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Penelope Gilliatt (/ˈdʒɪliət/; née Penelope Ann Douglass Conner; 25 March 1932 – 9 May 1993) was an English novelist, short story writer, screenwriter, and film critic.She was born in London. Her father, Cyril Conner, was originally a barrister, while her mother was Marie Stephanie Douglass. Both came from Newcastle upon Tyne. Penelope Gilliatt herself was brought up in Northumberland, where her father was director of the BBC in the North East from 1938–41, and she retained a lifelong love of the Roman Wall country. John Osborne, for a time her husband, once said in answer to her phone-call, that he was giving his all "for the burghers of Geordieland, your compatriots."Gilliatt wrote several novels, including One by One (1965),A State of Change (1967),and Sunday, Bloody Sunday. Her short stories were collected in Nobody's Business (1972).As a film critic, Gilliatt wrote numerous reviews for The Observer before she began a column that ran for years in The New Yorker, in which she alternated for six-month intervals with Pauline Kael as that publication's chief film critic. Gilliatt's column ran from late spring to early fall, and Kael's for the remainder of the year. Her career as a film critic for The New Yorker ended in 1979 after it was determined that a Profile she had written of Graham Greene contained unattributed passages taken from a piece about Greene that had appeared in The Nation two years before. The fact checker had warned editor William Shawn of the plagiarism but Shawn published the article anyway. Following its appearance, Greene said that Gilliatt’s ”so-called Profile” of him was “inaccurate” and the product of a “rather wild imagination.”In addition to her criticism, Gilliatt is remembered for writing the screenplay for Sunday, Bloody Sunday (1971). She won several Best Screenplay awards for the film, including the New York Film Critics Circle Award, Writers Guild of America, USA, and Writers' Guild of Great Britain. The screenplay was also nominated for an Academy Award and a BAFTA.Her novel Mortal Matters (1983), much concerned with shipbuilding and suffragettes, is largely set in Northumberland and Newcastle. There are several pages devoted to Hexham, and numerous mentions of Newcastle locations. She celebrates the achievements of the North East, including the vessels Mauretania and Charles Parsons' Turbinia. Gilliatt also praises the Torrens, the Sunderland-built ship on which Joseph Conrad served for two years from 1891.
[on Ronald Colman]: He is the only actor I can think of who could make a toothbrush look as though it were a cigarette-holder.
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[on It's a Mad Mad Mad Mad World (1963)]: "It's A Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World" is about greed and feminine hysteria, and about how people behave in a panic, which, in this picture, is always badly. Every comic convention has been turned sour. Slipping on a banana skin breaks bones, and it is the pain of their enemies that makes the characters laugh. The title is a hoax. It should be "We're Lousy, Lousy, Lousy, Lousy People".
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"Bonnie and Clyde" could look like a celebration of gangster glamor only to a man with a head full of shavings.
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The New York Times film critic Vincent Canby was for many years her companion.
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Although she is the sole credited writer on "Sunday, Bloody Sunday", several people have suggested that others were involved. Two writers, David Sherwin and Ken Levison, are given a non-specific acknowledgment in the end credits of the film, and Sherwin has several times said that he did a full rewrite on the script. When the film opened in London in 1971, the review in "The Times" newspaper mentioned this alleged contribution; there was an immediate retraction after a complaint by Penelope Gilliatt, who was always most insistent that she alone wrote the film. After her death, director John Schlesinger was extremely vituperative about her, according to his biographer William Mann, who also claims there was extensive rewriting.
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Also well-known as novelist and short-story writer.
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A profile of novelist Graham Greene which she wrote for "The New Yorker" so incensed its subject that he demanded (and received) an apology, a very rare thing in that magazine's history.
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Also well-known as film critic, notably for "The Observer" (London) and "The New Yorker" (New York).
Writer
Title
Year
Status
Character
Centre Play
1975
TV Series writer - 1 episode
Sunday Bloody Sunday
1971
screenplay
Contrasts
1968
TV Series based on a story by - 1 episode
The Western
1959
TV Movie script
Self
Title
Year
Status
Character
Panorama
1959
TV Series documentary
Herself
Won Awards
Year
Award
Ceremony
Nomination
Movie
1972
WGA Award (Screen)
Writers Guild of America, USA
Best Drama Written Directly for the Screen
Sunday Bloody Sunday (1971)
1972
Writers' Guild of Great Britain Award
Writers' Guild of Great Britain
Best British Original Screenplay
Sunday Bloody Sunday (1971)
1971
NSFC Award
National Society of Film Critics Awards, USA
Best Screenplay
Sunday Bloody Sunday (1971)
1971
NYFCC Award
New York Film Critics Circle Awards
Best Screenplay
Sunday Bloody Sunday (1971)
Nominated Awards
Year
Award
Ceremony
Nomination
Movie
1972
Oscar
Academy Awards, USA
Best Writing, Story and Screenplay Based on Factual Material or Material Not Previously Published or Produced