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American screenwriter
Nancy Dowd (born 1945) is an Academy Award-winning
screenwriter whose credits include the films
Slap Shot and
Coming Home .
[1]
Career
Dowd is a graduate of the UCLA Film School.
Her brother
Ned Dowd inspired
[2] the story behind Slap Shot based on his experiences playing
minor league hockey. Ned and his wife, Nancy N. Dowd, both appeared in the film.
[3]
She wrote lyrics for a song used in
Ladies and Gentlemen, The Fabulous Stains , another film she wrote.
Dowd often uses
pseudonyms such as Rob Morton or Ernest Morton, or simply writes films without being officially credited.[
citation needed ]
Filmography
References
External links
Awards for Nancy Dowd
1940–1975
Preston Sturges (1940)
Herman J. Mankiewicz and
Orson Welles (1941)
Michael Kanin and
Ring Lardner Jr. (1942)
Norman Krasna (1943)
Lamar Trotti (1944)
Richard Schweizer (1945)
Muriel Box and
Sydney Box (1946)
Sidney Sheldon (1947)
No award (1948)
Robert Pirosh (1949)
Charles Brackett ,
D. M. Marshman Jr. , and
Billy Wilder (1950)
Alan Jay Lerner (1951)
T. E. B. Clarke (1952)
Charles Brackett ,
Richard L. Breen , and
Walter Reisch (1953)
Budd Schulberg (1954)
Sonya Levien and
William Ludwig (1955)
Albert Lamorisse (1956)
George Wells (1957)
Nathan E. Douglas and
Harold Jacob Smith (1958)
Clarence Greene ,
Maurice Richlin ,
Russell Rouse , and
Stanley Shapiro (1959)
I. A. L. Diamond and
Billy Wilder (1960)
William Inge (1961)
Ennio de Concini ,
Pietro Germi , and
Alfredo Giannetti (1962)
James Webb (1963)
S. H. Barnett,
Peter Stone and
Frank Tarloff (1964)
Frederic Raphael (1965)
Claude Lelouch and
Pierre Uytterhoeven (1966)
William Rose (1967)
Mel Brooks (1968)
William Goldman (1969)
Francis Ford Coppola and
Edmund H. North (1970)
Paddy Chayefsky (1971)
Jeremy Larner (1972)
David S. Ward (1973)
Robert Towne (1974)
Frank Pierson (1975)
1976–2000 2001–present
Original Drama (1969–1983) Original Comedy (1969–1983) Original Screenplay (1984–present)
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