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Robert Towne is an American screenwriter, producer, director and actor. He was part of the New Hollywood wave of filmmaking. He is best known for his Academy Award-winning original screenplay for Roman Polanski's Chinatown (1974), which is widely considered one of the greatest screenplays ever written. He later said it was inspired by a chapter in Carey McWilliams's Southern California Country: An Island on the Land (1946) and a West magazine article on Raymond Chandler's Los Angeles. Towne also wrote the sequel, The Two Jakes (1990); the Hal Ashby comedy-dramas The Last Detail (1973) and Shampoo (1975); and the first two Mission: Impossible films.
Brian Thomas Helgeland is an American screenwriter, film producer and director. He is most known for writing the screenplays for L.A. Confidential, Mystic River, and A Nightmare on Elm Street 4: The Dream Master.
Joseph William Stefano was an American screenwriter, best known for adapting Robert Bloch's novel as the script for Alfred Hitchcock's film Psycho, and for being the producer and co-writer of the original The Outer Limits TV series.
Melissa Marie Mathison was an American film and television screenwriter and an activist for Tibetan freedom. She was best known for writing the screenplays for the films The Black Stallion (1979) and E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial (1982), the latter of which earned her the Saturn Award for Best Writing and a nomination for the Academy Award for Best Original Screenplay.
Akiva J. Goldsman is an American screenwriter, director, and producer known for his work on blockbuster motion pictures and adaptations of popular novels.
Eric Andrew Heisserer is an American screenwriter and comic book writer. His screenplay for the film Arrival earned him a Best Adapted Screenplay nomination at the 89th Academy Awards in 2016.
Wesley Strick is an American screenwriter who has written such films as the comic-horror hit Arachnophobia, the Martin Scorsese remake of Cape Fear and the video game adaptation Doom. Since 2015, Strick has worked as a writer/executive producer on The Man in the High Castle.
David Pirie is a screenwriter, film producer, film critic, and novelist.
Mitch Brian is an American television writer, screenwriter and film director. He has sold, optioned or written on assignment more than 25 scripts to major studios, networks and independent production companies. Having grown up in Hutchinson, Kansas, he attended film school at California State University, Northridge.
Alex Tse is an American screenwriter who wrote the 2004 gangster film Sucker Free City, co-wrote the 2009 superhero film Watchmen, and wrote the 2018 film Superfly. He is also a writer and executive producer for the 2019 series Wu-Tang: An American Saga.
Paul Harris Boardman is an American screenwriter and film producer, best known for his work in the horror genre.
Erin Cressida Wilson is an American playwright, screenwriter, professor, and author.
Laeta Elizabeth Kalogridis is an American screenwriter and television and film producer. She has written scripts for Alexander (2004), Night Watch (2004), Pathfinder (2007) and Shutter Island (2010). She also served as an executive producer for the television series Birds of Prey and Bionic Woman, and she co-wrote the screenplay for Terminator Genisys (2015) and Alita: Battle Angel (2019). She is the creator and executive producer of the Netflix series Altered Carbon (2018).
Ted Humphrey is an American television and film writer, producer and director. He is best known for his work on the CBS series The Good Wife, which was nominated for a Writers Guild of America Award for Best New Series in 2010, as well as the 2010 and 2011 Emmy Award for Best Drama Series. In 2011, he was nominated for a Writers Guild of America Award for Best Episodic Drama Writing for his script for the episode "Boom," and was honored with the Voices of Courage and Conscience Award from the Muslim Public Affairs Council for the same script. The Good Wife also earned a Peabody Award and twice received the American Film Institute’s Award for Excellence in Film and Television.
Craig Martin Bolotin is an American screenwriter and film director. He graduated from the University of California at Berkeley where he studied philosophy and penned film reviews. He's written and rewritten numerous screenplays for such directors as Ridley Scott and Francis Ford Coppola.
Karl Gajdusek is an American screenwriter, producer, and playwright. He was the showrunner for the first season of the Netflix series Stranger Things and the co-creator of the TV series Last Resort with Shawn Ryan. They were both also executive producers for the series. Gajdusek also wrote for the series Dead Like Me and wrote the film Trespass (2011). He co-wrote the screenplay for the 2013 Tom Cruise movie, Oblivion, and The November Man, which was released in 2014.
Kim Hyun-seok is a South Korean film director and screenwriter. Kim wrote and directed YMCA Baseball Team (2002), When Romance Meets Destiny (2005), Scout (2007), Cyrano Agency (2010), and C'est Si Bon (2015). He also directed 11 A.M. (2013), and wrote If the Sun Rises in the West (1998) and Joint Security Area (2000).
Steven J. Baigelman is a Canadian screenwriter, producer, and film director. He has written the screenplays for the crime dramedy Feeling Minnesota (1996), the crime thriller Brother's Keeper (2002), the biographical drama Get on Up (2014), and the biographical drama Miles Ahead (2015). Baigelman also created the ABC anthology television series Wicked City (2015), on which he also serves as an executive producer.
Christina Hodson is an English screenwriter whose screenplays include Bumblebee (2018) and Birds of Prey (2020). She has had three scripts on the Black List, an annual list of Hollywood's best liked unproduced screenplays.
Allan Cubitt is a British television, film, and theater writer, director, and producer, best known for his work on Prime Suspect II and The Fall.
