Screenwriter Iris Yamashita who penned 'Iwo Jima' sat down with Entertainment Weekly to discuss her work and Oscar nomination.

None other than Paul Haggis, Academy Award-winning screenwriter and director of last year's Best Picture winner Crash, read some of Yamashita's unproduced material and elected to work with her on Letters From Iwo Jima, the companion piece to Clint Eastwood's World War II epic, Flags of Our Fathers. Steven Spielberg would eventually sign on as a producer. And it was Eastwood himself who would stamp his imprimatur on her efforts, making sure that no other hands would be called in to do rewrites: If the film wins a Best Original Screenplay statuette this weekend, Yamashita's name will be alone in the envelope.

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