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    Writer Paul Attanasio was a film critic for The Washington Post from 1984 to 1987. He started writing for television with the CBS sitcom Doctor Doctor and the NBC crime drama Homicide: Life on the Street. In 1994 he turned to feature films to write several Oscar-nominated screenplay adaptations: the drama Quiz Show (book by Richard Goodwin), the thrillers ...more
    • 1997
    • Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Scie
    • Best Adapted Screenplay
    • Donnie Brasco
    • nom
    • 1994
    • National Society of Film Critics
    • Best Screenplay (Runner-up)
    • Quiz Show
    • win
    • 1994
    • Hollywood Foreign Press Association
    • Best Screenplay
    • Quiz Show
    • nom
    • 1994
    • Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Scie
    • Best Adapted Screenplay
    • Quiz Show
    • nom


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