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
- 1979
- The Champ
- Screenwriter
- 1977
- Blood Brothers
- Screenwriter
- 1965
- Cat Ballou
- Screenwriter
- 1962
- The Interns
- Screenwriter
- 1960
- The Magnificent Seven
- Screenwriter














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