(Films released from August 1, 1927 through August 1, 1928 were eligible.)
The nominees were ...
(Adaptation)
(Original Story)
(Title Writing)
- Gerald Duffy, The Private Life of Helen of Troy
- Joseph Farnham, no specified works
- George Marion Jr., no specified works
And the Oscar went to ...
(Adaptation)
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| Benjamin Glazer |
The Irish-born writer also did the screenplay for the 1932 A Farewell to Arms and received a second Oscar for the story for Arise, My Love (1940).
(Original Story)
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| Ben Hecht |
Hecht was drawn from Chicago to Hollywood by an oft-quoted telegram from Herman Mankiewicz that promised, "Millions are to be grabbed out here and your only competition is idiots. Don't let this get around." He started grabbing his millions with the screenplay for Underworld, and won an Oscar for what he considered minimal efforts. And over the years he kept grabbing with his work on the adaptation of his own play with Charles MacArthur, The Front Page (1931, and several remakes including His Girl Friday, 1940), as well as work, sometimes credited, sometimes not, on Scarface, A Star Is Born, The Prisoner of Zenda, Gunga Din, Stagecoach, Wuthering Heights, Gone With the Wind, Notorious, and many more.
(Title Writing)
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| Joseph Farnham |
For obvious reasons, Farnham was the only person to win an Academy Award for writing title cards for silent films. Though the Academy specified that his nomination for was the totality of his work, some sources indicate that he was singled out for the films The Fair Co-Ed, Laugh, Clown, Laugh; and Telling the World. His other Oscar distinction was that he became the first Oscar winner to die, when he suffered a heart attack in 1931.
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