Writer
Ernest Lehman
1915 – 2005
- Active years (films on this site)
- 1959–1976
- Schools and movements
- Classical HollywoodNew Hollywood
Directors worked with
Biography
Ernest Paul Lehman was an American screenwriter and film producer. He was nominated six times for Academy Awards for his screenplays during his career, but did not win. At the 73rd Academy Awards in 2001, he received an Honorary Academy Award in recognition of his achievements and his influential works for the screen. He was the first screenwriter to receive that honor.
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Awards and honours
International
- Golden Globe Award for Best Screenplay 1955
National / local
- Edgar Awards 1960
- Academy Honorary Award 2001
- Writers Guild of America Award
3 films on this site
- North by Northwest 1959 · Alfred Hitchcock · IMDb 8.2 · Writer
- Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? 1966 · Mike Nichols · IMDb 8.0 · Writer
- Family Plot 1976 · Alfred Hitchcock · IMDb 6.8 · Writer