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2 unusual facts about Academy Award for Best Story


Monckton Hoffe

Hoffe was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Writing, Original Story for the Preston Sturges comedy The Lady Eve.

Richard Schweizer

Richard Schweizer (December 23, 1899 - March 30, 1965) was a Swiss screenwriter who won the Academy Award for Best Original Screenplay in 1945 for his work in Marie-Louise, as well as the Academy Award for Best Story in 1948 for his work in The Search.


A Song to Remember

A Song to Remember was nominated for Best Actor in a Leading Role (Cornel Wilde), Best Cinematography, Color, Best Film Editing, Best Music, Scoring of a Dramatic or Comedy Picture, Best Sound, Recording (John P. Livadary) and Best Writing, Original Story.

Arise, My Love

It won the Academy Award for Best Story (Benjamin Glazer and Hans Székely), and was nominated for Best Music (Victor Young), Best Cinematography (Charles Lang) and Best Art Direction (Hans Dreier and Robert Usher).

Fredric M. Frank

Writer Fredric M. Frank (1911 - 1977) was a favourite scribe of Cecil B. deMille and worked with him on several of his epic productions throughout the 40s and 50s including "Unconquered", "Samson and Delilah" "The Greatest Show on Earth" for which he won an Academy Award for Best Story, and "The Ten Commandments."

Georges Chaperot

Georges Chaperot (born 21 April 1902, date of death unknown) was a French screenwriter who co-wrote the story of the film A Cage of Nightingales (1945) with René Wheeler, for which they both received an Academy Award nomination in 1947.


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