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Bill Condon '72 won the 1999 Academy Award for Best Screen-play-Adaptation for his film Gods and Monsters. Written and directed by Condon, the film chronicles the life of retired movie director James Whale, played by Sir Ian McKellen. Condon was also nominated in 2003 for an Academy Award for Best Writing, Adapted Screenplay (Chicago). Chicago earned him a nomination for a Golden Globe for Best Motion Picture Screenplay that same year.

Condon is also well known for directing the 2006 hit Dreamgirls and the 2004 drama Kinsey, for which he was nominated for Best Original Screenplay by the Writers Guild of America (2005). He was also nominated for an Emmy as a lead writer for The 81st Annual Academy Awards (2009). His most recent work includes directing The Fifth Estate (2013) and The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn (Part 1 and Part 2).




Above: Bill Condon '72 (center) on the set of Gods and Monsters with Curtis Harrington (left) and Sir Ian McKellan (right) in 1998. (Source: godsandmonsters.net)
 

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Dominick Tavella '71 won a 2003 Oscar for Best Sound for his work in Chicago. Tavella has also been nominated three times for a Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Sound Mixing for Nonfiction Programming: The National Parks: America's Best Idea (2013), The War (2007), and Jazz (2001).

Tavella has played a role in sound mixing and editing for a variety of popular movies throughout the years: A Bronx Tale (1993), Twelve Monkeys (1995), The Cider House Rules (1999), Mamma Mia (2008), The Wrestler (2008), and Black Swan (2010). Most recently, Tavella served as the sound re-recording mixer for The Wolf of Wall Street (2013).




Above: Dominick Tavella '71 (center), along with David Lee and Michael Minkler, earned the 2003 Academy Award for Best Sound for the film Chicago. (Source: imdb.com)

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Frank Nugent '25 was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Writing of a Screenplay in 1953 for The Quiet Man (1952). Though it did not win that particular award, The Quiet Man, starring John Wayne and Maureen O'Hara and directed by John Ford, went on to earn numerous other accolades. In 2013, the film was selected for preservation in the United States National Film Registry by the Library of Congress as being culturally and historically significant.

Nugent's career in writing screenplays and offering film critiques was a successful one. He earned the Writers Guild of America's award for Best Written American Comedy in 1953 for The Quiet Man and again in 1956 for Mister Roberts (1955). He was nominated for the same award in 1949 for Fort Apache (1948) and again in 1950 for She Wore A Yellow Ribbon (1949).

A more complete summary of the life and works of Frank Nugent '25 can be found in the January 2014 Regis Centennial News Article titled Frank Nugent '25 and His Memorable Screenplays.

Above: A 1952 movie poster advertising The Quiet Man, written by Frank Nugent '25 (courtesy filmsite.org)