Biography
Bo Goldman (born Robert Spencer Goldman; September 10, 1932 – July 25, 2023) was an American screenwriter and playwright. He received numerous accolades including two Academy Awards, two Golden Globe Awards, two Writers Guild of America Awards as well as the Lifetime Achievement Award in 1998. He also received two BAFTA Award nominations. Goldman received two Academy Awards for his screenplays of One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest (1975) and Melvin and Howard (1980). He also wrote The Rose (1979),...
Known For
Complete Filmography

Rules Don't Apply
2016
Story
It's Hollywood, 1958. Small town beauty queen and devout Baptist virgin Marla Mabrey, under contract to the infamous Howard Hughes, arrives in Los Ang...

Making of One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest
2009
as Self
Documentary on the film "One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest"

Kyon Ki...
2005
Original Story
After accidentally killing his fiancee, Anand becomes insane and is admitted to a psychiatric hospital. Tanvi, his doctor, falls in love with him, but...

Meet Joe Black
1998
Screenplay
Bill Parrish has it all - success, wealth and power. Days before his 65th birthday, he receives a visit from a mysterious stranger, Joe Black, who soo...

City Hall
1996
Writer
The accidental shooting of a boy in New York leads to an investigation by the Deputy Mayor, and unexpectedly far-reaching consequences.

Scent of a Woman
1992
Screenplay
Charlie Simms is a student at a private preparatory school who comes from a poor family. To earn the money for his flight home to Gresham, Oregon for ...

Little Nikita
1988
Screenplay
An FBI agent works to uncover an all-American family as Soviet sleeper agents, and gets caught up in friendship with their oblivious teenage son.

Thalavattam
1986
Original Story
Vinod/Vinu (played by Mohanlal) is mentally ill and is hospitalized in the institution run by Dr. Ravindran ( M G Soman). Story progresses as Vinod re...

Swing Shift
1984
Additional Writing
In 1941 America, Kay and her husband are happy enough until he enlists after Pearl Harbor. Against his wishes, she takes a job at the local aircraft p...

Shoot the Moon
1982
Writer
After fifteen years of marriage, an affluent couple divorce and take up with new partners.

Melvin and Howard
1980
Writer
The story of hard-luck Melvin Dummar, who claimed to have received a will naming him an heir to the fortune of Howard Hughes.

The Rose
1979
Screenplay
Rock-and-roll singer Mary Rose Foster's romantic relationships and mental health are continuously imperilled by the demands of life on the road.

One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest
1975
Screenplay
A petty criminal fakes insanity to serve his sentence in a mental ward rather than prison. He soon finds himself as a leader to the other patients—and...

June Moon
1974
Producer
In this rousing satire a native upstate New York clerk comes to 1920s Manhattan with dreams of making in big on Tin Pan Alley.

Enemies
1974
Producer
In a sun-dappled garden in provincial Russia in 1905, some factory owners and their wives discuss the unrest among the workers. Rather than submit to ...
Anastasia
1962
Producer
The life of Anastasia Stevens, an American dancer at the Bolshoi Ballet, at the height of the Cold War. An early work by the Maysles brothers for the ...

Adventures on the New Frontier
1961
Producer
A look at the daily business of U.S. President John F. Kennedy, with a focus on some of the political issues he faces six weeks into his term. Preser...

Old Man
1958
Associate Producer
In the South, convicts get a temporary release to help during a flood.

Heart of Darkness
1958
Associate Producer
A trading company manager travels up an African river to find a missing outpost head and discovers the depth of evil in humanity's soul.

Days of Wine and Roses
1958
Associate Producer
An alcoholic falls in love with and gets married to a young woman whom he systematically addicts to booze so they can share his "passion" together.