Frank S. Nugent

Further reading
The Searchers: Screenplay by Frank S Nugent Alan Le May John Ford. Talking Pictures: Screenwriters of Hollywood by Richard Corliss. Zanuck to work as a script editor at the studio with Zanuck saying "if you can't fire 'em hire 'em".

He received a nomination for the Academy Award for Writing Adapted Screenplay for film The Quiet Man in 1953; the film also won him his first Writers Guild of America Award for 'Best Written American Comedy' an award he was to receive again in 1956 for Mister Roberts (1955). His screenplay for The Searchers (1956) ranks amongst the top 101 screenplays of all time by Writers Guild of America West (WGAW) while the film itself is now widely acknowledged as one of the best Westerns ever made being named the Greatest Western of all time by the American Film Institute in 2008.