Frederic Raphael

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Born 1931-08-14 Chicago, Illinois, USA 35 credits Academy Awards 1 BAFTA Awards 1

Awards

Won 1 Academy Award

Academy Awards 1 won

1966 Best Writing, Original Screenplay Won Darling

BAFTA Awards 1 won

1966 Best British Screenplay Won Darling

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Frederic Michael Raphael FRSL (born 14 August 1931) is an American-born British novelist, biographer, journalist and Oscar-winning screenwriter, known for writing the screenplays for Darling, Far from the Madding Crowd, Two for the Road, and Stanley Kubrick's last film Eyes Wide Shut. Raphael rose to prominence in the early 1960s with the publication of several acclaimed novels, but most notably with the release of the John Schlesinger film Darling, starring Julie Christie and Dirk Bogarde, a romantic drama set in Swinging London, for which he won the Academy Award for Best Original Screenplay in 1966. Two years later he was nominated again in the same category, this time for his work on Stanley Donen’s Two for the Road, starring Audrey Hepburn and Albert Finney. Since the death of screenwriter D. M. Marshman Jr. in 2015, he is the earliest surviving recipient of the Academy Award for Best Original Screenplay, and the sole surviving recipient of the now retired BAFTA category of Best British Screenplay. In addition to his work in film and television, he has written over 20 novels, and a number of non-fiction books, including biographies of Lord Byron, W. Somerset Maugham and Flavius Josephus, as well as a memoir of his time working with Stanley Kubrick, entitled Eyes Wide Open. Description above from the Wikipedia article Frederic Raphael, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.

Frederic Raphael

Awards

Academy Awards 1 won

BAFTA Awards 1 won

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