Seven years later, Goldman won his second Oscar for penning the Watergate drama All the President’s Men (1976), which remains perpetually relevant. The film, however, more than paid its way dripping with wit and heart, it spawned a generation of imitation buddy comedies. It was considered outrageously lucrative and made Goldman an instant celebrity, at a time when screenwriters weren’t really household names. The first was Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid (1969), the classic Hollywood outlaw bromance whose $400,000 script fee was then the highest price ever paid for a screenplay. Goldman won his Oscars for writing two of the most legendary screenplays of their respective decades. As remarkable as the number of masterpieces Goldman churned out was his dynamic storytelling range Goldman was a two-time Oscar winner and the writer behind several of the most venerated films in Hollywood history, spanning a huge array of genres, including war epics, spy thrillers, social satire, horror, fantasy, and much more. The movie adaptation of the book, which Goldman also wrote, is a cult classic that left us with a litany of great lines and is one of the classic examples of a self-aware, tongue-in-cheek genre story that manages to be as sincere as it is sardonic.īut it can’t be overstated that this epic tale of romance and adventure came from the mind of a master. William Goldman, who has died at age 87, was beloved for his classic fantasy novel The Princess Bride.
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