After working on "Born for Trouble" (1955), he wrote a draft of the screenplay for "The Bridge on the River Kwai" (1957) for Sam Spiegel and David Lean. Foreman later fell out with Lean, but was the one who recommended his replacement, fellow blacklisted writer Michael Wilson. Based on the novel by Pierre Boulle, the two were not given screen credit and the Academy Award for Writing Adapted Screenplay went to Pierre Boulle, who did not speak English. This was only rectified posthumously in 1984 and his name was added to the award. However, as early as 1958 Foreman was publicly claiming credit of the script.