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Title: RIP Horton Foote, Oscar-winning screenwriter, Pulitzer-winning playwright - 92
Post by: mshray on March 04, 2009, 04:29:30 PM

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20090304/ap_en_ot/obit_horton_foote (http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20090304/ap_en_ot/obit_horton_foote)

Pretty illustrious career (http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0285210/bio).  Nommed for three Oscars, won two, and all three produced Oscar-winning lead performances:  Won Adapted Screenplay for To Kill A Mockingbird, in which Gregory Peck won his only Oscar. Won Original Screenplay for Tender Mercies, in which Robert Duvall won his only Oscar (Duvall had debuted in Mockingbird, and Foote wrote this screenplay specifically for him).  Also nommed for adapting his own play The Trip To Bountiful, in which Geraldine Page won her only Oscar (on her 8th nom!).

He won a Pulitzer in 1995 for his play "The Young Man From Atlanta, and an Emmy in 1997 (at age 81) for his second adaptation of Falkner's story Old Man (his first adaptation had been nominated for an Emmy 42 (!) years earlier).  I've read that story, but never saw the TV movie.

Not bad.

Title: Re: RIP Horton Foote, Oscar-winning screenwriter, Pulitzer-winning playwright - 92
Post by: RGMike on March 04, 2009, 08:40:10 PM

and of course he inspired the classic Dr Seuss book, Horton Hears a Foote.

(sorry)

Title: Re: RIP Horton Foote, Oscar-winning screenwriter, Pulitzer-winning playwright - 92
Post by: mshray on March 05, 2009, 09:56:26 AM

Quote from: RGMike on March 04, 2009, 08:40:10 PM

and of course he inspired the classic Dr Seuss book, Horton Hears a Foote.

(sorry)

I was sorely tempted to make that pun, but the more I read about the guy the more amazed I got.