Nancy Dowd

Nancy Dowd (* 1945 in Framingham , Massachusetts ) is an American screenwriter who received the Oscar for best original screenplay at the 1979 Academy Awards for the screenplay for Coming Home .

biography

Nancy Dowd, sister of the assistant directors and film producer Ned Dowd , began in the early 1970s years as a screenwriter for film productions and appeared in 1972 in FTA by Francine Parker with the first time in the creation of a film. She was nominated for Best Written Comedy Film by the Writers Guild of America (WGA Award) in 1978 for the screenplay for Slap Shot (1977) by George Roy Hill .

For 1977 also turned film Coming Home - Coming Home by Hal Ashby , she received along with Waldo Salt and Robert C. Jones an Oscar for Best Original Screenplay.

Other well-known collaborators as screenwriters were Hour of Probation (1978) by Ulu Grosbard and Dustin Hoffman and Swing Shift - Love for Time (1984) by Jonathan Demme . The continued from Slap Shot imaginary Slap Shot 2: Breaking the Ice (2002) is based on the created by it characters, however, was consistently bad reviews for Slap Shot at a list of the 100 best films for men ( The 100 Greatest Guy Movies Ever Made ) of the men's magazine Maxim landed at number 1 in August 1998.

Web links

• Nancy Dowd in the Internet Movie Database (English)