MOVIES - Jan. 1, 1993

Making Things Write: Forty years after its release, the proper Oscar credit is finally going to the film “Roman Holiday.” The board of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences has voted to amend its records to show that Dalton Trumbo earned the Oscar for best motion picture story for that 1953 movie. Trumbo wrote the story, but as a blacklisted writer at the time, fellow screenwriter Ian McClellan Hunter acted as a front for him. The academy’s move follows last year’s action by the Writers Guild of America West which changed the film’s credits to the true authorship. The academy will present a “Roman Holiday” Oscar to Trumbo’s widow in May.