Jewish screenwriters