Frederic Raphael

Award won Role or nomination

1. 1931 age 0

   Born

2. 1965 age 34

   CreditDarlingscreenwriter

3. 1967 age 36

   CreditTwo for the Roadscreenwriter

4. 1999 age 68

   CreditEyes Wide Shutscreenwriter

• AMAngus MacInnes1 title
• VSVinessa Shaw1 title
• JCJulie Christie1 title
• SKStanley Kubrick1 title
• GLGyörgy Ligeti1 title
• TETreva Etienne1 title
• MAMarit Allen1 title
• RŠRade Šerbedžija1 title
• AFAlbert Finney1 title
• HMHenry Mancini1 title

• The Glittering Prizes

  Frederic Raphael, CC BY-SA 4.0

• A screenwriter is wise to have a life elsewhere.

  Frederic Raphael, CC BY-SA 4.0

• Modest successes are better known as failures.

  Frederic Raphael, CC BY-SA 4.0

• Who now reads novels as a guide to life and love? Everyone wants to star in his or her own movie.

  Frederic Raphael, CC BY-SA 4.0

• Kubrick wasn’t making a movie when I was working with him. He was preparing to make a movie, which is something quite different. Part of the charm of working with a director like Kubrick, if there is or was a director like him, was that during the privileged period before he even showed (the script) to the studio, it was just between him and me. You are sort of creating a game in the ball court of theory. There is no film being shot; there is no budget. It was in many ways a very exciting time. It’s also very fraught, particularly for a writer, because you don’t know if it’s going to be of any point.

  Frederic Raphael, CC BY-SA 4.0

• Although he was an intelligent man, I don’t think that he was a supreme intelligence. He had a sense of having missed a university education. He was working when he was 17. It may have been his choice because his father was not a poor man. I would not, to say the least, call him a frank man. He talked about a great many things and then would occasionally reveal little anecdotal aspects of his own life. He was not interested in our becoming buddies. He was avid for knowledge, which he hoped I possessed, and which I tried to give the impression I did. I don’t have any notion whatever of being omniscient.

  Frederic Raphael, CC BY-SA 4.0