Marvin Borowsky

The Marvin Borowsky Lecture was the first of the Academy Foundation lectures to be established and was inaugurated on April 29, 1974, by writer Robert Anderson. Marvin Borowsky was a screenwriter and later a professor of screenwriting at both UCLA and the University of Southern California. A few years after his death in 1969, his widow, Maxine, endowed the lecture 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." Borowsky came to Hollywood in 1940 after working for RKO Theatres and the Group Theatre in New York. In Hollywood, he worked as a writer at 20th Century Fox, MGM, Warner Bros., Columbia, Universal and Hecht-Hill-Lancaster. His screen credits include "The Trail of Mary Dugan," "Pride of the Marines" and "Somewhere in the Night."

The Marvin Borowsky Lectures:

Robert Anderson, 1974
Eleanor Perry, 1976
Billy Wilder and I.A.L. Diamond, 1977
Richard Brooks, 1979
Carl Foreman, 1980
Waldo Salt, 1981
Jay Presson Allen, 1982
Lawrence Kasdan, 1984
Philip Dunne, 1985
John Sayles, 1987
Bo Goldman, 1988
Alfred Uhry, 1992
Lowell Ganz and Babaloo Mandel, 1993
Robert Towne, 1994
Nora Ephron, 1996
Richard LaGravenese, 1998
Ron Bass, 1999
Kevin Smith, 2000
Paul Schrader, 2001
Gary Ross, 2004
Paul Haggis, 2006