Scott Silver
American film director, screenwriter
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Born | (1964-11-30) November 30, 1964 (age 59) Worcester, Massachusetts, US |
Education | Boston University (BA) |
Occupation(s) | Screenwriter, film director |
Notable work | Johns The Mod Squad 8 Mile The Fighter Joker |
Scott Silver (born November 30, 1964) is an American screenwriter[1] and film director.[2]
Silver is best known for such films as Johns,[3] The Mod Squad,[2] 8 Mile, The Fighter, for which he was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Original Screenplay,[4] and Joker, for which he was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Adapted Screenplay, alongside Todd Phillips. He is of Jewish descent.[5] He is also set to co-write the script to the upcoming Spawn reboot.[6]
He graduated from Boston University's College of Communication in 1986.[1]
Filmography
Year | Title | Director | Writer |
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1996 | Johns | Yes | Yes |
1999 | The Mod Squad | Yes | Yes |
2002 | 8 Mile | No | Yes |
2010 | The Fighter | No | Yes |
2016 | The Finest Hours | No | Yes |
2019 | Joker | No | Yes |
2024 | Joker: Folie à Deux | No | Yes |
Producer
- Stronger (2017)
Co-executive producer
- The House of Yes (1997)
Special thanks
- Requiem for a Dream (2000)
- Then She Found Me (2007)
- Bleed for This (2016)
- Siberia (2018)
Awards and nominations
Year | Association | Category | Work | Result |
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2011 | Academy Award | Best Original Screenplay | The Fighter | Nominated |
2020 | Critics' Choice Movie Award | Best Adapted Screenplay | Joker | Nominated |
British Academy Film Award | Best Adapted Screenplay | Nominated | ||
Writers Guild of America Award | Best Adapted Screenplay | Nominated | ||
Academy Award | Best Adapted Screenplay | Nominated |
References
- ^ Huver, Scott (15 February 2011). ""The Fighter" Screenwriter's Next Round: A Superhero Flick". NBC Bay Area.
- ^ a b Gelder, Lawrence Van (March 26, 1999). "FILM REVIEW; The Squad That Was Mod Is Reshod". The New York Times.
- ^ Holden, Stephen (January 31, 1997). "Even Midnight Cowboys Have Sunshine Dreams". The New York Times – via NYTimes.com.
- ^ "Scott Silver, 'The Fighter'". The Hollywood Reporter. 4 February 2011.
- ^ Bloom, Nate (February 18, 2011). "Jewish Stars 2/18". Cleveland Jewish News. Retrieved January 5, 2018.
- ^ Couch, Aaron (2022-10-05). "'Spawn' Movie Finds New Writers With 'Joker,' 'Captain America 4' Scribes (Exclusive)". The Hollywood Reporter. Retrieved 2022-10-05.
External links
- Scott Silver at IMDb
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- Anthony Minghella (1996)
- Curtis Hanson and Brian Helgeland (1997)
- Bill Condon (1998)
- John Irving (1999)
- Doug Wright (2000)
- Robert Festinger and Todd Field (2001)
- Charlie Kaufman and Donald Kaufman (2002)
- Brian Helgeland (2003)
- Paul Haggis (2004)
- Robin Swicord (2005)
- William Monahan (2006)
- Christopher Hampton (2007)
- Peter Morgan (2008)
- Geoffrey S. Fletcher (2009)
- Aaron Sorkin (2010)
- Alexander Payne, Jim Rash, and Nat Faxon (2011)
- David Magee (2012)
- Steve Coogan and Jeff Pope (2013)
- Graham Moore (2014)
- Aaron Sorkin (2015)
- Kieran Fitzgerald and Oliver Stone (2016)
- Scott Neustadter and Michael H. Weber (2017)
- Nicole Holofcener and Jeff Whitty (2018)
- Todd Phillips and Scott Silver (2019)
- Christopher Hampton and Florian Zeller (2020)
- Sian Heder (2021)
- Sarah Polley (2022)
- Cord Jefferson (2023)
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