Marvin Borowsky Lecture on Screenwriting
The Marvin Borowsky Lecture was the first of the Academy Foundation lectures to be established and was inaugurated in 1974. Marvin Borowsky was a screenwriter and later a professor of screenwriting at both UCLA and the University of Southern California. The lecture was endowed a few years after his death by his widow, Maxine, so that, as past Academy President Fay Kanin put it, “once a year this theater can be filled... with people who come together to hear an accomplished screenwriter review the challenges, the frustrations and, undoubtedly, the joys of the work.”
Marvin Borowsky Lectures
| Paul Haggis, 2006 | John Sayles, 1987 |
| Gary Ross, 2004 | Philip Dunne, 1985 |
| Paul Schrader, 2001 | Lawrence Kasdan, 1984 |
| Kevin Smith, 2000 | Jay Presson Allen, 1982 |
| Ron Bass, 1999 | Waldo Salt, 1981 |
| Richard LaGravenese, 1998 | Carl Foreman, 1980 |
| Nora Ephron, 1996 | Richard Brooks, 1979 |
| Robert Towne, 1994 | Billy Wilder and I.A.L. Diamond, 1977 |
| Lowell Ganz and Babaloo Mandel, 1993 | Eleanor Perry, 1976 |
| Alfred Uhry, 1992 | Robert Anderson, 1974 |
| Bo Goldman, 1988 |
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