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Sidney Howard Memorial Award
The ''Sidney Howard Memorial Award'' was a notable but short-lived theater prize established in 1939. It was designed to support new playwrights who had no notable successes but had shown promise. Among the awardees are Robert Ardrey and Tennessee Williams.
==Sidney Howard==
(詳細はPulitzer Prize for Drama in 1925 for his play They Knew What They Wanted.〔(Pulitzer Website )〕 In 1932 he was nominated for an Academy Award for his adaptation of the Sinclair Lewis novel ''Arrowsmith'', and he was nominated again in 1936 for ''Dodsworth'', which he had adapted for the stage in 1934.〔Berg, A. Scott. ''Goldwyn: A Biography.'' New York: Riverhead, 1998.〕 In 1940 he was awarded a posthumous Academy Award for the screenplay for ''Gone with the Wind''.〔(Oscar trivia )〕 During his career he wrote or adapted over seventy plays and eleven films.
Sidney Howard was one of the founding members of the Playwrights' Producing Company.〔
Howard died in 1939 at the age of forty-eight. He was working on his farm in Massachusetts when he was accidentally crushed to death by a tractor. Books Atkinson called the event "A Broadway calamity."〔Atkinson, Brooks. ''Broadway.'' New York: Atheneum, 1970. P. 268. Print.〕 Following his tragic death his colleagues from the Playwrights' Company established the prize in his memory.
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