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.mw-parser-output .infobox-table th,body.skin--responsive .mw-parser-output .infobox-table td{padding-left:inherit;padding-right:inherit}}</style><table class="infobox biography vcard"><tbody><tr><th colspan="2" class="infobox-above" style="font-size:125%;"><div class="fn">Melville Shavelson</div></th></tr><tr><td colspan="2" class="infobox-image"><span class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File/Frameless"><a href="/wiki/File:Melville_Shavelson.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/7/7f/Melville_Shavelson.jpg" decoding="async" width="200" height="200" class="mw-file-element" data-file-width="200" data-file-height="200" /></a></span></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Born</th><td class="infobox-data"><span style="display:none">(<span class="bday">1917-04-01</span>)</span>April 1, 1917<br /><div style="display:inline" class="birthplace"><a href="/wiki/Brooklyn" title="Brooklyn">Brooklyn</a>, <a href="/wiki/New_York_(state)" title="New York (state)">New York</a>, U.S.</div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Died</th><td class="infobox-data">August 8, 2007<span style="display:none">(2007-08-08)</span> (aged 90)<br /><div style="display:inline" class="deathplace"><a href="/wiki/Studio_City" class="mw-redirect" title="Studio City">Studio City</a>, <a href="/wiki/California" title="California">California</a>, U.S.</div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Occupation(s)</th><td class="infobox-data role">Film director, producer, and screenwriter</td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Spouse(s)</th><td class="infobox-data">Lucille Shavelson (died 2000)<br /><style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1151524712">.mw-parser-output .marriage-line-margin2px{line-height:0;margin-bottom:-2px}.mw-parser-output .marriage-line-margin3px{line-height:0;margin-bottom:-3px}.mw-parser-output .marriage-display-ws{display:inline;white-space:nowrap}</style> <div class="marriage-display-ws"><div style="display:inline-block;line-height:normal;">Ruth Florea</div> <div style="display:inline-block;"></div>(<abbr title="married">m.</abbr> 2001)<wbr /></div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Children</th><td class="infobox-data">Lynne Joiner<br /><a href="/wiki/Richard_Shavelson" title="Richard Shavelson">Richard Shavelson</a></td></tr></tbody></table> <p><b>Melville Shavelson</b> (April 1, 1917 – August 8, 2007) was an <a href="/wiki/Americans" title="Americans">American</a> film director, producer, screenwriter, and author. He was President of the <a href="/wiki/Writers_Guild_of_America,_West" class="mw-redirect" title="Writers Guild of America, West">Writers Guild of America, West</a> (WGAw) from 1969 to 1971, 1979 to 1981, and 1985 to 1987. </p> <meta property="mw:PageProp/toc" /> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Biography">Biography</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Melville_Shavelson&action=edit&section=1" title="Edit section: Biography"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>Shavelson was born to a <a href="/wiki/American_Jews" title="American Jews">Jewish</a> family in <a href="/wiki/Brooklyn" title="Brooklyn">Brooklyn</a> and graduated from <a href="/wiki/Cornell_University" title="Cornell University">Cornell University</a>, where he was a humor columnist for <i><a href="/wiki/The_Cornell_Daily_Sun" title="The Cornell Daily Sun">The Cornell Daily Sun</a></i>, in 1937.<sup id="cite_ref-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-1"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>1<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-2"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>2<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> He worked as a writer on comedian <a href="/wiki/Bob_Hope" title="Bob Hope">Bob Hope</a>'s radio show, <i><a href="/wiki/The_Pepsodent_Show" title="The Pepsodent Show">The Pepsodent Show</a> Starring Bob Hope</i>.<sup id="cite_ref-3" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-3"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>3<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Shavelson came to <a href="/wiki/Hollywood,_Los_Angeles" title="Hollywood, Los Angeles">Hollywood</a> in 1938 as one of Hope's joke writers, a job he held for the next five years. He was responsible for the screenplays of such Hope films as <i><a href="/wiki/The_Princess_and_the_Pirate" title="The Princess and the Pirate">The Princess and the Pirate</a></i> (1944), <i><a href="/wiki/Where_There%27s_Life" title="Where There's Life">Where There's Life</a></i> (1947), <i><a href="/wiki/The_Great_Lover_(1949_film)" title="The Great Lover (1949 film)">The Great Lover</a></i> (1949), and <i><a href="/wiki/Sorrowful_Jones" title="Sorrowful Jones">Sorrowful Jones</a></i> (1949), which also starred <a href="/wiki/Lucille_Ball" title="Lucille Ball">Lucille Ball</a>. </p><p>Shavelson was nominated twice for <a href="/wiki/Academy_Awards" title="Academy Awards">Academy Awards</a> for Best Original Screenplay—first for 1955's <i><a href="/wiki/The_Seven_Little_Foys" title="The Seven Little Foys">The Seven Little Foys</a></i>, starring Hope in a rare dramatic role, and then for 1958's <i><a href="/wiki/Houseboat_(film)" title="Houseboat (film)">Houseboat</a></i>. He shared both nominations with <a href="/wiki/Jack_Rose_(screenwriter)" title="Jack Rose (screenwriter)">Jack Rose</a>. He also directed both films. Other films he wrote and directed include <i><a href="/wiki/Beau_James" title="Beau James">Beau James</a></i> (1957), <i><a href="/wiki/The_Five_Pennies" title="The Five Pennies">The Five Pennies</a></i> (1959) (for which he won a Screen Writers Guild Award), <i><a href="/wiki/It_Started_in_Naples" title="It Started in Naples">It Started in Naples</a></i> (1960), <i><a href="/wiki/On_the_Double_(film)" title="On the Double (film)">On the Double</a></i> (1961), <i><a href="/wiki/The_Pigeon_That_Took_Rome" title="The Pigeon That Took Rome">The Pigeon That Took Rome</a></i> (1962), <i><a href="/wiki/A_New_Kind_of_Love" title="A New Kind of Love">A New Kind of Love</a></i> (1963), <i><a href="/wiki/Cast_a_Giant_Shadow" title="Cast a Giant Shadow">Cast a Giant Shadow</a></i> (1966), and <i><a href="/wiki/Yours,_Mine_and_Ours_(1968_film)" title="Yours, Mine and Ours (1968 film)">Yours, Mine and Ours</a></i> (1968), which starred <a href="/wiki/Henry_Fonda" title="Henry Fonda">Henry Fonda</a> and again with Lucille Ball. </p><p>Shavelson created two <a href="/wiki/Emmy_Award" class="mw-redirect" title="Emmy Award">Emmy Award</a>-winning television series, <i><a href="/wiki/Make_Room_for_Daddy" class="mw-redirect" title="Make Room for Daddy">Make Room for Daddy</a></i> and <i><a href="/wiki/My_World_and_Welcome_to_It" title="My World and Welcome to It">My World and Welcome to It</a></i>, and wrote for a dozen Academy Award shows. He wrote, produced, and co-directed the six-hour 1979 ABC <a href="/wiki/Miniseries" title="Miniseries">miniseries</a> <i><a href="/wiki/Ike_(TV_miniseries)" class="mw-redirect" title="Ike (TV miniseries)">Ike</a>,</i> based on the <a href="/wiki/World_War_II" title="World War II">World War II</a> exploits of General <a href="/wiki/Dwight_Eisenhower" class="mw-redirect" title="Dwight Eisenhower">Dwight Eisenhower</a>. </p><p>His autobiography, published by BearManor Media in April 2007, is <i>How to Succeed in Hollywood Without Really Trying, P.S. — You Can't!</i>.<sup id="cite_ref-Inside_4-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Inside-4"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>4<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> He wrote several other books, including, with Mr. Hope, "Don't Shoot, It's Only Me: Bob Hope's Comedy History of the United States" (Putnam, 1990), and <i>How to Make a Jewish Movie</i> (1971), a memoir of his experiences while producing and directing <i><a href="/wiki/Cast_a_Giant_Shadow" title="Cast a Giant Shadow">Cast a Giant Shadow</a></i>, and the Hollywood-themed novel <i>Lualda</i> (1973). </p><p>Shavelson was a noted instructor at USC's Master of Professional Writing Program from 1998 to 2006. He taught screenwriting and often cracked to his students, "I'm a writer by choice, a producer by necessity and a director in self-defense." </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Personal_life">Personal life</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Melville_Shavelson&action=edit&section=2" title="Edit section: Personal life"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>He was an amateur radio operator and held the callsign W6VLH.<sup id="cite_ref-5" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-5"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>5<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>Shavelson and his first wife, Lucille, had two children: Lynne Joiner and <a href="/wiki/Richard_Shavelson" title="Richard Shavelson">Richard Shavelson</a>. Lucille died in 2000. Shavelson was married to his second wife, Ruth Florea, from 2001 until he died in 2007; they resided in Studio City, California. </p><p>Shavelson died of natural causes on August 8, 2007, at his home, he was 90 years old. He was survived by a sister, Geraldine Youcha of Manhattan and New City, New York; two children from his first marriage, Richard of Menlo Park, California, and Lynne Joiner of Washington; and three grandchildren. </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Honors,_awards_and_legacy"><span id="Honors.2C_awards_and_legacy"></span>Honors, awards and legacy</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Melville_Shavelson&action=edit&section=3" title="Edit section: Honors, awards and legacy"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>The Shavelson Film Awards, given annually at <a href="/wiki/Cornell_University" title="Cornell University">Cornell University</a> for promising filmmakers, were established by him and named in his honor.<sup id="cite_ref-HReporter-dies_6-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-HReporter-dies-6"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>6<span 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href="/wiki/Betty_Comden" title="Betty Comden">Betty Comden</a> (1949)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Sidney_Sheldon" title="Sidney Sheldon">Sidney Sheldon</a> (1950)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Alan_Jay_Lerner" title="Alan Jay Lerner">Alan Jay Lerner</a> (1951)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Betty_Comden" title="Betty Comden">Betty Comden</a>, & <a href="/wiki/Adolph_Green" title="Adolph Green">Adolph Green</a> (1952)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Helen_Deutsch" title="Helen Deutsch">Helen Deutsch</a> (1953)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Albert_Hackett" title="Albert Hackett">Albert Hackett</a>, <a href="/wiki/Frances_Goodrich" title="Frances Goodrich">Frances Goodrich</a>, & <a href="/wiki/Dorothy_Kingsley" title="Dorothy Kingsley">Dorothy Kingsley</a> (1954)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Daniel_Fuchs" title="Daniel Fuchs">Daniel Fuchs</a>, & <a href="/wiki/Isobel_Lennart" title="Isobel Lennart">Isobel Lennart</a> (1955)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Ernest_Lehman" title="Ernest Lehman">Ernest Lehman</a> (1956)</li> <li>John Patrick (1957)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Alan_Jay_Lerner" title="Alan Jay Lerner">Alan Jay Lerner</a> (1958)</li> <li><a class="mw-selflink selflink">Melville Shavelson</a>, & Jack Rose (1959)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Betty_Comden" title="Betty Comden">Betty Comden</a>, & <a href="/wiki/Adolph_Green" title="Adolph Green">Adolph Green</a> (1960)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Ernest_Lehman" title="Ernest Lehman">Ernest Lehman</a> (1961)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Marion_Hargrove" title="Marion Hargrove">Marion Hargrove</a> (1962)</li> <li>Not Awarded (1963)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Bill_Walsh_(producer)" title="Bill Walsh (producer)">Bill Walsh</a>, & <a href="/wiki/Don_DaGradi" title="Don DaGradi">Don DaGradi</a> (1964)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Ernest_Lehman" title="Ernest Lehman">Ernest Lehman</a> (1965)</li> <li>Not Awarded (1966)</li> <li>Richard Morris (1967)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Isobel_Lennart" title="Isobel Lennart">Isobel Lennart</a> (1968)</li></ul> </div></td></tr></tbody></table></div> 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(1952)</span></li> <li><span class="nowrap"><a href="/wiki/Dudley_Nichols" title="Dudley Nichols">Dudley Nichols</a> (1953)</span></li> <li><span class="nowrap"><a href="/wiki/Robert_Riskin" title="Robert Riskin">Robert Riskin</a> (1954)</span></li> <li><span class="nowrap"><a href="/wiki/Julius_J._Epstein" title="Julius J. Epstein">Julius Epstein</a> & <a href="/wiki/Philip_G._Epstein" title="Philip G. Epstein">Philip Epstein</a> and <a href="/wiki/Albert_Hackett" title="Albert Hackett">Albert Hackett</a> & <a href="/wiki/Frances_Goodrich" title="Frances Goodrich">Frances Goodrich</a> (1955)</span></li> <li><span class="nowrap"><a href="/wiki/Charles_Brackett" title="Charles Brackett">Charles Brackett</a> & <a href="/wiki/Billy_Wilder" title="Billy Wilder">Billy Wilder</a> (1956)</span></li> <li><span class="nowrap"><a href="/wiki/John_Lee_Mahin" title="John Lee Mahin">John Lee Mahin</a> (1957)</span></li> <li><span class="nowrap"><a href="/wiki/Nunnally_Johnson" title="Nunnally Johnson">Nunnally Johnson</a> (1958)</span></li> <li><span class="nowrap"><a href="/wiki/Norman_Krasna" title="Norman Krasna">Norman Krasna</a> (1959)</span></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="background: #DCC09B;width:1%">1960s</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-even" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><span class="nowrap"><a href="/wiki/George_Seaton" title="George Seaton">George Seaton</a> (1960)</span></li> <li><span class="nowrap"><a href="/wiki/Philip_Dunne_(writer)" title="Philip Dunne (writer)">Philip Dunne</a> (1961)</span></li> <li><span class="nowrap"><a href="/wiki/Joseph_L._Mankiewicz" title="Joseph L. Mankiewicz">Joseph L. Mankiewicz</a> (1962)</span></li> <li><span class="nowrap"><a href="/wiki/John_Huston" title="John Huston">John Huston</a> (1963)</span></li> <li><span class="nowrap"><a href="/wiki/Sidney_Buchman" title="Sidney Buchman">Sidney Buchman</a> (1964)</span></li> <li><span class="nowrap"><a href="/wiki/Isobel_Lennart" title="Isobel Lennart">Isobel Lennart</a> (1965)</span></li> <li><span class="nowrap"><a href="/wiki/Richard_Brooks" title="Richard Brooks">Richard Brooks</a> (1966)</span></li> <li><span class="nowrap"><a href="/wiki/Casey_Robinson" title="Casey Robinson">Casey Robinson</a> (1967)</span></li> <li><span class="nowrap"><a href="/wiki/Carl_Foreman" title="Carl Foreman">Carl Foreman</a> (1968)</span></li> <li><span class="nowrap"><a href="/wiki/Dalton_Trumbo" title="Dalton Trumbo">Dalton Trumbo</a> (1969)</span></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="background: #DCC09B;width:1%">1970s</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><span class="nowrap"><a href="/wiki/James_Poe" title="James Poe">James Poe</a> (1970)</span></li> <li><span class="nowrap"><a href="/wiki/Ernest_Lehman" title="Ernest Lehman">Ernest Lehman</a> (1971)</span></li> <li><span class="nowrap"><a href="/wiki/William_Rose_(screenwriter)" title="William Rose (screenwriter)">William Rose</a> (1972)</span></li> <li><span class="nowrap"><a href="/wiki/Paddy_Chayefsky" title="Paddy Chayefsky">Paddy Chayefsky</a> (1973)</span></li> <li><span class="nowrap"><a href="/wiki/Preston_Sturges" title="Preston Sturges">Preston Sturges</a> (1974)</span></li> <li><span class="nowrap"><a href="/wiki/Michael_Wilson_(writer)" title="Michael Wilson (writer)">Michael Wilson</a> (1975)</span></li> <li><span class="nowrap"><a href="/wiki/Samson_Raphaelson" title="Samson Raphaelson">Samson Raphaelson</a> (1976)</span></li> <li><span class="nowrap"><a href="/wiki/Edward_Anhalt" title="Edward Anhalt">Edward Anhalt</a> (1977)</span></li> <li><span class="nowrap"><a href="/wiki/Neil_Simon" title="Neil Simon">Neil Simon</a> (1978)</span></li> <li><span class="nowrap"><a href="/wiki/Billy_Wilder" title="Billy Wilder">Billy Wilder</a> & <a href="/wiki/I._A._L._Diamond" title="I. A. L. Diamond">I. A. L. Diamond</a> (1979)</span></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="background: #DCC09B;width:1%">1980s</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-even" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><span class="nowrap"><a href="/wiki/Ben_Hecht" title="Ben Hecht">Ben Hecht</a> (1980)</span></li> <li><span class="nowrap"><a href="/wiki/Paul_Osborn" title="Paul Osborn">Paul Osborn</a> (1981)</span></li> <li><span class="nowrap"><a href="/wiki/Lamar_Trotti" title="Lamar Trotti">Lamar Trotti</a> (1982)</span></li> <li><span class="nowrap"><a class="mw-selflink selflink">Melville Shavelson</a>, <a href="/wiki/Jack_Rose_(screenwriter)" title="Jack Rose (screenwriter)">Jack Rose</a>, <a href="/wiki/Norman_Panama" title="Norman Panama">Norman Panama</a>, and <a href="/wiki/Melvin_Frank" title="Melvin Frank">Melvin Frank</a> (1983)</span></li> <li><span class="nowrap"><a href="/wiki/William_Goldman" title="William Goldman">William Goldman</a> (1984)</span></li> <li><span class="nowrap"><a href="/wiki/Waldo_Salt" title="Waldo Salt">Waldo Salt</a> (1985)</span></li> <li><span class="nowrap"><a href="/wiki/Woody_Allen" title="Woody Allen">Woody Allen</a> (1986)</span></li> <li><span class="nowrap"><a href="/wiki/Irving_Ravetch" title="Irving Ravetch">Irving Ravetch</a> & <a href="/wiki/Harriet_Frank_Jr." title="Harriet Frank Jr.">Harriet Frank Jr.</a> (1987)</span></li> <li><span class="nowrap"><a href="/wiki/Ring_Lardner_Jr." title="Ring Lardner Jr.">Ring Lardner Jr.</a> (1988)</span></li> <li><span class="nowrap"><a href="/wiki/Donald_Ogden_Stewart" title="Donald Ogden Stewart">Donald Ogden Stewart</a> (1989)</span></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="background: #DCC09B;width:1%">1990s</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><span class="nowrap"><a href="/wiki/Alvin_Sargent" title="Alvin Sargent">Alvin Sargent</a> (1990)</span></li> <li><span class="nowrap"><a href="/wiki/Frank_Pierson" title="Frank Pierson">Frank Pierson</a> (1991)</span></li> <li><span class="nowrap"><a href="/wiki/Horton_Foote" title="Horton Foote">Horton Foote</a> (1992)</span></li> <li><span class="nowrap"><a href="/wiki/Ruth_Prawer_Jhabvala" title="Ruth Prawer Jhabvala">Ruth Prawer Jhabvala</a> (1993)</span></li> <li><span class="nowrap"><a href="/wiki/Charles_Bennett_(screenwriter)" title="Charles Bennett (screenwriter)">Charles Bennett</a> (1994)</span></li> <li><span class="nowrap"><a href="/wiki/Daniel_Taradash" title="Daniel Taradash">Daniel Taradash</a> (1995)</span></li> <li><span class="nowrap"><a href="/wiki/Robert_Towne" title="Robert Towne">Robert Towne</a> (1996)</span></li> <li><span class="nowrap"><a href="/wiki/Bo_Goldman" title="Bo Goldman">Bo Goldman</a> (1997)</span></li> <li><span class="nowrap"><a href="/wiki/Paul_Schrader" title="Paul 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href="/wiki/David_Mamet" title="David Mamet">David Mamet</a> (2004)</span></li> <li><span class="nowrap"><a href="/wiki/Lawrence_Kasdan" title="Lawrence Kasdan">Lawrence Kasdan</a> (2005)</span></li> <li><span class="nowrap"><a href="/wiki/Robert_Benton" title="Robert Benton">Robert Benton</a> (2006)</span></li> <li><span class="nowrap"><a href="/wiki/Budd_Schulberg" title="Budd Schulberg">Budd Schulberg</a> (2007)</span></li> <li><span class="nowrap">No Award (2008)</span></li> <li><span class="nowrap"><a href="/wiki/Barry_Levinson" title="Barry Levinson">Barry Levinson</a> (2009)</span></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="background: #DCC09B;width:1%">2010s</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><span class="nowrap"><a href="/wiki/Steven_Zaillian" title="Steven Zaillian">Steven Zaillian</a> (2010)</span></li> <li><span class="nowrap"><a href="/wiki/Eric_Roth" title="Eric Roth">Eric Roth</a> (2011)</span></li> <li><span class="nowrap"><a href="/wiki/Tom_Stoppard" title="Tom Stoppard">Tom Stoppard</a> (2012)</span></li> <li><span class="nowrap"><a href="/wiki/Paul_Mazursky" title="Paul Mazursky">Paul Mazursky</a> (2013)</span></li> <li><span class="nowrap"><a href="/wiki/Harold_Ramis" title="Harold Ramis">Harold Ramis</a> (2014)</span></li> <li><span class="nowrap"><a href="/wiki/Elaine_May" title="Elaine May">Elaine May</a> (2015)</span></li> <li><span class="nowrap"><a href="/wiki/Oliver_Stone" title="Oliver Stone">Oliver Stone</a> (2016)</span></li> <li><span class="nowrap"><a href="/wiki/James_L._Brooks" title="James L. Brooks">James L. Brooks</a> (2017)</span></li> <li><span class="nowrap"><a href="/wiki/Lowell_Ganz" title="Lowell Ganz">Lowell Ganz</a> and <a href="/wiki/Babaloo_Mandel" title="Babaloo Mandel">Babaloo Mandel</a> (2018)</span></li> <li><span class="nowrap"><a href="/wiki/Nancy_Meyers" title="Nancy Meyers">Nancy Meyers</a> (2019)</span></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="background: #DCC09B;width:1%">2020s</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-even" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><span class="nowrap">No Award (2020)</span></li> <li><span class="nowrap">No Award (2021)</span></li> <li><span class="nowrap"><a href="/wiki/Charlie_Kaufman" title="Charlie Kaufman">Charlie Kaufman</a> (2022)</span></li> <li><span class="nowrap"><a href="/wiki/Walter_Hill" title="Walter Hill">Walter Hill</a> (2023)</span></li> <li><span class="nowrap"><a href="/wiki/David_Lynch" title="David Lynch">David Lynch</a> (2024)</span></li></ul> </div></td></tr></tbody></table></div> <div class="navbox-styles"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1129693374"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1236075235"></div><div role="navigation" class="navbox" aria-labelledby="Valentine_Davies_Award61" style="padding:3px"><table class="nowraplinks hlist mw-collapsible autocollapse navbox-inner" style="border-spacing:0;background:transparent;color:inherit"><tbody><tr><th scope="col" class="navbox-title" colspan="2" style="background: #DCC09B"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1129693374"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1239400231"><div class="navbar plainlinks hlist navbar-mini"><ul><li class="nv-view"><a href="/wiki/Template:Valentine_Davies_Award" title="Template:Valentine Davies Award"><abbr title="View this template">v</abbr></a></li><li class="nv-talk"><a href="/wiki/Template_talk:Valentine_Davies_Award" title="Template talk:Valentine Davies Award"><abbr title="Discuss this template">t</abbr></a></li><li class="nv-edit"><a href="/wiki/Special:EditPage/Template:Valentine_Davies_Award" title="Special:EditPage/Template:Valentine Davies Award"><abbr title="Edit this template">e</abbr></a></li></ul></div><div id="Valentine_Davies_Award61" style="font-size:114%;margin:0 4em"><a href="/wiki/Valentine_Davies_Award" title="Valentine Davies Award">Valentine Davies Award</a></div></th></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="background: #DCC09B;width:1%">1960s</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><span class="nowrap"><a href="/wiki/Mary_C._McCall_Jr." title="Mary C. McCall Jr.">Mary C. McCall Jr.</a> (1962)</span></li> <li><span class="nowrap">Allen Rivkin (1963)</span></li> <li><span class="nowrap">Morgan Cox (1964)</span></li> <li><span class="nowrap"><a href="/wiki/James_R._Webb_(writer)" class="mw-redirect" title="James R. Webb (writer)">James R. Webb</a> (1965)</span></li> <li><span class="nowrap"><a href="/wiki/Leonard_Spigelgass" title="Leonard Spigelgass">Leonard Spigelgass</a> (1966)</span></li> <li><span class="nowrap"><a href="/wiki/Edmund_H._North" title="Edmund H. North">Edmund H. North</a> (1967)</span></li> <li><span class="nowrap"><a href="/wiki/George_Seaton" title="George Seaton">George Seaton</a> (1968)</span></li> <li><span class="nowrap"><a href="/wiki/Dore_Schary" title="Dore Schary">Dore Schary</a> (1969)</span></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="background: #DCC09B;width:1%">1970s</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-even" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><span class="nowrap"><a href="/wiki/Richard_Murphy_(screenwriter)" title="Richard Murphy (screenwriter)">Richard Murphy</a> (1970)</span></li> <li><span class="nowrap"><a href="/wiki/Daniel_Taradash" title="Daniel Taradash">Dan Taradash</a> (1971)</span></li> <li><span class="nowrap"><a href="/wiki/Michael_Blankfort" title="Michael Blankfort">Michael Blankfort</a> & <a href="/wiki/Norman_Corwin" title="Norman Corwin">Norman Corwin</a> (1972)</span></li> <li><span class="nowrap"><a href="/wiki/William_Ludwig_(screenwriter)" title="William Ludwig (screenwriter)">William Ludwig</a> (1973)</span></li> <li><span class="nowrap"><a href="/wiki/Ray_Bradbury" title="Ray Bradbury">Ray Bradbury</a> & <a href="/wiki/Philip_Dunne_(writer)" title="Philip Dunne (writer)">Philip Dunne</a> (1974)</span></li> <li><span class="nowrap"><a href="/wiki/Fay_Kanin" title="Fay Kanin">Fay Kanin</a> (1975)</span></li> <li><span class="nowrap"><a href="/wiki/Winston_Miller" title="Winston Miller">Winston Miller</a> (1976)</span></li> <li><span class="nowrap"><a href="/wiki/Carl_Foreman" title="Carl Foreman">Carl Foreman</a> (1977)</span></li> <li><span class="nowrap"><a href="/wiki/Norman_Lear" title="Norman Lear">Norman Lear</a> (1978)</span></li> <li><span class="nowrap"><a class="mw-selflink selflink">Melville Shavelson</a> (1979)</span></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="background: #DCC09B;width:1%">1980s</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><span class="nowrap">David W. Rintels (1980)</span></li> <li><span class="nowrap">Arthur Orloff (1981)</span></li> <li><span class="nowrap">Mort R. Lewis (1982)</span></li> <li><span class="nowrap"><a href="/wiki/Hal_Kanter" title="Hal Kanter">Hal Kanter</a> (1983)</span></li> <li><span class="nowrap"><a href="/wiki/Jerome_Lawrence" title="Jerome Lawrence">Jerome Lawrence</a> & <a href="/wiki/Robert_E._Lee_(writer)" class="mw-redirect" title="Robert E. Lee (writer)">Robert E. Lee</a> (1984)</span></li> <li><span class="nowrap"><a href="/wiki/Charles_Champlin" title="Charles Champlin">Charles Champlin</a> (1985)</span></li> <li><span class="nowrap">Ronald Austin (1986)</span></li> <li><span class="nowrap"><a href="/wiki/William_Froug" title="William Froug">William Froug</a> (1987)</span></li> <li><span class="nowrap">Lois Peyser (1988)</span></li> <li><span class="nowrap"><a href="/wiki/Michael_Kanin" title="Michael Kanin">Michael Kanin</a> & <a href="/wiki/Garson_Kanin" title="Garson Kanin">Garson Kanin</a> (1989)</span></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="background: #DCC09B;width:1%">1990s</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-even" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><span class="nowrap"><a href="/wiki/John_Furia_Jr." title="John Furia Jr.">John Furia Jr.</a> (1990)</span></li> <li><span class="nowrap"><a href="/wiki/Frank_Pierson" title="Frank Pierson">Frank 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class="navbox-group" style="background: #DCC09B;width:1%">2000s</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><span class="nowrap"><a href="/wiki/Alan_Alda" title="Alan Alda">Alan Alda</a> (2000)</span></li> <li><span class="nowrap"><a href="/wiki/Paul_Haggis" title="Paul Haggis">Paul Haggis</a> (2001)</span></li> <li><span class="nowrap"><a href="/wiki/David_Angell" title="David Angell">David Angell</a> (2002)</span></li> <li><span class="nowrap"><a href="/wiki/Aaron_Ruben" title="Aaron Ruben">Aaron Ruben</a> (2003)</span></li> <li><span class="nowrap"><a href="/wiki/Neal_Baer" title="Neal Baer">Neal Baer</a> (2004)</span></li> <li><span class="nowrap"><a href="/wiki/Irma_Kalish" title="Irma Kalish">Irma Kalish</a> (2005)</span></li> <li><span class="nowrap">Not presented (2006)</span></li> <li><span class="nowrap"><a href="/wiki/Larry_Gelbart" title="Larry Gelbart">Larry Gelbart</a> (2007)</span></li> <li><span class="nowrap"><a href="/wiki/Tom_Schulman" title="Tom Schulman">Tom Schulman</a> (2008)</span></li> <li><span class="nowrap"><a href="/wiki/Carl_Reiner" title="Carl Reiner">Carl Reiner</a> & <a href="/wiki/Victoria_Riskin" title="Victoria Riskin">Victoria Riskin</a> (2009)</span></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="background: #DCC09B;width:1%">2010s</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-even" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><span class="nowrap">Not Presented (2010)</span></li> <li><span class="nowrap">Seth Freeman & <a href="/wiki/Susannah_Grant" title="Susannah Grant">Susannah Grant</a> (2011)</span></li> <li><span class="nowrap"><a href="/wiki/Philip_Rosenthal" title="Philip Rosenthal">Philip Rosenthal</a> (2012)</span></li> <li><span class="nowrap"><a href="/wiki/Sam_Simon" title="Sam Simon">Sam Simon</a> (2013)</span></li> <li><span class="nowrap"><a href="/wiki/Ben_Affleck" title="Ben Affleck">Ben Affleck</a> (2014)</span></li> <li><span class="nowrap">Not Presented (2015)</span></li> <li><span class="nowrap"><a href="/wiki/John_August" title="John August">John August</a> (2016)</span></li> <li><span class="nowrap"><a href="/wiki/Richard_Curtis" title="Richard Curtis">Richard Curtis</a> (2017)</span></li> <li><span class="nowrap"><a href="/wiki/Dustin_Lance_Black" title="Dustin Lance Black">Dustin Lance Black</a> (2018)</span></li> <li><span class="nowrap">Not Presented (2019)</span></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="background: #DCC09B;width:1%">2020s</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><span class="nowrap"><a href="/wiki/Brad_Falchuk" title="Brad Falchuk">Brad Falchuk</a> (2020)</span></li> <li><span class="nowrap">Not Presented (2021–2025)</span></li></ul> </div></td></tr></tbody></table></div> <div 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