Sidney Aaron "Paddy" Chayefsky was an American playwright, screenwriter, and novelist. He is the only person to have won three solo Academy Awards for Best Screenplay for "Marty" (1955), "The Hospital" (1971), and "Network" (1976). He is the only person to have won both the Academy Awards for adapted and original screenplays. He was one of the most renowned dramatists of the Golden Age of Television. His intimate, realistic scripts provided a naturalistic style of television drama for the 1950s, dramatizing the lives of ordinary Americans.
Network
(Screenplay)
The Goddess
(Screenplay)
Paint Your Wagon
(Adaptation)
Altered States
(Screenplay)
Altered States
(Novel)
The Hospital
(Writer)
The Americanization of Emily
(Screenplay)
Marty
(Screenplay)
Middle of the Night
(Screenplay)
Middle of the Night
(Theatre Play)
The Catered Affair
(Teleplay)
Middle of the Night
(Writer)
As Young as You Feel
(Story)
Ein Zug nach Manhattan
(Writer)
The Way We Were
(Additional Writing)
The Mother
(Writer)
Marty
(Associate Producer)
The Bachelor Party
(Screenplay)
The Bachelor Party
(Story)
The True Glory
(Writer)
Sarah Cooper: Everything's Fine
(Thanks)
Marty
(Writer)
The Hospital
(Producer)
The Bachelor Party
(Associate Producer)
The Bachelor Party
(Writer)
Gideon
(Theatre Play)
Altered States
(Novel)
The Philco Television Playhouse
(Writer)
Goodyear Television Playhouse
(Writer)
Performance
(Writer)