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    Screenwriter Walter Newman was behind a number of popular films during the '50s and '60s. For his screenplay for the western send-up Cat Ballou (1965) Newman was nominated for an Oscar. In 1978 he and co-writer Frank R. Pierson received a similar honor for Bloodbrothers. Newman got his start writing for radio and broke into films during the early 1950s. Other well-known scripts ...more
    • 1978
    • Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Scie
    • Best Adapted Screenplay
    • Blood Brothers
    • nom
    • 1965
    • Berlin International Film Festival
    • Special Mention
    • Cat Ballou
    • win
    • 1965
    • Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Scie
    • Best Adapted Screenplay
    • Cat Ballou
    • nom
    • 1951
    • Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Scie
    • Best Story and Screenplay
    • Ace in the Hole
    • nom


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