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 …
The 1976 Oscar he shared with Lawrence Hauben for co-adapting Ken Kesey’s novel “One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest” was a particularly impressive achievement considering that “Cuckoo’s Nest” represented only Goldman’s second screenplay and the first to be produced. The win for adapted screenplay was part of a sweep for the film that also included victories for best picture, director, actor and actress. No movie had won those five awards since 1934’s “It’s a Wonderful Night” .
He did the adaptation for a 1962 NBC version of “The Paradine Case,” earlier made as a feature by Alfred Hitchcock; penned a 1964 episode of “The Defenders”; and produced two segments of “Great Performances” in 1974: “Enemies,” based on a play by Maxim Gorky, and “June Moon,” a play from the 1920s by George S. Kaufman and Ring Lardner.
His next film, “Melvin and Howard,” on which he carried a solo writing credit, was far more impressive. With director Jonathan Demme he crafted what Vincent Canby called a sharp and engaging “satiric expression of the American Dream” in the story of Melvin Dummar, who claimed to have met Howard Hughes and be one of the beneficiaries of a suspicious will that surfaced after the eccentric billionaire’s death. Goldman won his second Oscar for his effort.
Goldman did not have unerring judgment about either the projects he chose or those he turned down: “I did the first draft on ‘Ragtime’ for Milos and decided I didn’t want to continue,” the screenwriter told the New York Times. “I also turned down ‘Kramer vs. Kramer’ and ‘Ordinary People.’” He seemed to have a sense of humor about it.
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