--- name: "Ron Kovic" canonical: "https://film.one/person/ron-kovic" roles: ["Writer"] born: "4 July 1946" reviewed_on_fi1m: 1 average_as: "writer" average_over: 1 updated: "2026-09-20T06:57:57.869973+00:00" licence: "© Fi1m Ltd. Written by AI under a human editor; checked against sources before publication. Quote with attribution and a link to the canonical URL." --- # Ron Kovic Writer. Born 4 July 1946 in Ladysmith, Wisconsin, USA. ## Details - **Work:** Writer - **Born:** 4 July 1946, Ladysmith, Wisconsin, USA - **Also known as:** Ronald Lawrence Kovic - **Academy Awards:** 1 Oscar nomination - **Elsewhere:** https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ron_Kovic, https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q530602, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0468407/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/26471 ## Streaming the US now - **Netflix:** [*Born on the Fourth of July*](https://film.one/film/born-on-the-fourth-of-july.md) (74) For United States; add `?region=XX` for another country. ## Biography Ron Kovic is an American author and screenwriter. He wrote the 1976 memoir *Born on the Fourth of July*, which he adapted with Oliver Stone into the screenplay for the 1989 film of the same name directed by Stone and starring Tom Cruise. Kovic, a Vietnam War veteran wounded and paralysed while serving as a Marine sergeant, received the Golden Globe Award for Best Screenplay in 1990 and was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Adapted Screenplay. *Sources: en.wikipedia.org, britannica.com.* ## On Fi1m (1) - *Born on the Fourth of July* (1989), Fi1m 74, Book, Screenplay — [page](https://film.one/film/born-on-the-fourth-of-july.md) ## Complete filmography (2) Every credit, newest first. Titles without a page can be requested for review on the HTML page. - *Fred Baker - filmmaker* (2007), Actor - *Born on the Fourth of July* (1989), as Parade Veteran (uncredited) · Book, Screenplay — Fi1m 74, [page](https://film.one/film/born-on-the-fourth-of-july.md) ## Gallery - ![1990 Academy Awards NOTE: Permission granted to copy, publish, broadcast or post any of my photos, but please credit "photo by Alan Light" if you can. Thanks. S](https://film.one/media/person/1248106/gallery-55596945c7df.jpg) 1990 Academy Awards NOTE: Permission granted to copy, publish, broadcast or post any of my photos, but please credit "photo by Alan Light" if you can. Thanks. S — Alan Light, CC BY 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons (https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/d/d1/Ron_Kovic_%282105817513%29.jpg?utm_source=commons.wikimedia.org&utm_campaign=imageinfo&utm_content=thumbnail_unscaled) - ![1990 Academy Awards NOTE: Permission granted to copy, publish, broadcast or post any of my photos, but please credit "photo by Alan Light" if you can. Thanks. S](https://film.one/media/person/1248106/gallery-14e9d0e8ab47.jpg) 1990 Academy Awards NOTE: Permission granted to copy, publish, broadcast or post any of my photos, but please credit "photo by Alan Light" if you can. Thanks. S — Alan Light, CC BY 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons (https://thumb.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/1/17/Ron_Kovic_%282105823755%29.jpg/1280px-Ron_Kovic_%282105823755%29.jpg?utm_source=commons.wikimedia.org&utm_campaign=imageinfo&utm_content=thumbnail) - ![1990 Academy Awards NOTE: Permission granted to copy, publish, broadcast or post any of my photos, but please credit "photo by Alan Light" if you can. Thanks. S](https://film.one/media/person/1248106/gallery-3282fdd3f000.jpg) 1990 Academy Awards NOTE: Permission granted to copy, publish, broadcast or post any of my photos, but please credit "photo by Alan Light" if you can. Thanks. S — Alan Light, CC BY 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons (https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/f/fe/Ron_Kovic_%282105823755%29_%28cropped%29.jpg?utm_source=commons.wikimedia.org&utm_campaign=imageinfo&utm_content=thumbnail_unscaled) - ![1990 Academy Awards NOTE: Permission granted to copy, publish, broadcast or post any of my photos, but please credit "photo by Alan Light" if you can. Thanks. S](https://film.one/media/person/1248106/gallery-837528889019.jpg) 1990 Academy Awards NOTE: Permission granted to copy, publish, broadcast or post any of my photos, but please credit "photo by Alan Light" if you can. Thanks. S — Alan Light, CC BY 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons (https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/4/4e/Ron_Kovic_%282105790979%29.jpg?utm_source=commons.wikimedia.org&utm_campaign=imageinfo&utm_content=thumbnail_unscaled) - ![1990 Academy Awards NOTE: Permission granted to copy, publish, broadcast or post any of my photos, but please credit "photo by Alan Light" if you can. Thanks. S](https://film.one/media/person/1248106/gallery-7121bd9f7e02.jpg) 1990 Academy Awards NOTE: Permission granted to copy, publish, broadcast or post any of my photos, but please credit "photo by Alan Light" if you can. Thanks. S — Alan Light, CC BY 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons (https://thumb.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/9/9e/Ron_Kovic_and_Alan_Light_%282106571466%29.jpg/1280px-Ron_Kovic_and_Alan_Light_%282106571466%29.jpg?utm_source=commons.wikimedia.org&utm_campaign=imageinfo&utm_content=thumbnail) - ![Me (right) with Ron Kovic, whose story was told in the film BORN ON THE FOURTH OF JULY - at the 62nd Annual Academy Awards, 3/26/90 - Permission granted to copy (1990)](https://film.one/media/person/1248106/gallery-0a97c3259fb0.jpg) Me (right) with Ron Kovic, whose story was told in the film BORN ON THE FOURTH OF JULY - at the 62nd Annual Academy Awards, 3/26/90 - Permission granted to copy (1990) — Alan Light, CC BY 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons (https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/0/08/Ron_Kovic_and_me_%28255277981%29.jpg?utm_source=commons.wikimedia.org&utm_campaign=imageinfo&utm_content=thumbnail_unscaled) ## Awards ### Academy Awards — 0 won, 1 nominated - 1990: Best Writing, Adapted Screenplay (nominated), for *Born on the Fourth of July* *From Wikidata, which records wins more completely than nominations.* --- © Fi1m Ltd. 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