Brian Helgeland

Infobox actor


name = Brian Helgeland
bgcolour =
imagesize =
caption =
birthdate = birth date and age|1961|1|17
location = Providence, Rhode Island
birthname = Brian Thomas Helgeland
othername =
occupation = film director, producer, screenwriter and commercial fisherman
yearsactive =
spouse =
partner =
children =
parents =
academyawards = Best Adapted Screenplay
1997 "L.A. Confidential"
goldenraspberryawards = Worst Screenplay
1997 "The Postman"
residence =
influences =
influenced =
website =
footnotes =

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 [cite web |url=http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0001338/bio |title=Brian Helgeland - Biography |accessdate=2007-08-08 |publisher=IMDB] . 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". In 2004, Helgeland also co-wrote the screenplay for the major motion picture "The Bourne Supremacy", for which he was uncredited. [ [http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0372183/ The Bourne Supremacy (2004) ] ] In early 2008, Helgeland was attached to shape the script of the upcoming thriller "Green Zone"cite news | author=Michael Fleming | url=http://www.variety.com/article/VR1117978765.html?categoryid=13&cs=1 | title=Amy Ryan set for Greengrass thriller | publisher=Variety | date=2008-01-09 | accessdate=2008-01-22 ] after screenwriter Tom Stoppard had to drop out, [cite news | author=Richard Brooks | title=The Bourne Ultimatum - Biteback | publisher=The Sunday Times | date=2007-08-12 ] once again collaborating with director Paul Greengrass, whom he worked with on "The Bourne Supremacy", as well as reuniting with actor Matt Damon, who played the Bourne trilogy's main protagonist, Jason Bourne.

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 the uncredited Paul Abascal)
*"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)
*"Green Zone"cite news | author=Michael Fleming | url=http://www.variety.com/article/VR1117978765.html?categoryid=13&cs=1 | title=Amy Ryan set for Greengrass thriller | publisher=Variety | date=2008-01-09 | accessdate=2008-01-22 ] (TBA) — Co-writer with Paul Greengrass.
*"Cirque du Freak (film)" (2007/08??) — Writer

References

External links

*imdb name|id=0001338|name=Brian Helgeland