Search found 3 matches: Ben Hecht

At 1180+ ratings

Screenwriters:

1. Phillippa Boyens (5 Films - 84.0) - All Peter Jackson
2. Fran Walsh (6 Films - 81.3) - All Peter Jackson
3. Mario Puzo (5 Films - 79.8) - The Godfather/Superman
4. Ben Hecht (6 Films - 79.3) - Various films from 30s & 40s (Highest rated - Notorious)
5. John Logan (6 Films - 74.5) - Various films from 00s and 10s (Highest rated - Skyfall)

=6. Stephen McFeely (5 Films - 71.8) - All the Russo Bros.
=6. John August (5 Films - 71.8) - Mostly Tim Burton
8. David Koepp (6 Films - 70.8) - Half Spielberg, half other directors (Highest rated - Jurassic Park)
9. Christopher Markus (6 Films - 70.3) - All MCU
10. Terry Rossio (5 Films - 70.0) - Various films from 90s and 00s (Highest rated - Shrek)


Authors of Source Material:

1. Bob Kane (7 Films - 83.6) - Batman
2. J.R.R. Tolkien (5 Films - 76.6) - LoTR/The Hobbit
3. Roald Dahl (5 Films - 73.8) - Various (Highest Rated - Charlie and the Chocolate Factory/The Fantastic Mr. Fox)
4. Stan Lee (15 Films - 71.87) - Marvel
5. Jack Kirby (8 Films - 71.00) - Marvel

I've got 2, before the averages drop off.
Ernest Lehman -
[spoiler]Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? (1966)
Sweet Smell of Success (1957)
North by Northwest (1959)
Sabrina (1954)[/spoiler]
Ben Hecht
[spoiler]The Shop Around the Corner (1940)
Rope (1948)
Wuthering Heights (1939) (adapted)
His Girl Friday (1940)
Where the Sidewalk Ends (1950)
Notorious (1946)
Scarface (1983)[/spoiler]
Otherwise:
Thomas Harris (author)(Hannibal Lecter)
Bibhutibhushan Bandyopadhyay (author)[Ray films]
Noël Coward/Ronald Neame(also a director and all-round ledge, apparently) [David Lean]
Krzysztof Piesiewicz [Kieslowski]
Julius J. Epstein

It takes a bit of work to separate actual screenwriters from plain old writers (ie of source material). Setting my cutoff at 4 films.

1. Kôgo Noda 9.29 / 7 films (all for Ozu)
2. Ryuzo Kikushima 8.17 / 6 films (top film is by Naruse; other 5 all Kurosawa)
3. Shinobu Hashimoto 7.86 / 7 films (mostly Kurosawa)
4/5. Ennio Flaiano, Tullio Pinelli 7.75 / 4 films (same 4 films, all Fellini)
6. Ben Hecht 7.5 / 4 films (Hitchcock x 2, Hawks, De Palma)
7. Hideo Oguni 7.4 / 4 films (all Kurosawa again)
8. Bob Baker 7.25 / 4 films (Wallace & Gromit )
9. Tonino Guerra 6.5 / 4 films (mostly Antonioni)
10 Dan O'Bannon 5.75 /4 films ("Alien" movies + Total Recall)


Honourable mention to William Shakespeare (9.00 / 4 films but obviously not writing for film).