List of Academy Award nominees presented under false names
There have been several fictional people or people using false names nominated for actual Academy Awards, in several cases because the actual winners were blacklisted at the time. This list is current as of the 94th Academy Awards.
WinnersEdit
- Despite not having written the screenplay and not even speaking English, Boulle (who had written the novel on which the film was based) was credited because the film's actual writers, Carl Foreman and Michael Wilson, had been blacklisted as communist sympathizers. On December 11, 1984, the Board of Governors voted posthumous Oscars to the duo.<ref>"OSCARS GO TO WRITERS FOR 'KWAI'", New York Times, March 16, 1985, http://select.nytimes.com/gst/abstract.html?res=F40F15F8345D0C758DDDAA0894DD484D81</ref>
Nathan E. Douglas
- 1958 Best Writing, Story and Screenplay – Written Directly for the Screen for The Defiant Ones
- Nedrick Young and Harold Jacob Smith co-wrote the screenplay, but Young was blacklisted and used a pseudonym for his screen credit.<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation
|CitationClass=web }}</ref> As an inside joke, director Stanley Kramer cast Young and Smith in bit parts as truck drivers and had their screen credit appear while they were on screen together. In 1993, AMPAS restored Young's credit for this work.
- 1953 Best Story for Roman Holiday
- The name was used as a cover for blacklisted writer Dalton Trumbo.<ref name=Trumbo>"Acad honors Trumbo for 'Roman Holiday'" Variety, May 12, 1993, http://www.variety.com/article/VR106758.html?categoryid=13&cs=1</ref> On December 15, 1992, the Board of Governors voted to change the records and recognize Trumbo. Hunter's name was removed. However, Hunter's son, director Tim Hunter, refused to cede the award to Trumbo,Template:Citation needed so the Academy presented a second Academy Award.
Robert Rich
- 1956 Best Story for The Brave One
- This was another cover for Trumbo.<ref name=Trumbo/> Shortly before his death, Trumbo revealed the much-suspected truth.Template:Citation needed
NomineesEdit
Roderick Jaynes
- 1997 Best Film Editing for Fargo
- 2007 Best Film Editing for No Country for Old Men
- Writer-director brothers Joel and Ethan Coen have edited several of their films under this name.<ref>Template:Cite magazine</ref>
Adrien Joyce
- Carole Eastman wrote the film under this pseudonym with director Bob Rafelson.
Donald Kaufman
- 2003 Best Writing Adapted Screenplay for Adaptation.
- Donald Kaufman was nominated along with his "brother" Charlie. In fact, Donald does not exist; the screenplay was written by Charlie alone, but credited to both. Donald was the first fictitious nominee not to be a cover for a real person. (Both appear as characters in the film.)<ref name=AP-2003-2-13>Associated Press via the Augusta Chronicle: http://chronicle.augusta.com/stories/021303/fea_adaptation.shtml</ref>
John Mac McMurphy
- 2013 Best Film Editing for Dallas Buyers Club
- Director Jean-Marc Vallée edited his film using this pseudonym, inspired by the name of the character played by Jack Nicholson in the movie One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest.<ref>"Oscar nom for Montreal 'Dallas Buyers Club' editor", Canadian Press in The Record, January 16, 2014.</ref>
P.H. Vazak
- 1985 Best Writing Adapted Screenplay for Greystoke: The Legend of Tarzan, Lord of the Apes.
- Due to his disapproval of the final filmed script, Robert Towne used his dog's name as a pseudonym instead.<ref name=AP-2003-2-13/>
See alsoEdit
- Alan Smithee, a pseudonym used by directors who don't want their name attached to a film