- Orson Welles
George Orson Welles (May 6, 1915 - October 10, 1985) was an Academy Award-winning American screenwriter, a radio, film and theatre director, a radio and film producer and an actor in film and theatre, as well as a Grammy Award-winning radio personality. Welles first gained wide notoriety for his October 30, 1938 radio broadcast of H. G. Wells' "The War of the Worlds". Adapted to sound like a contemporary news broadcast, … - Mel Brooks
Mel Brooks (born June 28, 1926) is an Academy Award-winning American director, writer, comedian, actor and producer best known as a creator of broad film farces and comedy parodies. - Billy Wilder
Billy Wilder was an Austrian-born, Jewish-American journalist, screenwriter, film director, and producer whose career spanned more than 50 years and 60 films. He is regarded as one of the most brilliant and versatile filmmakers of Hollywood's golden age. Many of Wilder's films achieved both critical and public acclaim. - Francis Ford Coppola
Francis Ford Coppola (born April 7, 1939) is a five-time Academy Award winning American film director, producer, and screenwriter. Coppola is also a vintner, magazine publisher, and hotelier. He earned an M.F.A. in film directing from the UCLA Film School. He is most renowned for directing the highly regarded "Godfather" trilogy, "The Conversation", and the Vietnam War epic "Apocalypse Now". - Jane Campion
Jane Campion is an Academy Award-winning film maker. She is one of the most internationally successful New Zealand directors, although most of her work has been made in or financed by other countries, principally Australia – where she now lives – and the USA. Campion attended the Australian Film Television and Radio School early in its history, where she learned the craft that has resulted in a career that spans fourteen films as director, … - Woody Allen
Woody Allen is a three-time Academy Award-winning American film director, writer, actor, jazz musician, comedian, and playwright. His large body of work and cerebral film style, mixing satire, wit and humor, have made him one of the most respected and prolific filmmakers in the modern era. Allen writes and directs his movies and has also acted in the majority of them. For inspiration, Allen draws heavily on literature, philosophy, psychology, Judaism, … - Tom Stoppard
Sir Tom Stoppard, OM, CBE (born as Tomáš Straussler on July 3, 1937) is an Academy Award winning British playwright of more than 24 plays. Born in Czechoslovakia, he is famous for plays such as "The Coast of Utopia", "The Real Thing", and "Rosencrantz & Guildenstern Are Dead", and also for co-writing screenplays for "Brazil" and "Shakespeare in Love". - Michel Gondry
Michel Gondry, born May 8, 1963 (1964 according to some sources), is a French Academy Award winning screenwriter, film, commercial, and music video director noted for his inventive visual style and manipulation of mise en scène. - Alan Jay Lerner
Alan Jay Lerner (August 31, 1918 - June 14, 1986) was an American Broadway lyricist and librettist. Born in New York City, he was the son of Joseph Jay Lerner, the brother of the owner of the Lerner Stores, a chain of dress shops. The founder and owner of Lerner Stores was Samuel Alexander Lerner. Alan Jay Lerner was educated at Bedales School, Choate Rosemary Hall, and Harvard, where he befriended classmate John F. Kennedy. - Neil Jordan
Neil Jordan (born February 25, 1950) is an Academy Award-winning Irish filmmaker and novelist. - Cameron Crowe
Cameron Bruce Crowe (born July 13, 1957) is an Academy Award winning American writer and film director. Before moving into the film industry, Crowe was contributing editor at "Rolling Stone" magazine, for which he still frequently writes. Crowe has made his mark with character-driven, personal films that have been generally hailed as refreshingly original and void of cynicism. - Quentin Tarantino
Quentin Jerome Tarantino (born March 27, 1963) is an American film director, actor, and screenwriter. He rose to fame in the early 1990s as an auteur indie filmmaker whose films used postmodern nonlinear storylines, and stylized violence interwoven with often-obscure cinematic references. His films include "Reservoir Dogs" (1992), " Pulp Fiction" (1994), "Jackie Brown" (1997), "Kill Bill" (Vol. 1 2003, Vol. - Ring Lardner Jr.
Ringgold Wilmer "Ring" Lardner Jr. was an American journalist and Oscar winning screenwriter who was blacklisted by the Hollywood movie studio bosses during the era of McCarthyism. - William Goldman
William Goldman (born August 12, 1931) is an American novelist, playwright and two-time Academy Award-winning screenwriter. - Herman J. Mankiewicz
Herman Jacob Mankiewicz was a legendary Hollywood screenwriter and noted raconteur. In 1926 Mankiewicz left a job as drama editor at "The New Yorker" magazine to write for Hollywood. Shortly after his arrival on the West Coast, he sent a telegram to journalist-friend Ben Hecht in New York: "Millions are to be grabbed out here and your only competition is idiots. - Paddy Chayefsky
Sidney Aaron Chayefsky (January 29, 1923 - August 1, 1981) known as Paddy Chayefsky was an acclaimed dramatist who transitioned from the golden age of American live television in the 1950s to have a successful career as a playwright and screenwriter for Hollywood. - David S. Ward
David S. Ward is an American film director and award winning screen writer. Ward has degrees from both Pomona College, U.S.C., and the UCLA Film School. He was employed at an educational film production company when he managed to sell his screenplay for "The Sting"' (1974), which lead to an Oscar win in that category. After this initial success, his follow up projects were less critically and commercially well received, including Ward's maiden directorial effort, … - Steve Tesich
Steve Tesich in Užice, Yugoslavia (now Serbia), but immigrated to the USA with his family when he was 14 years old. They settled in East Chicago, Indiana, and Tesich later graduated from Indiana University, where he was a member of Phi Kappa Psi Fraternity. He went on to do graduate work at Columbia University, where he also wrote his first plays. - Robert Towne
Robert Burton Towne (born November 23, 1934) is an American actor, screenwriter and director. He is the author of many notable film scripts, including "Chinatown" (1974), for which he received an Oscar, its sequel, "The Two Jakes" (1990), and "Shampoo" (1975), as well as the first two "Mission Impossible" films. He is also noted as an uncredited script doctor who has worked in such a capacity for "The Godfather" and other notable movies. - Matt Damon
As a teen, Boston-native Matt Damon used to break-dance for money in Harvard Square. Matt Damon was an extra in Field of Dreams with friend Ben Affleck when they were just starting out. ... Matt Damon appeared on Will & Grace in 2002 as Jack's rival for a coveted spot in a gay men's chorus. - Claude Lelouch
Claude Lelouch (born October 30, 1937) is a French film director, writer, cinematographer, actor and producer. Born in Paris, Lelouch won the Palme d'Or at the Cannes Film Festival in 1966 for "Un homme et une femme" ("A Man and a Woman"), as well as two oscars including best foreign language film. The 1981 musical epic "Les Uns et les Autres" is widely considered as his masterpiece. - John Patrick Shanley
John Patrick Shanley (born in 1950) is a playwright from the Bronx. He was educated by the Irish Christian Brothers and the Sisters of Charity. He is famous for insisting in his contract that not a single word can be changed in the screenplays that he writes. He is a graduate of New York University. For his script for the 1987 film, "Moonstruck", … - Michael Arndt
Michael Arndt is an Academy Award-winning screenwriter best known for writing the 2006 film "Little Miss Sunshine". He has been hired by Pixar Animation Studios and is currently writing "Toy Story 3". Michael Arndt has won awards for Best Original Screenplay from Kansas City Film Critics, The Writers Guild of America and The Academy Awards.<BR> In order to write full-time and complete his screenplay for "Little Miss Sunshine", … - Budd Schulberg
Budd Schulberg was born in New York City, New York on March 27, 1914. His father, Benjamin P. Schulberg , a producer in the newly erected motion-picture industry, moved the family to Hollywood, California after WWI. By 1925, as general manager of Paramount Famous-Lasky studio, Benjamin P. Schulberg was one of the most powerful forces in the movie industry. Schulberg's mother, Adeline (Jaffe) Schulberg , aspired to raise him with traditional Jewish values. - Sofia Coppola
Sofia Carmina Coppola (born May 14, 1971) is an American directress, actress, producer, and Academy Award-winning screenwriter. She is the first American woman and is only the third woman in history to be nominated for an Academy Award for Directing. - Ronald Bass
Ronald Jay Bass (born March 26, 1942), sometimes credited as Ron Bass, is an American screenwriter. Also a film producer, Bass's work is characterized as being highly in demand, and he is thought to be among the most highly paid writers in Hollywood. He is often called the "King of the Pitches". In 1988, he received the Academy Award for Best Original Screenplay for "Rain Man", … - William Inge
William Motter Inge (–) was an American playwright and novelist, whose works feature solitary protagonists encumbered with strained sexual relations. - Ben Affleck
Benjamin Géza Affleck is a Golden Globe Award-nominated American film actor, director, and Academy Award-winning and Golden Globe Award-winning screenwriter. He became known in the late 1990s, after his involvement in the film "Good Will Hunting", and has since become a Hollywood leading man, having starred in several big budget films. - Alan Ball
Alan Ball (born May 13, 1957 in Atlanta, Georgia) is an Academy Award-winning screenwriter, director, producer and occasional actor, who is best known for writing the screenplay for the Oscar-winning film "American Beauty", and for creating the HBO original drama series "Six Feet Under". - Julian Fellowes
Julian Alexander Kitchener-Fellowes, commonly known as Julian Fellowes, (born August 17, 1949 in Cairo, Egypt) was an actor for over twenty years before winning the Academy Award for Writing Original Screenplay in 2001 for "Gosford Park". Fellowes is the youngest son of Peregrine Fellowes (a diplomat and Arabist who campaigned to have Haile Selassie restored to his throne during World War II) and his first wife, Olwen. - Callie Khouri
Callie Khouri (born 27 November, 1957, as Carolyn Ann Khouri) is an American screenwriter and film director. Her first produced screenplay was "Thelma & Louise", for which she won an Academy Award for Best Screenplay Written Directly for the Screen in 1992. She also wrote "Something to Talk About" and co-wrote and directed "Divine Secrets of the Ya-Ya Sisterhood". She co-wrote and is slated to direct "Mad Money", … - Marshall Brickman
Marshall Brickman (born August 25 1941 in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil) is an Academy Award winning screenwriter, best known for his collaborations with Woody Allen. After attending the University of Wisconsin, he became a member of Folk act The Tarriers in 1962, recruited by former classmate Eric Weissberg. Upon the disbanding of The Tarriers in 1965, Brickman joined The New Journeymen with John Phillips and Michelle Phillips who later had success with The Mamas & Papas. - Sidney Sheldon
Sidney Sheldon was an American writer who won awards in three careers—a Broadway playwright, a Hollywood TV and movie screenwriter, and a best-selling novelist. His TV works spanned a 20-year period during which he created "I Dream of Jeannie" (1965-70), "Hart to Hart" (1979-84), and "The Patty Duke Show" (1963-66), but it was not until after he turned 50 and began writing best-selling novels such as "Master of the Game" (1982), … - Pedro Almodóvar
Pedro Almodóvar Caballero (born September 24, 1949 in Calzada de Calatrava, Spain) is a Spanish film director, screenwriter and producer. He is the most successful and internationally known Spanish filmmaker of his generation. His films, marked by complex narratives, employ the codes of melodrama and use elements of pop culture, popular songs, irreverent humor, strong colors and glossy décor. Almodóvar never judges his characters actions, whatever they do, … - Clarence Greene
Clarence Greene (1913 - 1995) was an American film producer and screenwriter who frequently collaborated with filmmaker Russell Rouse on a number of offbeat films. Some of these included "DOA" (1950), "The Well" (1951; for which they received an Academy Award nomination), "Pillow Talk" (1959; which won them the Academy Award for Best Original Screenplay) and the trash classic "The Oscar" in 1966. - Charlie Kaufman
Charles Stuart Kaufman (born November 1, 1958) is an American playwright, film producer, theater and film director, and Academy Award and BAFTA award winning screenwriter. in 2003 Kaufman was listed at #100 on Premiere's annual "Power 100" list. He was also identified by Time Magazine in 2004 as one of the 100 most powerful people in Hollywood. - I. A. L. Diamond
I.A.L. Diamond was a comedy writer in Hollywood during the 1940 and 50s. He was born Iţec (Itzek) Domnici in Ungheni, Bessarabia, Romania, was referred to as "Iz" in Hollywood, and was known to quip that his initials stood for "Interscholastic Algebra League". Diamond completed his undergraduate studies at Columbia in 1941. In 1957 he began a collaborative relationship with Billy Wilder on the movie "Love in the Afternoon". - Charles Brackett
Charles Brackett (November 26, 1892-March 9, 1969) was an accomplished writer, movie screenwriter and movie producer. Born in Saratoga Springs, New York, Charles William Brackett was the son of New York State Senator (Edgar Truman Brackett). Brackett's roots trace back to his "Mayflower" ancestor, "Stephen Hopkins". Brackett was a graduate of Williams College, and received his law degree from Harvard University. - Benjamin Glazer
Benjamin Glazer (May 7, 1887 - March 18, 1956) is an Academy Award-winning writer, producer, foley artist, and director of American films from the 1920s through the 1950s. He is best known for his Oscar-winning work on 1927's "Seventh Heaven" and 1941's "Arise, My Love". He was also one of the founding members of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences. He was born in Belfast, Ireland. - Muriel Box
Muriel Box (September 22, 1905 - May 19, 1991) was a prolific English screenwriter and director in what at the time was basically a male industry, and is generally considered to be one of the most successful females in the history of British film. She was born Violette Muriel Baker in Tolworth, Surrey, England in 1905. When her attempts at acting and dancing proved to be unsuccessful, she accepted work as a continuity girl for British International Pictures.
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