Alvin Sargent
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Alvin Sargent (born in 1931 in Pennsylvania) is a multiple award-winning American screenwriter.
Sargent began writing for television in 1953 and through the 1960s he scripted episodes for various series such as Route 66, Ben Casey and The Alfred Hitchcock Hour amongst others. He collaborated on his first screenplay for a motion picture in 1966 and gained considerable recognition for his screenplay for the 1970 John Frankenheimer film, I Walk the Line and 1973s acclaimed Paper Moon for which he won the WGA Award for Best Screenplay Based on Material from Another Medium and was nominated for an Academy Award for Writing Adapted Screenplay. He won the Academy Award for Writing Adapted Screenplay in 1978 for the film Julia and again in 1981 for Ordinary People. Currently, he has collaborated on the 2004 screenplay for Spider-Man 2 as well as Spider-Man 3 scheduled to be released in 2007.
He has been married to producer Laura Ziskin for the past 17 years. His brother, Herb Sargent (1923-2005), was President of the Writers Guild of America and a multiple Emmy Award-winning television comedy writer, notably on Saturday Night Live.
Partial filmography:
- Spider-Man 3 (2007)
- Spider-Man 2 (2004)
- Unfaithful (2002)
- Anywhere But Here (1999)
- Bogus (1996)
- Hero (1992)
- Other People's Money (1991)
- What About Bob? (1991)
- White Palace (1990)
- Dominick and Eugene (1988)
- Nuts (1987)
- Ordinary People (1980)
- Straight Time (1978)
- Julia (1977)
- Bobby Deerfield (1977)
- A Star Is Born (1976)
- Paper Moon (1973)
- Love and Pain and the Whole Damn Thing (1973)
- I Walk the Line (1970)
- The Sterile Cuckoo (1969)
- The Stalking Moon (1969)
- Gambit (1966)
