Gore Vidal

Award won Role or nomination

1. 1925 age 0

   Born

2. 1959 age 34

   CreditBen-Hurscreenwriter

   CreditSuddenly, Last Summer

   CreditSuddenly, Last Summerscreenwriter

3. 1966 age 41

   CreditIs Paris Burning?screenwriter

4. 1979 age 54

   CreditCaligulascreenwriter

5. 1997 age 72

   CreditGattaca

6. 2012 age 86

   Died

• FCFrancis Ford Coppola1 title
• UTUma Thurman1 title
• SSStacey Sher1 title
• DDDanny DeVito1 title
• NBNino Baragli1 title
• XBXander Berkeley1 title
• EKElias Koteas1 title
• AKAram Khachaturian1 title
• TSTony Shalhoub1 title
• SISławomir Idziak1 title

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• And though I rather suspect that in a century’s time the novel will be as rare and private an art form as poetry today or that delicate and laborious process by which dedicated men fire glass with color, it will always be worth the doing.

  Gore Vidal, CC BY-SA 4.0

• If satire is to be effective, the audience must be aware of the things satirized; if they are not, the joke falls flat. Unfortunately for our native satirists, the American mass audience possess very little general information on any subject. Each individual knows his own immediate world, but as various research polls continually inform us, he holds little knowledge in common with others.

  Gore Vidal, CC BY-SA 4.0

• The size of the population of course has much to do with this collective ignorance. When Aristophanes made a satiric point, he could be confident that his audience would appreciate his slyest nuance because in a small community each citizen was bound to share with his fellows a certain amount of general information, literary, religious, and political. National units today are too large and, in America at least, education is too bland to hope for much change.

  Gore Vidal, CC BY-SA 4.0

• After the script was ready there were the usual trials, delays, problems of temperament: each participant confident the others had gone into secret league to contrive his professional ruin (and on occasion cabals did flourish…the theater is a child’s world).

  Gore Vidal, CC BY-SA 4.0

• I too feel hurt at the sort of reputation which hovers about my part of this venture. I cannot honestly make much of a case for myself. I played the game stolidly according to rules I abhor. But in extenuation I should like to say what many others have said before me: the theater and its writers are seriously, perhaps fatally, hampered by economic pressure. Because it costs too much to put on a play, one works in a state of hysteria. Everything is geared to success. Yet art is mostly failure. And it is only from a succession of daring, flawed works that the occasional masterwork comes. But in our theater to fail is death and the author of a play which fails is regarded with much the same sympathy as the murderer of a child.

  Gore Vidal, CC BY-SA 4.0

• KRETON: Well, you know how one feels about history, the glamour of the past; I expected to hear everybody talking about great events—battles, poets, that kind of thing—but of course you don’t. You just squabble among yourselves.

  Gore Vidal, CC BY-SA 4.0