William Goldman net worthy of: William Goldman can be an American novelist, playwright, and screenwriter who includes a net worthy of of $15 million. Goldman provides been referred to as “among the past due twentieth century’s most well-known storytellers”. Goldman has created for many movies including Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Child, The Stepford Wives, THE FANTASTIC Waldo Pepper, All of the President’s Men, Temperature, The Princess Bridge, Memoirs of a low profile Man, Season of the Comet, Chaplin, Maverick, Da Vinci, The Ghost of the Darkness, The General’s Girl, Dreamcatcher, and Wild Cards. He started his profession as a novelist and his functions are the Temple of Gold, Your Switch to Curtsy, My Switch to Bow, Solider in the torrential rain, Children Together, No Method to take care of a Lady, finished . of It Can be…, The Princess Bride, Marathon Guy, Magic, Tinsel, Control, THE COLOUR of Light, Temperature, and Brothers. William Goldman was created in Chicago, Illinois in August 1931. He provides earned Academy Awards for Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Child in 1970 and All of the President’s Men in 1977. Goldman earned a Laurel Award for Display screen Writing Achievement in 1985 from the Authors Guild of America.
Known for movies
The Princess Bride (1987) as Writer
Marathon Man (1976) as Writer
Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid (1969) as Writer
Academy Award for Best Original Screenplay, Academy Award for Best Writing Adapted Screenplay, Edgar Award for Best Motion Picture Screenplay, Hugo Award for Best Dramatic Presentation, Writers Guild of America Award for Best Original Drama, Writers Guild of America Award - Laurel Award for Screenwriting Achievement, Writers Guild of America Award for Best Adapted Drama, BAFTA Award for Best Screenplay
Nominations
Golden Globe Award for Best Screenplay - Motion Picture, Locus Award for Best Fantasy Novel, Writers Guild of America Award for Best Adapted Screenplay, Writers Guild of America Award for Best Written Drama
Movies
The Princess Bride, Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid, All the President's Men, Misery, Marathon Man, A Bridge Too Far, Harper, The Stepford Wives, Maverick, Absolute Power, Soldier in the Rain, The Ghost and the Darkness, The General's Daughter, The Hot Rock, Dreamcatcher, The Great Waldo Pepper, No Way to Treat a Lady, Hearts in Atlantis, Chaplin, The Chamber, Magic, Heat, Butch and Sundance: The Early Days, Memoirs of an Invisible Man
A notorious Anglophobe, although he has described London as his favorite city.
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Is an avid red wine connoisseur and wrote the wine adventure caper, Year of the Comet (1992) as a result.
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In the book "Hollywood Animal", fellow screenwriter Joe Eszterhas calls Goldman various expletives for "writing for the director's vision" and not for his own original ideas.
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Daughters Jenny Rebecca Goldman (born 1962) and Susanna Goldman (born 1965).
Member of the jury at the Cannes Film Festival in 1988
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Goldman believed that Rocky (1976) beat All the President's Men (1976) for the 1976 Best Picture Academy Award due its spectacular box office run and the fact that Hollywood loved the real-life, Lana Turner-esque story of Sylvester Stallone's emergence into super-stardom from obscurity. Goldman believes that if the Hollywood community knew about Stallone's hubris, it would not have voted his film the Oscar.
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He knew he'd succeed as a screenwriter as soon as he wrote the opening scene in Harper (1966) in which Harper is forced to recycle used coffee grounds for his morning cup of coffee. Harper's dismay at the result, as realized by Paul Newman on screen, immediately created empathy between the character and the audience. Ironically, that opening sequence was the last thing he wrote for that script.
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Rumored to be the true author of the Academy Award-winning screenplay of Good Will Hunting (1997). Goldman denied authorship at a Writers Guild of America meeting. In other comments, Goldman has said that he merely met with co-authors Ben Affleck and Matt Damon for one day to offer encouragement and a little advice, specifically to eliminate a subplot dealing with the FBI, as the screenplay already was in fine form.
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Goldman was recruited as a Hollywood screenwriter after the publication of his novel "Boys and Girls Together", still in print after 40 years. An earlier novel of his, "Soldier in the Rain", already had been bought by Hollywood and served as the basis of the 1963 film starring Steve McQueen and Jackie Gleason.
Education: B.A., Oberlin College, 1952; M.A., Columbia University, 1956
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He leaves his Manhattan apartment in the morning and writes in a nearby office. At around 5:00 p.m., he's more than happy to stop writing, leave the office, and enjoy the rest of the day. "The sooner I'm done, the sooner I can go to the movies," he admits.
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After the breakup of his 27-year marriage, Goldman landed two gigs most middle-aged men would kill for. He became the only man ever to judge both the Cannes Film Festival and the Miss America Pageant in the same year. He documented his experiences in Hype and Glory, a now out-of-print memoir.
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His first editions prices vary with condition, but a first edition of Marathon Man (1976) can fetch above $100, while The Princess Bride (1987) may sell for well over $500.
Author of two of the best books ever written about show business, "Adventures in the Screen Trade" and "Hype and Glory." Author of the famous quote about Hollywood, "Nobody Knows Anything."
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Winner of the 1985 Laurel Award for lifetime achievement in screenwriting.
I know an author whose book was optioned for a movie, on the condition that the main character be made a much younger man. When the wind is right I can almost hear his screams.
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Understand this: all the sleaze you've heard about Hollywood? All the illiterate scumbags who scuttle down the corridors of power? They are there, all right, and worse than you can imagine.
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Directors - even though we all know from the media's portrayal of them that they are men and women of wisdom and artistic vision, masters of the subtle use of symbolism - are more often than not a bunch of insecure assholes.
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I make a point of never reading anything I've written in rewrites.
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[on Mike Nichols] Nichols' work is frivolous -- charming, light and titanically inconsequential. What Nichols is is brilliant. Brilliant and trivial and self-serving and frigid.
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Directors lose it around age 60, they're either too rich or they can't get work anymore. And it's physically debilitating work. That's why Gran Torino (2008) amazes me. Clint Eastwood is nearly 80, and he can still make a movie like that. He is having the most amazing career.
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On what he felt to be miscasting of The Stepford Wives (1975): You don't commit murder and make a new creation to have it look like Nanette Newman.
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[on the persistent rumor that he, and not Ben Affleck & Matt Damon, is the actual author of the screenplay for Good Will Hunting (1997)] I would love to say that I wrote it. Here is the truth. In my obit, it will say that I wrote it. People don't want to think those two cute guys wrote it. What happened was, they had the script. It was their script. They gave it to Rob Reiner to read, and there was a great deal of stuff in the script dealing with the F.B.I. trying to use Matt Damon for spy work because he was so brilliant in math. Rob said, "Get rid of it". They then sent them in to see me for a day - I met with them in New York - and all I said to them was, "Rob's right. Get rid of the F.B.I. stuff. Go with the family, go with Boston, go with all that wonderful stuff". And they did. I think people refuse to admit it because their careers have been so far from writing, and I think it's too bad. I'll tell you who wrote a marvelous script once, Sylvester Stallone. Rocky (1976)'s a marvelous script. God, read it, it's wonderful. It's just got marvelous stuff. And then he stopped suddenly because it's easier being a movie star and making all that money than going in your pit and writing a script. But I did not write [Good Will Hunting], alas. I would not have written the "It's not your fault" scene. I'm going to assume that 148 percent of the people in this room have seen a therapist. I certainly have, for a long time. Hollywood always has this idea that it's this shrink with only one patient. I mean, that scene with Robin Williams gushing and Matt Damon and they're hugging, "It's not your fault, it's not your fault". I thought, Oh God, Freud is so agonized over this scene. But Hollywood tends to do that with therapists.
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[on Norman Jewison] A tough, feisty, no-nonsense director.
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[on Woody Allen] Most stars like to be thought of as being private people, being shy. We even grant those attributes to Woody Allen, this in spite of the fact that he must be the most visible celebrity in New York.
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[on Richard Attenborough] By far the finest, most decent human being I've ever met in the picture business.
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[on Alan J. Pakula] Alan is a gentleman. We had mutual acquaintances in the business and they said nothing but good things about him as a human being. Neither can I. He is well-educated and serious about his work.
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[on Sidney Lumet] Lumet never keeps anybody waiting -- no director has earned a larger reputation for efficiency and organization.
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[on the significance of the movie All the President's Men (1976)] "No less acute [an] observer of American politics than Governor Ronald Reagan of California said that he thought the movie eventually cost Gerald Ford the presidency against Jimmy Carter, because the film's release in April 1976 and its long run flushed to the surface again all the realities of Watergate that the Republicans had tried so hard to bury. We are talking then about a movie that may be one of the few that just might have changed the entire course of American history."
$15 Million
