Best Screenwriters
by screenwriter601 | created - 09 Nov 2012 | updated - 09 Nov 2012 | PublicList of some of the greatest screenwriters.
1. Eric Roth
Writer | Dune
Mr. Roth won an Oscar for Best Adapted Screenplay for Forrest Gump & has been nominated for his screenplays of The Insider, Munich, The Curious Case of Benjamin Button, A Star is Born, & Dune. He wrote Mr. Kurosawa's Rhapsody in August, The Horse Whisperer, Ali, & Best Picture Nominee, Extremely ...
2. Frank Darabont
Writer | The Shawshank Redemption
Three-time Oscar nominee Frank Darabont was born in a refugee camp in 1959 in Montbeliard, France, the son of Hungarian parents who had fled Budapest during the failed 1956 Hungarian revolution. Brought to America as an infant, he settled with his family in Los Angeles and attended Hollywood High ...
3. Willie Grady
Writer | Musa of Mali
Willie Abel, Augustus Grady (born December 21, 1986) is an upcoming American screenwriter & director.
Willie was born in Shelby, Mississippi and moved to Hattiesburg, Mississippi in 2005 to attend University of Southern Mississippi. While in their Entertainment Industry program Willie started writing...
4. Paul Haggis
Writer | Crash
Paul Haggis established himself over twenty years with an extensive career in television, before his big break into features arrived when he became the first screenwriter to garner two Best Film Academy Awards back-to-back for his scripts: "Million Dollar Baby" (2004) directed by Clint Eastwood, ...
5. Seth Rogen
Producer | This Is the End
An actor, comedian and writer, Seth Rogen has come a long way from doing stand-up comedy as a teen.
Rogen was born in Vancouver, British Columbia, to Sandy (Belogus), a social worker, and Mark Rogen, who worked for non-profits. His father is American-born and his mother is Canadian. He is of Russian...
6. Christopher Nolan
Writer | Tenet
Best known for his cerebral, often nonlinear, storytelling, acclaimed Academy Award winner writer/director/producer Sir Christopher Nolan CBE was born in London, England. Over the course of more than 25 years of filmmaking, Nolan has gone from low-budget independent films to working on some of the ...
7. Andrew Niccol
Writer | GATTACA
New Zealand-born screenwriter-director Andrew Niccol began his career in London, successfully directing TV commercials before moving to Los Angeles in order to make films "longer than 60 seconds." He interested high-powered producer Scott Rudin in his The Truman Show (1998) script, but Rudin was not...
8. Neal Purvis
Writer | Skyfall
Neal Purvis was born on September 9, 1961. He is a writer and producer, known for Skyfall (2012), No Time to Die (2021) and Casino Royale (2006).
9. Robert Wade
Writer | Skyfall
Robert Wade was born in 1962 in San Diego, California, USA. He is a writer and producer, known for Skyfall (2012), No Time to Die (2021) and Casino Royale (2006).
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