GUIONISTAS
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1. Laurent Baffie
Writer | Hot Dog
Laurent Baffie was born on April 18, 1958 in Paris, France. He is a writer and actor, known for Hot Dog (2000), Les clefs de bagnole (2003) and Toc Toc (2017).
2. Vicente Villanueva
Director | La rubia de Pinos Puente
Vicente Villanueva was born in 1970 in Valencia, Spain. He is a director and writer, known for La rubia de Pinos Puente (2009), Meeting with Sarah Jessica (2013) and Heterosexuales y casados (2008).
3. Vince Gilligan
Producer | The X Files
George Vincent Gilligan Jr. (born February 10, 1967) is an American writer, producer, and director. He is known for his television work, specifically as creator, head writer, executive producer, and director of Breaking Bad and its spin-off Better Call Saul. He was a writer and producer for The ...
4. Matthew Michael Carnahan
Writer | Dark Waters
Matthew Michael Carnahan is known for Dark Waters (2019), Mosul (2019) and 21 Bridges (2019).
5. Drew Goddard
Producer | The Martian
Drew Goddard was raised in Los Alamos, New Mexico. He attended Los Alamos High School in Los Alamos, New Mexico and graduated in 1993. He then attended the University of Colorado, and worked as a production assistant in L.A. after graduation. A spec script Drew wrote based on Six Feet Under (2001) ...
6. Damon Lindelof
Producer | Lost
Damon Lindelof was born on April 24, 1973 in Teaneck, New Jersey, USA. He is a producer and writer, known for Lost (2004), The Leftovers (2014) and Watchmen (2019). He has been married to Heidi Fugeman since May 28, 2005. They have one child.
7. Chuck Palahniuk
Writer | Fight Club
Chuck is a low key writer who never stops writing and taking down notes to file away for future writing. Very funny, very creative and very thought provoking. His books often make you look at yourself in ways that you would never have before. Same goes for the world, he will make you notice things ...
8. Jim Uhls
Writer | Fight Club
Jim Uhls was born on March 25, 1957 in Missouri, USA. He is a writer and producer, known for Fight Club (1999), Jumper (2008) and The Leviathan. He is married to Yalda Tehranian. They have two children.
9. Adam McKay
Producer | Don't Look Up
Adam McKay (born April 17, 1968) is an American screenwriter, director, comedian, and actor. McKay has a comedy partnership with Will Ferrell, with whom he co-wrote the films Anchorman, Talladega Nights, and The Other Guys. Ferrell and McKay also founded their comedy website Funny or Die through ...
10. David Sirota
Producer | Don't Look Up
David Sirota is known for Don't Look Up (2021), The Holly (2022) and The '80s: The Decade That Made Us (2013). He is married to Emily Sirota.
11. Robert Rodat
Writer | Saving Private Ryan
Robert Rodat was born in 1953 in New Hampshire, USA. He is a writer and producer, known for Saving Private Ryan (1998), Falling Skies (2011) and Fly Away Home (1996). He is married to Mollie Miller. They have three children.
12. Steve Conrad
Writer | Patriot
Steve Conrad was born in 1968 in Fort Lauderdale, Florida, USA. He is a writer and producer, known for Patriot (2015), Wonder (2017) and The Secret Life of Walter Mitty (2013).
13. John Krasinski
Actor | Jack Ryan
American actor John Krasinski is known for his role as sardonic nice guy Jim Halpert on NBC's popular TV sitcom, The Office (2005), for which he won a 2007 and 2008 Screen Actors Guild Award for outstanding performance by an ensemble in a comedy series.
Born John Burke Krasinski on October 20, 1979,...
14. Bryan Woods
Writer | A Quiet Place
Bryan Woods was born on September 14, 1984 in Davenport, Iowa, USA. He is a writer and producer, known for A Quiet Place (2018), 65 (2023) and Haunt (2019).
15. Scott Beck
Writer | A Quiet Place
Scott Beck was born on October 22, 1984 in Denver, Colorado, USA. He is a writer and producer, known for A Quiet Place (2018), 65 (2023) and Haunt (2019).
16. Jeff Nathanson
Writer | Speed 2: Cruise Control
Jeff Nathanson was born on October 12, 1965 in Los Angeles, California, USA. He is a writer and producer, known for Speed 2: Cruise Control (1997), Catch Me If You Can (2002) and Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Men Tell No Tales (2017).
17. Graham Moore
Writer | The Imitation Game
Graham Moore was born on October 18, 1981 in Chicago, Illinois, USA. He is a writer and producer, known for The Imitation Game (2014), The Outfit (2022) and Emmerdale Farm (1972).
18. Andrew Hodges
Writer | The Imitation Game
Andrew Hodges is known for The Imitation Game (2014), Breaking the Code (1996) and Horizon (1964).
19. Cinco Paul
Writer | The Lorax
Cinco Paul was born on May 5, 1964 in Phoenix, Arizona, USA. He is a writer and producer, known for The Lorax (2012), Schmigadoon! (2021) and Bubble Boy (2001).
20. Ken Daurio
Writer | Despicable Me
Ken Daurio was born on July 15, 1971 in California, USA. He is a writer and producer, known for Despicable Me (2010), Bubble Boy (2001) and Horton Hears a Who! (2008). He has been married to Michelle Daurio since July 20, 1996. They have three children.
21. Brian Lynch
Writer | Puss in Boots
Brian Lynch is a native of New Jersey. Big Helium Dog (1999) was the first feature film that he wrote and directed and despite not yet getting nationwide distribution, it has received tremendous reviews due to its showings at various festivals. The film is primarily a series of sketches which are ...
22. Jon Vitti
Producer | The Larry Sanders Show
Jon Vitti is known for The Larry Sanders Show (1992), The Simpsons Movie (2007) and The Simpsons (1989).
23. Mikael Hed
Producer | The Angry Birds Movie
Mikael Hed is known for The Angry Birds Movie (2016), Angry Birds Toons (2013) and Tiny Thief (2013).
24. Mikko Pöllä
Writer | Helsingin herra
Mikko Pöllä is known for Helsingin herra (2012), Easy Living (2009) and The Angry Birds Movie (2016).
25. Derek Kolstad
Writer | Nobody
Derek Kolstad was born on April 4, 1974 in Madison, Wisconsin, USA. He is a writer and producer, known for Nobody (2021), John Wick: Chapter 3 - Parabellum (2019) and John Wick (2014).
26. Quentin Tarantino
Writer | Reservoir Dogs
Quentin Jerome Tarantino was born in Knoxville, Tennessee. His father, Tony Tarantino, is an Italian-American actor and musician from New York, and his mother, Connie (McHugh), is a nurse from Tennessee. Quentin moved with his mother to Torrance, California, when he was four years old.
In January of...
27. Roger Avary
Writer | Pulp Fiction
Award-winning filmmaker Roger Avary first began experimenting in Beta I video and 8mm film formats during the late 1970s. In 1983, his Super-8mm supernatural thriller The Worm Turns won Best Film from the Los Angeles Film Teachers Association Film Expo. He went on to attend the Pasadena Art Center ...
28. John Logan
Writer | Skyfall
John Logan was a playwright in Chicago for ten years before writing, on spec, his first screenplay, "Any Given Sunday." He won the 2010 Tony, Drama Desk, Drama League and Outer Critics Circle awards for his play RED, which premiered at the Donmar Warehouse in London and the Golden Theatre on ...
29. Gore Verbinski
Director | Rango
Gore Verbinski, one of American cinema's most inventive directors who was a punk-rock guitarist as a teenager and had to sell his guitar to buy his first camera, is now the director of Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man's Chest (2006) which made the industry record for highest opening weekend of ...
30. James Ward Byrkit
Director | Coherence
James Ward Byrkit is known for Coherence (2013), Rango (2011) and The Amazing Spider-Man 2 (2014).
31. Hampton Fancher
Writer | Blade Runner 2049
Hampton Fancher was born on July 18, 1938 in Los Angeles, California, USA. He is an actor and writer, known for Blade Runner 2049 (2017), Blade Runner (1982) and The Minus Man (1999). He was previously married to Sue Lyon and Joann McNabb.
32. Michael Green
Writer | Logan
Michael Green was born on February 18, 1973 in Mamaroneck, New York, USA. He is a producer and writer, known for Logan (2017), Blade Runner 2049 (2017) and Blue Eye Samurai (2023). He is married to Amber Noizumi. They have two children.
33. Philip K. Dick
Writer | Blade Runner
Philip Kindred Dick was born in Chicago in December 1928, along with a twin sister, Jane. Jane died less than eight weeks later, allegedly from an allergy to mother's milk. Dick's parents split up during his childhood, and he moved with his mother to Berkeley, California, where he lived for most of...
34. Seth Rogen
Producer | This Is the End
An actor, comedian and writer, Seth Rogen has come a long way from doing stand-up comedy as a teen.
Rogen was born in Vancouver, British Columbia, to Sandy (Belogus), a social worker, and Mark Rogen, who worked for non-profits. His father is American-born and his mother is Canadian. He is of Russian...
35. Evan Goldberg
Producer | This Is the End
Evan Goldberg is a Canadian director, screenwriter and producer. Goldberg is known for his work on Superbad, Knocked Up, Pineapple Express, Funny People, The Green Hornet, 50/50, Goon, The Watch, This is the End, Neighbors, The Interview and The Night Before. Goldberg works alongside longtime ...
36. Emerald Fennell
Writer | Saltburn
Emerald Lilly Fennell is an English actress, filmmaker, and writer. She has received many awards and nominations, including an Academy Award, two British Academy Film Awards, one Screen Actors Guild Award, and nominations for three Primetime Emmy Awards and three Golden Globe Awards. Fennell first ...
37. James Thurber
Writer | The Secret Life of Walter Mitty
James Grover Thurber was born in 1894 in Columbus, Ohio. He began his career as a reporter for the Columbus Evening Dispatch. He became known for his work on The New Yorker, where he was a writer and a cartoonist. His most famous story is "The Secret Life of Walter Mitty".
38. Mateusz Pacewicz
Writer | Boze Cialo
Writer and director, born in Warsaw, Poland in 1992. Since 2020 Mateusz is a member of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences & Polish Film Academy. In years 2016-2019 Mateusz wrote two feature films - Corpus Christi & The Hater. Corpus Christi was nominated for the Academy Award for Best ...
39. Sergio Casci
Writer | The Lodge
Sergio Casci is known for The Lodge (2019), The Call (2020) and American Cousins (2003).
40. Chung-Hyun Lee
Director | Kol
Chung-Hyun Lee is known for The Call (2020), Bargain (2015) and Ballerina (2023).
41. Eric Heisserer
Writer | Arrival
Eric Heisserer was born in 1970 in Norman, Oklahoma, USA. He is a writer and producer, known for Arrival (2016), Bird Box (2018) and Hours (2013). He has been married to Christine Boylan since October 23, 2010.
42. Ted Chiang
Writer | Arrival
Ted Chiang was born in 1967 in Port Jefferson, New York, USA. He is a writer, known for Arrival (2016), Division by Zero and Understand.
44. Colby Day
Writer | Spaceman
Colby Day is known for Spaceman (2024), In the Blink of an Eye and Lead/Follow (2022).
45. J.A. Bayona
Director | La sociedad de la nieve
Juan Antonio García Bayona is a Spanish film director. He directed the 2007 horror film The Orphanage, the 2012 drama film The Impossible, and the 2016 fantasy drama film A Monster Calls. Bayona's latest film is the 2018 science fiction adventure film Jurassic World: Fallen Kingdom, the fifth ...
46. Bernat Vilaplana
Writer | La sociedad de la nieve
Bernat Vilaplana is known for Society of the Snow (2023), A Monster Calls (2016) and Pan's Labyrinth (2006).
47. Jaime Marques
Writer | La sociedad de la nieve
Jaime Marques is known for Society of the Snow (2023), Thieves (2007) and El paraíso perdido (1999).
48. Bob Fisher
Writer | Overboard
Bob Fisher is known for Overboard (2018), Wedding Crashers (2005) and Sirens (2014).
49. Steve Faber
Writer | Wedding Crashers
Steve Faber was born to a family of magicians who emigrated from Eastern Europe a long, long time ago. Grandson of Harry Faber, renowned sleight-of-hand artist, Faber attended UCLA where he earned degrees in both literature and history. Faber went on to graduate from law school. It was a tremendous...
50. Sean Anders
Writer | Instant Family
Sean Anders is known for Instant Family (2018), Spirited (2022) and That's My Boy (2012).
51. Dan Mazeau
Writer | Fast X
Dan Mazeau was born on August 29, 1979. Dan is a writer and producer, known for Fast X (2023), Damsel (2024) and Wrath of the Titans (2012).
52. Zak Olkewicz
Writer | Bullet Train
Zak Olkewicz was born on December 19, 1983 in Los Angeles County, California, USA. Zak is a writer and producer, known for Bullet Train (2022), Fear Street: Part Two - 1978 (2021) and The Last Voyage of the Demeter (2023). Zak is married to Katrina Rennells. They have one child.
53. Kôtarô Isaka
Writer | Bullet Train
Kôtarô Isaka is known for Bullet Train (2022), Seesaw Monster and Golden Slumber (2010).
54. George A. Romero
Writer | Land of the Dead
George A. Romero never set out to become a Hollywood figure; by all indications, though, he was very successful. The director of the groundbreaking "Living Dead" films was born February 4, 1940 ,in New York City to Ann (Dvorsky) and Jorge Romero. His father was born in Spain and raised in Cuba, and...
55. James Gunn
Writer | Guardians of the Galaxy
James Gunn was born and raised in St. Louis, Missouri, to Leota and James Francis Gunn. He is from a large Catholic family, with Irish and Czech ancestry. His father and his uncles were all lawyers. He has been writing and performing as long as he can remember. He began making 8mm films at the age ...
56. John Gatins
Writer | Flight
John Gatins was born on April 16, 1968 in Poughkeepsie, New York, USA. He is an actor and writer, known for Flight (2012), Real Steel (2011) and Norbit (2007).
57. Dan Gilroy
Writer | Nightcrawler
Dan Gilroy was born in Santa Monica, California, the son of Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright Frank D. Gilroy, and sculptor and writer Ruth Dorothy. His brother Tony Gilroy is a screenwriter and director; and his fraternal twin brother, John Gilroy, is a film editor. Through his father, he is of ...
58. Jeremy Leven
Writer | Don Juan DeMarco
Jeremy Leven was born on August 16, 1941 in South Bend, Indiana, USA. He is a writer and producer, known for Don Juan DeMarco (1994), Real Steel (2011) and The Notebook (2004). He was previously married to Roberta Danza.
59. Damien Chazelle
Writer | La La Land
Damien Sayre Chazelle is an American director and screenwriter. He was born in Providence, Rhode Island. His mother, Celia Sayre (Martin) Chazelle, is an American-Canadian writer and professor of history at The College of New Jersey. His father, Bernard Chazelle, is a French-American Eugene Higgins...
60. Hossein Amini
Writer | Drive
Hossein Amini was born in Iran, and when he was 11 years old, he and his family moved to England. Amini's first screenplay was for the 1994 TV movie The Dying of the Light, which was directed by Peter Kosminsky. The TV movie covered the murder of Sean Devereux, an aid worker who was murdered in ...
61. James Sallis
Writer | Drive
James Sallis was born on December 21, 1944 in Helena, Arkansas, USA. He is a writer and actor, known for Drive (2011), Blue Devils (2022) and Drive (2007).
62. Anthony Bagarozzi
Writer | The Nice Guys
Anthony Bagarozzi is known for The Nice Guys (2016), Road House (2024) and Deathless.
63. Chuck Mondry
Writer | Road House
Chuck Mondry is known for Road House (2024), Deathless and Play Dirty.
64. R. Lance Hill
Writer | Road House
R. Lance Hill was born in 1943 in Canada. He is a writer, known for Road House (1989), Road House (2024) and Harry Tracy: The Last of the Wild Bunch (1982).
65. Charles Randolph
Writer | The Big Short
Charles Randolph is known for The Big Short (2015), Bombshell (2019) and Love & Other Drugs (2010). He has been married to Mili Avital since July 4, 2004. They have two children.
66. Michael Lewis
Writer | The Big Short
Michael Lewis was born on October 15, 1960 in New Orleans, Louisiana, USA. He is a writer and actor, known for The Big Short (2015), Moneyball (2011) and The Blind Side (2009). He has been married to Tabitha Soren since October 4, 1997. They have four children.
67. Greta Gerwig
Writer | Barbie
Greta Gerwig is an American actress, playwright, screenwriter, and director. She has collaborated with Noah Baumbach on several films, including Greenberg (2010), Frances Ha (2012), for which she earned a Golden Globe nomination, and Mistress America (2015). Gerwig made her solo directorial debut ...
68. Noah Baumbach
Writer | The Squid and the Whale
Born in Brooklyn in 1969 Noah Baumbach is the son of two film critics, Georgia Brown and Jonathan Baumbach (also a writer). His studies at Vassar College were the subject of his first film (made as he was 26 years old), Kicking and Screaming (1995). His second major picture, made ten years later, ...
69. Shane Black
Actor | Predator
Considered one of the pioneer screenwriters of the action genre, Black made his mark with his Lethal Weapon (1987) screenplay. He also collaborated on the story of the sequel, Lethal Weapon 2 (1989). Each successive script he turned in had a higher price attached it, from The Last Boy Scout (1991) ...
70. Dan Fogelman
Writer | This Is Us
Dan Fogelman was born on February 19, 1976 in River Vale, Bergen County, New Jersey, USA. He is a writer and producer, known for This Is Us (2016), Life Itself (2018) and Tangled (2010). He has been married to Caitlin Thompson since June 13, 2015. They have one child.
71. Joe Russo
Director | Avengers: Endgame
Joseph Vincent Russo is an American filmmaker and producer who works alongside his brother Anthony Russo. They have directed You, Me and Dupree, Cherry and the Marvel films Captain America: The Winter Soldier, Captain America: Civil War, Avengers: Infinity War and Avengers: Endgame. Endgame is one ...
72. Christopher Markus
Writer | Avengers: Endgame
Christopher Markus was born on October 16, 1969 in Buffalo, New York, USA. He is a writer and producer, known for Avengers: Endgame (2019), Avengers: Infinity War (2018) and Captain America: The First Avenger (2011). He has been married to Claire Saunders since October 22, 2011.
73. Stephen McFeely
Writer | Avengers: Endgame
Stephen McFeely was born on February 24, 1970 in Walnut Creek, California, USA. He is a writer and producer, known for Avengers: Endgame (2019), Captain America: The First Avenger (2011) and Avengers: Infinity War (2018). He is married to Jennifer Cotteleer.
74. Judd Apatow
Producer | Girls
Judd Apatow is an American film director, screenwriter, producer and comedian. He directed The 40-Year Old Virgin, Knocked Up, This is 40, Funny People, Trainwreck and The King of Staten Island. He also developed the television shows Freaks and Geeks, Undeclared, Girls, Love and Crashing. He is ...
75. Steve Carell
Actor | The Office
Steve Carell, one of America's most versatile comics, was born Steven John Carell on August 16, 1962, in Concord, Massachusetts. He is the son of Harriet Theresa (Koch), a psychiatric nurse, and Edwin A. Carell, an electrical engineer. His mother was of Polish descent and his father of Italian and ...
76. Gong Geer
Producer | Liu lang di qiu
Gong Geer is known for The Wandering Earth (2019), The Wandering Earth II (2023) and Liu Lang Di Qiu 3 (2027).
77. Junce Ye
Writer | Liu lang di qiu
Junce Ye is known for The Wandering Earth (2019), To the Summit (2021) and Love Speaks (2013).
78. Dongxu Yan
Writer | Liu lang di qiu
Dongxu Yan is known for The Wandering Earth (2019) and Weilai shangdian (2022).
79. Robert Kirkman
Writer | Invincible
Robert Kirkman was born on November 30, 1978 in Richmond, Kentucky, USA. He is a writer and producer, known for Invincible (2021), Fear the Walking Dead (2015) and The Walking Dead (2010).
80. Ryan Ottley
Writer | Invincible
Ryan Ottley is known for Invincible (2021), Invincible and Mortal Kombat 1 (2023).
81. Cory Walker
Writer | Invincible
Cory Walker is known for Invincible (2021), Invincible: Atom Eve (2023) and Invincible.
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