Alvin Sargent

Alvin Sargent April 12 1927May 9 2019 was an American screenwriter He won two Academy Awards for Best Adapted Screenplay for Julia 1977 and Ordinary People 1980 Sargents other works include screenplays of the films The Sterile Cuckoo 1969 The Effect of Gamma Rays on ManintheMoon Marigolds 1970 Paper Moon 1973 Nuts 1987 White Palace 1990 What About Bob 1991 Unfaithful 2002 SpiderMan 2 2004 SpiderMan 3 2007 and The Amazing SpiderMan 2012 Alvin Sargent was born Alvin Supowitz in Philadelphia Pennsylvania the son of Esther née Kadansky and Isaac Supowitz He was of Russian Jewish descent Sargent attended Upper Darby High School leaving at age 17 to join the Navy As of 2006 he was one of 35 alumni to be on the schools Wall of Fame Sargent began writing for television in 1953 and through the 1960s he scripted episodes for Route 66 Ben Casey and The Alfred Hitchcock Hour He collaborated on his first screenplay for a film on Gambit 1966 and gained recognition for I Walk the Line 1970 and Paper Moon 1973 for which he won the WGA Award for Best Screenplay Based on Material from Another Medium and was nominated for an Academy Award He won the Academy Award for Adapted Screenplay in 1978 for the film Julia 1977 and again in 1981 for Ordinary People 1980 He collaborated on the 2004 screenplay for SpiderMan 2 and the 2007 screenplay for SpiderMan 3 Hed also collaborate on the screenplay for the 2012 reboot The Amazing SpiderMan He had a longtime relationship with producer Laura Ziskin they were married from 2010 until her death in 2011 His brother was writer and producer Herb Sargent Sargent died from natural causes at his home in Seattle on May 9 2019 four weeks after his 92nd birthday Description above from the Wikipedia article Alvin Sargent licensed under CCBYSA full list of contributors on Wikipedia