Oscar-winning screenwriter William Goldman criticized the film business.

Academy Award winner William Goldman Butch Cassidy and Sundance Kid and All men in the presidency Despite being one of Hollywood's most successful screenwriters, a frank critic of the movie industry, he died in Manhattan on Friday. He was 87 years old.

The cause was colon cancer and pneumonia, and his partner Susan Burden said.

In his long career, which began in the 1960s and lasted into the 21st century, Goldman Sachs also wrote popular cinematic scenarios. Unhappiness, Too far leg, Stepford wife and Chaplin. He was also a prolific novelist, and some of his scenarios were adapted from his novels. Princess bride and Marathon Man.

Goldman Sachs became a celebrity in a business where writers typically operate in a relatively obscure environment. In his prime, his name was as much asset to the production and success of the film as directors and stars. Eight of his films earned more than $ 100 million each in the country.

In the Guardian's 2009 profile, critics called Joe Queenan "the world's best and most famous screenwriter," Goldman sold his first scenario in Hollywood in the late 1960s. Butch Cassidy, And $ 400,000 (equivalent to $ 2.85 million from $ 2018) for 20th century Fox.

Goldman wrote a story in 1965 at Princeton University about two outlaws trying to avoid law in Old West while writing creative.

Published in 1969, Butch Cassidy, Paul Newman starred as Cassidy, Robert Redford as Sundance Kid, led a relatively unusual Redford to superstardom, and Goldman as a major Hollywood player.

Despite his Hollywood success, Mr. Goldman saw the movie business as a jaunt. As he often pointed out, he thought of himself as a novelist who wrote a screenplay, not a screenwriter. He wrote a novel using pen names, including more than 20 novels and more than 20 screenplays.

He wrote stage plays, but he had little success. In the early 1960s, two locations opened on Broadway, but closed quickly. In the latter half of his career, he wrote his own script Unhappiness, A story about Stephen King's thriller Broadway, but disappointing.

Goldman decided to avoid living in New York, not Los Angeles, and thinking of Hollywood movies as distracting and unreasonable.

"The script is not an art form," in a 1983 Publishers Weekly interview, his best-selling insider's view of Hollywood, The Adventures of Screen Trade, Published. "It's a skill, it's a craft, it's a structure, it's a structure, not a knock, it's not easy, but if it's all, if you write a scenario play, it's ultimately insulting the soul. It will be, but it will not be happy. "

in The adventure of screen trade, Goldman Sachs headlined his thin skin industry, which became famous as he declared, "Nobody knows," a concise evaluation of the film business accepted by both Hollywood interior and film critics. As for his comments, he wrote, "One person in the field of the whole movie does not know what is certain."

Goldman Sachs did not think of himself as a talented writer many times, but he showed a skillful encounter with a storyteller while writing a scenario. "I have a theory that is attracted to affection," he told the New York Times in an interview in 1978. "I have a facility for screenwriting that works very well and I needed something other than a physically difficult and time-consuming novel to use, because I wanted my story and people did not seem to want my script. "

William Goldman was born on August 12, 1931, in Highland Park, Illinois, to General Morris and General Marion (Weil) Goldman. His father was a successful businessman with alcoholism. As a child, William Goldman watched a number of movies at the famous Alcyon Theater in Highland Park. He later told me that he had a lot of his best ideas.

Mr. Goldman has his own Butch Cassidy Although Goldman Sachs is virtually unknown in Hollywood, Evarts Ziegler, who is in charge of the bidding war for scripts, provides scripts for "good agent roles." The film won the Academy Award for Best Achievement in 1969, including the best original scenarios.

Among his many novels, Goldman Sachs Princess brideBut it needed about 15 years of mistakes and a bad start for his adaptation to make it on the screen. It was ultimately supervised by Rob Reiner, who is much less experienced than Goldman as his screenwriter. "I was walking in the air," Reiner said. "William Goldman said I could do this."

The 25th anniversary of 2012 Princess bride Casting involving Mandy Patinkin and Robin Wright, Goldman was asked whether he planned the sequel. "I made it and I do not know what to do desperately," he said. "I want to make more than I did not write."

Conversely, Mr. Goldman was very disappointed with his experience. All men in the presidencyWashington Post reporters Bob Woodward (Redford) and Karl Bernstein (Dustin Hoffman) are based on a book on the role of Watergate in exposing the case. It's a problem project that Goldman faces with Redford, a performer and performer, and later he missed Mr. Goldman's involvement.

Goldman's scenario includes a well-known line "Follow the money" in the book, and he won his second Academy Award for the best-fit scenario. But he later wrote: "If you live your life, what would you change?" I would say that I would have written the scenario I wrote correctly. I would not have come close to all the presidents. "

Along with Jim, he survived by his daughter Jenny Goldman and grandson. Another daughter, Susanna Goldman, died in 2015. Marriage with Ilene Jones ended in divorce in 1991, 30 years later.

Goldman wrote in 2009 that Queenan "is a classic example of a creative genius who has respected the rules but has lived his life as if the rules did not apply".

Goldman has his philosophy of writing The Adventures of Screen Trade"As a writer, I believe that all basic human truths are known. Trying to do what we can to the best of our ability can reach the truth from our own angle and re-illuminate it in other ways as desired. "