Paul Webb (screenwriter)

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Paul Webb (born 1947 or 1948) is a British screenwriter and playwright. [1] He is known for writing the screenplay of the 2014 film Selma . [2] For his work in Selma, Webb won the Central Ohio Film Critics Association Award for Best Original Screenplay. [3] Webb was also nominated for the Satellite Award for Best Original Screenplay for his work in Selma, which he lost to Dan Gilroy for Nightcrawler . [4] In addition to Selma, Webb also served as one of the writers for the 2017 BET miniseries Madiba . [5]

Webb also wrote a play about the assassination of Thomas Becket titled Four Knights in Knaresborough, which was staged in London in 1999. [1] Among Webb's unrealized projects include a film adaptation of Four Knights (optioned by Harvey Weinstein), a film adaptation of the novel Spanish Assassins and an unused screenplay draft of Lincoln (2012). [1] Webb also wrote an epic-type screenplay for Michael Mann about the Russian oligarchs. [1]

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