Brian Helgeland
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| Born | Brian Thomas Helgeland January 17, 1961 Providence, Rhode Island |
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| Occupation | film director, producer, screenwriter and commercial fisherman | ||||||||||
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Brian Helgeland (born January 17, 1961 in Providence, Rhode Island) is a Norwegian-American movie writer and director. His mother is from Norway and his father from Brooklyn, New York[1]. A graduate of Loyola Marymount University in Los Angeles, he received his undergraduate degree at the University of Massachusetts Dartmouth.
In 1998, Helgeland became the first person to win both an Academy Award for Best Adapted Screenplay (for L.A. Confidential) and a Razzie (for The Postman) in the same year. He accepted the Razzie and became only the fourth person in its history to be personally presented with the statuette.
Helgeland wrote and directed the films A Knight's Tale (2001) and The Order (2003), which both featured the same core group of actors: Heath Ledger, Shannyn Sossamon, and Mark Addy. He has worked with director Clint Eastwood twice, in 2002 on Blood Work, and in 2003 on Mystic River, for which he was Oscar nominated for Best Adapted Screenplay, and has also written an as yet unproduced adaptation of Moby-Dick.
[edit] Filmography
- Nightmare on Elm Street 4 (1988) — Writer
- 976-EVIL (1989) — Writer
- Highway to Hell (1992) — Writer, Co-producer
- Assassins (1995) — Writer
- L.A. Confidential (1997) Writer, Co-producer
- Conspiracy Theory (1997) — Writer
- The Postman (1997) — Writer
- Payback (1999) — Writer, Director (fired and replaced by production designer John Myhre)
- A Knight's Tale (2001) — Writer, Producer, Director
- Blood Work (2002) — Writer
- Mystic River (2003) — Writer
- The Order (2003) — Writer, Producer, Director
- Man on Fire (2004) — Writer
- The Bourne Supremacy (2004) — Writer (uncredited)
- Imperial Life in the Emerald City (TBA) — Writer
- Cirque du Freak (film) (2007/08??) — Writer
[edit] References
- ^ Brian Helgeland - Biography. IMDB. Retrieved on 2007-08-08.
