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There have been several fictional nominations for Academy Awards: 1957 - Robert Rich - Academy Award for Best Story for The Brave One
- Rich won the award that year, although he was actually a cover for blacklisted writer Dalton Trumbo. Shortly before his death, Trumbo revealed the much-suspected truth.
1985 - P.H. Vazak - Academy Award for Writing Adapted Screenplay for Greystoke: The Legend of Tarzan
- Actually Robert Towne, who used his dog's name as a pseudonym.
1997 - Roderick Jaynes - Academy Award for Film Editing for Fargo
- Actually writer-director brothers Joel and Ethan Coen, who have edited several of their films under the name.
2003 - Donald KaufmanDonald Kaufman is the fictional twin brother of screenwriter Charlie Kaufman, and was created for the film Adaptation. He was also given a writing credit and was nominated for an Academy Award. He tragically "passed away" during preproduction of Adaptatio - Academy Award for Writing Adapted Screenplay for Adaptation.
- Co-nominated with his brother Charlie KaufmanCharles Stuart Kaufman (born November 1958) is an accomplished screenwriter, identified by Premiere magazine as one of the 100 most powerful people in Hollywood. He got his start in television, writing two episodes for Chris Elliott's Get a Life as well a - in fact, there is no Donald Kaufman, and the screenplay was written by Charlie alone. Donald was the first fictitious nominee not to be a cover for a real person. (Both appear as characters in the film.)
*Nominated for Academy Awards
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