Waldo Salt - Awards and Nominations

Awards and Nominations

Year Award Result Category Film or series
1949 Writers Guild of America Award Nominated Best Written American Western Rachel and the Stranger
1970 Won Best Drama Adapted from Another Medium Midnight Cowboy
1974 Best Drama Adapted from Another Medium Serpico
1979 Best Drama Written Directly for the Screen Coming Home
1986 Laurel Award for Screen Writing Achievement
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1970 Academy Award Won Best Writing, Screenplay Based on Material from Another Medium Midnight Cowboy
1974 Nominated Best Writing, Screenplay Based on Material from Another Medium Serpico
1979 Won Best Writing, Screenplay Written Directly for the Screen Coming Home
1970 BAFTA Award Won Best Screenplay Midnight Cowboy
1974 Edgar Allan Poe Awards Nominated Serpico
1970 Golden Globe Award Nominated Best Screenplay Midnight Cowboy
1979 Best Screenplay - Motion Picture Coming Home
Academy Award for Best Writing (Adapted Screenplay) (1961–1980)
  • Abby Mann (1961)
  • Horton Foote (1962)
  • John Osborne (1963)
  • Edward Anhalt (1964)
  • Robert Bolt (1965)
  • Robert Bolt (1966)
  • Stirling Silliphant (1967)
  • James Goldman (1968)
  • Waldo Salt (1969)
  • Ring Lardner, Jr. (1970)
  • Ernest Tidyman (1971)
  • Francis Ford Coppola and Mario Puzo (1972)
  • William Peter Blatty (1973)
  • Francis Ford Coppola and Mario Puzo (1974)
  • Bo Goldman and Laurence Hauben (1975)
  • William Goldman (1976)
  • Alvin Sargent (1977)
  • Oliver Stone (1978)
  • Robert Benton (1979)
  • Alvin Sargent (1980)
  • Complete list
  • (1928–1940)
  • (1941–1960)
  • (1961–1980)
  • (1981–2000)
  • (2001–2020)
Academy Award for Best Writing (Original Screenplay) (1961–1980)
  • William Inge (1961)
  • Ennio de Concini, Pietro Germi, and Alfredo Giannetti (1962)
  • James Webb (1963)
  • Peter Stone and Frank Tarloff (1964)
  • Frederic Raphael (1965)
  • Claude Lelouch and Pierre Uytterhoeven (1966)
  • William Rose (1967)
  • Mel Brooks (1968)
  • William Goldman (1969)
  • Francis Ford Coppola and Edmund H. North (1970)
  • Paddy Chayefsky (1971)
  • Jeremy Larner (1972)
  • David S. Ward (1973)
  • Robert Towne (1974)
  • Frank Pierson (1975)
  • Paddy Chayefsky (1976)
  • Woody Allen and Marshall Brickman (1977)
  • Robert C. Jones, Waldo Salt, and Nancy Dowd (1978)
  • Steve Tesich (1979)
  • Bo Goldman (1980)
  • Complete list
  • (1928–1939)
  • (1940–1960)
  • (1961–1980)
  • (1981–2000)
  • (2001–2020)
BAFTA Award for Best Screenplay
  • Calder Willingham and Buck Henry (1968)
  • Waldo Salt (1969)
  • William Goldman (1970)
  • Harold Pinter (1971)
  • Paddy Chayefsky / Larry McMurtry and Peter Bogdanovich (1972)
  • Luis Buñuel and Jean-Claude Carrière (1973)
  • Robert Towne (1974)
  • Robert Getchell (1975)
  • Alan Parker (1976)
  • Woody Allen and Marshall Brickman (1977)
  • Alvin Sargent (1978)
  • Woody Allen and Marshall Brickman (1979)
  • Jerzy Kosinski (1980)
  • Bill Forsyth (1981)
  • Costa Gavras and Donald E. Stewart (1982)

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