Awards & Winners

Terry Southern

Date of Birth 01-May-1924
Place of Birth Alvarado
(Johnson County, Texas, Alvarado Independent School District)
Nationality United States of America
Also know as Maxwell Kenton, Norwood Pratt
Profession Novelist, Screenwriter, Writer, Essayist, Actor, Film Producer
Terry Southern was an American author, essayist, screenwriter, and university lecturer, noted for his distinctive satirical style. Part of the Paris postwar literary movement in the 1950s and a companion to Beat writers in Greenwich Village, Southern was also at the center of Swinging London in the 1960s and helped to change the style and substance of American films in the 1970s. In the 1980s he wrote for Saturday Night Live and lectured on screenwriting at several universities in New York. Southern's dark and often absurdist style of satire helped to define the sensibilities of several generations of writers, readers, directors and film goers. He is credited by journalist Tom Wolfe as having invented New Journalism with the publication of "Twirling at Ole Miss" in Esquire in 1962. His reputation was established with the publication of his comic novels Candy and The Magic Christian and through his gift for writing memorable film dialogue as evident in Dr. Strangelove, The Loved One, The Cincinnati Kid, and The Magic Christian. His work on Easy Rider helped create the independent film movement of the 1970s.

Awards by Terry Southern

Check all the awards nominated and won by Terry Southern.

1970


Nominations 1970 »

Award Nominated Nominated Work
Writers Guild of America Award for Best Original Drama Easy Rider

1969


Nominations 1969 »

Award Nominated Nominated Work
Academy Award for Best Original Screenplay Easy Rider

1965


Writers Guild of America Award for Best Written Comedy
Honored for : Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb
Hugo Award for Best Dramatic Presentation
Honored for : Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb

Nominations 1965 »

Award Nominated Nominated Work
Writers Guild of America Award for Best Written Comedy Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb
Hugo Award for Best Dramatic Presentation Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb
BAFTA Award for Best British Screenplay Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb

1964


Nominations 1964 »

Award Nominated Nominated Work
Academy Award for Best Writing Adapted Screenplay Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb