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A. Scott Frank (born March 10, 1960) is an American screenwriter, film director, and author.
Early life and education
Frank was born in Fort Walton Beach, Florida on March 10, 1960.
He attended the University of California, Santa Barbara, graduating in 1982 with a B.A. in film studies.
Career
In 2008, Scott Frank’s directorial debut, The Lookout, won the Independent Spirit award for Best First Feature.
Along with The Lookout, Mr. Frank’s other screenplays include Little Man Tate, Dead Again, Malice, Heaven's Prisoners, Get Shorty, Out of Sight, Minority Report, The Interpreter, Marley & Me, The Wolverine and A Walk Among the Tombstones (also directed).
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 as well 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 Award for Best Adapted Screenplay and, along with Dead Again, was nominated for an Edgar Award for Best Mystery Screenplay.
In January 2016, Frank debuted as a novelist with Shaker. The novel is a crime mystery published by Penguin/Random House.
Writing work
- Films
| Year | Film | Notes |
|---|---|---|
| 1988 | Plain Clothes | with Dan Vining |
| 1991 | Dead Again | directed by Kenneth Branagh |
| 1991 | Little Man Tate | directed by Jodie Foster |
| 1991 | The Walter Ego | short |
| 1993 | Malice | with Aaron Sorkin |
| 1995 | Get Shorty | directed by Barry Sonnenfeld |
| 1996 | Heaven's Prisoners | with Harley Peyton |
| 1998 | Out of Sight | directed by Steven Soderbergh |
| 2002 | Minority Report | with Jon Cohen |
| 2004 | Flight of the Phoenix | with Edward Burns |
| 2005 | The Interpreter | with Charles Randolph and Steven Zaillian |
| 2007 | The Lookout | also director |
| 2008 | Marley & Me | with Don Roos |
| 2013 | The Wolverine | with Mark Bomback |
| 2014 | A Walk Among the Tombstones | also director |
| 2017 | Logan | with Michael Green and James Mangold |
- TV
| Year | Film | Notes |
|---|---|---|
| 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 director |