Baku, July 27, AZERTAC
Screenwriter Bo Goldman, who won Oscars for his scripts to “One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest” and “Melvin and Howard” and was among a select group of film scribes including Robert Towne and William Goldman considered to be among that generation’s best, died Tuesday in Helendale, California, at the age of 90, according to Variety.
Goldman was also Oscar nominated for 1993’s “Scent of a Woman.”
Director Milos Forman chose Goldman to rewrite “Cuckoo’s Nest” after reading his script “Shoot the Moon” (later made into a film starring Albert Finney and Diane Keaton).
Goldman received only $8,000 for his work on “Cuckoo’s Nest,” but the critical acclaim and Oscar jumpstarted his career.
The screenwriter reaped a number of kudos from the Writers Guild of America, winning WGA Awards for “Cuckoo’s Nest” and “Melvin and Howard,” drawing nominations in 1983 for “Shoot the Moon” and in 1993 for “Scent of a Woman” and picking up the guild’s Laurel Award for Screen Writing Achievement in 1998.