William Goldman won Best Original Screenplay for Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid and Best Adapted Screenplay for All the President’s Men, and wrote The Princess Bride as both novel and script.
His book Adventures in the Screen Trade is the standard insider account of Hollywood and contains the line nobody knows anything, meaning that no one in the industry can predict what will work. It has been quoted continuously since 1983.
He also wrote Marathon Man and Misery, and did extensive uncredited rewriting on films including A Few Good Men and Good Will Hunting.
William GoldmanButch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid (1969) rates 9 out of 10 on the rewatch scale. William Goldman sold the screenplay for four hundred thousand dollars and the film is a comedy about two men becoming obsolete. The freeze frame…
William GoldmanMisery is Rob Reiner's 1990 American psychological-thriller film adapted from Stephen King's 1987 novel, depicting a romance novelist who crashes his car in a Colorado snowstorm and is rescued by his self-described number-one fan, who imprisons him in her isolated…
William GoldmanThe Princess Bride is one of the most quoted films in American popular culture and one of the most enduring family films of the past forty years. The Princess Bride extended his range into family adventure territory that his previous…
William GoldmanRichard Attenborough's massive ensemble WWII epic about Operation Market Garden. Legendary cast across Allied and German command.
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