- Charles Schnee
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- For the American producer (1920-2009), see Charles Schneer.
Charles Schnee (6 August 1916 Bridgeport, Connecticut - 29 November 1963 Beverly Hills, California) gave up law to become a screenwriter in the mid-1940s, crafting scripts for the classic Westerns Red River (1948) and The Furies (1950), the social melodrama They Live By Night (1949), and the cynical Hollywood saga The Bad and the Beautiful (1952), for which he won an Academy Award.
He worked primarily as a film producer and production executive during the mid-1950s (credits include Until They Sail), but he eventually turned his attention back to scriptwriting.
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Academy Award for Best Writing (Adapted Screenplay) (1941–1960) Sidney Buchman and Seton I. Miller (1941) · George Froeschel, James Hilton, Claudine West and Arthur Wimperis (1942) · Philip G. Epstein, Julius J. Epstein and Howard Koch (1943) · Frank Butler and Frank Cavett (1944) · Charles Brackett and Billy Wilder (1945) · Robert Sherwood (1946) · George Seaton (1947) · John Huston (1948) · Joseph L. Mankiewicz (1949) · Joseph L. Mankiewicz (1950) · Harry Brown and Michael Wilson (1951) · Charles Schnee (1952) · Daniel Taradash (1953) · George Seaton (1954) · Paddy Chayefsky (1955) · John Farrow, S. J. Perelman and James Poe (1956) · Carl Foreman and Michael Wilson (1957) · Alan Jay Lerner (1958) · Neil Paterson (1959) · Richard Brooks (1960)
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