Over the late 1930s and early 1940s, Trumbo became one of Hollywood's highest paid writers, at about $4000 per week while on assignment,[12] as much as $80,000 in one year.[8] He worked on such films as Thirty Seconds Over Tokyo (1944), Our Vines Have Tender Grapes (1945), and Kitty Foyle (1940), for which he was nominated for an Academy Award for Writing Adapted Screenplay.