Michael Arndt

Michael Arndt
Michael Arndt
Born Michael Arndt
date of birth unknown
McLean, Virginia, USA
Occupation Screenwriter
Nationality American
Notable work(s) Little Miss Sunshine (2006)
Toy Story 3 (2010)
Rock of Ages (2012)

Michael Arndt is an American screenwriter.

After graduating from New York University, Arndt was a script reader for some time before choosing to write screenplays instead. He is best known for his first produced screenplay Little Miss Sunshine, for which he received multiple awards including the Academy Award for Best Original Screenplay.

Arndt is also well known for his second screenplay from the film Toy Story 3, for which he also received multiple awards and nominations including nomination for the Academy Award for Best Adapted Screenplay. This making Arndt the first ever screenwriter to be nominated for both Academy Award for Best Original Screenplay and Best Adapted Screenplay for his first two screenplays.

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Early life

Arndt's father was a member of the Foreign Service, and as a result he lived in various countries, including Sri Lanka and India; he also lived in Virginia for a time.[1] Ardnt graduated from Langley High School in McLean, Virginia, and also attended The Potomac School. He attended New York University and graduated from its film school.[1] Ardnt was a script reader for some time, and was a personal assistant to actor Matthew Broderick until late 1999,[2] when he chose to begin writing screenplays full-time.[1][2][3]

Screenwriting career

"I figured I’d probably write 50 scripts in my life. Out of those 50, I figured maybe five would be produced, and that maybe one or two would be successful. So I always kind of expected I’d write at least one successful film in my life. [...] The way it all came together was kind of like Murphy's law in reverse—I don’t expect that kind of experience again any time soon."

Michael Arndt[2]

Arndt wrote the first draft of Little Miss Sunshine in three days between May 23–26, 2000.[4] From that initial draft, he made approximately 100 revisions over the course of a year, requesting input from friends and family.[1][2] Arndt considered directing the film himself "as a no-budget, DV feature" due to his concern of the story being "just too small and "indie" to get any real attention from Hollywood".[2] After the Endeavor Talent Agency read the script in July 2001, however, producers Albert Berger and Ron Yerxa subsequently gave the script to commercial and music video directors Jonathan Dayton and Valerie Faris, who were immediately attracted to the project.[2][3][5] Dayton and Faris were signed on by producer Marc Turtletaub, who purchased the script from Arndt for $150,000, on December 21, 2001.[3][4]

The project was set up at Focus Features, where it was in various stages of pre-production for approximately three years. During that time, Arndt was fired when he objected to centralizing the story on Richard Hoover (played by Greg Kinnear in the film), only to be re-hired within a month after the new writer hired by Focus left the project.[6] Arndt resumed work on the script, which continued through production and into post-production: "The final scene of the movie [...] was written and shot about eight weeks before [its premiere at the Sundance Film Festival on January 20, 2006]", he said.[2][3] Following its theatrical release on August 18, 2006, Little Miss Sunshine won many prizes and awards. Arndt won multiple Best Original Screenplay awards for Little Miss Sunshine, from the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences, the British Academy of Film and Television Arts, and the Writers Guild of America. He was later invited to join the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences.[7]

Arndt began collaborating with Lee Unkrich and other Pixar personnel on the screenplay for Toy Story 3 in 2006,[8] working from a treatment by Andrew Stanton, who co-wrote the two preceding films in the series.[9][10] He has been nominated for Academy Award for Best Adapted Screenplay for his work for Toy Story 3, and becoming the first ever screenwriter to be nominated for both Academy Award for Best Original Screenplay and Best Adapted Screenplay for his first two screenplays.

He is currently screenwriting upcoming films such as Midnight, Monster Squad and Used Guys.

Filmography

  • Little Miss Sunshine (2006) (screenplay) - won the Academy Award for Best Original Screenplay
  • Toy Story 3 (2010) (screenplay) - nominated for the Academy Award for Best Adapted Screenplay
  • Rock of Ages (2012) (screenplay)
  • Phineas and Ferb (2013)
  • The Untitled Pixar Movie That Takes You Inside The Mind (2014) (screenplay)

Further reading

References

  1. ^ a b c d Wloszczyna, Susan (March 5, 2007). "Writing for an Oscar". USA Today. http://www.usatoday.com/life/movies/movieawards/oscars/2007-02-15-screenwriters-arndt_x.htm. Retrieved July 9, 2008. 
  2. ^ a b c d e f g Wood, Jennifer (February 3, 2007). "Family Values". MovieMaker Magazine. http://www.moviemaker.com/screenwriting/article/family_values_2849/. Retrieved July 9, 2008. 
  3. ^ a b c d Waxman, Sharon (January 23, 2006). "A Small Film Nearly Left for Dead Has Its Day in the Sundance Rays". The New York Times. http://www.nytimes.com/2006/01/23/movies/MoviesFeatures/23sund.html. Retrieved July 8, 2008. 
  4. ^ a b Arndt, Michael (2007). Little Miss Sunshine: The Shooting Script. Newmarket. p. x. ISBN 1557047707. 
  5. ^ Goldstein, Patrick (February 20, 2007). "The unkindest cut". Los Angeles Times. http://articles.latimes.com/2007/feb/20/entertainment/et-gold20. Retrieved July 8, 2008. 
  6. ^ Guillen, Michael (February 23, 2007). "Michael Arndt, Little Mr. Sunshine". SF360. http://www.sf360.org/features/michael-arndt-little-mr-sunshine. Retrieved July 8, 2008. [dead link]
  7. ^ "Academy Invites 115 to Become Members" (Press release). AMPAS. June 18, 2007. http://www.oscars.org/press/pressreleases/2007/07.06.18.html. Retrieved July 8, 2008. 
  8. ^ Daly, Steve (February 16, 2007). "'Toy'’s Out of the Attic". Entertainment Weekly. http://www.ew.com/ew/article/0,,20012203,00.html. Retrieved July 9, 2008. 
  9. ^ "2007 Disney Conference – Studio Presentation". Disney Enterprises. February 8, 2007. http://corporate.disney.go.com/media/investors/2007_irc_studio.pdf. Retrieved August 6, 2007. 
  10. ^ Fritz, Ben (February 8, 2007). "'Toy Story' sequel set". Variety. http://www.variety.com/article/VR1117959040.html. Retrieved July 8, 2008. 

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