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Favorite Actor-Authored Original Movie Screenplay
Which notable actor-authored original movie screenplay is your favorite one of them all?

List: https://www.imdb.com/list/ls085575947/
Live Poll: TBD

Favorite Actor-Authored Adapted Movie Screenplay
Which notable actor-authored adapted movie screenplay is your favorite one of them all?

List: https://www.imdb.com/list/ls085575988/
Live Poll: TBD

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4 years ago

Do they need to be credited as actor and also as writer in the same movie? Because I found some of the movie in the list, the writer do not have credit as actor (some of them are listed as 'uncredited' which mean in my opinion do not fit to the poll).

FYC: Annie Hall (1977), Woody Allen is credited as the director, the writer (original) and actor of the movie.

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Good one, I will add it. But, I am going to cut some of Allen's other films. He is overrepresented in this list with too many options.

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HONORABLE MENTION OSCAR-NOMINATED  ORIGINAL SCREENPLAYS

Interiors 1978 | Movie 7.4 (17,720)
Screenwriter: Woody Allen

Broadway Danny Rose 1984 | Movie 7.4 (23,203)
Screenwriter: Woody Allen

The Purple Rose of Cairo 1985 | Movie 7.7 (45,800)
Screenwriter: Woody Allen

Radio Days 1987 | Movie 7.5 (30,680)
Screenwriter: Woody Allen

Crimes and Misdemeanors 1989 | Movie 7.9 (53,216)
Screenwriter: Woody Allen

Alice 1990 | Movie 6.6 (13,007)
Screenwriter: Woody Allen

Husbands and Wives 1992 | Movie 7.5 (26,630)
Screenwriter: Woody Allen

Bullets Over Broadway 1994 | Movie 7.4 (34,618)
Screenwriters: Woody Allen & Douglas McGrath

Deconstructing Harry 1997 | Movie 7.4 (41,505)
Screenwriter: Woody Allen

Mighty Aphrodite 1995 | Movie 7.0 (37,212)
Screenwriter: Woody Allen

Shampoo 1975 | Movie 6.3 (10,601)
Screenwriters: Robert Towne & Warren Beatty

Faces 1968 | Movie 7.7 (9,099)
Screenwriter: John Cassavetes

Pat and Mike 1952 | Movie 7.0 (4,956)
Screenwriters: Ruth Gordon & Garson Kanin

A Double Life 1947 | Movie 7.0 (2,925)
Screenwriters: Ruth Gordon & Garson Kanin

Monsieur Verdoux 1947 | Movie 7.9 (15,232)
Screenwriter: Charlie Chaplin

Dr. Ehrlich's Magic Bullet 1940 | Movie 7.4 (1,426)
Screenwriters: Norman Burnside, Heinz Herald & John Huston

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MORE HONORABLE MENTION OSCAR-NOMINATED ORIGINAL SCREENPLAYS

Bulworth 1998 | Movie 6.8 (24,341)
Screenwriters: Warren Beatty & Jeremy Pikser; Story: Warren Beatty

Match Point
2005 | Movie 7.6 (201,808)
Screenwriter: Woody Allen

Blue Jasmine
2013 | Movie 7.3 (188,129)
Screenwriter: Woody Allen

Heaven Knows, Mr. Allison 1957 | Movie 7.3 (7,574)
Screenwriters: John Huston & John Lee Mahin
Based on the novel Heaven Knows, Mr. Allison" by Charles Shaw

MORE HONORABLE MENTION Actor-Authored Adapted Screenplays

The Green Hornet 2011 | Movie 5.8 (153,272)
Screenwriter: Seth Rogen & Evan Goldberg
Based on the characters created for the TV series "The Green Hornet" by George W. Trendle & Fran Striker

MORE HONORABLE MENTION Actor-Authored Original Screenplays
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The Pink Panther 2006 | Movie 5.7 (79,803)
Screenwriters: Len Blum & Steve Martin; Story by Len Blum & Michael Saltzman
Based on the characters created by Maurice Richlin Blake Edwards for the 'The Pink Panther' film series

Shopgirl 2005 | Movie 6.3 (23,075)
Screenwriter: Steve Martin
Based on the novella "Shopgirl" by Steve Martin

The Incredible Burt Wonderstone 2013 | Movie 5.9 (69,819)

Balls of Fury
2007 | Movie 5.3 (40,127)
Screenwriters: John Francis Daley & Jonathan Goldstein

Herbie Fully Loaded
2005 | Movie 4.8 (44,180)
Screenwriters: John Francis Daley & Robert Ben Garant & Alfred Gough & Miles Millar; Story by Thomas Lennon & Robert Ben Garant & Mark Perez

The Pacifier
2005 | Movie 5.6 (85,653)
Screenwriter: Thomas Lennon & Robert Ben Garant

The Jerk
1979 | Movie 7.2 (51,760)
Screewriters: Steve Martin & Carl Gottlieb & Michael Elias; Story by Steve Martin & Carl Gottlieb

Promised Land 2012 | Movie 6.6 (35,837)
Screewriters: John Krasinski & Matt Damon; Story by Dave Eggers

Crocodile Dundee 1986 | Movie 6.6 (90,392)
Screenwriters: John Cornell, Paul Hogan & Ken Shadie; Story: Paul Hogan

Role Models 2008 | Movie 6.8 (217,029)
Screenwriter: David Wain & Paul Rudd & Ken Marino & Timothy Dowling

Diary of a Mad Black Woman 2005 | Movie 5.8 (13,370)
Screenwriter: Tyler Perry

Cliffhanger 1993 | Movie 6.4 (116,885)
Screenwriters: Michael France & Sylvester Stallone

History of the World: Part I 1981 | Movie 6.9 (44,806)
Screenwriters: Mel Brooks & Thomas Meehan & Ronny Graham

Night at the Museum 2006 | Movie 6.4 (305,258)
Screenwriter: Thomas Lennon & Robert Ben Garant

L.A. Story 1991 | Movie 6.7 (28,869)
Screenwriter: Steve Martin

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urbanemovies, this comment triggered spam filter here on GS, I fished it out. 

Not sure why this still happens, but it does... 

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4 years ago

The movie that the actor/actress wrote or co-wrote should be a well-known film. The actor/actress should be well-known for their acting performances. But, they don't have to act in the film they wrote, but it does happen quite a lot. A few are writers or directors who crossed over and become noted actors, more as a sideline, like Ruth Gordon and John Huston.

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4 years ago

  
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Sylvester Stallone
https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0000230/
https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0000230/#writerMovie
Writer: Movie (26 credits)
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He has two movie screenplays as a now Rocky (1976) and Cliffhanger (1996) in the answer pool.

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He definitely deserves representation. But, I doubt he ends up with anything beyond the Rocky screenplay in the answer pool.

I am limiting actor-writers to 2-3 screenplays maximum. That would be for likes of Woody Allen (15 Oscar-nominated screenplays), Charlie Chaplin, John Huston and the Monty Python's Flying Circus writers.

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4 years ago

related poll suggestion
Favorite
 Actress-Authored Original Movie Screenplay
Which notable actress-authored original movie screenplay is your favorite one of them all? List: https://www.imdb.com/list/ls031897555/

Favorite Actress-Authored Adapted Movie Screenplay
Which notable actress-authored adapted movie screenplay is your favorite one of them all? List: https://www.imdb.com/list/ls085711469/

(edited)

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4 years ago

related female screenwriter suggestions


Late Night
2019 | Movie 6.5 (24,579)
Screenwriter: Mindy Kaling

In a World... 2013 | Movie 6.7 (30,385)
Screenwriter: Lake Bell

Celeste & Jesse Forever 2012 | Movie 6.6 (28,454)
Screenwriters: Rashida Joines & Will McCormack


Nanny McPhee
2005 | Movie 6.5 (65,644)
Screenwriter: Emma Thompson
Based on the novel series "Nurse Matilda" by Christianna Brand

Nanny McPhee Returns
2010 | Movie 6.1 (27,200)
Screenwriter: Emma Thompson
Based on the novel series "Nurse Matilda" by Christianna Brand


Yentl
1983 | Movie 6.5 (12,202)
Screenwriters: Barbra Streisand & Jack Rosenthal
Based on Leah Napolin and Isaac Bashevis Singer's play of the same name, itself based on Singer's short story "Yentl the Yeshiva Boy."

Away from Her
2006 | Movie 7.5 (21,089)
Screenwriter: Sarah Polley
Based on the short story "The Bear Went Over the Mountain" by Alice Munro

Before Midnight 2013 | Movie 7.9 (134,931)
Screenwriters: Julie Delpy, Ethan Hawke & Richard Linklater
Based on the characters from the film 'Before Sunrise' by Kim Krizan & Richard Linklater

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4 years ago


Urb. when you consider this ready, you need to remove the word SUGGESTIONS? from your list intro.

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4 years ago

Urb,

Do you consider this ready? If so, please remove SUGGESTIONS? from your list intro.

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No, I don't feel it has the right 30 plus Actor-Authored Movie options. I was hoping for help from suggestions, as there doesn't seem to be a applicable database to tap into for ideas or to cross-check.