Ronald Harwood, a South African screenwriter most known for The Pianist has died. The Oscar-winning writer was 85. Harwood, who also wrote The Dresser and The Diving Bell and the Butterfly, died Tu…
which follows a personal assistant’s struggle to help a veteran actor get through a difficult performance of King Lear. The film, which starred Albert Finney and Tom Courtenay, received five nominations in 1984 included a nod for best Harwood’s screenplay.After his first Oscar-nominated title, Harwood continued to bolster his writing career with a number of titles throughout the 80s and 90s, a number of the TV movies.
His next Oscar-nominated screenplay, however, didn’t come until the early aughts.The film featured Adrien Brody as the real-life Jewish pianist Wladyslaw Szpilman. In the Polanski-directed film Szpilman struggles to persist in the destruction of Warsaw all while preserving his passion for music.took some some of the ceremony’s biggest prizes, with Brody winning the best actor award, Polanski best director and Harwood best writing.Harwood’s wife Natasha died in 2013.
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