---
name: "Sidney Howard"
canonical: "https://film.one/person/sidney-howard"
fi1m_id: "sidney-howard"
imdb_id: "nm0397608"
tmdb_id: 11488
wikidata_id: "Q1132960"
roles: ["Writer"]
born: "26 June 1891"
died: "23 August 1939"
reviewed_on_fi1m: 3
average_fi1m_score: 77
average_as: "writer"
average_over: 3
updated: "2026-09-19T23:07:25.434311+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."
---

# Sidney Howard

## Identity

Sidney Howard

- **Canonical:** https://film.one/person/sidney-howard
- **Type:** Person
- **Fi1m ID:** sidney-howard
- **IMDb ID:** nm0397608
- **TMDB ID:** 11488
- **Wikidata ID:** Q1132960
- **Same entity:** https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sidney_Howard, https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q1132960, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0397608/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/11488

Writer. Born 26 June 1891 in Oakland, California, USA. Died 23 August 1939.

## Details

- **Work:** Writer
- **Born:** 26 June 1891, Oakland, California, USA
- **Died:** 23 August 1939
- **Active:** 1931–1939
- **Frequently works with:** [Samuel Goldwyn](https://film.one/person/samuel-goldwyn.md)
- **Academy Awards:** 1 Oscar (1 won · 2 nominated)
- **Average Fi1m score:** 77, as writer, over 3 titles
- **Score spread:** 1 at 80+, 2 at 60–79, 0 under 60
- **Genres:** Drama 3, Romance 2, War 1
- **Screen time:** 7 hours of reviewed films
- **Box office:** $402m across 1 films with figures
- **Elsewhere:** https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sidney_Howard, https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q1132960, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0397608/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/11488

## Streaming the US now

- **Amazon Prime Video:** [*Dodsworth*](https://film.one/film/dodsworth.md) (87), [*Arrowsmith*](https://film.one/film/arrowsmith.md) (70)
- **HBO Max:** [*Gone with the Wind*](https://film.one/film/gone-with-the-wind.md) (74)

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## Biography

Sidney Howard was an American playwright and screenwriter. He was born in Oakland, California, graduated from the University of California, Berkeley, and studied playwriting at Harvard University under George Pierce Baker.

His play *They Knew What They Wanted* (1924) won the Pulitzer Prize for Drama in 1925. Howard wrote screenplays for *Dodsworth* (1936) and *Gone with the Wind* (1939), for which he received a posthumous Academy Award in 1940. He died in 1939.

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

## On Fi1m (3)

- *Gone with the Wind* (1939), Fi1m 74, Screenplay — [page](https://film.one/film/gone-with-the-wind.md)
- *Dodsworth* (1936), Fi1m 87, Screenplay — [page](https://film.one/film/dodsworth.md)
- *Arrowsmith* (1931), Fi1m 70, Screenplay — [page](https://film.one/film/arrowsmith.md)

## Complete filmography (22)

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

- *A Breath of Scandal* (1960), Writer
- *They Knew What They Wanted* (1940), Theatre Play
- *He Stayed for Breakfast* (1940), Adaptation
- *Gone with the Wind* (1939), Screenplay — Fi1m 74, [page](https://film.one/film/gone-with-the-wind.md)
- *Raffles* (1939), Screenplay
- *Yellow Jack* (1938), Theatre Play
- *The Prisoner of Zenda* (1937), Writer
- *Dodsworth* (1936), Screenplay — Fi1m 87, [page](https://film.one/film/dodsworth.md)
- *Christopher Bean* (1933), Theatre Play
- *The Silver Cord* (1933), Theatre Play
- *The Greeks Had a Word for Them* (1932), Adaptation
- *Arrowsmith* (1931), Screenplay — Fi1m 70, [page](https://film.one/film/arrowsmith.md)
- *One Heavenly Night* (1930), Adaptation
- *Free Love* (1930), Theatre Play
- *Raffles* (1930), Writer
- *Every Woman's Longing* (1930), Theatre Play, Screenplay
- *A Lady to Love* (1930), Writer
- *Condemned!* (1929), Screenplay
- *Bulldog Drummond* (1929), Screenplay
- *Ned McCobb's Daughter* (1928), Theatre Play
- *The Secret Hour* (1928), Theatre Play
- *Bulldog Drummond* (1922), Writer

## Awards

### Academy Awards — 1 won, 2 nominated

- 1940: Best Writing, Adapted Screenplay (won), for *Gone with the Wind*
- 1937: Best Writing, Adapted Screenplay (nominated), for *Dodsworth*
- 1932: Best Writing, Adapted Screenplay (nominated), for *Arrowsmith*

### Other awards — 1 won

- Pulitzer Prize for Drama 1925: Pulitzer Prize for Drama (won), for *They Knew What They Wanted*

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

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