Alfred Fox Uhry (born December 3, 1936) is an American playwright, screenwriter, and member of the Fellowship of Southern Writers. He is one of very few writers to receive an Academy Award, Tony Award (2) and the Pulitzer Prize for dramatic writing.
[re Driving Miss Daisy (1989)] I was very lucky because I had a director, Bruce Beresford, who had directed several plays turned into movies. He said: Let me see your draft. Then he said: You've retyped your play. He told me: You don't need to talk as much in the movies. You don't need to say, "I'll go get the car." Just show it. He said: Instead of dialogue, just give me a description of the way you remember things looked. Some of it was the way the sunlight came through blinds, or Reader's Digests stacked up on the radiator, or doing the silver polish with an old toothbrush - things I remember. I would say: Just tell the truth. And don't say it so many times.
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Fact
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He was awarded the 2010 Back Stage Garland Award for Playwriting for "Parade" in a Donmar Warehouse production at the Mark Taper Forum Theatre in Los Angeles, California.
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Won the 1988 Pulitzer Prize for Drama for the play "Driving Miss Daisy" and was nominated for the 1997 Pulitzer Prize for Drama for the play "The Last Night of Ballyhoo".
3
The first playwright to win the Tony, the Oscar, and the Pulitzer Prize.
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Has twice won Broadway's Tony Award: in 1997 as author of Best Play winner "The Last Night of Ballyhoo" and in 1999 as Best Book (Musical) for "Parade." He had also been nominated in 1976 as Best Book (Musical) for "The Robber Bridegroom."
Writer
Title
Year
Status
Character
Driving Miss Daisy
2014
play
Rich in Love
1992
screenplay
Driving Miss Daisy
1992
TV Movie
Driving Miss Daisy
1989
play / screenplay
Mystic Pizza
1988
screenplay
Broadway on Showtime
1980
TV Series revisions to original libretto - 1 episode
Decalogue
TV Mini-Series 1 episode announced
Music Department
Title
Year
Status
Character
Hootenanny
1963
TV Series composer: theme "Hootenanny Saturday Night"
Producer
Title
Year
Status
Character
Driving Miss Daisy
1989
associate producer
Soundtrack
Title
Year
Status
Character
As the World Turns
2008
TV Series lyrics - 1 episode
Miscellaneous
Title
Year
Status
Character
Paradise Road
1997
script advisor
Thanks
Title
Year
Status
Character
Don't Say No Until I Finish Talking: The Story of Richard D. Zanuck
2013
Documentary special thanks
Jessica Tandy: Theatre Legend to Screen Star
2003
Video documentary short very special thanks
Miss Daisy's Journey: From Stage to Screen
2003
Video documentary short very special thanks
Self
Title
Year
Status
Character
Don't Say No Until I Finish Talking: The Story of Richard D. Zanuck
2013
Documentary
Himself - Interviewee
Charlie Rose
1999-2011
TV Series
Himself - Guest
Working in the Theatre
1987-2011
TV Series documentary
Himself
The People v. Leo Frank
2009
Himself - playwright of 'Parade'
The Jewish Americans
2008
TV Mini-Series documentary
Himself
Jessica Tandy: Theatre Legend to Screen Star
2003
Video documentary short
Himself - Writer: 'Driving Miss Daisy'
Miss Daisy's Journey: From Stage to Screen
2003
Video documentary short
Himself - Writer
The 53rd Annual Tony Awards
1999
TV Special
Himself - Winner: Best Book of a Musical
The 51st Annual Tony Awards
1997
TV Special
Himself - Winner: Best Play
The 62nd Annual Academy Awards
1990
TV Special
Himself - Winner: Best Adapted Screenplay
Byline Showtime
1988
TV Series documentary short
Himself
Won Awards
Year
Award
Ceremony
Nomination
Movie
1990
Oscar
Academy Awards, USA
Best Writing, Screenplay Based on Material from Another Medium
Driving Miss Daisy (1989)
1990
WGA Award (Screen)
Writers Guild of America, USA
Best Screenplay Based on Material from Another Medium
Driving Miss Daisy (1989)
Nominated Awards
Year
Award
Ceremony
Nomination
Movie
1991
BAFTA Film Award
BAFTA Awards
Best Screenplay - Adapted
Driving Miss Daisy (1989)
Known for movies
Driving Miss Daisy (1989) as Writer
Mystic Pizza (1988) as Writer
Rich in Love (1992) as Writer
Miss Daisy's Journey: From Stage to Screen (2003) as Thanks
$1.3 Million
