Joan Harrison

Biography

Joan Harrison (20 June 1907 – 14 August 1994) was an English screenwriter and producer. She became the first female screenwriter to be nominated for the Best Original Screenplay Oscar when the category was introduced in 1940, and was the first screenwriter to receive two Academy Award nominations in the same year in separate categories, for co-writing the screenplay for the films Foreign Correspondent (1940) (original) and Rebecca (1940) (adapted), both directed by Alfred Hitchcock, with whom she had a long professional relationship. From Wikipedia.

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Awards and Honors

Critical Favorites

1940Winner

Best Writing

Rebecca

1941Nominee

Best Writing

Suspicion

1940Nominee

Best Writing

Foreign Correspondent

Career Highlights

1942Highlight

Best Writing

Saboteur

1939Highlight

Best Writing

Jamaica Inn

Video

FeaturettePatricia Hitchcock Reflects On Her Father’s Classic, REBECCA.

Rebecca

TrailerSuspicion - Trailer

Suspicion

FeaturetteThree Reasons: Foreign Correspondent

Foreign Correspondent