Biography
Alvin Sargent was an American screenwriter. He wrote the screenplay for the 1980 film Ordinary People, for which he won the Academy Award for Best Adapted Screenplay.
Sargent began writing for television in the 1950s and contributed episodes to series including Route 66, Ben Casey and The Alfred Hitchcock Hour. His early film work included Gambit (1966) and Paper Moon (1973). He received a second Academy Award for Best Adapted Screenplay for Julia (1977). Later credits include Unfaithful (2002), Spider-Man 2 (2004), Spider-Man 3 (2007) and The Amazing Spider-Man (2012).
He was born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, and died in Seattle, Washington, in 2019. Sargent was married to producer Laura Ziskin from 2010 until her death in 2011.
