Tag: Bo Goldman

  • Scent Of A Woman’s Director Contacted The CIA To Try To Refocus An Out-Of-Focus Shot

    Scent Of A Woman’s Director Contacted The CIA To Try To Refocus An Out-Of-Focus Shot

    Martin Brest’s “Scent of a Woman” was one of the most critically acclaimed films of 1992. Powered by an emotionally raucous screenplay from the late, great Bo Goldman, it’s probably best remembered 31 years later for the hoo-hahing performance showcase that earned Al Pacino the Best Actor Oscar he should’ve won for, take your pick, “The…

  • The Late Bo Goldman Was One Of The Greatest Screenwriters Of All Time

    The Late Bo Goldman Was One Of The Greatest Screenwriters Of All Time

    When Bo Goldman, the two-time Academy Award screenwriter of “One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest” and “Harold and Maude,” passed away on July 25, 2023 at the age of 90, the world lost a master dramatist and a razor-sharp observer of human behavior. Hailed by his Hollywood peers as a “screenwriter’s screenwriter,” Goldman possessed an…

  • Oscar-winning screenwriter Bo Goldman dies at 90

    Oscar-winning screenwriter Bo Goldman dies at 90

    Goldman broke through in Hollywood with One Flew Over The Cuckoo’s Nest.Bo Goldman, the admired Hollywood screenwriter who won Oscars for his One Flew Over The Cukoo’s Nest and Melvin And Howard scripts, has died in California, aged 90.According to the New York Times, Goldman’s death was confirmed by his son-in-law, director Todd Field.Born in…

  • Bo Goldman, Oscar-Winning Writer of ‘One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest’ Script, Dies at 90

    Bo Goldman, Oscar-Winning Writer of ‘One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest’ Script, Dies at 90

    Screenwriter Bo Goldman, who won Oscars for his scripts to “One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest” and “Melvin and Howard” and was among a select group of film scribes including Robert Towne and William Goldman considered to be among that generation’s best, died Tuesday in Helendale, Calif., his son-in-law, director Todd Field, confirmed to the…