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Best Writing – Original Screenplay • Best Original Screenplay • Best Screenplay – Original

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Woody Allen • Orson Welles • Francis Ford Coppola • Leo McCarey • Mel Brooks • Preston Sturges • Ben Affleck • Matt Damon • Robert Benton • Neil Jordan • Kenneth Branagh • Spike Jonze • Tom Stoppard • Pedro Almodóvar • Alejandro González Iñárritu • Charlie Kaufman • Frances Marion • William Goldman • Jordan Peele • Julian Fellowes • Jane Campion • Budd Schulberg • Ethan Coen • Joel Coen • Alan Jay Lerner • Quentin Tarantino • Herman Mankiewicz • Ben Hecht • Claude Lelouch • William Saroyan • Paddy Chayefsky • Horton Foote • William Inge • Dalton Trumbo • Dore Schary • T.E.B. Clarke • I.A.L. Diamond

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Academy Award screenplay Academy Award for best adapted screenplay Academy Award for best director Academy Award for best cinematography Academy Award for best actress Academy Award for best actor Academy Award for best picture Academy Award for best supporting actor Academy Award for best supporting actress Who’s won the most Oscars?