After graduating from USC, Willard Huyck joined American-International Pictures as a reader, soon rising to executive assistant and script reviewer. Following a trial collaboration with John Milius in 1969, he quit the company and joined forces with his wife, Gloria Katz, who became his collaborator on many future screenplays. They were signed as a team by Francis Ford Coppola to develop writing-directing projects for his American Zoetrope but none of these materialized. They then celebrated their first fruitful collaboration with an Academy Award nomination for their screenplay of George Lucas' AMERICAN GRAFFITI (1973). They enjoyed another success with Steven Spielberg's INDIANA JONES AND THE TEMPLE OF DOOM (1984) but fared poorly with several films that Huyck himself directed (HOWARD THE DUCK, 1986, et al.). Their last project was RADIOLAND MURDERS (1994).  Nominated for Writing (Best Story and Screenplay based on factual material or material not previously published or produced) 1973: AMERICAN GRAFFITI (w. George Lucas) 1 nomination