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Ernest Lehman
American screenwriter
1915 – 2005aged 89
Ernest Lehman was nominated for six Academy Awards for screenwriting without ever winning competitively, then became the first screenwriter to receive an Honorary Academy Award, given in 2001 in recognition of a body of work spanning four decades. He wrote North by Northwest, his only original screenplay for Alfred Hitchcock, and later Family Plot, both of which won him Edgar Awards from the Mystery Writers of America for suspense writing.