Gotfryd, Bernard, photographer · Public domain

William Goldman won the Academy Award for Best Original Screenplay for Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid and for Best Adapted Screenplay for All the President's Men, and later adapted his own novel The Princess Bride into the 1987 film; all three were later inducted into the National Film Registry. Across seven decades and sixteen novels he adapted his own thrillers, including Marathon Man and Magic, and Stephen King's Misery, which he also later brought to the stage. His screenwriting collected three Writers Guild Awards, two Edgar Awards, and a Hugo Award.