Paddy Chayefsky

Sidney Aaron Paddy Chayefsky was an American playwright screenwriter and novelist He is the only person to have won three solo Academy Awards for Best Screenplay for Marty 1955 The Hospital 1971 and Network 1976 He is the only person to have won both the Academy Awards for adapted and original screenplays He was one of the most renowned dramatists of the Golden Age of Television His intimate realistic scripts provided a naturalistic style of television drama for the 1950s dramatizing the lives of ordinary Americans