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. 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 sreenplay for the major motion picture The Bourne Supremacy, for which he was uncredited.
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
References
^ "Brian Helgeland - Biography". IMDB. Retrieved on 2007-08-08.
^ The Bourne Supremacy (2004)
External links
Brian Helgeland at the Internet Movie Database
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Categories: 1961 births | Living people | American screenwriters | Edgar Award winners | Loyola Marymount University alumni | University of Massachusetts Dartmouth alumni
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