Gandhi and Missing Wins Writing Awards: 1983 Oscars 

Your father was a brilliant writer! One of Hollywood's greatest talents and a man with real heart.

@@lindatavlarios9614 Donald E. Stewart began his writing career as a journalist for The Detroit Times. In his 20s, he founded and co-published Competition Press, a weekly magazine devoted to car-racing that eventually became Autoweek; he also briefly edited Motor Life magazine. In 1960 he left reporting and moved to New York for the advertising industry, becoming copywriter and creative executive for a series of agencies such as J. Walter Thompson, Young & Rubicam and BBDO. Not surprisingly, he specialized in advertising copy for the motor trade, an area of booming competition in the car-obsessed economy of 1960s America. He became creative director of the Fletcher-Richards Agency and an expert on all things automotive. He moved to Hollywood in his 40s to try his hand at screenwriting.

He wrote a phenomenal script.

Because it was the obvious decision

Listen/watch to Gandhi's protest speech scene in the film. That alone made it worthy.

How did Gandhi win over any of the other nominees?

HAL 9000 because it was worthy enough to do so, sorry you can’t see that.

@@HAL-vm3wn One of the worst films ever to be honored at the awards, true. And that is to say a lot.