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Midnight Cowboy (1969) - Awards, nominations, and wins. John Schlesinger was not present at the awards ceremony. Jon Voight accepted the award on his behalf.
Documentary about the life and work of American screenwriter Waldo Salt who was put on the Hollywood blacklist in the 1950s but went on to win two Academy Awards in the 1970s. The story is told through interviews with collaborators, friends, and Salt himself.
Waldo Salt was one of the many people blacklisted in Hollywood during the Red Scare, but unlike others, Salt recovered triumphantly. He wrote his first scripts in the late 1930s (MGM contract writer, 1936-42) and also served as a civilian consultant to the Office of War Information from 1942- 1945 before being blacklisted in 1951 after refusing to testify before HUAC.
Waldo Salt (1914 - 1987) fue un guionista de Estados Unidos conocido por Cowboy de medianoche, Historias de Filadelfia, Serpico, El halcón y la flecha, El regreso, Taras Bulba, Como plaga de langosta, Colonel March of Scotland Yard (Serie de TV), Casi, casi una mafia y Tonight We Raid Calais
Other articles where Waldo Salt is discussed: John Schlesinger: Films of the late 1960s and ’70s: Waldo Salt adapted James Leo Herlihy’s novel about a pair of small-time hustlers in New York—gimpy Ratso Rizzo (Dustin Hoffman) and Texas transplant Joe Buck (Jon Voight)—who unexpectedly bond in the course of living their marginal existences.
Waldo Salt: A Screenwriter's Journey: Directed by Eugene Corr, Robert Hillmann. With Peter Coyote, Mary Davenport, Jerome Hellman, James Leo Herlihy. Documentary about acclaimed screenwriter Waldo Salt.
57 minute documentary, nominated for an Academy Award, Best Documentary Feature, 1991. American Masters, produced in association with the Sundance Institute. A…
- 57 min
- 1959
- Eugene Corr
