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name: "Becky Johnston"
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born: "1 January 1955"
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updated: "2026-09-20T06:57:27.484036+00:00"
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# Becky Johnston

Writer. Born 1 January 1955 in South Haven, Michigan, USA.

## Details

- **Work:** Writer
- **Born:** 1 January 1955, South Haven, Michigan, USA
- **Academy Awards:** 1 Oscar nomination
- **Elsewhere:** https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Becky_Johnston, https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q4878841, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0426539/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/14588

## Biography

Becky Johnston is an American screenwriter. She grew up in South Haven, Michigan, and graduated from the Interlochen Fine Arts High School in 1973. In the late 1970s she was a co-founder of the No Wave Cinema movement in New York and made independent films including the Super 8 feature *Sleepless Nights* (1979).

Johnston wrote the screenplays for *Under the Cherry Moon* (1986), *The Prince of Tides* (1991, co-written with Pat Conroy), *Seven Years in Tibet* (1997), *Arthur Newman* (2012, which she also produced) and *House of Gucci* (2021, co-written with Roberto Bentivegna). *The Prince of Tides* received Academy Award and Writers Guild of America nominations for Best Adapted Screenplay; *Under the Cherry Moon* was nominated for a Razzie Award for Worst Screenplay. She has also worked on uncredited script revisions and appeared in the documentary *Jean-Michel Basquiat: The Radiant Child* (2010).

*Sources: en.wikipedia.org, imdb.com.*

## On Fi1m (1)

- *The Prince of Tides* (1991), Fi1m 65, Screenplay — [page](https://film.one/film/the-prince-of-tides.md)

## Complete filmography (10)

Every credit, newest first. Titles without a page can be requested for review on the HTML page.

- *House of Gucci* (2021), Screenplay, Story
- *Arthur Newman* (2012), Writer, Producer
- *Be Mine* (2009), as Jesse
- *Seven Years in Tibet* (1997), Screenplay
- *The Prince of Tides* (1991), Screenplay — Fi1m 65, [page](https://film.one/film/the-prince-of-tides.md)
- *Under the Cherry Moon* (1986), Screenplay
- *Born in Flames* (1983), as Newspaper editor · Camera Operator
- *Sleepless Nights* (1979), Director, Writer, Producer
- *Men in Orbit* (1979), as Voice
- *Dear Jimmy* (1978), Actor

## Awards

### Academy Awards — 0 won, 1 nominated

- 1992: Best Writing, Adapted Screenplay (nominated), for *The Prince of Tides*

### Other awards — 0 won, 2 nominated

- Writers Guild of America Award for Best Adapted Screenplay 1992: Writers Guild of America Award for Best Adapted Screenplay (nominated), for *The Prince of Tides*
- Golden Raspberry Award for Worst Screenplay 1987: Golden Raspberry Award for Worst Screenplay (nominated), for *Under the Cherry Moon*

*From Wikidata, which records wins more completely than nominations.*

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