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South African screenwriter (born 1950)
Shawn Slovo (born 1950) is a South African
screenwriter, best known for the film
A World Apart, based on her childhood under
apartheid.
[1] She is the daughter of
South African Communist Party leaders
Joe Slovo and
Ruth First. She wrote the screenplay for the 2006 film
Catch a Fire (also a historical film about apartheid), and for the 2001 film
Captain Corelli's Mandolin.
[2]
In the late 1970s, she served as
Robert De Niro's personal assistant while he made the films
Raging Bull and
The King of Comedy. She also wrote the screenplay for
Muhammad Ali's Greatest Fight.
Slovo lives in London and often works for
Working Title Films. Her sister
Gillian Slovo is also a writer and her sister
Robyn Slovo is a producer.
Slovo's family is
Jewish.
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Chris Gerolmo (1996)
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William Blinn (1997)
- Anne Meredith (1998)
- James Henerson (1999)
- David Black (2000)
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John Logan /
Thomas Rickman (2001)
- Kirk Ellis (2002)
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Bruce C. McKenna (2003)
- Anne Meredith (2004)
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Tony Kushner (2005)
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Christopher Markus and Stephen McFeely (2006)
- No Award (2007)
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Ken Nolan (2008)
- Kirk Ellis (2009)
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Michael Strobl and
Ross Katz (2010)
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Robert Schenkkan and
Michelle Ashford (2011)
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Peter Gould (2012)
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Danny Strong (2013)
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Shawn Slovo (2014)
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Jane Anderson (2015)
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Steve Blackman,
Bob DeLaurentis,
Noah Hawley, Ben Nedivi and Matt Wolpert (2016)
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Scott Alexander,
Joe Robert Cole, D.V. DeVincentis,
Maya Forbes,
Larry Karaszewski and
Wally Wolodarsky (2017)
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David E. Kelley (2018)
- Maggie Cohn and
Tom Rob Smith (2019)
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Debora Cahn, Joel Fields,
Ike Holter,
Thomas Kail,
Steven Levenson, Charlotte Stoudt and
Tracey Scott Wilson (2020)
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Scott Frank and
Allan Scott (2021)
- Rebecca Brunstetter,
Marcus Gardley, Michelle Denise Jackson, Colin McKenna and Molly Smith Metzler (2022)
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