‘Blue Moon’ Screenwriter Robert Kaplow on His First Oscar Nomination, and Why Ethan Hawke Deserves to Win

‘Blue Moon’ Screenwriter Robert Kaplow on His First Oscar Nomination, and Why Ethan Hawke Deserves to Win

For more than four decades, Robert Kaplow has built an unconventional writing career. A novelist, longtime English teacher, radio essayist and East Coast lifer, Kaplow has spent his creative life obsessed with language — not just what words say, but how they sound, fade and linger. That obsession has now earned him his first Academy Award nomination for best original screenplay for “Blue Moon,” a wry, intimate biographical dramedy directed by Ri…