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William Goldman
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William Goldman (August 12, 1931 – November 15, 2018) was an American novelist, playwright, and screenwriter. He came to prominence in the 1950s as a novelist, before turning to writing for film. He won two Academy Awards for his screenplays, first for the western Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid (1969) and again for All the President's Men (1976), about journalists Carl Bernstein and Bob Woodward, who broke the Watergate scandal of President Richard Nixon for the Washington Post. Both films starred Robert Redford. His other notable works include his thriller novel Marathon Man and comedy-fantasy novel The Princess Bride, both of which Goldman adapted for film. Author Sean Egan has described Goldman as "one of the late twentieth century’s most popular storytellers."
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The Price of Devotion
From the riverbank to the desert, a journey through American cinema's darkest portraits of faith, charisma, and the corruption that follows.
8 films
The Hypnotic Gaze
From Woody Allen's comic hypnosis to the chilling mechanics of control, this chain traces cinema's fascination with the mind's susceptibility.
8 films
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Wild Card
2015
Dreamcatcher
2003
The Ghost and the Darkness
1996
Maverick
1994
Chaplin
1992
Memoirs of an Invisible Man
1992
Misery
1990
The Princess Bride
1987
Magic
1978
A Bridge Too Far
1977
Marathon Man
1976
All the President's Men
1976
The Stepford Wives
1975
The Hot Rock
1972
Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid
1969