Drew Goddard

Drew Goddard
Goddard in 2005
Born	Andrew Goddard February 26, 1975 (1975-02-26) (age 36) Los Alamos, New Mexico, U.S.
Occupation	screenwriter
Notable award(s)	Writers Guild of America Award 2006 Lost
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Drew Goddard (born February 26, 1975) is an American film and television screenwriter and producer best known for his collaborations with Joss Whedon (Buffy the Vampire Slayer, Angel, The Cabin in the Woods) and J.J. Abrams (Alias, Lost, Cloverfield).

Goddard joined the crew of Lost as a freelance writer for the first season in 2004. Goddard and the writing staff won the Writers Guild of America (WGA) Award for Best Dramatic Series at the February 2006 ceremony for their work on the season.^[1] Goddard rejoined the crew as a supervising producer and writer for the third season in 2006. He was promoted to co-executive producer mid-season. The writing staff were nominated for the WGA Award for Best Dramatic Series again at the February 2007 ceremony for their work on the second and third seasons.^[2] Goddard and his co-writer, show runner and executive producer Damon Lindelof, were also nominated for the WGA Award for Best Episodic Drama at the February 2008 ceremony for writing the third season episode "Flashes Before Your Eyes".^[3] He returned as a co-executive producer for the fourth season in 2007. He was nominated for the WGA award for Best Dramatic Series again at the February 2009 ceremony for his work on the fourth season of Lost.^[4] Goddard left the crew at the end of the fourth season.

He has a cameo on Joss Whedon's web-based film, Dr. Horrible's Sing-Along Blog, as "Fake Thomas Jefferson."

Episodes written

Buffy

• "Selfless"
• "Conversations with Dead People" with Jane Espenson; Joss Whedon and Marti Noxon uncredited
• "Never Leave Me"
• "Lies My Parents Told Me" with David Fury
• "Dirty Girls"

Angel

• "Lineage"
• "Damage" with Steven S. DeKnight
• "Why We Fight" with Steven S. DeKnight
• "Origin"
• "The Girl in Question" with Steven S. DeKnight

Alias

• "Welcome to Liberty Village" - Jan. 26, 2005
• "Tuesday" - March 30, 2005
• "Mockingbird"- Oct. 20, 2005
• "There's Only One Sydney Bristow"- April 26, 2006 (100th episode)
• "All the Time in the World"- May 22, 2006 (series finale)

Lost

• 1.16 - "Outlaws" – February 16, 2005
• 3.02 - "The Glass Ballerina" – October 11, 2006 with Jeff Pinkner
• 3.08 - "Flashes Before Your Eyes" – February 14, 2007 with Damon Lindelof
• 3.13 - "The Man from Tallahassee" – March 21, 2007 with Jeff Pinkner
• 3.16 - "One of Us" – April 11, 2007 with Carlton Cuse
• 3.20 - "The Man Behind the Curtain" – May 9, 2007 with Elizabeth Sarnoff
• 4.02 - "Confirmed Dead" – February 7, 2008 with Brian K. Vaughan
• 4.06 - "The Other Woman" – March 6, 2008 with Christina M. Kim
• 4.09 - "The Shape of Things to Come" – April 24, 2008 with Brian K. Vaughan

Films written

• Cloverfield (2008)
• The Cabin in the Woods, with Joss Whedon (2012)

Comics written

• Tales of the Vampires ("Antique")
• Buffy the Vampire Slayer Season Eight
  • Issues #12-15 - "Wolves at the Gate" (2008)

See also

• Mutant Enemy Productions

References

1. ^ "Awards Winners". Writers Guild of America. http://www.wga.org/awards/awardssub.aspx?id=1517. Retrieved 2007-10-17. 
2. ^ "2007 Writers Guild Awards Television & Radio Nominees Announced". Writers Guild of America. http://www.wga.org/subpage_newsevents.aspx?id=2267. Retrieved 2007-12-06. 
3. ^ "2008 Writers Guild Awards Television & Radio Nominees Announced". Writers Guild of America. http://www.wga.org/subpage_newsevents.aspx?id=2653. Retrieved 2007-12-13. 
4. ^ "2009 Writers Guild Awards Television, Radio, News, Promotional Writing, and Graphic Animation Nominees Announced". WGA. 2008. http://wga.org/content/default.aspx?id=3410. Retrieved 2008-12-12. 

External links

• Drew Goddard at the Internet Movie Database
• drewgoddard.com - official site.

Preceded by Joss Whedon

Buffy the Vampire Slayer Season Eight writer 2007–2008

Succeeded by Jane Espenson

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Date of birth	February 26, 1975
Place of birth	Los Alamos, New Mexico, U.S.
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