American screenwriter
Sheridan de Raismes Gibney (June 11, 1903 – April 12, 1988) was an American writer and producer in theater and film. He attended Amherst College and received an honorary M.A. from it. He later served as an instructor at Hobart and William Smith Colleges. He began in film in 1931, but tended to see himself more as a playwright. He received 2 Academy Awards for Best Screenplay and Best Story for The Story of Louis Pasteur, sharing the award with Pierre Collings.[1] He particularly had a fondness for Restoration comedy. He would later become President of the Screen Writers Guild twice.[2] As a member of the League of American Writers, he suffered from the Hollywood blacklist. Jack Warner later retracted the claim Gibney was a Communist[3] and Gibney had proposed the group criticize Soviet actions against Finland although that ultimately was unanimously voted down.[4] In his later life Gibney did work in television.
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1928–1950 |
- Benjamin Glazer (1928)
- Hanns Kräly (1929)
- Frances Marion (1930)
- Howard Estabrook (1931)
- Edwin J. Burke (1932)
- Victor Heerman and Sarah Y. Mason (1933)
- Robert Riskin (1934)
- Dudley Nichols (1935)
- Pierre Collings and Sheridan Gibney (1936)
- Heinz Herald, Geza Herczeg, and Norman Reilly Raine (1937)
- Ian Dalrymple, Cecil Arthur Lewis, W. P. Lipscomb, and George Bernard Shaw (1938)
- Sidney Howard (1939)
- Donald Ogden Stewart (1940)
- Sidney Buchman and Seton I. Miller (1941)
- George Froeschel, James Hilton, Claudine West, and Arthur Wimperis (1942)
- Philip G. Epstein, Julius J. Epstein, and Howard Koch (1943)
- Frank Butler and Frank Cavett (1944)
- Charles Brackett and Billy Wilder (1945)
- Robert Sherwood (1946)
- George Seaton (1947)
- John Huston (1948)
- Joseph L. Mankiewicz (1949)
- Joseph L. Mankiewicz (1950)
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