Editing William Goldman (section)

===Screenplays===

====Produced====
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! Year
! Title
! Director
! Notes
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| 1965
| ''[[Masquerade (1965 film)|Masquerade]]'' 
| [[Basil Dearden]]
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| 1966
| ''[[Harper (film)|Harper]]''
| [[Jack Smight]]
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| 1969
| ''[[Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid]]''
| [[George Roy Hill]]
| Also producer (Uncredited);<br>[[Academy Award for Best Original Screenplay]]<br>[[BAFTA Award for Best Screenplay]]<br>Nominated- [[Golden Globe Award for Best Screenplay]]
|-
| 1972
| ''[[The Hot Rock (film)|The Hot Rock]]''
| [[Peter Yates]]
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|rowspan=2| 1975
| ''[[The Stepford Wives (1975 film)|The Stepford Wives]]''
| [[Bryan Forbes]]
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|-
| ''[[The Great Waldo Pepper]]''
| George Roy Hill
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|rowspan=2| 1976
| ''[[Marathon Man (film)|Marathon Man]]''
| [[John Schlesinger]]
| Based on his novel;<br>Nominated- [[Golden Globe Award for Best Screenplay]]
|-
| ''[[All the President's Men (film)|All the President's Men]]''
| [[Alan J. Pakula]]
| [[Academy Award for Best Adapted Screenplay]]<br>Nominated- [[BAFTA Award for Best Screenplay]]<br>Nominated- [[Golden Globe Award for Best Screenplay]]
|-
| 1977
| ''[[A Bridge Too Far (film)|A Bridge Too Far]]''
|rowspan=2| [[Richard Attenborough]]
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| 1978
| ''[[Magic (1978 film)|Magic]]''
|rowspan=3| Based on his novel
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| 1986 
| ''[[Heat (1986 film)|Heat]]''
| [[Dick Richards]]<br>[[Jerry Jameson]]
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| 1987
| ''[[The Princess Bride (film)|The Princess Bride]]''
|rowspan=2|[[Rob Reiner]]
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| 1990
| ''[[Misery (film)|Misery]]'' 
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|rowspan=3| 1992
| ''[[Memoirs of an Invisible Man (film)|Memoirs of an Invisible Man]]'' 
| [[John Carpenter]]
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| ''[[Year of the Comet]]''
| Peter Yates
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| ''[[Chaplin (film)|Chaplin]]''
| Richard Attenborough
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| 1994
| ''[[Maverick (film)|Maverick]]'' 
| [[Richard Donner]]
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|rowspan=2| 1996
| ''[[The Chamber (1996 film)|The Chamber]]''
| [[James Foley (director)|James Foley]]
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|-
| ''[[The Ghost and the Darkness]]''
| [[Stephen Hopkins (director)|Stephen Hopkins]]
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| 1997
| ''[[Absolute Power (film)|Absolute Power]]'' 
| [[Clint Eastwood]]
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| 1999
| ''[[The General's Daughter (film)|The General's Daughter]]'' 
| [[Simon West]]
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| 2001
| ''[[Hearts in Atlantis (film)|Hearts in Atlantis]]''
| [[Scott Hicks (director)|Scott Hicks]]
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| 2003
| ''[[Dreamcatcher (2003 film)|Dreamcatcher]]''
| [[Lawrence Kasdan]]
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| 2015
| ''[[Wild Card (2015 film)|Wild Card]]''
| Simon West
| Based on his novel
|}

'''Consultant'''
* ''[[A Few Good Men]]'' (1992)
* ''[[Malice (1993 film)|Malice]]'' (1993)
* ''[[Dolores Claiborne (film)|Dolores Claiborne]]'' (1995) 
* ''[[Extreme Measures]]'' (1996)
* ''[[Good Will Hunting]]'' (1997)

'''Uncredited'''
* ''[[Twins (1988 film)|Twins]]'' (1988)
* ''[[Indecent Proposal]]'' (1993)
* ''[[Last Action Hero]]'' (1993)
* ''[[Fierce Creatures]]'' (1997)

====Unproduced====
'''Source:'''<ref>{{Cite web |title=Series IV: Manuscripts William Goldman papers |url=http://findingaids.cul.columbia.edu/ead/nnc-rb/ldpd_5018084/dsc/4 |publisher=Columbia University}}</ref>
* ''Flowers for Algernon: Good Old Charley Gordon'' (1964) – an adaptation of the story ''[[Flowers for Algernon]]'' done for actor [[Cliff Robertson]] – Robertson was unhappy with the version and hired [[Stirling Silliphant]] to write what became ''[[Charly (1968 film)|Charly]]'' (1968)
* ''The Chill'' (1967) – adaptation of the 1964 Lew Archer novel by [[Ross Macdonald]]
* ''In the Spring the War Ended'' (1968) – from the novel by Steven Linakis about American deserters in Europe at the end of World War Two. Lawrence Turman was producer and [[Martin Ritt]] attached as director but the studio, 20th Century Fox, decided not to make it because they wanted Pentagon co-operation for ''Patton'' (1970).{{Sfn | Goldman | 2000 | pp = 238–239}}<ref>{{Cite news |last=Martin |first=Betty |date=July 11, 1966 |title=Robson Gets 'Escape Route' |page=c17 |work=Los Angeles Times}}</ref>
* ''[[The Thing of It Is...]]'' aka ''That's Life'' (1968) – adapted from his novel
* ''Piano Man'' – adaptation of his novel ''Father's Day''
* ''[[Papillon (book)|Papillon]]'' – adaptation of the novel which was not used
*''Grand Hotel'' (late 1970s/early 1980s) – musical remake of the 1932 MGM film, with [[Norman Jewison]] to direct{{Sfn | Goldman | 1983 | pp = 262–273}}
* ''The Sea Kings'' (late 1970s) – a pirate movie about the relationship between [[Stede Bonnet]] and [[Blackbeard]], the first of a three-picture deal with [[Joseph E. Levine]]<ref>{{Cite news |last=Goldman |first=William |title=Which Lie Did I Tell? More Adventures in the Screen Trade (Excerpt) |date=June 22, 2023 |url=http://www2.nytimes.com/books/first/g/goldman-lie.html}}</ref> – Goldman says he wrote the part of Blackbeard for [[Sean Connery]] and at one stage [[Richard Lester]] was attached as director<ref>{{Cite news |date=August 11, 1979 |title=Just mean to the girls |page=11 |work=The Guardian |location=London, UK}}</ref> – Goldman says Connery and Roger Moore were considered stars, then later Roger and Dudley Moore – however the film was too expensive to make{{Sfn | Goldman | 2000 | pp = 6–7}}
* ''The Ski Bum'' aka ''Hot Shot'' (1981) – based on the article "The Ski Bum as an Endangered Species" by Jean Vallely – Goldman says this was never made due to tension between the producer and the studio{{Sfn | Goldman | 2000 | p = 8}}
* ''[[The Right Stuff (film)|The Right Stuff]]'' – adaptation of the [[Tom Wolfe]] book that was not used
* ''Rescue!'' (1980–81) – story of the rescue of employees of [[Ross Perot]] by [[Arthur D. Simons]] during the [[Iranian revolution]] – Goldman says this foundered when [[Clint Eastwood]], the only suitable star to play Bull Simons, elected to make ''[[Firefox (film)|Firefox]]''
* ''Flora Quick, Dead or Alive''
* ''The National Pastime''
* ''Singing Out Loud'' – unproduced musical worked on with [[Rob Reiner]] and [[Stephen Sondheim]]
* ''[[Low Fives]]'' (1992) – comedy about an African who plays for a basketball team in a small college, commissioned by [[Danny DeVito]] and intended to star [[John Cleese]] and DeVito{{Sfn | Goldman | 2000 | pp = 267–268}}
* ''Shazam!'' (c 2003) – adaptation of [[Captain Marvel (DC Comics)|Captain Marvel]] comic book<ref>{{Cite web |last=Stax |date=March 24, 2003 |title=Goldman on Shazam! |url=http://www.ign.com/articles/2003/03/24/goldman-on-shazam |access-date=July 23, 2017 |publisher=ign.com}}</ref>
* ''[[Shooter (2007 film)|The Shooter]]'' – an adaptation of the [[Steven Hunter]] novel ''[[Point of Impact (Stephen Hunter novel)|Point of Impact]]'' that was to have been directed by [[Lee Tamahori]]
* ''[[Mission: Impossible 2]]'' – script that was not used