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Charlie Wachtel

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Charlie Wachtel · Arts & Literature

What

Academy Award — Best Adapted Screenplay

Where

United States

Biography

Charlie Wachtel is recognized among Jewish contributors to Arts & Literature — Academy Award — Best Adapted Screenplay

How & why

Wachtel co-wrote, with David Rabinowitz, Kevin Willmott and Spike Lee, the screenplay for BlacKkKlansman (2018), which won the Academy Award for Best Adapted Screenplay. He and Rabinowitz first met in Hebrew school in East Brunswick, New Jersey; Wachtel was raised in a Conservative Jewish family and describes himself as culturally Jewish.

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Source: Jinfo.org — Jewish Recipients of the Academy Award for Best Adapted Screenplay

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Academy Award — Best Adapted Screenplay

Source: Jinfo.org — Jewish Recipients of the Academy Award for Best Adapted Screenplay