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Oscar-winning Screenwriters Die Earlier
April 9, 2007

Screenwriters long for Oscar glory. But there is a price to pay. Screenwriters who win Oscars, die earlier.
The relationship between achievement and happiness yields a mixed bag. There's a common misconception that people who are high achievers are happier. For example, actors who won an Academy Award lived on average four years longer than other nominees. Those who won two lived six years longer. But screenwriters who won an Academy Award lived three years shorter than the other nominees. Even though the Award-winning screenwriters had longer careers, they didn't live as long.
Ok, that's just weird. Surely this is some kind of statistical anomaly. Right?


Even tho' I have a few movies written just lying around probably never going to be made and one of my dreams when I was a teen was to be a screenwriter..... I'm kinda glad I didn't now ! I want to live damnit!