Nancy Dowd

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

Biography

Nancy Dowd, sister of assistant director and film producer Ned Dowd, began in the early 1970s as a screenwriter for film productions and acted 1972 FTA by Francine Parker for the first time during the making of a film. For the screenplay for Slap Shot ( 1977) by George Roy Hill in 1978, she was nominated by the Writers Guild of America (WGA Award) for bestgeschriebene film comedy.

For a film shot in 1977 also Coming Home - Coming Home by Hal Ashby, she received together with Waldo Salt and Robert C. Jones the Oscar for best original screenplay.

Other well-known employees as a scriptwriter were Straight Time (1978 ) Ulu Grosbard and Dustin Hoffman and Swing Shift - Love On Time ( 1984) by Jonathan Demme. The as a continuation of Slap Shot imaginary Slap Shot 2: Breaking the Ice (2002) based on the characters created by it, but received consistently bad reviews, while 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 on rank 1 in August 1998.