Waldo Salt: A Screenwriter's Journey

Waldo Salt: A Screenwriter's Journey is a 1990 American documentary film directed by Eugene Corr. It was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Documentary Feature.[3] The film was screened at the 1990 Sundance Film Festival [4] and is a part of the PBS American Masters series of documentary films.

Waldo Salt: A Screenwriter's Journey
Directed byEugene Corr
Robert Hillmann
Produced byRobert Hillmann
Eugene Corr[1]
Danica Remy
Written byEugene Corr
Narrated byPeter Coyote
Distributed byPBS [2]
Release date
  • 1990 (1990)
CountryUnited States
LanguageEnglish

The documentary is about the life and work of American screenwriter Waldo Salt who was put on the Hollywood blacklist in the 1950s but went on to win two Academy Awards in the 1970s. The story is told through interviews with collaborators and friends such as Dustin Hoffman, Robert Redford, Jon Voight, John Schlesinger and with clips from Salt's films, chiefly Midnight Cowboy.

Archive

The Academy Film Archive houses the Waldo Salt: A Screenwriter's Journey Collection, which consists of approximately three hundred items, including film prints and film and audio production elements.[5]

References
  1. Documentary Winners: 1991 Oscars-YouTube
  3. "The 63rd Academy Awards (1991) Nominees and Winners". oscars.org. Retrieved October 20, 2011.
  4. Sundance Institute
  5. "Waldo Salt: A Screenwriter's Journey Collection". Academy Film Archive.
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