who was the first woman to win the academy award for best adapted screenplay
Frances Marion
title: Academy Award for Best Adapted Screenplay text: as the winner several years later. Frances Marion was the first woman to win in this category, in 1930. Pierre Collings and Sheridan Gibney were the first to win for adapting their own work, for "The Story of Louis Pasteur". Philip G. Epstein and Julius J. Epstein are the first siblings to win in this category, for "Casablanca". James Goldman and William Goldman are the first to win for separate films. Joel Coen and Ethan Coen are the third winning siblings, for "No Country for Old Men". Mario Puzo is the one of two writers whose work has been adapted title: Academy Award for Best Adapted Screenplay text: this category was Joseph L. Mankiewicz, who won the award in two consecutive years, 1949 and 1950. Others to win twice in this category include: George Seaton, Robert Bolt (who also won in consecutive years), Francis Ford Coppola, Mario Puzo, Alvin Sargent, Ruth Prawer Jhabvala, Alexander Payne and Michael Wilson. Payne won both awards as part of a writing duo, with Jim Taylor, and writing trio, with Jim Rash and Nat Faxon. Michael Wilson was blacklisted at the time of his second Oscar, so the award was given to a front (novelist Pierre Boulle). However, the Academy officially recognized him title: Academy Award for Best Adapted Screenplay text: categories. Peter Jackson and Fran Walsh are the only married couple to win, for "". Geoffrey S. Fletcher (for "Precious: Based on the Novel 'Push' by Sapphire"), John Ridley (for "12 Years a Slave"), and Barry Jenkins and Tarell Alvin McCraney (both for "Moonlight") are the only African-Americans to win in this category; Fletcher is also the first African-American to win in any writing category. Billy Wilder, Charles Brackett, Paddy Chayefsky, Francis Ford Coppola, Horton Foote, William Goldman, Robert Benton, Bo Goldman, and the Coen brothers have won Oscars for both original and adapted screenplays. James Ivory is the oldest title: Academy Award for Best Adapted Screenplay text: person to receive the award, having been 89 years old when he won for "Call Me by Your Name". Noted novelists and playwrights nominated in this category include: George Bernard Shaw (who shared an award for an adaptation of his play "Pygmalion"), Graham Greene, Tennessee Williams, Vladimir Nabokov, James Hilton, Dashiell Hammett, Raymond Chandler, Lillian Hellman, Irwin Shaw, James Agee, Norman Corwin, S. J. Perelman, Terence Rattigan, John Osborne, Robert Bolt, Harold Pinter, David Mamet, Larry McMurtry, Arthur Miller, John Irving, David Hare, Tony Kushner, and August Wilson. Scott Frank, James Mangold, and Michael Green, writers of "Logan", are the title: Academy Award for Best Original Screenplay text: husband, Sydney Box, for the 1945 film "The Seventh Veil". The Boxes are also the first married couple to win in this category. Only three other married couples won an Oscar in another category—Earl W. Wallace and Pamela Wallace (for Original Screenplay), Peter Jackson and Fran Walsh (for Adapted Screenplay and Picture), and Kristen Anderson-Lopez and Robert Lopez (for Original Song). In 1996, Joel Coen and Ethan Coen became the only siblings to win in this category (for "Fargo"). Francis Ford Coppola ("Patton", 1970) and Sofia Coppola ("Lost in Translation", 2003) are the only father-daughter pair to win. Preston Sturges