Awards & Winners

Calder Willingham

Date of Birth 23-December-1922
Place of Birth Atlanta
(Georgia, United States of America, Fulton County, Area code 470, Area code 678, Area code 404)
Nationality United States of America
Also know as Calder Baynard Willingham, Jr.
Profession Novelist, Screenwriter
Calder Baynard Willingham, Jr. was an American novelist and screenwriter. Before the age of thirty, after just three novels and a collection of short stories, The New Yorker was already describing Willingham as having “fathered modern black comedy,” his signature a dry, straight-faced humor, made funnier by its concealed comic intent. His work matured over six more novels, including Eternal Fire, which Newsweek said “deserves a place among the dozen or so novels that must be mentioned if one is to speak of greatness in American fiction.” He had a significant career in cinema, too, as a frequent collaborator of Stanley Kubrick as well writing The Graduate and other notable films. After dropping out of The Citadel, then working for the Office of War Information in Washington, Willingham moved to New York where he wrote for ten years, setting three novels there. During the late ‘40s and early ‘50s, Willingham was considered at the forefront of the gritty, realistic new breed of Post-War novelists, Norman Mailer, James Jones, Truman Capote, Gore Vidal and others, many of whom also made up the Greenwich Village literary scene at the time.

Awards by Calder Willingham

Check all the awards nominated and won by Calder Willingham.

1991


Nominations 1991 »

Award Nominated Nominated Work
National Society of Film Critics Award for Best Screenplay Rambling Rose

1971


Nominations 1971 »

Award Nominated Nominated Work
Writers Guild of America Award for Best Adapted Drama Little Big Man

1969


BAFTA Award for Best Screenplay
Honored for : The Graduate

Nominations 1969 »

Award Nominated Nominated Work
BAFTA Award for Best Screenplay The Graduate

1968


Writers Guild of America Award for Best Written Comedy
Honored for : The Graduate

Nominations 1968 »

Award Nominated Nominated Work
Writers Guild of America Award for Best Written Comedy The Graduate
Golden Globe Award for Best Screenplay - Motion Picture The Graduate

1967


Nominations 1967 »

Award Nominated Nominated Work
Academy Award for Best Writing Adapted Screenplay The Graduate

1958


Nominations 1958 »

Award Nominated Nominated Work
Writers Guild of America Award for Best Written Drama Paths of Glory