He died of pneumonia, Loomis said.
Bernstein was best known for his blacklist during Hollywood’s “Red Scare” in the 1950s. Trapped in the anti-communist movement punctuated by Senator Joseph McCarthy’s infamous allegations against the US State Department, Bernstein wrote under pseudonyms for years.
He also publishes with the help of friends and collaborators known as ‘fronts’, who mention their names as the alleged authors of Bernstein’s work.
He reappeared as a screenwriter for the 1959 film “That Kind of Woman”, starring Sophia Loren and directed by Sidney Lumet.
Bernstein’s highlight works suffered a setback throughout the 1960s and ’70s, including’ Fail Safe ‘,’ Paris Blues’, ‘The Molly Maguires’ and’ Yanks’. Bernstein also worked on ‘Something’s Got to Give’, the unfortunate Marilyn Monroe film that was never completed due to her death in August 1962.
He won an Oscar for best original screenplay nomination for ‘The Front’, a 1976 film starring Woody Allen that satirized the impact of McCarthyism era on writers in the industry.
In 1997, Bernstein was nominated for an Emmy Writing Award for ‘Miss Evers’ Boys’, an HBO film about the infamous Tuskegee syphilis experiments.
Prior to his successes in screenwriting, Bernstein attended Dartmouth College, served as a correspondent for the military newspaper Yank during World War II, and wrote for The New Yorker.
Bernstein was a longtime member of the Writers Guild of America, East, which named him an award in 2017, intended to honor writers who are willing to face social injustice with creativity, grace and bravery in the face of adversity. “