Harold Jacob Smith
Born	(1912-07-02)July 2, 1912 New York City, United States
Died	December 28, 1970(1970-12-28) (aged 58) Los Angeles, California, United States
Occupation(s)	Writer, screenwriter
Years active	1957–1970

Harold Jacob Smith (July 2, 1912 – December 28, 1970) was an American screenwriter. His screenplay for The Defiant Ones won the Academy Award for Best Original Screenplay in 1958.^[1]

Filmography

Films

Swiss Family Robinson: Lost in the Jungle (2000)
Inherit the Wind (1999)
The Defiant Ones (1986)
The McMasters (1970)
Inherit the Wind (1960)
Enchanted Island (1958)
The Defiant Ones (1958)
The River's Edge (1957)
It Came from Beneath the Sea (1955)
Customs Agent (1950)
Black Eagle (1948)
Thunderhoof (1948)
Dangerous Business (1946)
Night Editor (1946)
Music in Manhattan (1944)
She's a Soldier Too (1944)
Good Luck, Mr. Yates (1943)

TV

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Awards for Harold Jacob Smith

v t e Academy Award for Best Original Screenplay
1940–1975	Preston Sturges (1940) Herman J. Mankiewicz and Orson Welles (1941) Michael Kanin and Ring Lardner Jr. (1942) Norman Krasna (1943) Lamar Trotti (1944) Richard Schweizer (1945) Muriel Box and Sydney Box (1946) Sidney Sheldon (1947) No award (1948) Robert Pirosh (1949) Charles Brackett, D. M. Marshman Jr., and Billy Wilder (1950) Alan Jay Lerner (1951) T. E. B. Clarke (1952) Charles Brackett, Richard L. Breen, and Walter Reisch (1953) Budd Schulberg (1954) Sonya Levien and William Ludwig (1955) Albert Lamorisse (1956) George Wells (1957) Nathan E. Douglas and Harold Jacob Smith (1958) Clarence Greene, Maurice Richlin, Russell Rouse, and Stanley Shapiro (1959) I. A. L. Diamond and Billy Wilder (1960) William Inge (1961) Ennio de Concini, Pietro Germi, and Alfredo Giannetti (1962) James Webb (1963) S. H. Barnett, Peter Stone and Frank Tarloff (1964) Frederic Raphael (1965) Claude Lelouch and Pierre Uytterhoeven (1966) William Rose (1967) Mel Brooks (1968) William Goldman (1969) Francis Ford Coppola and Edmund H. North (1970) Paddy Chayefsky (1971) Jeremy Larner (1972) David S. Ward (1973) Robert Towne (1974) Frank Pierson (1975)
1976–2000	Paddy Chayefsky (1976) Woody Allen and Marshall Brickman (1977) Robert C. Jones, Waldo Salt, and Nancy Dowd (1978) Steve Tesich (1979) Bo Goldman (1980) Colin Welland (1981) John Briley (1982) Horton Foote (1983) Robert Benton (1984) William Kelley, Pamela Wallace, and Earl W. Wallace (1985) Woody Allen (1986) John Patrick Shanley (1987) Ronald Bass and Barry Morrow (1988) Tom Schulman (1989) Bruce Joel Rubin (1990) Callie Khouri (1991) Neil Jordan (1992) Jane Campion (1993) Quentin Tarantino and Roger Avary (1994) Christopher McQuarrie (1995) Joel Coen and Ethan Coen (1996) Ben Affleck and Matt Damon (1997) Marc Norman and Tom Stoppard (1998) Alan Ball (1999) Cameron Crowe (2000)
2001–present	Julian Fellowes (2001) Pedro Almodóvar (2002) Sofia Coppola (2003) Pierre Bismuth, Michel Gondry and Charlie Kaufman (2004) Paul Haggis and Bobby Moresco (2005) Michael Arndt (2006) Diablo Cody (2007) Dustin Lance Black (2008) Mark Boal (2009) David Seidler (2010) Woody Allen (2011) Quentin Tarantino (2012) Spike Jonze (2013) Alejandro G. Iñárritu, Nicolás Giacobone, Alexander Dinelaris Jr., and Armando Bo (2014) Tom McCarthy and Josh Singer (2015) Kenneth Lonergan (2016) Jordan Peele (2017) Nick Vallelonga, Brian Currie and Peter Farrelly (2018) Bong Joon-ho and Han Jin-won (2019) Emerald Fennell (2020) Kenneth Branagh (2021) Daniel Kwan and Daniel Scheinert (2022)

Edgar Allan Poe Award for Best Motion Picture Screenplay

John Paxton (1946)
Anthony Veiller (1947)
John Paxton (1948)
Jerome Cady, Jay Dratler, Leonard Hoffman and Quentin Reynolds (1949)
Mel Dinelli and Cornell Woolrich (1950)
Ben Maddow (1951)
Michael Wilson (1952)
Michael Wilson and Otto Lang (1953)
Sydney Boehm (1954)
John Michael Hayes (1955)
Joseph Hayes (1956)
Reginald Rose (1958)
Nathan E. Douglas and Harold Jacob Smith (1959)
Ernest Lehman (1960)
Joseph Stefano (1961)
William Archibald and Truman Capote (1962)
Peter Stone (1964)
Henry Farrell and Lukas Heller (1965)
Paul Dehn and Guy Trosper (1966)
William Goldman (1967)
Stirling Silliphant (1968)
Harry Kleiner and Alan Trustman (1969)
Costa Gavras and Jorge Semprún (1970)
Elio Petri and Ugo Pirro (1971)
Ernest Tidyman (1972)
Anthony Shaffer (1973)
Anthony Perkins and Stephen Sondheim (1974)
Robert Towne (1975)
David Rayfiel and Lorenzo Semple, Jr. (1976)
Ernest Lehman (1977)
Robert Benton (1978)
William Goldman (1979)
Michael Crichton (1980)
Joseph Wambaugh (1981)
Jeffrey Alan Fiskin (1982)
Barrie Keeffe (1983)
Dennis Potter (1984)
Charles Fuller (1985)
William Kelley and Earl W. Wallace (1986)
E. Max Frye (1987)
Jim Kouf (1988)
Errol Morris (1989)
Daniel Waters (1990)
Donald E. Westlake (1991)
Ted Tally (1992)
Michael Tolkin (1993)
Ebbe Roe Smith (1994)
Quentin Tarantino (1995)
Christopher McQuarrie (1996)
Billy Bob Thornton (1997)
Curtis Hanson and Brian Helgeland (1998)
Scott Frank and Elmore Leonard (1999)
Guy Ritchie (2000)
Stephen Gaghan and Simon Moore (2001)
Christopher Nolan (2002)
Bill Condon (2003)
Steven Knight (2004)
Jean-Pierre Jeunet and Sébastien Japrisot (2005)
Stephen Gaghan and Robert Baer (2006)
William Monahan (2007)
Tony Gilroy (2008)
Martin McDonagh (2009)

v t e New York Film Critics Circle Award for Best Screenplay
1956–1975	James Poe, John Farrow and S. J. Perelman (1956) No Award (1957) Nedrick Young and Harold Jacob Smith (1958) Wendell Mayes (1959) I. A. L. Diamond and Billy Wilder (1960) Abby Mann (1961) No Award (1962) Irving Ravetch and Harriet Frank Jr. (1963) Harold Pinter (1964) No Award (1965) Robert Bolt (1966) David Newman and Robert Benton (1967) Lorenzo Semple Jr. (1968) Paul Mazursky and Larry Tucker (1969) Éric Rohmer (1970) Larry McMurtry and Peter Bogdanovich / Penelope Gilliatt (1971) Ingmar Bergman (1972) George Lucas, Gloria Katz and Willard Huyck (1973) Ingmar Bergman (1974) François Truffaut, Suzanne Schiffman and Jean Gruault (1975)
1976–2000	Paddy Chayefsky (1976) Woody Allen and Marshall Brickman (1977) Paul Mazursky (1978) Steve Tesich (1979) Bo Goldman (1980) John Guare (1981) Larry Gelbart and Murray Schisgal (1982) Bill Forsyth (1983) Robert Benton (1984) Woody Allen (1985) Hanif Kureishi (1986) James L. Brooks (1987) Ron Shelton (1988) Gus Van Sant and Daniel Yost (1989) Ruth Prawer Jhabvala (1990) David Cronenberg (1991) Neil Jordan (1992) Jane Campion (1993) Quentin Tarantino and Roger Avary (1994) Emma Thompson (1995) Albert Brooks and Monica Johnson (1996) Curtis Hanson and Brian Helgeland (1997) Marc Norman and Tom Stoppard (1998) Alexander Payne and Jim Taylor (1999) Kenneth Lonergan (2000)
2001–present	Julian Fellowes (2001) Charlie and Donald Kaufman (2002) Craig Lucas (2003) Alexander Payne and Jim Taylor (2004) Noah Baumbach (2005) Peter Morgan (2006) Joel Coen and Ethan Coen (2007) Jenny Lumet (2008) Jesse Armstrong, Simon Blackwell, Armando Iannucci and Tony Roche (2009) Stuart Blumberg and Lisa Cholodenko (2010) Steven Zaillian, Aaron Sorkin and Stan Chervin (2011) Tony Kushner (2012) Eric Warren Singer and David O. Russell (2013) Wes Anderson (2014) Phyllis Nagy (2015) Kenneth Lonergan (2016) Paul Thomas Anderson (2017) Paul Schrader (2018) Quentin Tarantino (2019) Eliza Hittman (2020) Paul Thomas Anderson (2021) Martin McDonagh (2022) Samy Burch and Alex Mechanik (2023)

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