Scott Frank
A. Scott Frank (born March 10, 1960) is an American screenwriter, film director, and author. He has earned two Academy Awards for Best Adapted Screenplay nominations for Out of Sight (1998) and Logan (2017).
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Born | A. Scott Frank March 10, 1960 Fort Walton Beach, Florida, U.S. |
Alma mater | University of California, Santa Barbara (BA) AFI Conservatory (MA) |
Occupation | Screenwriter, film director, author |
Awards | National Society of Film Critics Award for Best Screenplay (1998) Saturn Award for Best Writing (2002) |
Early life and education
Frank was born to a Jewish family[1] in Fort Walton Beach, Florida on March 10, 1960.[2] He attended the University of California, Santa Barbara, graduating in 1982 with a Bachelor of Arts in film studies.[3][4] Frank earned a Master of Arts degree in Screenwriting from the AFI Conservatory in 1984.[5]
Career
In 2008, Scott Frank's directorial debut, The Lookout, won the Independent Spirit award for Best First Feature.
Along with The Lookout, Frank's also penned Little Man Tate, Dead Again, Malice, Heaven's Prisoners, Get Shorty, Out of Sight, Minority Report, The Interpreter, Marley & Me, The Wolverine, A Walk Among the Tombstones (which he also directed) and Logan.
Out of Sight, nominated for an Academy Award for Best Adapted Screenplay, won the Writers Guild of America Award for Best Adapted Screenplay, the Edgar Award from the Mystery Writers of America, and as Best Screenplay awards from the National Society of Film Critics and the Boston Society of Film Critics.
Minority Report won the Saturn Award for Best Science Fiction Screenplay. Get Shorty was nominated for both a Golden Globe and a Writers Guild of America Award for Best Adapted Screenplay and, as was Dead Again, was nominated for an Edgar Award for Best Mystery Screenplay.
In January 2016, Frank published his first novel, Shaker, a crime mystery published by Penguin Random House.[6][7][8]
Writing work
Year | Film | Director | Notes |
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1988 | Plain Clothes | Martha Coolidge | |
1991 | Dead Again | Kenneth Branagh | |
Little Man Tate | Jodie Foster | ||
The Walter Ego | John Putch | Short | |
1993 | Malice | Harold Becker | |
1995 | Get Shorty | Barry Sonnenfeld | Nominated—Golden Globe Award for Best Screenplay |
1996 | Heaven's Prisoners | Phil Joanou | |
1998 | Out of Sight | Steven Soderbergh | Nominated—Academy Award for Best Adapted Screenplay |
2002 | Minority Report | Steven Spielberg | Saturn Award for Best Writing |
2004 | Flight of the Phoenix | John Moore | |
2005 | The Interpreter | Sydney Pollack | |
2007 | The Lookout | Himself | Directorial debut |
2008 | Marley & Me | David Frankel | |
2013 | The Wolverine | James Mangold | |
2014 | A Walk Among the Tombstones | Himself | |
2017 | Logan | James Mangold | Nominated—Academy Award for Best Adapted Screenplay Nominated—Saturn Award for Best Writing |
Television
Year | Series | Notes |
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1988 | The Wonder Years | Episode: "The Phone Call" |
1993 | Fallen Angels | Episode: "Dead End for Delia" |
2004 | Karen Sisco | Episode: "He Was a Friend of Mine" |
2011 | Shameless | Also director, episode: "It's Time to Kill the Turtle" |
2017 | Godless | Also creator, executive producer, and director |
TBA | The Queen's Gambit | Also co-creator, executive producer, and director |
References
- Bloom, Nate (March 6, 2018). "Anton Yelchin's final role lands in 'Thoroughbreds'; Appatow's 'Love' returns". The Jewish News of Northern California.
- "Scott Frank biography". The New York Times. New York City, New York. Retrieved March 13, 2015.
- "Scott Frank bio". Penguin Random House. University of California, Santa Barbara. Retrieved March 13, 2015.
- Bazer, Mark (March 25, 2007). "Screenwriter Frank takes action After years spent creating scripts, he's directing". The Boston Globe. Boston, Massachusetts. Archived from the original on April 2, 2015. Retrieved March 16, 2015 – via HighBeam Research.
- "Miller & Son — AFI". Miller & Son. Retrieved 2020-01-12.
- "Shaker". Penguin Random House. Retrieved February 18, 2016.
- www.publishersweekly.com https://www.publishersweekly.com/978-0-385-35003-7. Retrieved 2020-01-12. Missing or empty
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(help) - "Interview: Scott Frank on Finishing His Debut Novel 'Shaker' Fifteen Years After He Began". /Film. 2017-03-14. Retrieved 2020-01-12.
External links
- Scott Frank on Twitter
- Scott Frank on IMDb