Frederic Raphael

Frederic Michael Raphael FRSL born 14 August 1931 is an Americanborn British novelist biographer journalist and Oscarwinning screenwriter known for writing the screenplays for Darling Far from the Madding Crowd Two for the Road and Stanley Kubricks last film Eyes Wide Shut Raphael rose to prominence in the early 1960s with the publication of several acclaimed novels but most notably with the release of the John Schlesinger film Darling starring Julie Christie and Dirk Bogarde a romantic drama set in Swinging London for which he won the Academy Award for Best Original Screenplay in 1966 Two years later he was nominated again in the same category this time for his work on Stanley Donens Two for the Road starring Audrey Hepburn and Albert Finney Since the death of screenwriter D M Marshman Jr in 2015 he is the earliest surviving recipient of the Academy Award for Best Original Screenplay and the sole surviving recipient of the now retired BAFTA category of Best British Screenplay In addition to his work in film and television he has written over 20 novels and a number of nonfiction books including biographies of Lord Byron W Somerset Maugham and Flavius Josephus as well as a memoir of his time working with Stanley Kubrick entitled Eyes Wide Open Description above from the Wikipedia article Frederic Raphael licensed under CCBYSA full list of contributors on Wikipedia