Who was the writer of the 1970 American romantic drama for which Ali MacGraw received an Academy Award for Best Actress?
Ali MacGraw Elizabeth Alice "Ali" MacGraw (born April 1, 1939) is an American actress, model, author, and animal rights activist. She first gained attention with her role in the 1969 film "Goodbye, Columbus", for which she won the Golden Globe Award for Most Promising Newcomer. She reached international fame in 1970's "Love Story", for which she was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Actress and won the Golden Globe Award for Best Actress in a Motion Picture – Drama. In 1972, MacGraw was voted the top female box office star in the world and was honored with a hands and footprints ceremony at Grauman's Chinese Theatre after having been in just three films. She went on to star in the popular action films "The Getaway" (1972) and "Convoy" (1978) as well as the romantic sports drama "Players" (1979), the comedy "Just Tell Me What You Want" (1980), and the historical novel-based television miniseries "The Winds of War" (1983). In 1991, she published an autobiography, "Moving Pictures".
Ali (film) Ali is a 2001 American biographical sports drama film written, produced and directed by Michael Mann. The film focuses on ten years in the life of the boxer Muhammad Ali, played by Will Smith, from 1964 to 1974, featuring his capture of the heavyweight title from Sonny Liston, his conversion to Islam, criticism of the Vietnam War, and banishment from boxing, his return to fight Joe Frazier in 1971, and, finally, his reclaiming the title from George Foreman in the Rumble in the Jungle fight of 1974. It also touches on the great social and political upheaval in the United States following the assassinations of Malcolm X and Martin Luther King, Jr.