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data-title="로런스 캐즈던" data-language-autonym="한국어" data-language-local-name="Korean" class="interlanguage-link-target">한국어</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-hr mw-list-item"><a href="https://hr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lawrence_Kasdan" title="Lawrence Kasdan – Croatian" lang="hr" hreflang="hr" data-title="Lawrence Kasdan" data-language-autonym="Hrvatski" data-language-local-name="Croatian" class="interlanguage-link-target">Hrvatski</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-it mw-list-item"><a href="https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lawrence_Kasdan" title="Lawrence Kasdan – Italian" lang="it" hreflang="it" data-title="Lawrence Kasdan" data-language-autonym="Italiano" data-language-local-name="Italian" class="interlanguage-link-target">Italiano</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-he mw-list-item"><a href="https://he.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D7%9C%D7%95%D7%A8%D7%A0%D7%A1_%D7%A7%D7%A1%D7%93%D7%9F" title="לורנס קסדן – Hebrew" lang="he" hreflang="he" data-title="לורנס קסדן" 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Malagasy" lang="mg" hreflang="mg" data-title="Lawrence Kasdan" data-language-autonym="Malagasy" data-language-local-name="Malagasy" class="interlanguage-link-target">Malagasy</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-arz mw-list-item"><a href="https://arz.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D9%84%D9%88%D8%B1%D8%A7%D9%86%D8%B3_%D9%83%D8%A7%D8%B2%D8%AF%D8%A7%D9%86" title="لورانس كازدان – Egyptian Arabic" lang="arz" hreflang="arz" data-title="لورانس كازدان" data-language-autonym="مصرى" data-language-local-name="Egyptian Arabic" class="interlanguage-link-target">مصرى</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-nl mw-list-item"><a href="https://nl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lawrence_Kasdan" title="Lawrence Kasdan – Dutch" lang="nl" hreflang="nl" data-title="Lawrence Kasdan" data-language-autonym="Nederlands" data-language-local-name="Dutch" class="interlanguage-link-target">Nederlands</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-ja mw-list-item"><a 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class="mw-body-content"><div class="mw-content-ltr mw-parser-output" lang="en" dir="ltr"><div class="shortdescription nomobile noexcerpt noprint searchaux" style="display:none">American filmmaker (born 1949)</div> <style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1257001546">.mw-parser-output .infobox-subbox{padding:0;border:none;margin:-3px;width:auto;min-width:100%;font-size:100%;clear:none;float:none;background-color:transparent}.mw-parser-output .infobox-3cols-child{margin:auto}.mw-parser-output .infobox .navbar{font-size:100%}@media screen{html.skin-theme-clientpref-night .mw-parser-output .infobox-full-data:not(.notheme)>div:not(.notheme)[style]{background:#1f1f23!important;color:#f8f9fa}}@media screen and (prefers-color-scheme:dark){html.skin-theme-clientpref-os .mw-parser-output .infobox-full-data:not(.notheme) div:not(.notheme){background:#1f1f23!important;color:#f8f9fa}}@media(min-width:640px){body.skin--responsive .mw-parser-output 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title="University of Michigan">University of Michigan</a></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Occupations</th><td class="infobox-data role"><style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1129693374">.mw-parser-output .hlist dl,.mw-parser-output .hlist ol,.mw-parser-output .hlist ul{margin:0;padding:0}.mw-parser-output .hlist dd,.mw-parser-output .hlist dt,.mw-parser-output .hlist li{margin:0;display:inline}.mw-parser-output .hlist.inline,.mw-parser-output .hlist.inline dl,.mw-parser-output .hlist.inline ol,.mw-parser-output .hlist.inline ul,.mw-parser-output .hlist dl dl,.mw-parser-output .hlist dl ol,.mw-parser-output .hlist dl ul,.mw-parser-output .hlist ol dl,.mw-parser-output .hlist ol ol,.mw-parser-output .hlist ol ul,.mw-parser-output .hlist ul dl,.mw-parser-output .hlist ul ol,.mw-parser-output .hlist ul ul{display:inline}.mw-parser-output .hlist .mw-empty-li{display:none}.mw-parser-output .hlist dt::after{content:": "}.mw-parser-output .hlist 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class="infobox-label">Spouse</th><td class="infobox-data"><style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1151524712">.mw-parser-output .marriage-line-margin2px{line-height:0;margin-bottom:-2px}.mw-parser-output .marriage-line-margin3px{line-height:0;margin-bottom:-3px}.mw-parser-output .marriage-display-ws{display:inline;white-space:nowrap}</style> <div class="marriage-display-ws"><div style="display:inline-block;line-height:normal;">Meg Goldman</div> <div style="display:inline-block;"></div>(<abbr title="married">m.</abbr> 1971)</div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Children</th><td class="infobox-data"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1129693374"><div class="hlist"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Jake_Kasdan" title="Jake Kasdan">Jake</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Jonathan_Kasdan" title="Jonathan Kasdan">Jonathan</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Relatives</th><td class="infobox-data"><a href="/wiki/Mark_Kasdan" title="Mark Kasdan">Mark Kasdan</a> (brother)</td></tr></tbody></table> Lawrence Edward Kasdan<a href="#cite_note-TCM-1">[1]</a> (born January 14, 1949) is an American filmmaker. He is the co-writer of the <a href="/wiki/Star_Wars" title="Star Wars">Star Wars</a> films <a href="/wiki/The_Empire_Strikes_Back" title="The Empire Strikes Back">The Empire Strikes Back</a> (1980), <a href="/wiki/Return_of_the_Jedi" title="Return of the Jedi">Return of the Jedi</a> (1983), <a href="/wiki/The_Force_Awakens" class="mw-redirect" title="The Force Awakens">The Force Awakens</a> (2015), and <a href="/wiki/Solo:_A_Star_Wars_Story" title="Solo: A Star Wars Story">Solo: A Star Wars Story</a> (2018). He also wrote <a href="/wiki/Raiders_of_the_Lost_Ark" title="Raiders of the Lost Ark">Raiders of the Lost Ark</a> (1981) and <a href="/wiki/The_Bodyguard_(1992_film)" title="The Bodyguard (1992 film)">The Bodyguard</a> (1992), and is the writer-director of <a href="/wiki/Body_Heat" title="Body Heat">Body Heat</a> (1981), <a href="/wiki/The_Big_Chill_(film)" title="The Big Chill (film)">The Big Chill</a> (1983), <a href="/wiki/Silverado_(film)" title="Silverado (film)">Silverado</a> (1985), <a href="/wiki/The_Accidental_Tourist_(film)" title="The Accidental Tourist (film)">The Accidental Tourist</a> (1988), and <a href="/wiki/Dreamcatcher_(2003_film)" title="Dreamcatcher (2003 film)">Dreamcatcher</a> (2003). Kasdan is known for updating old Hollywood genres—film noir, science fiction, westerns—in a classical dramatic style with quick-witted dialogue, but dealing with contemporary social themes. As a director, he has made various personal films that examine characters and generations. Kasdan has been nominated for four Academy Awards: as a producer for Best Picture nominee The Accidental Tourist, for which he was also nominated for Best Adapted Screenplay, and for Best Original Screenplay for both The Big Chill and <a href="/wiki/Grand_Canyon_(1991_film)" title="Grand Canyon (1991 film)">Grand Canyon</a> (1991). He has often collaborated with his wife, Meg Kasdan, his brother, <a href="/wiki/Mark_Kasdan" title="Mark Kasdan">Mark Kasdan</a>, and his two sons: <a href="/wiki/Jonathan_Kasdan" title="Jonathan Kasdan">Jonathan Kasdan</a> and <a href="/wiki/Jake_Kasdan" title="Jake Kasdan">Jake Kasdan</a>. He has frequently cast <a href="/wiki/Kevin_Kline" title="Kevin Kline">Kevin Kline</a> and <a href="/wiki/William_Hurt" title="William Hurt">William Hurt</a> in his films. <meta property="mw:PageProp/toc" /> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Early_life">Early life</h2>[<a href="/w/index.php?title=Lawrence_Kasdan&action=edit&section=1" title="Edit section: Early life">edit</a>]</div> Kasdan was born in <a href="/wiki/Miami_Beach,_Florida" title="Miami Beach, Florida">Miami Beach, Florida</a>, the son of Sylvia, an employment counselor, and Clarence Kasdan, an electronics-store manager.<a href="#cite_note-TCM-1">[1]</a> Kasdan is <a href="/wiki/American_Jews" title="American Jews">Jewish</a>.<a href="#cite_note-2">[2]</a> His older brother is <a href="/wiki/Mark_Kasdan" title="Mark Kasdan">Mark Kasdan</a>, who co-wrote <a href="/wiki/Silverado_(film)" title="Silverado (film)">Silverado</a> (1985) and produced <a href="/wiki/Dreamcatcher_(2003_film)" title="Dreamcatcher (2003 film)">Dreamcatcher</a> (2003), and he has two sisters.<a href="#cite_note-WaPo1992-3">[3]</a> Kasdan grew up in <a href="/wiki/Morgantown,_West_Virginia" title="Morgantown, West Virginia">Morgantown, West Virginia</a>.<a href="#cite_note-NYT1981-4">[4]</a> "I felt very fortunate to have had a regular American childhood in the fifties," he said. "It was a safe place, where you owned the town if you had a bicycle."<a href="#cite_note-:0-5">[5]</a>[<a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:NOTRS" class="mw-redirect" title="Wikipedia:NOTRS">better source needed</a>] His parents were both "thwarted writers."<a href="#cite_note-:1-6">[6]</a> His father, who died when Kasdan was 14, had wanted to be a playwright, and his mother claimed to have studied with novelist and playwright <a href="/wiki/Sinclair_Lewis" title="Sinclair Lewis">Sinclair Lewis</a> at the <a href="/wiki/University_of_Wisconsin%E2%80%93Madison" title="University of Wisconsin–Madison">University of Wisconsin</a>. She sold a few stories to "confessional magazines" in the 1950s, and later bought self-help books and typed up their contents with the dream of writing her own book one day. She also struck up conversations with strangers on the bus, saying it was all "grist for the mill" for future writing. "Looking back on it now," Kasdan wrote, "I wonder if maybe I owe her everything. Whether by nature or nurture, I became a writer."<a href="#cite_note-:2-7">[7]</a> Many of Kasdan's movies were inspired by his "difficult childhood and home life," he wrote. "So, in my work, I've looked for something more stable or explored why growing up in my home was so upsetting."<a href="#cite_note-:3-8">[8]</a> "We didn't have a lot of money and neither did anyone around us, and going to the movies was the happiest thing about my childhood," he said. "Movies weren't very big in <a href="/wiki/Wheeling,_West_Virginia" title="Wheeling, West Virginia">Wheeling</a> in those days. We used to call up the theater to ask what time the show began, and they'd say, 'What time can you get here?'"<a href="#cite_note-:4-9">[9]</a> He particularly loved <a href="/wiki/The_Great_Escape_(film)" title="The Great Escape (film)">The Great Escape</a> (1963) and <a href="/wiki/The_Magnificent_Seven" title="The Magnificent Seven">The Magnificent Seven</a> (1960), both directed by <a href="/wiki/John_Sturges" title="John Sturges">John Sturges</a>—movies that shaped his ideas of manhood and heroism. "Film made its values tangible for me in the ways that parents, school, Sunday School had not. I wanted to live in the world I found in the movies."<a href="#cite_note-10">[10]</a> In 1963, his brother Mark took him to see <a href="/wiki/David_Lean" title="David Lean">David Lean</a>'s <a href="/wiki/Lawrence_of_Arabia_(film)" title="Lawrence of Arabia (film)">Lawrence of Arabia</a>. They arrived a few minutes late, and Mark insisted that they kill six hours until the next showing. "I thought my brother was crazy. But when the show was over, I knew I had done the right thing. As I stumbled from the theater, having seen the whole movie, I had a new hero. It was not <a href="/wiki/T._E._Lawrence" title="T. E. Lawrence">T. E. Lawrence</a>, but David Lean".<a href="#cite_note-11">[11]</a> He graduated from Morgantown High School in 1966. To earn money for college, he worked various jobs at a glass factory and the night shift at a supermarket in Wheeling, scraping meat from butcher machines.<a href="#cite_note-:4-9">[9]</a> He applied to the <a href="/wiki/University_of_Michigan" title="University of Michigan">University of Michigan</a> because he was told it had the best-paying college writing contest in the country (the <a href="/wiki/Hopwood_Award" title="Hopwood Award">Hopwood Award</a>), and that the playwright <a href="/wiki/Arthur_Miller" title="Arthur Miller">Arthur Miller</a> had paid for his studies by winning the award. Miller's teacher, <a href="/wiki/Kenneth_Thorpe_Rowe" title="Kenneth Thorpe Rowe">Kenneth Thorpe Rowe</a>, was still a professor there, and Kasdan studied drama writing with Rowe.<a href="#cite_note-:2-7">[7]</a> Kasdan won the Hopwood Award four times between 1968 and 1970, winning a total of $2,000. "When I received the letter telling me that I had won Hopwood Awards in both fiction and drama, my life changed forever," he said. "It was the first sign the real world, the outside world, the big-time world, had given me that this was not just a hopeless dream. ... Even though I had many discouraging years after that, there was never a day after I received that letter that I doubted I would be able to make my way as a writer."<a href="#cite_note-:2-7">[7]</a> While in college, Kasdan marched on Washington to protest the Vietnam War. He also made one short film. "Technically, it was very crude," he said. "It was a wry look at a professor I knew who was very interested in all the young female students—sort of a rough, humorous film about his fascination with one particular girl. It was shot on 16mm. I cut it and did the sound, but I was never a technically proficient student filmmaker."<a href="#cite_note-:5-12">[12]</a> He was determined to become a director, and decided the best path was to write screenplays. He got into <a href="/wiki/University_of_California,_Los_Angeles" title="University of California, Los Angeles">UCLA</a>'s writing program and briefly moved to Los Angeles, but found the experience frustrating and moved back to Ann Arbor, where he worked in a record store and continued writing screenplays.<a href="#cite_note-:0-5">[5]</a> He pursued a master's degree in education at the University of Michigan and graduated in 1971, with plans to support himself as a high-school English teacher until he broke into Hollywood. But he soon discovered that there were no high-school English teaching jobs. "It was almost as hard to get that kind of work as being a movie director," he said.<a href="#cite_note-:0-5">[5]</a> The experience he did have as a student teacher later proved useful on film sets: "You can control an unruly class at almost any level, but the more you yell, the less effective yelling becomes," he said. "That has influenced my approach to directing; for me, being hard is giving someone a look where another director might scream at them."<a href="#cite_note-:5-12">[12]</a> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Career">Career</h2>[<a href="/w/index.php?title=Lawrence_Kasdan&action=edit&section=2" title="Edit section: Career">edit</a>]</div> Unable to find a teaching position, Kasdan took a job as an advertising copywriter at the <a href="/wiki/Doner_Company" title="Doner Company">W.B. Doner</a> agency in Detroit—a profession he didn't enjoy but found success in, earning a <a href="/wiki/Clio_Awards" title="Clio Awards">Clio Award</a> for his first TV commercial, as well as an award from The One Show. His supervisor, Jim Dale, remembered Kasdan "always said he was better at writing for TV than for print, and that was certainly prophetic."<a href="#cite_note-:6-13">[13]</a> Kasdan called his five years in advertising "hellacious", and persisted in writing screenplays at night.<a href="#cite_note-:1-6">[6]</a> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Screenwriter">Screenwriter</h3>[<a href="/w/index.php?title=Lawrence_Kasdan&action=edit&section=3" title="Edit section: Screenwriter">edit</a>]</div> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading4"><h4 id="Early_career_(1970s)">Early career (1970s)</h4>[<a href="/w/index.php?title=Lawrence_Kasdan&action=edit&section=4" title="Edit section: Early career (1970s)">edit</a>]</div> The Bodyguard Kasdan's sixth finished screenplay, written in 1975, was about a singer who falls in love with her bodyguard. With <a href="/wiki/The_Bodyguard_(1992_film)" title="The Bodyguard (1992 film)">The Bodyguard</a> he was able to get an agent, Norman Kurland, and he took an advertising job in Los Angeles to further justify a move to California. Kurland sent the script around town for two years, and it was rejected 67 times. "We couldn’t even get him a job writing <a href="/wiki/Starsky_%26_Hutch" title="Starsky & Hutch">Starsky and Hutch</a>,"<a href="#cite_note-:7-14">[14]</a> Kurland said, although Kasdan had no desire to write for television. He was hired to write a treatment for a low-budget feature for <a href="/wiki/Paramount_Pictures" title="Paramount Pictures">Paramount</a>, but the film was never made. He continued to write screenplays, including what he called an "un-producible historical" movie.<a href="#cite_note-:8-15">[15]</a> The Bodyguard was finally optioned by <a href="/wiki/Warner_Bros." title="Warner Bros.">Warner Bros.</a> in 1977 for $20,000.<a href="#cite_note-:7-14">[14]</a> It was rewritten many times over the years, and attached to different actresses (including <a href="/wiki/Diana_Ross" title="Diana Ross">Diana Ross</a> and <a href="/wiki/Whoopi_Goldberg" title="Whoopi Goldberg">Whoopi Goldberg</a>) whose characters had various occupations. Kasdan wrote it with <a href="/wiki/Steve_McQueen" title="Steve McQueen">Steve McQueen</a> in mind as the bodyguard, Frank. In the original draft, the U.S. president Frank failed to save was <a href="/wiki/John_F._Kennedy" title="John F. Kennedy">John F. Kennedy</a>. <a href="/wiki/Kevin_Costner" title="Kevin Costner">Kevin Costner</a> read the screenplay when Kasdan directed him in <a href="/wiki/Silverado_(film)" title="Silverado (film)">Silverado</a>, the role that made him a star. In 1991, he asked Kasdan to make The Bodyguard with Costner in the title role. Kasdan had "messed around" with it so many times that he felt too burned out, and he was also preparing to direct Grand Canyon—so he chose instead to produce it with Costner, and they hired <a href="/wiki/Mick_Jackson_(director)" title="Mick Jackson (director)">Mick Jackson</a>, who had just made <a href="/wiki/L.A._Story" title="L.A. Story">L.A. Story</a>, to direct.<a href="#cite_note-:0-5">[5]</a> <a href="/wiki/Whitney_Houston" title="Whitney Houston">Whitney Houston</a> was cast as superstar singer Rachel Marron. Kasdan was not happy with the way the film turned out, "but I think it had nothing to do with Mick Jackson," he later said. "I think it had to do with the fact that I'm not a good person for having other people direct my screenplays ... and so I was very unhappy with The Bodyguard. Kevin and I got very involved in the editing, which is not something I would normally do with any other director. I don't want people messing with my movie. But we were the producers and we had serious problems with it."<a href="#cite_note-:0-5">[5]</a> Despite receiving "probably the worst reviews I've ever had," Kasdan said, the film was a huge box-office success, earning more than $411 million worldwide. "If I had directed that film it probably wouldn't have done anything like that business," Kasdan wrote.<a href="#cite_note-:0-5">[5]</a> Continental Divide While The Bodyguard was being passed around town, Kasdan wrote <a href="/wiki/Continental_Divide_(film)" title="Continental Divide (film)">Continental Divide</a>—a script about a brash Chicago journalist who falls in love with a woman living in the mountains studying eagles, in the vein of an old <a href="/wiki/Spencer_Tracy" title="Spencer Tracy">Spencer Tracy</a> / <a href="/wiki/Katharine_Hepburn" title="Katharine Hepburn">Katharine Hepburn</a> comedy. He came up with the outline while eating lunch on the lawn of the <a href="/wiki/Los_Angeles_County_Museum_of_Art" title="Los Angeles County Museum of Art">Los Angeles County Museum of Art</a>.<a href="#cite_note-:5-12">[12]</a> Kurland shopped it around, and took it to <a href="/wiki/Steven_Spielberg" title="Steven Spielberg">Steven Spielberg</a>, who was on the dubbing stage for <a href="/wiki/Close_Encounters_of_the_Third_Kind" title="Close Encounters of the Third Kind">Close Encounters of the Third Kind</a> (1977). Spielberg had <a href="/wiki/Universal_Pictures" title="Universal Pictures">Universal</a> buy the script for $150,000 in October 1977, with a desire to serve as executive producer. "I was looking for a love story to do," Spielberg said. "Actually, it was a very intense bidding situation. There were four studios bidding for it and Universal made the highest bid. The script was wonderful. Larry is an excellent writer. He writes the sort of material we haven't seen around here for a long time. He writes about the '30s and '40s in a fascinating, exciting way. He loves old movies and draws on them for his work. He's exploring new territory based on old ground."<a href="#cite_note-:8-15">[15]</a> The movie was eventually made several years later, starring <a href="/wiki/John_Belushi" title="John Belushi">John Belushi</a> and <a href="/wiki/Blair_Brown" title="Blair Brown">Blair Brown</a> and directed by <a href="/wiki/Michael_Apted" title="Michael Apted">Michael Apted</a>. It came out on September 18, 1981, three weeks after the release of Kasdan's directorial debut, <a href="/wiki/Body_Heat" title="Body Heat">Body Heat</a>. According to Kasdan, the original script was "very different from the film which resulted. The script had a kind of <a href="/wiki/Howard_Hawks" title="Howard Hawks">Howard Hawksian</a> speed, momentum, hopefully wit about it. I don't think the film turned out that way, which was one of those painful experiences I had early on."<a href="#cite_note-:5-12">[12]</a> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading4"><h4 id="Franchise_writing_(1980s-2010s)">Franchise writing (1980s-2010s)</h4>[<a href="/w/index.php?title=Lawrence_Kasdan&action=edit&section=5" title="Edit section: Franchise writing (1980s-2010s)">edit</a>]</div> Raiders of the Lost Ark Spielberg's enthusiasm for <a href="/wiki/Continental_Divide_(film)" title="Continental Divide (film)">Continental Divide</a> led him to hire Kasdan to write <a href="/wiki/Raiders_of_the_Lost_Ark" title="Raiders of the Lost Ark">Raiders of the Lost Ark</a>, which he was developing with <a href="/wiki/George_Lucas" title="George Lucas">George Lucas</a>. "I think that what they were looking for was someone who could write Raiders in the same way that Hawks would have someone write a movie for him—a strong woman character, a certain kind of hero," Kasdan said.<a href="#cite_note-:5-12">[12]</a> In a now-famous meeting (with producer <a href="/wiki/Frank_Marshall_(producer)" class="mw-redirect" title="Frank Marshall (producer)">Frank Marshall</a> also in the room), "George, Steven, and I talked for about 20 minutes. Then we stood up and shook hands, and George said, 'Let's make this movie.' I had just met the guy, and a few minutes later I'm in business with him."<a href="#cite_note-:4-9">[9]</a> "George said, 'We're going to do a movie that's like the old serials,'" Kasdan recalled. "'I don't know too much about it, but the hero is named after my dog, Indiana. I know the hero wears a fedora and a leather jacket and carries a whip.'" That the artifact would be the Biblical <a href="/wiki/Ark_of_the_Covenant" title="Ark of the Covenant">Ark of the Covenant</a> was writer-director <a href="/wiki/Philip_Kaufman" title="Philip Kaufman">Philip Kaufman</a>'s idea. Kaufman got it from his orthodontist when he was 11 years old<a href="#cite_note-:0-5">[5]</a> (at one point, Kaufman was going to be involved with the screenplay. He received a "story by" credit). The rest of the plot was hashed out in a brainstorm session with Lucas, Spielberg, and Kasdan: <blockquote>We had a tape recorder going, and George essentially guided the story process and the three of us pitched the entire movie in about five days. And that's where the fantasy of all our pent-up, wet-movie dreams coalesced. Most of the time we were on our feet, trying to out-shout each other with ideas.<a href="#cite_note-16">[16]</a></blockquote> They wound up with a hundred-page transcript, and Kasdan wrote the screenplay in Spielberg's office while the director was making <a href="/wiki/1941_(film)" title="1941 (film)">1941</a>. It took him six months.<a href="#cite_note-:0-5">[5]</a> For the character of <a href="/wiki/Indiana_Jones_(character)" title="Indiana Jones (character)">Indiana Jones</a>, Kasdan said he wanted to capture the essence of old Hollywood stars like <a href="/wiki/Errol_Flynn" title="Errol Flynn">Errol Flynn</a>, <a href="/wiki/Burt_Lancaster" title="Burt Lancaster">Burt Lancaster</a>, and <a href="/wiki/Clark_Gable" title="Clark Gable">Clark Gable</a>. "One of my favorite actors is <a href="/wiki/Steve_McQueen" title="Steve McQueen">Steve McQueen</a>," he said. "I loved the poetry in the way he moved—his stylized movement. I wanted Raiders to have that heightened reality. That's where I came together with George's love of serials and Steven's fascination with kinetic thrust."<a href="#cite_note-:9-17">[17]</a> Lucas wanted the character to be more like <a href="/wiki/James_Bond_(literary_character)" title="James Bond (literary character)">James Bond</a>, so Kasdan had to write a different version of the scene where <a href="/wiki/List_of_Indiana_Jones_characters#Marcus_Brody" title="List of Indiana Jones characters">Brody</a> goes to his house, he said. "George wanted Indy to be a playboy, so Jones was going to answer the door wearing a tuxedo. Then, when Brody went into the house, he would see a beautiful, <a href="/wiki/Jean_Harlow" title="Jean Harlow">Harlow</a>-type blonde sipping champagne in Indy's living room. My feeling was that Indiana Jones' two sides (professor and adventurer) made him complicated enough without adding the playboy element."<a href="#cite_note-:9-17">[17]</a> The film came out on June 12, 1981, and made more than $390 million internationally, winning five Academy Awards out of nine nominations. Kasdan eventually warmed to the finished film. "I look at Raiders now and I'm very proud of it," he wrote in 1999. "I think it's a terrific movie and I think Steven did a magnificent job with it."<a href="#cite_note-:0-5">[5]</a> He was later asked to write <a href="/wiki/Indiana_Jones_and_the_Temple_of_Doom" title="Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom">Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom</a>, but declined because he didn't want to associate with the film; he perceived it as "horrible, mean and unpleasant" due to it being developed during a chaotic period in Spielberg's and Lucas's lives.<a href="#cite_note-18">[18]</a> Several elements from Kasdan's earlier Raiders draft found their way in the prequel.<a href="#cite_note-19">[19]</a> Kasdan semi-returned to the franchise in 2007 when he assisted <a href="/wiki/David_Koepp" title="David Koepp">David Koepp</a> in writing some romantic dialogue for <a href="/wiki/Indiana_Jones_and_the_Kingdom_of_the_Crystal_Skull" title="Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull">Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull</a>.<a href="#cite_note-Koeppmag-20">[20]</a> Star Wars: Episode V—The Empire Strikes Back Lucas initially hired <a href="/wiki/Leigh_Brackett" title="Leigh Brackett">Leigh Brackett</a>, the sci-fi novelist who also wrote screenplays for Howard Hawks—including <a href="/wiki/The_Big_Sleep_(1946_film)" title="The Big Sleep (1946 film)">The Big Sleep</a> (1946)—to write the sequel to <a href="/wiki/Star_Wars_(film)" title="Star Wars (film)">Star Wars</a> (1977). But Brackett died in March 1978, while the film was still in pre-production, and Lucas was dissatisfied with her script. He wrote the next draft himself, which established structure and twists close to the final film, but needed dialogue polishing. When Kasdan delivered his script for Raiders, Lucas asked him to rewrite <a href="/wiki/The_Empire_Strikes_Back" title="The Empire Strikes Back">The Empire Strikes Back</a>. Kasdan suggested he read Raiders first, but Lucas reportedly said: "If I hate Raiders, I'll call you up tomorrow and cancel this offer, but basically I get a feeling about people."<a href="#cite_note-:4-9">[9]</a> Most of the plot elements and characters were already in place, but Kasdan helped in part make it darker than the first Star Wars. "George was open to it and ready to have it happen," he said. "Over the three Star Wars films, he saw a trajectory. The Empire Strikes Back was the second act, and traditionally, the second act is when things start to go bad. George had made his [most important] decision when he hired <a href="/wiki/Irvin_Kershner" title="Irvin Kershner">Irvin Kershner</a> to direct, even though Kershner and I were acting as his tools."<a href="#cite_note-:5-12">[12]</a> When The Empire Strikes Back came out on May 21, 1980, it was the first time Kasdan's name appeared in a movie's credits. He felt his main contribution to Lucas's series was developing character. "George is one of the good guys," Kasdan said in 1981. "But he and I have some disagreements, too. George thinks if you play the commercial movie game, a very expensive game, you have to play for big stakes."<a href="#cite_note-:10-21">[21]</a> Star Wars: Episode VI—Return of the Jedi Kasdan launched his directing career after writing The Empire Strikes Back, and was uninterested in writing another Star Wars movie. But Lucas had supported him on Body Heat as an uncredited producer, so when Lucas asked him to write the screenplay for the third chapter (then titled Revenge of the Jedi), Kasdan felt obliged to repay him.<a href="#cite_note-:11-22">[22]</a> He spent the summer of 1981 co-writing the shooting script with Lucas (based on a story by Lucas). "In both the Star Wars movies it's really George's story," Kasdan said. "I came into Empire after there was already a draft. On Jedi, George had done a draft, which we changed radically. Then he and I really collaborated on the script."<a href="#cite_note-:12-23">[23]</a> <a href="/wiki/Return_of_the_Jedi" title="Return of the Jedi">Return of the Jedi</a> came out on May 25, 1983, and made $475 million. Lucas had already publicly spoken about making both a <a href="/wiki/Star_Wars_prequel_trilogy" title="Star Wars prequel trilogy">prequel</a> and <a href="/wiki/Star_Wars_sequel_trilogy" title="Star Wars sequel trilogy">sequel trilogy</a>; the prequels he wrote and directed himself 20 years later, and the <a href="/wiki/The_Walt_Disney_Company" title="The Walt Disney Company">Walt Disney Company</a> made episodes 7 through 9 after it purchased <a href="/wiki/Lucasfilm" title="Lucasfilm">Lucasfilm</a> in 2012. In 1981, Kasdan surmised that "they'll probably shoot the before-Luke trilogy next, about young Darth and young Ben. But with George, you can't be sure. For myself, I can only say this will be my last Star Wars movie. On the other hand, you never know. I didn't think I'd be working on this one."<a href="#cite_note-:10-21">[21]</a> During the Star Wars prequels' development, Lucas constantly approached Kasdan to help him write them, but Kasdan resisted returning to the franchise,<a href="#cite_note-:13-24">[24]</a> opining that Lucas should do the prequels as he wished given the creative clashes Lucas had with him, Kershner and <a href="/wiki/Richard_Marquand" title="Richard Marquand">Richard Marquand</a> during the original trilogy's development.<a href="#cite_note-25">[25]</a> But Lucas thought it would be great for Kasdan to take a second pass at the screenplays.<a href="#cite_note-26">[26]</a> Star Wars: Episode VII—The Force Awakens When Disney bought Lucasfilm with plans to make more Star Wars films, <a href="/wiki/Kathleen_Kennedy_(producer)" title="Kathleen Kennedy (producer)">Kathleen Kennedy</a>, Lucasfilm's new president, asked Kasdan to be involved. "I said, 'I don't really want to ... I just feel like I've done this,'" he recalled. "They said, 'We want to do a movie about Han.' That got me. That was the only one that could possibly have gotten me."<a href="#cite_note-:13-24">[24]</a> Kennedy had hired <a href="/wiki/Michael_Arndt" title="Michael Arndt">Michael Arndt</a> to write <a href="/wiki/Star_Wars:_The_Force_Awakens" title="Star Wars: The Force Awakens">Episode VII</a>, and she asked Kasdan if he would consult on that script as well. He always felt that "<a href="/wiki/Han_Solo" title="Han Solo">Han Solo</a> is really the character that people find irresistible, not <a href="/wiki/Luke_Skywalker" title="Luke Skywalker">Luke</a>," he said. "Luke is too good for people to invest in. Han is right out of the classic mold. He's <a href="/wiki/William_Holden" title="William Holden">William Holden</a>. He's <a href="/wiki/James_Cagney" title="James Cagney">Jimmy Cagney</a>. He's <a href="/wiki/Humphrey_Bogart" title="Humphrey Bogart">Humphrey Bogart</a>. Han is the one who is compromised and reluctantly forced to be altruistic and heroic."<a href="#cite_note-:3-8">[8]</a> He had wanted to kill Han off in Return of the Jedi. "We're closing off the trilogy," he said. "And we want to lose somebody important. It would give some stakes to this thing. And George did not like it."<a href="#cite_note-:13-24">[24]</a> In The Force Awakens, he and actor <a href="/wiki/Harrison_Ford" title="Harrison Ford">Harrison Ford</a> finally got their wish. Star Wars: The Force Awakens came out on December 18, 2015. It made more than $2 billion internationally, breaking the North American record for top-grossing film of all time.<a href="#cite_note-27">[27]</a> In his review for <a href="/wiki/The_Hollywood_Reporter" title="The Hollywood Reporter">The Hollywood Reporter</a>, <a href="/wiki/Todd_McCarthy" title="Todd McCarthy">Todd McCarthy</a> wrote: "One notably feels the hand of Lawrence Kasdan, who ... co-wrote The Empire Strikes Back and Return of the Jedi and, perhaps more significantly, authored Raiders of the Lost Ark, the film this new one most resembles in terms of its incident and exuberance."<a href="#cite_note-28">[28]</a> Kasdan, Abrams, and Arndt won the <a href="/wiki/Saturn_Award_for_Best_Writing" title="Saturn Award for Best Writing">Saturn Award for Best Writing</a> for The Force Awakens. This marked Kasdan's first win for a Star Wars film, after being nominated for The Empire Strikes Back and Return of the Jedi. Despite not working in the following sequels, Kasdan later talked with Abrams, Lucas, and <a href="/wiki/Rian_Johnson" title="Rian Johnson">Rian Johnson</a> about the story for the saga's last episode, <a href="/wiki/Star_Wars:_The_Rise_of_Skywalker" title="Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker">Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker</a>.<a href="#cite_note-SWNN-29">[29]</a> Solo: A Star Wars Story Kasdan wrote the screenplay for a Han Solo origin story—the one assignment with Disney and Lucasfilm he initially signed on for—with his son, <a href="/wiki/Jonathan_Kasdan" title="Jonathan Kasdan">Jonathan Kasdan</a>, a writer and director. The younger Kasdan had had small roles in his father's movies since The Big Chill, but they had never written a script together. <a href="/wiki/Solo:_A_Star_Wars_Story" title="Solo: A Star Wars Story">Solo: A Star Wars Story</a> details the character's backstory: how he got his name, how he met <a href="/wiki/Chewbacca" title="Chewbacca">Chewbacca</a> and <a href="/wiki/Lando_Calrissian" title="Lando Calrissian">Lando Calrissian</a>, and the beginnings of his internal battle between self-interested scoundrel and hero. <a href="/wiki/Alden_Ehrenreich" title="Alden Ehrenreich">Alden Ehrenreich</a> was cast in the role Ford originated. The production was plagued by drama; most notably, the original directors—<a href="/wiki/Phil_Lord_and_Christopher_Miller" title="Phil Lord and Christopher Miller">Phil Lord and Christopher Miller</a>—were fired during the shoot and replaced by <a href="/wiki/Ron_Howard" title="Ron Howard">Ron Howard</a>. The film opened on May 25, 2018, and made just under $393 million worldwide (the lowest box-office returns for any live-action Star Wars movie to date).<a href="#cite_note-30">[30]</a> Kasdan later attributed Solo's underperformance to Lucasfilm "blowing it", after which he left the Star Wars universe as promised, not responding to any of Lucasfilm's subsequent attempts to woo him back, even sending him a messenger with a new script.<a href="#cite_note-31">[31]</a> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Director">Director</h3>[<a href="/w/index.php?title=Lawrence_Kasdan&action=edit&section=6" title="Edit section: Director">edit</a>]</div> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading4"><h4 id="Body_Heat_(1981)">Body Heat (1981)</h4>[<a href="/w/index.php?title=Lawrence_Kasdan&action=edit&section=7" title="Edit section: Body Heat (1981)">edit</a>]</div> After writing Raiders of the Lost Ark and The Empire Strikes Back, Kasdan had the cachet to direct his own film. <a href="/wiki/Alan_Ladd_Jr." title="Alan Ladd Jr.">Alan Ladd Jr.</a>, the head of <a href="/wiki/20th_Century_Fox" class="mw-redirect" title="20th Century Fox">20th Century Fox</a> and a key player on Star Wars, gave Kasdan the deal—but by the time the script was finished Ladd was no longer at Fox. The new president, <a href="/wiki/Sherry_Lansing" title="Sherry Lansing">Sherry Lansing</a>, put many of the existing deals in turnaround, including Kasdan's. Ladd started <a href="/wiki/The_Ladd_Company" title="The Ladd Company">The Ladd Company</a> in 1979, and offered to produce Body Heat on one condition: that an established director would "sponsor" the untested Kasdan. So Kasdan reached out to George Lucas.<a href="#cite_note-:0-5">[5]</a> The producers wanted Kasdan to cast a star, but he insisted on <a href="/wiki/William_Hurt" title="William Hurt">William Hurt</a>, a stage actor who had just made his film debut in <a href="/wiki/Altered_States" title="Altered States">Altered States</a> (1980). Kasdan cast another unknown, <a href="/wiki/Kathleen_Turner" title="Kathleen Turner">Kathleen Turner</a>, as Matty, and <a href="/wiki/Ted_Danson" title="Ted Danson">Ted Danson</a> as one of Ned's colleagues. (Danson was offered the part of Sam Malone on <a href="/wiki/Cheers" title="Cheers">Cheers</a> while filming Body Heat.<a href="#cite_note-:14-32">[32]</a>) The heat-centric story was originally set in New Jersey, but an actors' strike delayed production until December, so the location was moved to Miami.<a href="#cite_note-:14-32">[32]</a> Body Heat opened on August 28, 1981. It made more than $24 million domestically on a $7 million budget and was praised by the majority of critics. Variety's review called it "an engrossing, mightily stylish meller [<a href="/wiki/Melodrama" title="Melodrama">melodrama</a>] in which sex and crime walk hand in hand down the path to tragedy, just like in the old days. Working in the imposing shadow of the late <a href="/wiki/James_M._Cain" title="James M. Cain">James M. Cain</a>, screenwriter Lawrence Kasdan makes an impressively confident directorial debut with a vehicle which could clinch star status for William Hurt."<a href="#cite_note-33">[33]</a> The <a href="/wiki/Los_Angeles_Film_Critics_Association_Awards" class="mw-redirect" title="Los Angeles Film Critics Association Awards">Los Angeles Film Critics Association Awards</a> nominated Kasdan for Best Director, and the Writers Guild of America nominated his screenplay for a <a href="/wiki/WGA_Award" class="mw-redirect" title="WGA Award">WGA Award</a>. <div class="mw-heading mw-heading4"><h4 id="The_Big_Chill_(1983)">The Big Chill (1983)</h4>[<a href="/w/index.php?title=Lawrence_Kasdan&action=edit&section=8" title="Edit section: The Big Chill (1983)">edit</a>]</div> While editing Body Heat Kasdan had the idea for a large ensemble film, partly in reaction to the "claustrophobic" experience of working with just two actors in intimate settings.<a href="#cite_note-:0-5">[5]</a> His lawyer's wife, <a href="/wiki/Barbara_Benedek" title="Barbara Benedek">Barbara Benedek</a>, had begun writing screenplays (and was a story editor on two comedy TV series for <a href="/wiki/ABC_Studios" class="mw-redirect" title="ABC Studios">ABC</a>), and Kasdan proposed co-writing with her. She was "enormously influential on the tone" of the script, he said, and they wrote characters who were composites of real people they each knew—as well as "a little bit of ourselves".<a href="#cite_note-:0-5">[5]</a> Kasdan had trouble finding a buyer, because "no one believed that an ensemble film could be commercially successful. Hollywood always wanted you to have a protagonist, hopefully a white male who the audience could invest in, and possibly a sidekick or possibly a woman that he was involved with. When I presented them with a movie that had eight protagonists, they were only confused." He pitched it to "around seventeen different places," but they all passed. <a href="/wiki/Johnny_Carson" title="Johnny Carson">Johnny Carson</a> had a deal to make movies at <a href="/wiki/Columbia_Pictures" title="Columbia Pictures">Columbia</a>, and producer <a href="/wiki/Marcia_Nasatir" title="Marcia Nasatir">Marcia Nasatir</a> convinced Carson to make <a href="/wiki/The_Big_Chill_(film)" title="The Big Chill (film)">The Big Chill</a>.<a href="#cite_note-:0-5">[5]</a> The ensemble cast included Hurt and <a href="/wiki/Kevin_Kline" title="Kevin Kline">Kevin Kline</a>, both of whom became regulars in Kasdan's directing career, as well as <a href="/wiki/Glenn_Close" title="Glenn Close">Glenn Close</a>, <a href="/wiki/Jeff_Goldblum" title="Jeff Goldblum">Jeff Goldblum</a>, <a href="/wiki/Mary_Kay_Place" title="Mary Kay Place">Mary Kay Place</a>, <a href="/wiki/Tom_Berenger" title="Tom Berenger">Tom Berenger</a>, and <a href="/wiki/JoBeth_Williams" title="JoBeth Williams">JoBeth Williams</a>. After four weeks of rehearsal, the film was shot in a real house in South Carolina, which had been used in <a href="/wiki/The_Great_Santini" title="The Great Santini">The Great Santini</a>. <a href="/wiki/John_Bailey_(cinematographer)" title="John Bailey (cinematographer)">John Bailey</a>, husband of editor Carol Littleton, was the cinematographer. The '60s pop soundtrack was curated by Kasdan's wife, Meg. The album sold more than six million copies and is one of the best-selling soundtracks of all time.<a href="#cite_note-34">[34]</a> The Big Chill came out on September 30, 1983. It ran in theaters for six months, making more than $56 million on an $8 million budget, and received mostly praise, with some mixed reviews.<a href="#cite_note-35">[35]</a> The film was nominated for <a href="/wiki/56th_Academy_Awards" title="56th Academy Awards">three Academy Awards</a>: for best original screenplay, best supporting actress (Close), and best picture. The screenplay was nominated for a BAFTA Award and a Los Angeles Film Critics Association Award, and it won the WGA Award. Kasdan earned a <a href="/wiki/Directors_Guild_of_America_Award" class="mw-redirect" title="Directors Guild of America Award">DGA Award</a> nomination by the Directors Guild of America. He later said: <blockquote>It was a kind of a lightning rod to controversy. I think I was surprised by everything that happened to The Big Chill because it was so personal. It was so much about my life, Barbara's life, and my wife's life that when it became very popular I was surprised.<a href="#cite_note-:0-5">[5]</a></blockquote> Film critic <a href="/wiki/F._X._Feeney" title="F. X. Feeney">F. X. Feeney</a> wrote: "Kasdan fashioned a national conversation piece. People spoke thereafter of 'The Big Chill Generation.' Films made by later generations, about those generations ... would have to endure being dubbed 'The Little Chill' by critics. (So, in a sense, Kasdan founded a new genre.)"<a href="#cite_note-:1-6">[6]</a> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading4"><h4 id="Silverado_(1985)">Silverado (1985)</h4>[<a href="/w/index.php?title=Lawrence_Kasdan&action=edit&section=9" title="Edit section: Silverado (1985)">edit</a>]</div> Kasdan co-wrote <a href="/wiki/Silverado_(film)" title="Silverado (film)">Silverado</a>'s screenplay with his brother, Mark Kasdan. The story, set in 1880, is about a motley crew of cowboys who team up and set aside self-interest to protect a small town from a corrupt sheriff.<a href="#cite_note-:0-5">[5]</a> He cast <a href="/wiki/Kevin_Kline" title="Kevin Kline">Kevin Kline</a> for the second time, as lead cowboy Paden, along with <a href="/wiki/Scott_Glenn" title="Scott Glenn">Scott Glenn</a>, <a href="/wiki/Danny_Glover" title="Danny Glover">Danny Glover</a> (who reunited with Kasdan in <a href="/wiki/Grand_Canyon_(1991_film)" title="Grand Canyon (1991 film)">Grand Canyon</a>), and Kevin Costner (who re-teamed with Kasdan for another western, <a href="/wiki/Wyatt_Earp_(film)" title="Wyatt Earp (film)">Wyatt Earp</a>). <a href="/wiki/Brian_Dennehy" title="Brian Dennehy">Brian Dennehy</a> was cast as the sheriff, and Kasdan's son Jonathan and wife Meg both had bit parts. The film shot in New Mexico during the winter of 1984, and an entire town set was built near <a href="/wiki/Santa_Fe,_New_Mexico" title="Santa Fe, New Mexico">Santa Fe</a> that was later reused in several films, including Wyatt Earp. During production some of the cast developed hypothermia, and Kasdan had to contend with both blizzards and flash floods.<a href="#cite_note-:0-5">[5]</a> The film was so popular at its test screening in Seattle that Columbia rushed its release by several months, without arranging the usual marketing and merchandising efforts in time. It came out on July 10, 1985, and did decent business—$32 million on a $26 million budget—but Kasdan felt it would have done better with a more concerted release strategy.<a href="#cite_note-:0-5">[5]</a> The reviews were largely positive.<a href="#cite_note-36">[36]</a> The film earned <a href="/wiki/58th_Academy_Awards" title="58th Academy Awards">Oscar nominations</a> for best sound and best original score (composed by <a href="/wiki/Bruce_Broughton" title="Bruce Broughton">Bruce Broughton</a>). Kasdan won the Young Venice Award—Special Mention at the <a href="/wiki/Venice_Film_Festival" title="Venice Film Festival">Venice Film Festival</a>. <div class="mw-heading mw-heading4"><h4 id="The_Accidental_Tourist_(1988)">The Accidental Tourist (1988)</h4>[<a href="/w/index.php?title=Lawrence_Kasdan&action=edit&section=10" title="Edit section: The Accidental Tourist (1988)">edit</a>]</div> After making Silverado, Kasdan passed on <a href="/wiki/The_Untouchables_(film)" title="The Untouchables (film)">The Untouchables</a> (1987) because he didn't like the script; it was directed by <a href="/wiki/Brian_De_Palma" title="Brian De Palma">Brian De Palma</a>.<a href="#cite_note-:5-12">[12]</a> He had also been developing <a href="/wiki/Man_Trouble" title="Man Trouble">Man Trouble</a> (1992), but disagreed with the producers over <a href="/wiki/Carole_Eastman" title="Carole Eastman">Carole Eastman</a>'s screenplay.<a href="#cite_note-:0-5">[5]</a> Then he was offered <a href="/wiki/The_Accidental_Tourist" title="The Accidental Tourist">The Accidental Tourist</a>, a novel by <a href="/wiki/Anne_Tyler" title="Anne Tyler">Anne Tyler</a>, and despite its surface similarities to Man Trouble—both stories are odd-couple romances with a character who trains dogs—he "fell in love with it".<a href="#cite_note-:0-5">[5]</a> <a href="/wiki/John_Malkovich" title="John Malkovich">John Malkovich</a> had been developing the project, and hired theater director <a href="/wiki/Frank_Galati" title="Frank Galati">Frank Galati</a> to write a script.<a href="#cite_note-37">[37]</a> When Kasdan took over, he wrote his own adaptation—ultimately sharing writing credit with Galati. Like many of Kasdan's own stories, this one was "about creating a new family to replace a dysfunctional one," he said.<a href="#cite_note-:3-8">[8]</a> For the lead, he cast Hurt for the third time. Kasdan and Hurt reunited with Body Heat's <a href="/wiki/Kathleen_Turner" title="Kathleen Turner">Kathleen Turner</a>, playing Macon's estranged wife. For the eccentric dog trainer, Muriel, Kasdan cast <a href="/wiki/Geena_Davis" title="Geena Davis">Geena Davis</a>, who won an Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress.<a href="#cite_note-:0-5">[5]</a> The Accidental Tourist was a surprise hit when it came out on December 23, 1988. It made more than $32 million, and rode a wave of critical praise through the awards season. It won the <a href="/wiki/New_York_Film_Critics_Circle" title="New York Film Critics Circle">New York Film Critics</a> Award despite sharp criticism from several critics—including <a href="/wiki/Pauline_Kael" title="Pauline Kael">Pauline Kael</a>, who felt the film had no voice.<a href="#cite_note-38">[38]</a> The film earned two Golden Globe nominations (for Best Motion Picture - Drama and Best Score), a BAFTA nomination (Best Adapted Screenplay), and <a href="/wiki/61st_Academy_Awards" title="61st Academy Awards">four Oscar nominations</a>: Best Original Score (<a href="/wiki/John_Williams" title="John Williams">John Williams</a>), Best Adapted Screenplay, and Best Picture. Davis won an Oscar for her supporting role. "I have sometimes been frustrated by the size of my audience, but not on that movie," said Kasdan. "I'm amazed we got as many people in to see it as we did. It was one of the most satisfying experiences I've ever had. I'm as proud of The Accidental Tourist as anything I've done."<a href="#cite_note-:5-12">[12]</a> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading4"><h4 id="I_Love_You_to_Death_(1990)">I Love You to Death (1990)</h4>[<a href="/w/index.php?title=Lawrence_Kasdan&action=edit&section=11" title="Edit section: I Love You to Death (1990)">edit</a>]</div> Kasdan wanted to do something "light and irreverent" after the grief-heavy The Accidental Tourist, and John Kostmayer sent him a script based on a true story out of Pennsylvania: a woman tried to kill her husband multiple times over his infidelity, he survived all attempts, she and her accomplices went to prison, and when she got out the husband forgave her and took her back. "I was fascinated by that story," Kasdan said. "I thought it would make a wonderful film."<a href="#cite_note-:0-5">[5]</a> It was the first film he directed from another writer's script, and starred Kline as pizzeria owner and serial cheater Joey, and <a href="/wiki/Tracey_Ullman" title="Tracey Ullman">Tracey Ullman</a> as his wife, Rosalie. The ensemble cast included Hurt, <a href="/wiki/River_Phoenix" title="River Phoenix">River Phoenix</a>, <a href="/wiki/Joan_Plowright" title="Joan Plowright">Joan Plowright</a>, and <a href="/wiki/Keanu_Reeves" title="Keanu Reeves">Keanu Reeves</a>. The film was shot in <a href="/wiki/Tacoma,_Washington" title="Tacoma, Washington">Tacoma, Washington</a>. In 1999, Kasdan wrote: <blockquote>I have more regrets about <a href="/wiki/I_Love_You_to_Death" title="I Love You to Death">I Love You to Death</a> than anything I've done, because Kostmayer had written an odd and interesting script. It was very funny to me, but there were things in it that were ugly. In postproduction we started sneaking [test screening] it, and most of the sneak audiences hated the movie—despised it. They hated certain things, and I started taking those things out. We reshot the ending, added new scenes, and took out scenes that were difficult. I wanted to make the movie more popular, and that was weak, because it got worse and worse. As a result, I've never used those sneak preview cards since. It wasn't as if the studio was making me change things. I ruined the movie.<a href="#cite_note-:5-12">[12]</a></blockquote> I Love You to Death came out on April 6, 1990. It made $16 million, and reviews were largely negative or mixed.<a href="#cite_note-39">[39]</a> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading4"><h4 id="Grand_Canyon_(1991)">Grand Canyon (1991)</h4>[<a href="/w/index.php?title=Lawrence_Kasdan&action=edit&section=12" title="Edit section: Grand Canyon (1991)">edit</a>]</div> Now in his 40s, with his oldest son leaving for college, Kasdan began a screenplay about marriage and parenting. He said: <blockquote>Seeing your children grow throws your own life into relief. They're a daily reminder that you're moving on because they're so clearly coming up from behind. That driving lesson [in <a href="/wiki/Grand_Canyon_(1991_film)" title="Grand Canyon (1991 film)">Grand Canyon</a>] is about more than the difficulty of making left turns in Los Angeles. Giving your son the wheel is about letting go ... and the threat of disaster in the most mundane actions.<a href="#cite_note-:15-40">[40]</a></blockquote> The screenplay, which he wrote with his wife, swelled into a larger canvas that dealt with race relations in Los Angeles and the existential crises of the era. On a $20 million budget, Kasdan cast two of his regular actors—Kline and Glover—along with <a href="/wiki/Steve_Martin" title="Steve Martin">Steve Martin</a>, <a href="/wiki/Mary_McDonnell" title="Mary McDonnell">Mary McDonnell</a>, <a href="/wiki/Mary-Louise_Parker" title="Mary-Louise Parker">Mary-Louise Parker</a>, and <a href="/wiki/Alfre_Woodard" title="Alfre Woodard">Alfre Woodard</a>. (The actors took smaller salaries in exchange for profit participation.)<a href="#cite_note-:15-40">[40]</a> The film follows separate but intersecting stories of multiple characters across Los Angeles's social and racial divides, and deals with themes of fate, death, relationships, the ethics of violence in filmmaking, and more. The score is by <a href="/wiki/James_Newton_Howard" title="James Newton Howard">James Newton Howard</a>, who has worked with Kasdan on every film since. Grand Canyon came out on December 25, 1991. The ensemble cast and social/generational commentary immediately drew comparisons to The Big Chill, and reviews were mostly positive. The screenplay was nominated for an <a href="/wiki/64th_Academy_Awards" title="64th Academy Awards">Academy Award</a>, a Golden Globe, and a WGA Award. Some critics found the finale, which has the ensemble staring in awe at the actual <a href="/wiki/Grand_Canyon" title="Grand Canyon">Grand Canyon</a>, to be a cop-out happy ending. Within months of the film's release, the <a href="/wiki/1992_Los_Angeles_riots" title="1992 Los Angeles riots">1992 Los Angeles riots</a> occurred. "There was an enormous amount of press about the fact that Grand Canyon had predicted the explosion of rage and violence," Kasdan said. "Anyone walking around L.A. at that time could feel it. The riots were a natural kind of explosion that anyone could have predicted."<a href="#cite_note-:0-5">[5]</a> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading4"><h4 id="Wyatt_Earp_(1994)">Wyatt Earp (1994)</h4>[<a href="/w/index.php?title=Lawrence_Kasdan&action=edit&section=13" title="Edit section: Wyatt Earp (1994)">edit</a>]</div> One of Kasdan's abandoned projects over the years was titled Pair-A-Dice, written by <a href="/wiki/Blade_Runner" title="Blade Runner">Blade Runner</a> (1982) screenwriter <a href="/wiki/David_Webb_Peoples" class="mw-redirect" title="David Webb Peoples">David Webb Peoples</a>, which he developed for four years, with Costner set to star.<a href="#cite_note-:15-40">[40]</a> In 1992, Costner approached him with the script for a six-hour miniseries about <a href="/wiki/Wyatt_Earp" title="Wyatt Earp">Wyatt Earp</a>'s life. "I told him that I was about to commit to another picture," Kasdan said. "[Costner] said, 'Why are you doing that? Why don't you do Wyatt Earp? I said, 'I don't like the screenplay.' And he said, 'Well, then, write a new screenplay.'" Kasdan agreed on the condition that they shoot the following summer, which Costner accepted. Kasdan wrote a screenplay in three months.<a href="#cite_note-:0-5">[5]</a> Kasdan was pleased with his screenplay—but less so Costner, who was still attached to the original miniseries concept. "Kevin and I were visualizing a 'Western Godfather,'" said <a href="/wiki/Dan_Gordon_(screenwriter)" title="Dan Gordon (screenwriter)">Dan Gordon</a>, who wrote the miniseries script. "It was to be two movies, in fact, centering on three families: the Earps and two organized crime families. Mike Gray, a bizarro mirror image of Earp, managed to get Tombstone, the richest town west of the Mississippi, deeded to his private company. It was a land grab worth $10 million to $20 million in 1880 dollars—and the only thing between him and that money was Wyatt Earp."<a href="#cite_note-41">[41]</a> Kasdan said: <blockquote>At that point we probably should have called the whole thing off, but we didn't. Instead, we reached a kind of compromise script. I had never had that experience before, because everything that I had ever written I had just gone out and shot as is. Here I had this kind of hybrid. It was my script plus elements from his previous script.<a href="#cite_note-:0-5">[5]</a></blockquote> Kasdan ultimately shared writing credit with Gordon, who also served as an executive producer on the film. <blockquote>I think it confused the whole situation, and if I had my wits about me I probably would have said, "Kevin, look, because we're very good friends let's preserve our friendship and not do this movie." Well, we preserved our friendship, but unfortunately we did do the movie.<a href="#cite_note-:0-5">[5]</a></blockquote> Surrounding Costner as Earp were <a href="/wiki/Joanna_Going" title="Joanna Going">Joanna Going</a>, <a href="/wiki/Catherine_O%27Hara" title="Catherine O'Hara">Catherine O'Hara</a>, <a href="/wiki/Tom_Sizemore" title="Tom Sizemore">Tom Sizemore</a>, JoBeth Williams, <a href="/wiki/Mark_Harmon" title="Mark Harmon">Mark Harmon</a>, and <a href="/wiki/Gene_Hackman" title="Gene Hackman">Gene Hackman</a>. <a href="/wiki/Dennis_Quaid" title="Dennis Quaid">Dennis Quaid</a> lost 43 pounds on a supervised diet to play <a href="/wiki/Doc_Holliday" title="Doc Holliday">Doc Holliday</a>, a performance that Kasdan called "the most satisfying part of the movie."<a href="#cite_note-:0-5">[5]</a> <a href="/wiki/Wyatt_Earp_(film)" title="Wyatt Earp (film)">Wyatt Earp</a> was a more ambitious production than Kasdan's previous western, Silverado. It was shot in the summer of 1993 over the course of 19 weeks (with an entire week of rehearsals), on location in and around Santa Fe, New Mexico, with two massive sets portraying eight different Western towns, and a cast of more than 100 speaking roles and thousands of extras. It was shot on film in anamorphic format by <a href="/wiki/Owen_Roizman" title="Owen Roizman">Owen Roizman</a>, the cinematographer on <a href="/wiki/The_French_Connection_(film)" title="The French Connection (film)">The French Connection</a>.<a href="#cite_note-42">[42]</a> "It's an epic film on an epic scale," Kasdan said. "It shows the building of the railroad and a span of Wyatt's life. So in many ways it presented the challenges I was looking for. It's a big bite of a movie and there are things in it that are as good as anything I've ever done."<a href="#cite_note-:0-5">[5]</a> The film suffered at the box office—making $20 million on a $60 million budget—in part because of <a href="/wiki/Tombstone_(film)" title="Tombstone (film)">Tombstone</a>, the concurrent film starring <a href="/wiki/Kurt_Russell" title="Kurt Russell">Kurt Russell</a> as Earp and <a href="/wiki/Val_Kilmer" title="Val Kilmer">Val Kilmer</a> as Holliday. Tombstone's writer and original director, <a href="/wiki/Kevin_Jarre" title="Kevin Jarre">Kevin Jarre</a> (who was eventually fired from the project), had actually planned to make an Earp story with Costner, but the two had different ideas about its tone and direction, and each went his own way.<a href="#cite_note-43">[43]</a> Tombstone was in production at the same time, but released on Christmas Eve, 1993—six months before Wyatt Earp. "Tombstone hurt us," said editor Carol Littleton, "because it's a completely different kind of film, and it was a little more hip and it was not quite as serious."<a href="#cite_note-44">[44]</a> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading4"><h4 id="Later_films_(1995-present)">Later films (1995-present)</h4>[<a href="/w/index.php?title=Lawrence_Kasdan&action=edit&section=14" title="Edit section: Later films (1995-present)">edit</a>]</div> <a href="/wiki/Meg_Ryan" title="Meg Ryan">Meg Ryan</a>, who at the time was married to Wyatt Earp star Dennis Quaid, brought Kasdan a script she'd commissioned for herself. Written by <a href="/wiki/Adam_Brooks_(filmmaker)" title="Adam Brooks (filmmaker)">Adam Brooks</a>, it was about a woman who overcomes her fear of flying and goes to Paris to confront her cheating fiancé, and in the process falls for a French thief. Kasdan was drawn to the project, he said, because "I wouldn't have to write something new. I'd just done this really difficult movie and I thought, well, I'll go to France with my family for a while. I love France."<a href="#cite_note-:0-5">[5]</a> He cast <a href="/wiki/Timothy_Hutton" title="Timothy Hutton">Timothy Hutton</a> as the cheating fiancé, Charlie, and Kline as Luc Teyssier, the thief. <a href="/wiki/French_Kiss_(1995_film)" title="French Kiss (1995 film)">French Kiss</a> was released on May 5, 1995. It earned nearly $39 million in the U.S. and more than $101 million internationally. Mumford (1999) After French Kiss, Kasdan wrote a spec script for Disney called Sojourner—a large-scale fantasy film set in the 1930s about a father and son. "I love effects," he said, "but they very rarely are married to a story that interests me. So I wrote one of my kind of stories, one involving effects. It made for a very expensive project, requiring not just one but two movie stars." He went into pre-production on the film with <a href="/wiki/Mel_Gibson" title="Mel Gibson">Mel Gibson</a> attached to star—but then pulled the plug, and instead wrote the screenplay for <a href="/wiki/Mumford_(film)" title="Mumford (film)">Mumford</a>.<a href="#cite_note-:1-6">[6]</a> The story is about a psychologist named Mumford with a secret past, who moves to a town called Mumford and starts treating its troubled citizens. Kasdan cast <a href="/wiki/Loren_Dean" title="Loren Dean">Loren Dean</a> in the title role, alongside <a href="/wiki/Hope_Davis" title="Hope Davis">Hope Davis</a>, <a href="/wiki/Jason_Lee_(actor)" class="mw-redirect" title="Jason Lee (actor)">Jason Lee</a>, Mary McDonnell, Alfre Woodard, <a href="/wiki/Martin_Short" title="Martin Short">Martin Short</a>, and Ted Danson. It came out on September 24, 1999, and fared poorly at the box office, making only $4.5 million. Critical response was divided. Dreamcatcher (2003) Kasdan's most poorly received film was <a href="/wiki/Dreamcatcher_(2003_film)" title="Dreamcatcher (2003 film)">Dreamcatcher</a>, an adaptation of <a href="/wiki/Stephen_King" title="Stephen King">Stephen King</a>'s <a href="/wiki/Dreamcatcher_(novel)" title="Dreamcatcher (novel)">2001 book</a>. Written during King's recovery from being hit by a van in 1999, the story is about four friends and a boy with special powers, involving aliens, telepathy, and extreme body horror. King later said he wrote much of it on <a href="/wiki/Oxycodone" title="Oxycodone">Oxycontin</a>.<a href="#cite_note-45">[45]</a> Kasdan co-wrote the adaptation with <a href="/wiki/William_Goldman" title="William Goldman">William Goldman</a>, screenwriter of <a href="/wiki/Butch_Cassidy_and_the_Sundance_Kid" title="Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid">Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid</a> and <a href="/wiki/The_Princess_Bride_(film)" title="The Princess Bride (film)">The Princess Bride</a>. "If you read the book," Kasdan said, "the pain is all over the book."<a href="#cite_note-46">[46]</a> Dreamcatcher was produced by <a href="/wiki/Castle_Rock_Entertainment" title="Castle Rock Entertainment">Castle Rock Entertainment</a> and shot in <a href="/wiki/British_Columbia" title="British Columbia">British Columbia</a>. The cast included <a href="/wiki/Morgan_Freeman" title="Morgan Freeman">Morgan Freeman</a>, <a href="/wiki/Thomas_Jane" title="Thomas Jane">Thomas Jane</a>, <a href="/wiki/Damian_Lewis" title="Damian Lewis">Damian Lewis</a>, <a href="/wiki/Timothy_Olyphant" title="Timothy Olyphant">Timothy Olyphant</a>, and <a href="/wiki/Donnie_Wahlberg" title="Donnie Wahlberg">Donnie Wahlberg</a>. It came out on March 21, 2003, and made $82 million worldwide. Darling Companion (2012) Nine years passed between Dreamcatcher and Kasdan's next film, <a href="/wiki/Darling_Companion" title="Darling Companion">Darling Companion</a>. During that time he adapted a script from <a href="/wiki/Richard_Russo" title="Richard Russo">Richard Russo</a>'s novel <a href="/wiki/The_Risk_Pool" title="The Risk Pool">The Risk Pool</a>, which he was developing with <a href="/wiki/Tom_Hanks" title="Tom Hanks">Tom Hanks</a> as the lead, as well as a few other aborted projects.<a href="#cite_note-47">[47]</a> He eventually decided to make an independent film, based on an incident from his and Meg's own life, when their dog got lost in the mountains of Colorado. Darling Companion was independently financed by his company, Kasdan Pictures, along with <a href="/wiki/Werc_Werk_Works" title="Werc Werk Works">Werc Werk Works</a> and <a href="/wiki/Likely_Story" title="Likely Story">Likely Story</a>. Since it was made on a modest $5 million budget, the ensemble cast—which included Kline, <a href="/wiki/Diane_Keaton" title="Diane Keaton">Diane Keaton</a>, <a href="/wiki/Richard_Jenkins" title="Richard Jenkins">Richard Jenkins</a>, <a href="/wiki/Dianne_Wiest" title="Dianne Wiest">Dianne Wiest</a>, and <a href="/wiki/Mark_Duplass" title="Mark Duplass">Mark Duplass</a>—worked for scale. Kasdan shot the film on digital for the first time, on location in Utah.<a href="#cite_note-48">[48]</a> It came out on April 27, 2012. <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Projects_in_development">Projects in development</h3>[<a href="/w/index.php?title=Lawrence_Kasdan&action=edit&section=15" title="Edit section: Projects in development">edit</a>]</div> As of 2020, Kasdan is working on a documentary about record label executive <a href="/wiki/Mo_Ostin" title="Mo Ostin">Mo Ostin</a>, and the adaptation of a novel called November Road. "Directing is the greatest job in the world, but the process is so hard," he said in 1991. "Each picture is like a child, a huge investment of heart and work. I decided that I want to work a lot while I have the interest in and the energy for it. Then if the time comes when I’m not having fun, I can walk away."<a href="#cite_note-:15-40">[40]</a> As of 2022, Kasdan has directed only two feature films in 22 years. <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Style_and_inspirations">Style and inspirations</h3>[<a href="/w/index.php?title=Lawrence_Kasdan&action=edit&section=16" title="Edit section: Style and inspirations">edit</a>]</div> As a screenwriter, Kasdan was influenced by classic English literature, plays, and the literary films of the 1940s, '50s, and '60s. He said: <blockquote>If you're trained the way I was, it's classical dramatic training, in which you learn how plays have been constructed since they started writing plays. I think that has served me very well in Hollywood, because a lot of the people writing screenplays don't have a literary background. Many young screenwriters today come from television. It's not that they worked in television; it's that they grew up on television and they think the way narrative is presented on television is narrative, but it ain't. And so, if anything, I believe in classic dramatic construction, and I believe in the force and momentum that good narrative creates as it builds on itself.<a href="#cite_note-:12-23">[23]</a></blockquote> He said his scripts all begin with their characters: <blockquote>Characters present themselves, and the story follows. <a href="/wiki/Alvin_Sargent" title="Alvin Sargent">Alvin Sargent</a> [screenwriter of <a href="/wiki/Julia_(1977_film)" title="Julia (1977 film)">Julia</a> (1977) and <a href="/wiki/Ordinary_People" title="Ordinary People">Ordinary People</a> (1980)] said a great thing to me. We were talking about how all of our inspiration always starts with character. Not plot. Not story. And that we wish it were otherwise; and that, in fact, the American movie tradition is about narrative. It's not about character. And he said, 'When I die, on my tombstone, it's going to say: 'Finally, a plot." I identified with that very strongly.<a href="#cite_note-:1-6">[6]</a></blockquote> Of his directing style, Kasdan said: <blockquote>I think that my personality is shy, reticent, in some ways; I'm conservative—I don't wear flashy clothes. I think that's true of my style, too, not that I don't like things that are startlingly innovative. ... For me, the idea is, is the camera where you want it to be, not are you showing it off? ... What I admire about <a href="/wiki/Akira_Kurosawa" title="Akira Kurosawa">Kurosawa</a> is the Zen perfection of his camera placement, the rightness of it. That's the idea I'm striving for—but style is not something that drives my pictures.<a href="#cite_note-:5-12">[12]</a></blockquote> On working with actors, he said: <blockquote>I'm drawn to a very strong, non-fussy, hopefully a non-absorbed, kind of acting. I want great listeners. They aren't in competition with the other actors in the frame. They're there to support and to make the other actor better. I'm interested in people who are interested in submitting themselves to roles, to a story, to knowing that sometimes the grander action is the wrong action, the showier action is the wrong action. Sometimes repose is the most appropriate response to something. My movies are cut and acted on the reactions, not the actions. I think that's where the secrets of life are revealed. Not necessarily in what we say, but how we react to what we hear.<a href="#cite_note-:0-5">[5]</a></blockquote> In 2012, Kasdan participated in the <a href="/wiki/Sight_%26_Sound" class="mw-redirect" title="Sight & Sound">Sight & Sound</a> film polls. Held every ten years to select the greatest films of all time, contemporary directors were asked to select ten films of their choice. Kasdan picked the following, in alphabetical order:<a href="#cite_note-49">[49]</a> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Army_of_Shadows" title="Army of Shadows">Army of Shadows</a> (1969)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/The_Battle_of_Algiers" title="The Battle of Algiers">The Battle of Algiers</a> (1966)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Dr._Strangelove" title="Dr. Strangelove">Dr. Strangelove</a> (1963)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/The_Godfather" title="The Godfather">The Godfather</a> (1972)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/The_Grapes_of_Wrath_(film)" title="The Grapes of Wrath (film)">The Grapes of Wrath</a> (1940)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Lawrence_of_Arabia_(film)" title="Lawrence of Arabia (film)">Lawrence of Arabia</a> (1962)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Out_of_the_Past" title="Out of the Past">Out of the Past</a> (1947)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/The_Rules_of_the_Game" title="The Rules of the Game">The Rules of the Game</a> (1939)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Seven_Samurai" title="Seven Samurai">Seven Samurai</a> (1954)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/The_Treasure_of_the_Sierra_Madre_(film)" title="The Treasure of the Sierra Madre (film)">The Treasure of the Sierra Madre</a> (1947)</li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Producer_and_onscreen_parts">Producer and onscreen parts</h3>[<a href="/w/index.php?title=Lawrence_Kasdan&action=edit&section=17" title="Edit section: Producer and onscreen parts">edit</a>]</div> Kasdan has produced several films he did not direct: <a href="/wiki/Cross_My_Heart_(1987_film)" title="Cross My Heart (1987 film)">Cross My Heart</a> (1987), <a href="/wiki/Immediate_Family_(film)" title="Immediate Family (film)">Immediate Family</a> (1989)—written by his The Big Chill co-writer Barbara Benedek—<a href="/wiki/Jumpin%27_at_the_Boneyard" title="Jumpin' at the Boneyard">Jumpin' at the Boneyard</a> (1991), <a href="/wiki/Home_Fries" title="Home Fries">Home Fries</a> (1998), <a href="/wiki/The_TV_Set" title="The TV Set">The TV Set</a> (2006)—written and directed by Jake Kasdan—and <a href="/wiki/In_the_Land_of_Women" title="In the Land of Women">In the Land of Women</a> (2007), written and directed by Jonathan Kasdan. He has made several cameo appearances in his own films: as River Phoenix's lawyer in I Love You to Death, a director in Grand Canyon, a gambler in Wyatt Earp, and a man walking a dog in Darling Companion. He played Jack Nicholson's psychiatrist in <a href="/wiki/As_Good_as_It_Gets" title="As Good as It Gets">As Good as It Gets</a> (1997), directed by <a href="/wiki/James_L._Brooks" title="James L. Brooks">James L. Brooks</a>. <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Filmography">Filmography</h2>[<a href="/w/index.php?title=Lawrence_Kasdan&action=edit&section=18" title="Edit section: Filmography">edit</a>]</div> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Films">Films</h3>[<a href="/w/index.php?title=Lawrence_Kasdan&action=edit&section=19" title="Edit section: Films">edit</a>]</div> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Filmmaking_credits">Filmmaking credits</h3>[<a href="/w/index.php?title=Lawrence_Kasdan&action=edit&section=20" title="Edit section: Filmmaking credits">edit</a>]</div> <table class="wikitable sortable"> <tbody><tr> <th>Year </th> <th>Title </th> <th width="65"><a href="/wiki/Film_director" title="Film director">Director</a> </th> <th width="65"><a href="/wiki/Screenwriter" title="Screenwriter">Writer</a> </th> <th width="65"><a href="/wiki/Film_producer" title="Film producer">Producer</a> </th> <th>Notes </th></tr> <tr> <td>1980 </td> <td><a href="/wiki/The_Empire_Strikes_Back" title="The Empire Strikes Back">The Empire Strikes Back</a> </td> <td style="background:#FFC7C7;color:black;vertical-align:middle;text-align:center;" class="table-no">No </td> <td style="background:#9EFF9E;color:black;vertical-align:middle;text-align:center;" class="table-yes">Yes </td> <td style="background:#FFC7C7;color:black;vertical-align:middle;text-align:center;" class="table-no">No </td> <td> </td></tr> <tr> <td rowspan="3">1981 </td> <td><a href="/wiki/Raiders_of_the_Lost_Ark" title="Raiders of the Lost Ark">Raiders of the Lost Ark</a> </td> <td style="background:#FFC7C7;color:black;vertical-align:middle;text-align:center;" class="table-no">No </td> <td style="background:#9EFF9E;color:black;vertical-align:middle;text-align:center;" class="table-yes">Yes </td> <td style="background:#FFC7C7;color:black;vertical-align:middle;text-align:center;" class="table-no">No </td> <td> </td></tr> <tr> <td><a href="/wiki/Body_Heat" title="Body Heat">Body Heat</a> </td> <td style="background:#9EFF9E;color:black;vertical-align:middle;text-align:center;" class="table-yes">Yes </td> <td style="background:#9EFF9E;color:black;vertical-align:middle;text-align:center;" class="table-yes">Yes </td> <td style="background:#FFC7C7;color:black;vertical-align:middle;text-align:center;" class="table-no">No </td> <td> </td></tr> <tr> <td><a href="/wiki/Continental_Divide_(film)" title="Continental Divide (film)">Continental Divide</a> </td> <td style="background:#FFC7C7;color:black;vertical-align:middle;text-align:center;" class="table-no">No </td> <td style="background:#9EFF9E;color:black;vertical-align:middle;text-align:center;" class="table-yes">Yes </td> <td style="background:#FFC7C7;color:black;vertical-align:middle;text-align:center;" class="table-no">No </td> <td> </td></tr> <tr> <td rowspan="2">1983 </td> <td><a href="/wiki/Return_of_the_Jedi" title="Return of the Jedi">Return of the Jedi</a> </td> <td style="background:#FFC7C7;color:black;vertical-align:middle;text-align:center;" class="table-no">No </td> <td style="background:#9EFF9E;color:black;vertical-align:middle;text-align:center;" class="table-yes">Yes </td> <td style="background:#FFC7C7;color:black;vertical-align:middle;text-align:center;" class="table-no">No </td> <td> </td></tr> <tr> <td><a href="/wiki/The_Big_Chill_(film)" title="The Big Chill (film)">The Big Chill</a> </td> <td style="background:#9EFF9E;color:black;vertical-align:middle;text-align:center;" class="table-yes">Yes </td> <td style="background:#9EFF9E;color:black;vertical-align:middle;text-align:center;" class="table-yes">Yes </td> <td style="background:#FFB; color:black;vertical-align:middle;text-align:center;" class="table-partial">Executive </td> <td> </td></tr> <tr> <td>1985 </td> <td><a href="/wiki/Silverado_(film)" title="Silverado (film)">Silverado</a> </td> <td style="background:#9EFF9E;color:black;vertical-align:middle;text-align:center;" class="table-yes">Yes </td> <td style="background:#9EFF9E;color:black;vertical-align:middle;text-align:center;" class="table-yes">Yes </td> <td style="background:#9EFF9E;color:black;vertical-align:middle;text-align:center;" class="table-yes">Yes </td> <td> </td></tr> <tr> <td>1987 </td> <td><a href="/wiki/Cross_My_Heart_(1987_film)" title="Cross My Heart (1987 film)">Cross My Heart</a> </td> <td style="background:#FFC7C7;color:black;vertical-align:middle;text-align:center;" class="table-no">No </td> <td style="background:#FFC7C7;color:black;vertical-align:middle;text-align:center;" class="table-no">No </td> <td style="background:#9EFF9E;color:black;vertical-align:middle;text-align:center;" class="table-yes">Yes </td> <td> </td></tr> <tr> <td>1988 </td> <td><a href="/wiki/The_Accidental_Tourist_(film)" title="The Accidental Tourist (film)">The Accidental Tourist</a> </td> <td style="background:#9EFF9E;color:black;vertical-align:middle;text-align:center;" class="table-yes">Yes </td> <td style="background:#9EFF9E;color:black;vertical-align:middle;text-align:center;" class="table-yes">Yes </td> <td style="background:#9EFF9E;color:black;vertical-align:middle;text-align:center;" class="table-yes">Yes </td> <td> </td></tr> <tr> <td>1990 </td> <td><a href="/wiki/I_Love_You_to_Death" title="I Love You to Death">I Love You to Death</a> </td> <td style="background:#9EFF9E;color:black;vertical-align:middle;text-align:center;" class="table-yes">Yes </td> <td style="background:#FFC7C7;color:black;vertical-align:middle;text-align:center;" class="table-no">No </td> <td style="background:#FFC7C7;color:black;vertical-align:middle;text-align:center;" class="table-no">No </td> <td> </td></tr> <tr> <td>1991 </td> <td><a href="/wiki/Grand_Canyon_(1991_film)" title="Grand Canyon (1991 film)">Grand Canyon</a> </td> <td style="background:#9EFF9E;color:black;vertical-align:middle;text-align:center;" class="table-yes">Yes </td> <td style="background:#9EFF9E;color:black;vertical-align:middle;text-align:center;" class="table-yes">Yes </td> <td style="background:#9EFF9E;color:black;vertical-align:middle;text-align:center;" class="table-yes">Yes </td> <td> </td></tr> <tr> <td>1992 </td> <td><a href="/wiki/The_Bodyguard_(1992_film)" title="The Bodyguard (1992 film)">The Bodyguard</a> </td> <td style="background:#FFC7C7;color:black;vertical-align:middle;text-align:center;" class="table-no">No </td> <td style="background:#9EFF9E;color:black;vertical-align:middle;text-align:center;" class="table-yes">Yes </td> <td style="background:#9EFF9E;color:black;vertical-align:middle;text-align:center;" class="table-yes">Yes </td> <td> </td></tr> <tr> <td>1994 </td> <td><a href="/wiki/Wyatt_Earp_(film)" title="Wyatt Earp (film)">Wyatt Earp</a> </td> <td style="background:#9EFF9E;color:black;vertical-align:middle;text-align:center;" class="table-yes">Yes </td> <td style="background:#9EFF9E;color:black;vertical-align:middle;text-align:center;" class="table-yes">Yes </td> <td style="background:#9EFF9E;color:black;vertical-align:middle;text-align:center;" class="table-yes">Yes </td> <td> </td></tr> <tr> <td>1995 </td> <td><a href="/wiki/French_Kiss_(1995_film)" title="French Kiss (1995 film)">French Kiss</a> </td> <td style="background:#9EFF9E;color:black;vertical-align:middle;text-align:center;" class="table-yes">Yes </td> <td style="background:#FFC7C7;color:black;vertical-align:middle;text-align:center;" class="table-no">No </td> <td style="background:#FFC7C7;color:black;vertical-align:middle;text-align:center;" class="table-no">No </td> <td> </td></tr> <tr> <td>1998 </td> <td><a href="/wiki/Home_Fries_(film)" class="mw-redirect" title="Home Fries (film)">Home Fries</a> </td> <td style="background:#FFC7C7;color:black;vertical-align:middle;text-align:center;" class="table-no">No </td> <td style="background:#FFC7C7;color:black;vertical-align:middle;text-align:center;" class="table-no">No </td> <td style="background:#9EFF9E;color:black;vertical-align:middle;text-align:center;" class="table-yes">Yes </td> <td> </td></tr> <tr> <td>1999 </td> <td><a href="/wiki/Mumford_(film)" title="Mumford (film)">Mumford</a> </td> <td style="background:#9EFF9E;color:black;vertical-align:middle;text-align:center;" class="table-yes">Yes </td> <td style="background:#9EFF9E;color:black;vertical-align:middle;text-align:center;" class="table-yes">Yes </td> <td style="background:#9EFF9E;color:black;vertical-align:middle;text-align:center;" class="table-yes">Yes </td> <td> </td></tr> <tr> <td>2003 </td> <td><a href="/wiki/Dreamcatcher_(2003_film)" title="Dreamcatcher (2003 film)">Dreamcatcher</a> </td> <td style="background:#9EFF9E;color:black;vertical-align:middle;text-align:center;" class="table-yes">Yes </td> <td style="background:#9EFF9E;color:black;vertical-align:middle;text-align:center;" class="table-yes">Yes </td> <td style="background:#9EFF9E;color:black;vertical-align:middle;text-align:center;" class="table-yes">Yes </td> <td> </td></tr> <tr> <td>2012 </td> <td><a href="/wiki/Darling_Companion" title="Darling Companion">Darling Companion</a> </td> <td style="background:#9EFF9E;color:black;vertical-align:middle;text-align:center;" class="table-yes">Yes </td> <td style="background:#9EFF9E;color:black;vertical-align:middle;text-align:center;" class="table-yes">Yes </td> <td style="background:#9EFF9E;color:black;vertical-align:middle;text-align:center;" class="table-yes">Yes </td> <td> </td></tr> <tr> <td>2015 </td> <td><a href="/wiki/Star_Wars:_The_Force_Awakens" title="Star Wars: The Force Awakens">Star Wars: The Force Awakens</a> </td> <td style="background:#FFC7C7;color:black;vertical-align:middle;text-align:center;" class="table-no">No </td> <td style="background:#9EFF9E;color:black;vertical-align:middle;text-align:center;" class="table-yes">Yes </td> <td style="background:#FFC7C7;color:black;vertical-align:middle;text-align:center;" class="table-no">No </td> <td>Also creative consultant & uncredited co-producer </td></tr> <tr> <td>2018 </td> <td><a href="/wiki/Solo:_A_Star_Wars_Story" title="Solo: A Star Wars Story">Solo: A Star Wars Story</a> </td> <td style="background:#FFC7C7;color:black;vertical-align:middle;text-align:center;" class="table-no">No </td> <td style="background:#9EFF9E;color:black;vertical-align:middle;text-align:center;" class="table-yes">Yes </td> <td style="background:#FFB; color:black;vertical-align:middle;text-align:center;" class="table-partial">Executive </td> <td> </td></tr> <tr> <td>2019 </td> <td><a href="/w/index.php?title=Last_Week_at_Ed%27s&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Last Week at Ed's (page does not exist)">Last Week at Ed's</a><a href="#cite_note-50">[50]</a> </td> <td style="background:#9EFF9E;color:black;vertical-align:middle;text-align:center;" class="table-yes">Yes </td> <td style="background:#FFC7C7;color:black;vertical-align:middle;text-align:center;" class="table-no">No </td> <td style="background:#9EFF9E;color:black;vertical-align:middle;text-align:center;" class="table-yes">Yes </td> <td>Co-directed with Meg Kasdan, documentary short </td></tr> <tr> <td data-sort-value="" style="background: #DDF; color:black; vertical-align: middle; text-align: center;" class="skin-invert no table-no2"><abbr title="To be announced">TBA</abbr> </td> <td>November Road </td> <td style="background:#9EFF9E;color:black;vertical-align:middle;text-align:center;" class="table-yes">Yes </td> <td style="background:#9EFF9E;color:black;vertical-align:middle;text-align:center;" class="table-yes">Yes </td> <td style="background:#9EFF9E;color:black;vertical-align:middle;text-align:center;" class="table-yes">Yes </td> <td> </td></tr> </tbody></table> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Executive_producer">Executive producer</h3>[<a href="/w/index.php?title=Lawrence_Kasdan&action=edit&section=21" title="Edit section: Executive producer">edit</a>]</div> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Immediate_Family_(film)" title="Immediate Family (film)">Immediate Family</a> (1989)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Jumpin%27_at_the_Boneyard" title="Jumpin' at the Boneyard">Jumpin' at the Boneyard</a> (1991)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/The_TV_Set" title="The TV Set">The TV Set</a> (2006)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/In_the_Land_of_Women" title="In the Land of Women">In the Land of Women</a> (2007)</li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Acting_credits">Acting credits</h3>[<a href="/w/index.php?title=Lawrence_Kasdan&action=edit&section=22" title="Edit section: Acting credits">edit</a>]</div> <table class="wikitable sortable"> <tbody><tr> <th>Year </th> <th>Title </th> <th>Role </th> <th>Notes </th></tr> <tr> <td>1985 </td> <td><a href="/wiki/Into_the_Night_(1985_film)" title="Into the Night (1985 film)">Into the Night</a> </td> <td>Detective #2 </td> <td> </td></tr> <tr> <td>1990 </td> <td><a href="/wiki/I_Love_You_to_Death" title="I Love You to Death">I Love You to Death</a> </td> <td>Devo's Lawyer </td> <td rowspan="3">Uncredited </td></tr> <tr> <td>1991 </td> <td><a href="/wiki/Grand_Canyon_(1991_film)" title="Grand Canyon (1991 film)">Grand Canyon</a> </td> <td>Director in screening room </td></tr> <tr> <td>1994 </td> <td><a href="/wiki/Wyatt_Earp_(film)" title="Wyatt Earp (film)">Wyatt Earp</a> </td> <td>Gambler </td></tr> <tr> <td>1997 </td> <td><a href="/wiki/As_Good_as_It_Gets" title="As Good as It Gets">As Good as It Gets</a> </td> <td>Dr. Green </td> <td> </td></tr> <tr> <td>2012 </td> <td><a href="/wiki/Darling_Companion" title="Darling Companion">Darling Companion</a> </td> <td>Man on Street </td> <td>Uncredited </td></tr></tbody></table> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Television_series">Television series</h3>[<a href="/w/index.php?title=Lawrence_Kasdan&action=edit&section=23" title="Edit section: Television series">edit</a>]</div> <table class="wikitable sortable"> <caption> </caption> <tbody><tr> <th>Year </th> <th>Title </th> <th>Director </th> <th>Executive producer </th> <th>Notes </th> <th>Network </th></tr> <tr> <td>2022 </td> <td><a href="/wiki/Light_%26_Magic_(TV_series)" title="Light & Magic (TV series)">Light & Magic</a> </td> <td style="background:#9EFF9E;color:black;vertical-align:middle;text-align:center;" class="table-yes">Yes </td> <td style="background:#9EFF9E;color:black;vertical-align:middle;text-align:center;" class="table-yes">Yes </td> <td>Documentary, 6 episodes </td> <td><a href="/wiki/Disney%2B" title="Disney+">Disney+</a> </td></tr></tbody></table> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Critical_receptions_and_box_office">Critical receptions and box office</h2>[<a href="/w/index.php?title=Lawrence_Kasdan&action=edit&section=24" title="Edit section: Critical receptions and box office">edit</a>]</div> <table class="wikitable sortable"> <tbody><tr> <th rowspan="2">Title </th> <th colspan="3">Reception </th> <th colspan="2">Box office </th></tr> <tr> <th><a href="/wiki/Rotten_Tomatoes" title="Rotten Tomatoes">Rotten Tomatoes</a> </th> <th><a href="/wiki/Metacritic" title="Metacritic">Metacritic</a> </th> <th><a href="/wiki/CinemaScore" title="CinemaScore">CinemaScore</a> </th> <th>Budget </th> <th>Gross </th></tr> <tr> <td><a href="/wiki/Body_Heat" title="Body Heat">Body Heat</a> </td> <td>98% (40 reviews) </td> <td>77 (11 reviews) </td> <td data-sort-value="" style="background: var(--background-color-interactive, #ececec); color: var(--color-base, inherit); vertical-align: middle; text-align: center;" class="table-na">— </td> <td>$9 million </td> <td>$24 million </td></tr> <tr> <td><a href="/wiki/The_Big_Chill_(film)" title="The Big Chill (film)">The Big Chill</a> </td> <td>67% (36 reviews) </td> <td>61 (12 reviews) </td> <td data-sort-value="" style="background: var(--background-color-interactive, #ececec); color: var(--color-base, inherit); vertical-align: middle; text-align: center;" class="table-na">— </td> <td>$8 million </td> <td>$56.4 million </td></tr> <tr> <td><a href="/wiki/Silverado_(film)" title="Silverado (film)">Silverado</a> </td> <td>76% (33 reviews) </td> <td>64 (14 reviews) </td> <td data-sort-value="" style="background: var(--background-color-interactive, #ececec); color: var(--color-base, inherit); vertical-align: middle; text-align: center;" class="table-na">— </td> <td>$23 million </td> <td>$32.1 million </td></tr> <tr> <td><a href="/wiki/The_Accidental_Tourist_(film)" title="The Accidental Tourist (film)">The Accidental Tourist</a> </td> <td>81% (31 reviews) </td> <td>53 (12 reviews) </td> <td data-sort-value="" style="background: var(--background-color-interactive, #ececec); color: var(--color-base, inherit); vertical-align: middle; text-align: center;" class="table-na">— </td> <td data-sort-value="" style="background: var(--background-color-interactive, #ececec); color: var(--color-base, inherit); vertical-align: middle; text-align: center;" class="table-na">— </td> <td>$32.6 million </td></tr> <tr> <td><a href="/wiki/I_Love_You_to_Death" title="I Love You to Death">I Love You to Death</a> </td> <td>58% (24 reviews) </td> <td>45 (13 reviews) </td> <td>C </td> <td data-sort-value="" style="background: var(--background-color-interactive, #ececec); color: var(--color-base, inherit); vertical-align: middle; text-align: center;" class="table-na">— </td> <td>$16.2 million </td></tr> <tr> <td><a href="/wiki/Grand_Canyon_(1991_film)" title="Grand Canyon (1991 film)">Grand Canyon</a> </td> <td>77% (35 reviews) </td> <td>64 (15 reviews) </td> <td>B+ </td> <td data-sort-value="" style="background: var(--background-color-interactive, #ececec); color: var(--color-base, inherit); vertical-align: middle; text-align: center;" class="table-na">— </td> <td>$40.9 million </td></tr> <tr> <td><a href="/wiki/Wyatt_Earp_(film)" title="Wyatt Earp (film)">Wyatt Earp</a> </td> <td>44% (27 reviews) </td> <td>47 (20 reviews) </td> <td>B+ </td> <td>$63 million </td> <td>$25.1 million </td></tr> <tr> <td><a href="/wiki/French_Kiss_(1995_film)" title="French Kiss (1995 film)">French Kiss</a> </td> <td>48% (25 reviews) </td> <td>50 (14 reviews) </td> <td>B+ </td> <td data-sort-value="" style="background: var(--background-color-interactive, #ececec); color: var(--color-base, inherit); vertical-align: middle; text-align: center;" class="table-na">— </td> <td>$102 million </td></tr> <tr> <td><a href="/wiki/Mumford_(film)" title="Mumford (film)">Mumford</a> </td> <td>57% (81 reviews) </td> <td>62 (33 reviews) </td> <td>C+ </td> <td>$28 million </td> <td>$4.6 million </td></tr> <tr> <td><a href="/wiki/Dreamcatcher_(2003_film)" title="Dreamcatcher (2003 film)">Dreamcatcher</a> </td> <td>29% (180 reviews) </td> <td>35 (38 reviews) </td> <td>C+ </td> <td>$68 million </td> <td>$75.7 million </td></tr> <tr> <td><a href="/wiki/Darling_Companion" title="Darling Companion">Darling Companion</a> </td> <td>22% (88 reviews) </td> <td>41 (38 reviews) </td> <td data-sort-value="" style="background: var(--background-color-interactive, #ececec); color: var(--color-base, inherit); vertical-align: middle; text-align: center;" class="table-na">— </td> <td>$12 million </td> <td data-sort-value="$0.8 million">$793 815 </td></tr> <tr> <td><a href="/w/index.php?title=Last_Week_at_Ed%27s&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Last Week at Ed's (page does not exist)">Last Week at Ed's</a> </td> <td data-sort-value="" style="background: var(--background-color-interactive, #ececec); color: var(--color-base, inherit); vertical-align: middle; text-align: center;" class="table-na">— </td> <td data-sort-value="" style="background: var(--background-color-interactive, #ececec); color: var(--color-base, inherit); vertical-align: middle; text-align: center;" class="table-na">— </td> <td data-sort-value="" style="background: var(--background-color-interactive, #ececec); color: var(--color-base, inherit); vertical-align: middle; text-align: center;" class="table-na">— </td> <td data-sort-value="" style="background: var(--background-color-interactive, #ececec); color: var(--color-base, inherit); vertical-align: middle; text-align: center;" class="table-na">— </td> <td data-sort-value="" style="background: var(--background-color-interactive, #ececec); color: var(--color-base, inherit); vertical-align: middle; text-align: center;" class="table-na">— </td></tr> <tr> <td><a href="/wiki/Light_%26_Magic_(TV_series)" title="Light & Magic (TV series)">Light & Magic</a> </td> <td>100% (12 reviews) </td> <td> </td> <td> </td> <td> </td> <td> </td></tr></tbody></table> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Awards_and_honors">Awards and honors</h2>[<a href="/w/index.php?title=Lawrence_Kasdan&action=edit&section=25" title="Edit section: Awards and honors">edit</a>]</div> In addition to his four Oscar nominations, Kasdan received the <a href="/wiki/Austin_Film_Festival" title="Austin Film Festival">Austin Film Festival</a>'s Distinguished Screenwriter Award in 2001, and the <a href="/wiki/Laurel_Award_for_Screenwriting_Achievement" title="Laurel Award for Screenwriting Achievement">Laurel Award for Screenwriting Achievement</a> from the Writers Guild of America in 2006. He has three honorary doctorates: in Humane Letters from the <a href="/wiki/University_of_Michigan" title="University of Michigan">University of Michigan</a> (1983) and from <a href="/wiki/West_Virginia_University" title="West Virginia University">West Virginia University</a> (1999), and in Fine Arts from the <a href="/wiki/American_Film_Institute" title="American Film Institute">American Film Institute</a> (2015). On May 22, 2016, he was honored by the <a href="/wiki/Atlanta_Jewish_Film_Festival" title="Atlanta Jewish Film Festival">Atlanta Jewish Film Festival</a> and ArtsATL.org as the inaugural recipient of their ICON Award for Contributions to the Cinematic Arts in a ceremony held at the <a href="/wiki/Woodruff_Arts_Center" title="Woodruff Arts Center">Woodruff Arts Center</a>. <table class="wikitable"> <caption> </caption> <tbody><tr> <th>Organization </th> <th>Year </th> <th>Category </th> <th>Nominated work </th> <th>Result </th> <th>Ref. </th></tr> <tr> <td rowspan="4"><a href="/wiki/Academy_Awards" title="Academy Awards">Academy Awards</a> </td> <td><a href="/wiki/56th_Academy_Awards" title="56th Academy Awards">1984</a> </td> <td><a href="/wiki/Academy_Award_for_Best_Original_Screenplay" title="Academy Award for Best Original Screenplay">Best Screenplay – Written Directly for the Screen</a> </td> <td><a href="/wiki/The_Big_Chill_(film)" title="The Big Chill (film)">The Big Chill</a> </td> <td style="background: #FFE3E3; color: black; vertical-align: middle; text-align: center;" class="no table-no2 notheme">Nominated </td> <td><a href="#cite_note-51">[51]</a> </td></tr> <tr> <td rowspan="2"><a href="/wiki/61st_Academy_Awards" title="61st Academy Awards">1989</a> </td> <td><a href="/wiki/Academy_Award_for_Best_Picture" title="Academy Award for Best Picture">Best Picture</a> </td> <td rowspan="2"><a href="/wiki/The_Accidental_Tourist_(film)" title="The Accidental Tourist (film)">The Accidental Tourist</a> </td> <td style="background: #FFE3E3; color: black; vertical-align: middle; text-align: center;" class="no table-no2 notheme">Nominated </td> <td rowspan="2"><a href="#cite_note-52">[52]</a> </td></tr> <tr> <td><a href="/wiki/Academy_Award_for_Best_Adapted_Screenplay" title="Academy Award for Best Adapted Screenplay">Best Screenplay – Based on Material from Another Medium</a> </td> <td style="background: #FFE3E3; color: black; vertical-align: middle; text-align: center;" class="no table-no2 notheme">Nominated </td></tr> <tr> <td><a href="/wiki/64th_Academy_Awards" title="64th Academy Awards">1992</a> </td> <td><a href="/wiki/Academy_Award_for_Best_Original_Screenplay" title="Academy Award for Best Original Screenplay">Best Screenplay – Written Directly for the Screen</a> </td> <td><a href="/wiki/Grand_Canyon_(1991_film)" title="Grand Canyon (1991 film)">Grand Canyon</a> </td> <td style="background: #FFE3E3; color: black; vertical-align: middle; text-align: center;" class="no table-no2 notheme">Nominated </td> <td><a href="#cite_note-53">[53]</a> </td></tr> <tr> <td rowspan="2"><a href="/wiki/British_Academy_Film_Awards" title="British Academy Film Awards">British Academy Film Awards</a> </td> <td><a href="/wiki/38th_British_Academy_Film_Awards" title="38th British Academy Film Awards">1985</a> </td> <td><a href="/wiki/BAFTA_Award_for_Best_Original_Screenplay" title="BAFTA Award for Best Original Screenplay">Best Original Screenplay</a> </td> <td><a href="/wiki/The_Big_Chill_(film)" title="The Big Chill (film)">The Big Chill</a> </td> <td style="background: #FFE3E3; color: black; vertical-align: middle; text-align: center;" class="no table-no2 notheme">Nominated </td> <td><a href="#cite_note-54">[54]</a> </td></tr> <tr> <td><a href="/wiki/43rd_British_Academy_Film_Awards" title="43rd British Academy Film Awards">1990</a> </td> <td><a href="/wiki/BAFTA_Award_for_Best_Adapted_Screenplay" title="BAFTA Award for Best Adapted Screenplay">Best Adapted Screenplay</a> </td> <td><a href="/wiki/The_Accidental_Tourist_(film)" title="The Accidental Tourist (film)">The Accidental Tourist</a> </td> <td style="background: #FFE3E3; color: black; vertical-align: middle; text-align: center;" class="no table-no2 notheme">Nominated </td> <td><a href="#cite_note-55">[55]</a> </td></tr> <tr> <td><a href="/wiki/Directors_Guild_of_America_Awards" title="Directors Guild of America Awards">Directors Guild of America Awards</a> </td> <td><a href="/wiki/36th_Directors_Guild_of_America_Awards" title="36th Directors Guild of America Awards">1984</a> </td> <td><a href="/wiki/Directors_Guild_of_America_Award_for_Outstanding_Directing_%E2%80%93_Feature_Film" title="Directors Guild of America Award for Outstanding Directing – Feature Film">Outstanding Directing – Feature Film</a> </td> <td><a href="/wiki/The_Big_Chill_(film)" title="The Big Chill (film)">The Big Chill</a> </td> <td style="background: #FFE3E3; color: black; vertical-align: middle; text-align: center;" class="no table-no2 notheme">Nominated </td> <td><a href="#cite_note-56">[56]</a> </td></tr> <tr> <td><a href="/wiki/Edgar_Awards" title="Edgar Awards">Edgar Allan Poe Awards</a> </td> <td>1982 </td> <td><a href="/wiki/Edgar_Allan_Poe_Award_for_Best_Motion_Picture_Screenplay" title="Edgar Allan Poe Award for Best Motion Picture Screenplay">Best Motion Picture Screenplay</a> </td> <td><a href="/wiki/Body_Heat" title="Body Heat">Body Heat</a> </td> <td style="background: #FFE3E3; color: black; vertical-align: middle; text-align: center;" class="no table-no2 notheme">Nominated </td> <td><a href="#cite_note-57">[57]</a> </td></tr> <tr> <td rowspan="2"><a href="/wiki/Golden_Globe_Awards" title="Golden Globe Awards">Golden Globe Awards</a> </td> <td><a href="/wiki/41st_Golden_Globe_Awards" title="41st Golden Globe Awards">1984</a> </td> <td rowspan="2"><a href="/wiki/Golden_Globe_Award_for_Best_Screenplay" title="Golden Globe Award for Best Screenplay">Best Screenplay</a> </td> <td><a href="/wiki/The_Big_Chill_(film)" title="The Big Chill (film)">The Big Chill</a> </td> <td style="background: #FFE3E3; color: black; vertical-align: middle; text-align: center;" class="no table-no2 notheme">Nominated </td> <td rowspan="2"><a href="#cite_note-58">[58]</a> </td></tr> <tr> <td><a href="/wiki/49th_Golden_Globe_Awards" title="49th Golden Globe Awards">1992</a> </td> <td><a href="/wiki/Grand_Canyon_(1991_film)" title="Grand Canyon (1991 film)">Grand Canyon</a> </td> <td style="background: #FFE3E3; color: black; vertical-align: middle; text-align: center;" class="no table-no2 notheme">Nominated </td></tr> <tr> <td rowspan="5"><a href="/wiki/Golden_Raspberry_Awards" title="Golden Raspberry Awards">Golden Raspberry Awards</a> </td> <td rowspan="2"><a href="/wiki/13th_Golden_Raspberry_Awards" title="13th Golden Raspberry Awards">1993</a> </td> <td><a href="/wiki/Golden_Raspberry_Award_for_Worst_Picture" title="Golden Raspberry Award for Worst Picture">Worst Picture</a> </td> <td rowspan="2"><a href="/wiki/The_Bodyguard_(1992_film)" title="The Bodyguard (1992 film)">The Bodyguard</a> </td> <td style="background: #FFE3E3; color: black; vertical-align: middle; text-align: center;" class="no table-no2 notheme">Nominated </td> <td rowspan="2"><a href="#cite_note-59">[59]</a> </td></tr> <tr> <td><a href="/wiki/Golden_Raspberry_Award_for_Worst_Screenplay" title="Golden Raspberry Award for Worst Screenplay">Worst Screenplay</a> </td> <td style="background: #FFE3E3; color: black; vertical-align: middle; text-align: center;" class="no table-no2 notheme">Nominated </td></tr> <tr> <td rowspan="3"><a href="/wiki/15th_Golden_Raspberry_Awards" title="15th Golden Raspberry Awards">1995</a> </td> <td><a href="/wiki/Golden_Raspberry_Award_for_Worst_Picture" title="Golden Raspberry Award for Worst Picture">Worst Picture</a> </td> <td rowspan="3"><a href="/wiki/Wyatt_Earp_(film)" title="Wyatt Earp (film)">Wyatt Earp</a> </td> <td style="background: #FFE3E3; color: black; vertical-align: middle; text-align: center;" class="no table-no2 notheme">Nominated </td> <td rowspan="3"><a href="#cite_note-60">[60]</a> </td></tr> <tr> <td><a href="/wiki/Golden_Raspberry_Award_for_Worst_Screenplay" title="Golden Raspberry Award for Worst Screenplay">Worst Screenplay</a> </td> <td style="background: #FFE3E3; color: black; vertical-align: middle; text-align: center;" class="no table-no2 notheme">Nominated </td></tr> <tr> <td><a href="/wiki/Golden_Raspberry_Award_for_Worst_Remake,_Rip-off_or_Sequel" title="Golden Raspberry Award for Worst Remake, Rip-off or Sequel">Worst Remake or Sequel</a> </td> <td style="background: #9EFF9E; color: #000; vertical-align: middle; text-align: center;" class="yes table-yes2 notheme">Won </td></tr> <tr> <td rowspan="4"><a href="/wiki/Hugo_Award" title="Hugo Award">Hugo Award</a> </td> <td>1981 </td> <td rowspan="4"><a href="/wiki/Hugo_Award_for_Best_Dramatic_Presentation" title="Hugo Award for Best Dramatic Presentation">Best Dramatic Presentation</a> </td> <td><a href="/wiki/The_Empire_Strikes_Back" title="The Empire Strikes Back">The Empire Strikes Back</a> </td> <td style="background: #9EFF9E; color: #000; vertical-align: middle; text-align: center;" class="yes table-yes2 notheme">Won </td> <td><a href="#cite_note-61">[61]</a> </td></tr> <tr> <td>1982 </td> <td><a href="/wiki/Raiders_of_the_Lost_Ark" title="Raiders of the Lost Ark">Raiders of the Lost Ark</a> </td> <td style="background: #9EFF9E; color: #000; vertical-align: middle; text-align: center;" class="yes table-yes2 notheme">Won </td> <td><a href="#cite_note-62">[62]</a> </td></tr> <tr> <td>1984 </td> <td><a href="/wiki/Return_of_the_Jedi" title="Return of the Jedi">Return of the Jedi</a> </td> <td style="background: #9EFF9E; color: #000; vertical-align: middle; text-align: center;" class="yes table-yes2 notheme">Won </td> <td><a href="#cite_note-63">[63]</a> </td></tr> <tr> <td>2016 </td> <td><a href="/wiki/Star_Wars:_The_Force_Awakens" title="Star Wars: The Force Awakens">Star Wars: The Force Awakens</a> </td> <td style="background: #FFE3E3; color: black; vertical-align: middle; text-align: center;" class="no table-no2 notheme">Nominated </td> <td><a href="#cite_note-64">[64]</a> </td></tr> <tr> <td rowspan="4"><a href="/wiki/Saturn_Awards" title="Saturn Awards">Saturn Awards</a> </td> <td><a href="/wiki/8th_Saturn_Awards" title="8th Saturn Awards">1981</a> </td> <td rowspan="4"><a href="/wiki/Saturn_Award_for_Best_Writing" title="Saturn Award for Best Writing">Best Writing</a> </td> <td><a href="/wiki/The_Empire_Strikes_Back" title="The Empire Strikes Back">The Empire Strikes Back</a> </td> <td style="background: #FFE3E3; color: black; vertical-align: middle; text-align: center;" class="no table-no2 notheme">Nominated </td> <td rowspan="4"><a href="#cite_note-65">[65]</a> </td></tr> <tr> <td><a href="/wiki/9th_Saturn_Awards" title="9th Saturn Awards">1982</a> </td> <td><a href="/wiki/Raiders_of_the_Lost_Ark" title="Raiders of the Lost Ark">Raiders of the Lost Ark</a> </td> <td style="background: #9EFF9E; color: #000; vertical-align: middle; text-align: center;" class="yes table-yes2 notheme">Won </td></tr> <tr> <td><a href="/wiki/11th_Saturn_Awards" title="11th Saturn Awards">1984</a> </td> <td><a href="/wiki/Return_of_the_Jedi" title="Return of the Jedi">Return of the Jedi</a> </td> <td style="background: #FFE3E3; color: black; vertical-align: middle; text-align: center;" class="no table-no2 notheme">Nominated </td></tr> <tr> <td><a href="/wiki/42nd_Saturn_Awards" title="42nd Saturn Awards">2016</a> </td> <td><a href="/wiki/Star_Wars:_The_Force_Awakens" title="Star Wars: The Force Awakens">Star Wars: The Force Awakens</a> </td> <td style="background: #9EFF9E; color: #000; vertical-align: middle; text-align: center;" class="yes table-yes2 notheme">Won </td></tr> <tr> <td rowspan="7"><a href="/wiki/Writers_Guild_of_America_Awards" title="Writers Guild of America Awards">Writers Guild of America Awards</a> </td> <td><a href="/wiki/33rd_Writers_Guild_of_America_Awards" title="33rd Writers Guild of America Awards">1981</a> </td> <td><a href="/wiki/Writers_Guild_of_America_Award_for_Best_Adapted_Screenplay" title="Writers Guild of America Award for Best Adapted Screenplay">Best Comedy Adapted from Another Medium</a> </td> <td><a href="/wiki/The_Empire_Strikes_Back" title="The Empire Strikes Back">The Empire Strikes Back</a> </td> <td style="background: #FFE3E3; color: black; vertical-align: middle; text-align: center;" class="no table-no2 notheme">Nominated </td> <td rowspan="6"><a href="#cite_note-66">[66]</a> </td></tr> <tr> <td rowspan="2"><a href="/wiki/34th_Writers_Guild_of_America_Awards" title="34th Writers Guild of America Awards">1982</a> </td> <td><a href="/wiki/Writers_Guild_of_America_Award_for_Best_Original_Screenplay" title="Writers Guild of America Award for Best Original Screenplay">Best Drama Written Directly for the Screenplay</a> </td> <td><a href="/wiki/Body_Heat" title="Body Heat">Body Heat</a> </td> <td style="background: #FFE3E3; color: black; vertical-align: middle; text-align: center;" class="no table-no2 notheme">Nominated </td></tr> <tr> <td rowspan="2"><a href="/wiki/Writers_Guild_of_America_Award_for_Best_Original_Screenplay" title="Writers Guild of America Award for Best Original Screenplay">Best Comedy Written Directly for the Screenplay</a> </td> <td><a href="/wiki/Raiders_of_the_Lost_Ark" title="Raiders of the Lost Ark">Raiders of the Lost Ark</a> </td> <td style="background: #FFE3E3; color: black; vertical-align: middle; text-align: center;" class="no table-no2 notheme">Nominated </td></tr> <tr> <td><a href="/wiki/36th_Writers_Guild_of_America_Awards" title="36th Writers Guild of America Awards">1984</a> </td> <td><a href="/wiki/The_Big_Chill_(film)" title="The Big Chill (film)">The Big Chill</a> </td> <td style="background: #9EFF9E; color: #000; vertical-align: middle; text-align: center;" class="yes table-yes2 notheme">Won </td></tr> <tr> <td><a href="/wiki/36th_Writers_Guild_of_America_Awards" title="36th Writers Guild of America Awards">1984</a> </td> <td><a href="/wiki/Writers_Guild_of_America_Award_for_Best_Adapted_Screenplay" title="Writers Guild of America Award for Best Adapted Screenplay">Best Screenplay Based on Material from Another Medium</a> </td> <td><a href="/wiki/The_Accidental_Tourist_(film)" title="The Accidental Tourist (film)">The Accidental Tourist</a> </td> <td style="background: #FFE3E3; color: black; vertical-align: middle; text-align: center;" class="no table-no2 notheme">Nominated </td></tr> <tr> <td><a href="/wiki/44th_Writers_Guild_of_America_Awards" title="44th Writers Guild of America Awards">1992</a> </td> <td><a href="/wiki/Writers_Guild_of_America_Award_for_Best_Original_Screenplay" title="Writers Guild of America Award for Best Original Screenplay">Best Screenplay Written Directly for the Screenplay</a> </td> <td><a href="/wiki/Grand_Canyon_(1991_film)" title="Grand Canyon (1991 film)">Grand Canyon</a> </td> <td style="background: #FFE3E3; color: black; vertical-align: middle; text-align: center;" class="no table-no2 notheme">Nominated </td></tr> <tr> <td><a href="/wiki/58th_Writers_Guild_of_America_Awards" title="58th Writers Guild of America Awards">2006</a> </td> <td><a href="/wiki/Laurel_Award_for_Screenwriting_Achievement" title="Laurel Award for Screenwriting Achievement">Laurel Award for Screenwriting Achievement</a> </td> <td>Himself </td> <td style="background: #BFD; color: black; vertical-align: middle; text-align: center;" class="yes table-yes2">Honored </td> <td><a href="#cite_note-67">[67]</a> </td></tr></tbody></table> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Personal_life">Personal life</h2>[<a href="/w/index.php?title=Lawrence_Kasdan&action=edit&section=26" title="Edit section: Personal life">edit</a>]</div> Kasdan has been married to Meg Kasdan (née Mary Ellen Goldman) since November 28, 1971. They met at the University of Michigan, where they were both English majors. Their two sons, <a href="/wiki/Jake_Kasdan" title="Jake Kasdan">Jake Kasdan</a> and <a href="/wiki/Jonathan_Kasdan" title="Jonathan Kasdan">Jonathan Kasdan</a>, are both involved in film as actors, writers, producers, and directors. He has three grandchildren. <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="References">References</h2>[<a href="/w/index.php?title=Lawrence_Kasdan&action=edit&section=27" title="Edit section: References">edit</a>]</div> <style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1239543626">.mw-parser-output .reflist{margin-bottom:0.5em;list-style-type:decimal}@media screen{.mw-parser-output .reflist{font-size:90%}}.mw-parser-output .reflist .references{font-size:100%;margin-bottom:0;list-style-type:inherit}.mw-parser-output .reflist-columns-2{column-width:30em}.mw-parser-output .reflist-columns-3{column-width:25em}.mw-parser-output .reflist-columns{margin-top:0.3em}.mw-parser-output .reflist-columns ol{margin-top:0}.mw-parser-output .reflist-columns li{page-break-inside:avoid;break-inside:avoid-column}.mw-parser-output .reflist-upper-alpha{list-style-type:upper-alpha}.mw-parser-output .reflist-upper-roman{list-style-type:upper-roman}.mw-parser-output .reflist-lower-alpha{list-style-type:lower-alpha}.mw-parser-output .reflist-lower-greek{list-style-type:lower-greek}.mw-parser-output .reflist-lower-roman{list-style-type:lower-roman}</style><div class="reflist"> <div class="mw-references-wrap mw-references-columns"><ol class="references"> <li id="cite_note-TCM-1">^ <a href="#cite_ref-TCM_1-0">a</a> <a href="#cite_ref-TCM_1-1">b</a> <style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1238218222">.mw-parser-output cite.citation{font-style:inherit;word-wrap:break-word}.mw-parser-output .citation q{quotes:"\"""\"""'""'"}.mw-parser-output .citation:target{background-color:rgba(0,127,255,0.133)}.mw-parser-output .id-lock-free.id-lock-free a{background:url("//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/6/65/Lock-green.svg")right 0.1em center/9px no-repeat}.mw-parser-output .id-lock-limited.id-lock-limited a,.mw-parser-output .id-lock-registration.id-lock-registration a{background:url("//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/d/d6/Lock-gray-alt-2.svg")right 0.1em center/9px no-repeat}.mw-parser-output .id-lock-subscription.id-lock-subscription a{background:url("//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/a/aa/Lock-red-alt-2.svg")right 0.1em center/9px no-repeat}.mw-parser-output .cs1-ws-icon a{background:url("//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/4/4c/Wikisource-logo.svg")right 0.1em center/12px no-repeat}body:not(.skin-timeless):not(.skin-minerva) .mw-parser-output .id-lock-free a,body:not(.skin-timeless):not(.skin-minerva) .mw-parser-output .id-lock-limited a,body:not(.skin-timeless):not(.skin-minerva) .mw-parser-output .id-lock-registration a,body:not(.skin-timeless):not(.skin-minerva) .mw-parser-output .id-lock-subscription a,body:not(.skin-timeless):not(.skin-minerva) .mw-parser-output .cs1-ws-icon a{background-size:contain;padding:0 1em 0 0}.mw-parser-output .cs1-code{color:inherit;background:inherit;border:none;padding:inherit}.mw-parser-output .cs1-hidden-error{display:none;color:var(--color-error,#d33)}.mw-parser-output .cs1-visible-error{color:var(--color-error,#d33)}.mw-parser-output .cs1-maint{display:none;color:#085;margin-left:0.3em}.mw-parser-output .cs1-kern-left{padding-left:0.2em}.mw-parser-output .cs1-kern-right{padding-right:0.2em}.mw-parser-output .citation .mw-selflink{font-weight:inherit}@media screen{.mw-parser-output .cs1-format{font-size:95%}html.skin-theme-clientpref-night .mw-parser-output .cs1-maint{color:#18911f}}@media screen and (prefers-color-scheme:dark){html.skin-theme-clientpref-os .mw-parser-output .cs1-maint{color:#18911f}}</style><cite class="citation web cs1"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.tcm.com/tcmdb/person/98881%7C0/Lawrence-Kasdan/#overview">"Lawrence Kasdan"</a>. <a href="/wiki/Turner_Classic_Movies" title="Turner Classic Movies">Turner Classic Movies</a>. <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20190803125010/http://www.tcm.com/tcmdb/person/98881%7C0/Lawrence-Kasdan/">Archived</a> from the original on August 3, 2019. Retrieved February 28, 2021.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook&rft.genre=unknown&rft.btitle=Lawrence+Kasdan&rft.pub=Turner+Classic+Movies&rft_id=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.tcm.com%2Ftcmdb%2Fperson%2F98881%257C0%2FLawrence-Kasdan%2F%23overview&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3ALawrence+Kasdan" class="Z3988"> </li> <li id="cite_note-2"><a href="#cite_ref-2">^</a> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite id="CITEREFPfefferman2012" class="citation news cs1">Pfefferman, Naomi (April 22, 2012). <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.jewishjournal.com/the_ticket/item/about_a_dog_lost_and_found_20120422">"About a dog, lost and found"</a>. <a href="/wiki/The_Jewish_Journal_of_Greater_Los_Angeles" title="The Jewish Journal of Greater Los Angeles">The Jewish Journal of Greater Los Angeles</a>. <q>While Meg grew up in a Jewish community in Detroit, Larry was raised in small towns in West Virginia where he felt "other" as the only Jew in his circle of friends. "People would say "I Jewed him down' or 'kike' but they didn't know the power that had over me," he recalled.</q></cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Ajournal&rft.genre=article&rft.jtitle=The+Jewish+Journal+of+Greater+Los+Angeles&rft.atitle=About+a+dog%2C+lost+and+found&rft.date=2012-04-22&rft.aulast=Pfefferman&rft.aufirst=Naomi&rft_id=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.jewishjournal.com%2Fthe_ticket%2Fitem%2Fabout_a_dog_lost_and_found_20120422&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3ALawrence+Kasdan" class="Z3988"> </li> <li id="cite_note-WaPo1992-3"><a href="#cite_ref-WaPo1992_3-0">^</a> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite id="CITEREFMathews1992" class="citation news cs1">Mathews, Jay (January 12, 1992). <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/archive/lifestyle/style/1992/01/12/lawrence-kasdans-reel-life/3f6b9d0a-02aa-49ef-ba39-e8ff18dbad22/">"Lawrence Kasdan's Reel Life"</a>. <a href="/wiki/The_Washington_Post" title="The Washington Post">The Washington Post</a>. Washington, DC. <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20181002102246/https://www.washingtonpost.com/archive/lifestyle/style/1992/01/12/lawrence-kasdans-reel-life/3f6b9d0a-02aa-49ef-ba39-e8ff18dbad22/">Archived</a> from the original on October 2, 2018. Retrieved February 28, 2021. <q>He wrote 'Silverado' with his brother Mark. 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(1980)</li> <li><a class="mw-selflink selflink">Lawrence Kasdan</a> (1981)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Melissa_Mathison" title="Melissa Mathison">Melissa Mathison</a> (1982)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Ray_Bradbury" title="Ray Bradbury">Ray Bradbury</a> (1983)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/James_Cameron" title="James Cameron">James Cameron</a> and <a href="/wiki/Gale_Anne_Hurd" title="Gale Anne Hurd">Gale Anne Hurd</a> (1984)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Tom_Holland_(filmmaker)" title="Tom Holland (filmmaker)">Tom Holland</a> (1985)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/James_Cameron" title="James Cameron">James Cameron</a> (1986)</li> <li>Michael Miner and <a href="/wiki/Edward_Neumeier" title="Edward Neumeier">Edward Neumeier</a> (1987)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Gary_Ross" title="Gary Ross">Gary Ross</a> and <a href="/wiki/Anne_Spielberg" title="Anne Spielberg">Anne Spielberg</a> (1988)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/William_Peter_Blatty" title="William Peter Blatty">William Peter Blatty</a> (1989/90)</li></ul> 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Hart">James V. Hart</a> (1992)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Michael_Crichton" title="Michael Crichton">Michael Crichton</a> and <a href="/wiki/David_Koepp" title="David Koepp">David Koepp</a> (1993)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Jim_Harrison" title="Jim Harrison">Jim Harrison</a> and <a href="/wiki/Wesley_Strick" title="Wesley Strick">Wesley Strick</a> (1994)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Andrew_Kevin_Walker" title="Andrew Kevin Walker">Andrew Kevin Walker</a> (1995)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Kevin_Williamson_(screenwriter)" title="Kevin Williamson (screenwriter)">Kevin Williamson</a> (1996)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Mike_Werb" title="Mike Werb">Mike Werb</a> and <a href="/wiki/Michael_Colleary" title="Michael Colleary">Michael Colleary</a> (1997)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Andrew_Niccol" title="Andrew Niccol">Andrew Niccol</a> (1998)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Charlie_Kaufman" title="Charlie Kaufman">Charlie Kaufman</a> (1999)</li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="background: #6CC;width:1%">2000s</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-even hlist" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/David_Hayter" title="David Hayter">David Hayter</a> (2000)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Steven_Spielberg" title="Steven Spielberg">Steven Spielberg</a> (2001)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Scott_Frank" title="Scott Frank">Scott Frank</a> and <a href="/wiki/Jon_Cohen_(writer)" title="Jon Cohen (writer)">Jon Cohen</a> (2002)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Fran_Walsh" title="Fran Walsh">Fran Walsh</a>, <a href="/wiki/Philippa_Boyens" title="Philippa Boyens">Philippa Boyens</a>, and <a href="/wiki/Peter_Jackson" title="Peter Jackson">Peter Jackson</a> (2003)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Alvin_Sargent" title="Alvin Sargent">Alvin Sargent</a> (2004)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Christopher_Nolan" title="Christopher Nolan">Christopher Nolan</a> and <a href="/wiki/David_S._Goyer" title="David S. Goyer">David S. Goyer</a> (2005)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Michael_Dougherty" title="Michael Dougherty">Michael Dougherty</a> and <a href="/wiki/Dan_Harris_(screenwriter)" title="Dan Harris (screenwriter)">Dan Harris</a> (2006)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Brad_Bird" title="Brad Bird">Brad Bird</a> (2007)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Christopher_Nolan" title="Christopher Nolan">Christopher</a> and <a href="/wiki/Jonathan_Nolan" title="Jonathan Nolan">Jonathan Nolan</a> (2008)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/James_Cameron" title="James Cameron">James Cameron</a> (2009)</li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="background: #6CC;width:1%">2010s</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd hlist" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Christopher_Nolan" title="Christopher Nolan">Christopher Nolan</a> (2010)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Jeff_Nichols" title="Jeff Nichols">Jeff Nichols</a> (2011)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Quentin_Tarantino" title="Quentin Tarantino">Quentin Tarantino</a> (2012)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Spike_Jonze" title="Spike Jonze">Spike Jonze</a> (2013)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Christopher_Nolan" title="Christopher Nolan">Christopher</a> and <a href="/wiki/Jonathan_Nolan" title="Jonathan Nolan">Jonathan Nolan</a> (2014)</li> <li><a class="mw-selflink selflink">Lawrence Kasdan</a>, <a href="/wiki/J._J._Abrams" title="J. J. Abrams">J. J. Abrams</a>, and <a href="/wiki/Michael_Arndt" title="Michael Arndt">Michael Arndt</a> (2015)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Eric_Heisserer" title="Eric Heisserer">Eric Heisserer</a> (2016)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Rian_Johnson" title="Rian Johnson">Rian Johnson</a> (2017)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Scott_Beck_and_Bryan_Woods" title="Scott Beck and Bryan Woods">Bryan Woods</a>, <a href="/wiki/Scott_Beck_and_Bryan_Woods" title="Scott Beck and Bryan Woods">Scott Beck</a>, and <a href="/wiki/John_Krasinski" title="John Krasinski">John Krasinski</a> (2018/19)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Quentin_Tarantino" title="Quentin Tarantino">Quentin Tarantino</a> (2019/20)</li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="background: #6CC;width:1%">2020s</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-even hlist" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Guillermo_del_Toro" title="Guillermo del Toro">Guillermo del Toro</a> and Kim Morgan (2021/22)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/James_Cameron" title="James Cameron">James Cameron</a>, <a href="/wiki/Rick_Jaffa_and_Amanda_Silver" title="Rick Jaffa and Amanda Silver">Rick Jaffa and Amanda Silver</a> (2022/23)</li></ul> </div></td></tr></tbody></table></div> <div class="navbox-styles"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1129693374"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1236075235"></div><div role="navigation" class="navbox" aria-labelledby="Writers_Guild_of_America_Award_for_Best_Original_Screenplay" style="padding:3px"><table class="nowraplinks hlist mw-collapsible autocollapse navbox-inner" style="border-spacing:0;background:transparent;color:inherit"><tbody><tr><th scope="col" class="navbox-title" colspan="2" style="background: #ABCDEF"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1129693374"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1239400231"><div class="navbar plainlinks hlist navbar-mini"><ul><li class="nv-view"><a href="/wiki/Template:Writers_Guild_of_America_Award_for_Best_Original_Screenplay" title="Template:Writers Guild of America Award for Best Original Screenplay"><abbr title="View this template">v</abbr></a></li><li class="nv-talk"><a href="/wiki/Template_talk:Writers_Guild_of_America_Award_for_Best_Original_Screenplay" title="Template talk:Writers Guild of America Award for Best Original Screenplay"><abbr title="Discuss this template">t</abbr></a></li><li class="nv-edit"><a href="/wiki/Special:EditPage/Template:Writers_Guild_of_America_Award_for_Best_Original_Screenplay" title="Special:EditPage/Template:Writers Guild of America Award for Best Original Screenplay"><abbr title="Edit this template">e</abbr></a></li></ul></div><div id="Writers_Guild_of_America_Award_for_Best_Original_Screenplay" style="font-size:114%;margin:0 4em"><a href="/wiki/Writers_Guild_of_America_Award_for_Best_Original_Screenplay" title="Writers Guild of America Award for Best Original Screenplay">Writers Guild of America Award for Best Original Screenplay</a></div></th></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="background: #ABCDEF;width:1%">Original Drama (1969–1983)</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/William_Goldman" title="William Goldman">William Goldman</a> (1969)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Francis_Ford_Coppola" title="Francis Ford Coppola">Francis Ford Coppola</a> & <a href="/wiki/Edmund_H._North" title="Edmund H. North">Edmund H. North</a> (1970)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Penelope_Gilliatt" title="Penelope Gilliatt">Penelope Gilliatt</a> (1971)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Jeremy_Larner" title="Jeremy Larner">Jeremy Larner</a> (1972)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Steve_Shagan" title="Steve Shagan">Steve Shagan</a> (1973)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Robert_Towne" title="Robert Towne">Robert Towne</a> (1974)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Frank_Pierson" title="Frank Pierson">Frank Pierson</a> (1975)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Paddy_Chayefsky" title="Paddy Chayefsky">Paddy Chayefsky</a> (1976)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Arthur_Laurents" title="Arthur Laurents">Arthur Laurents</a> (1977)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Nancy_Dowd" title="Nancy Dowd">Nancy Dowd</a>, <a href="/wiki/Robert_C._Jones" title="Robert C. Jones">Robert C. Jones</a> & <a href="/wiki/Waldo_Salt" title="Waldo Salt">Waldo Salt</a> (1978)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Mike_Gray" title="Mike Gray">Mike Gray</a>, <a href="/wiki/T._S._Cook" title="T. S. Cook">T. S. Cook</a> & <a href="/wiki/James_Bridges" title="James Bridges">James Bridges</a> (1979)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Bo_Goldman" title="Bo Goldman">Bo Goldman</a> (1980)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Warren_Beatty" title="Warren Beatty">Warren Beatty</a> & <a href="/wiki/Trevor_Griffiths" title="Trevor Griffiths">Trevor Griffiths</a> (1981)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Melissa_Mathison" title="Melissa Mathison">Melissa Mathison</a> (1982)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Horton_Foote" title="Horton Foote">Horton Foote</a> (1983)</li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="background: #ABCDEF;width:1%">Original Comedy (1969–1983)</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-even" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Paul_Mazursky" title="Paul Mazursky">Paul Mazursky</a> & <a href="/wiki/Larry_Tucker_(screenwriter)" title="Larry Tucker (screenwriter)">Larry Tucker</a> (1969)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Neil_Simon" title="Neil Simon">Neil Simon</a> (1970)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Paddy_Chayefsky" title="Paddy Chayefsky">Paddy Chayefsky</a> (1971)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Peter_Bogdanovich" title="Peter Bogdanovich">Peter Bogdanovich</a>, <a href="/wiki/Buck_Henry" title="Buck Henry">Buck Henry</a>, <a href="/wiki/David_Newman_(screenwriter)" title="David Newman (screenwriter)">David Newman</a> & <a href="/wiki/Robert_Benton" title="Robert Benton">Robert Benton</a> (1972)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Melvin_Frank" title="Melvin Frank">Melvin Frank</a> & <a href="/wiki/Jack_Rose_(screenwriter)" title="Jack Rose (screenwriter)">Jack Rose</a> (1973)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Mel_Brooks" title="Mel Brooks">Mel Brooks</a>, <a href="/wiki/Norman_Steinberg" title="Norman Steinberg">Norman Steinberg</a>, <a href="/wiki/Andrew_Bergman" title="Andrew Bergman">Andrew Bergman</a>, <a href="/wiki/Richard_Pryor" title="Richard Pryor">Richard Pryor</a> & <a href="/wiki/Alan_Uger" title="Alan Uger">Alan Uger</a> (1974)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Robert_Towne" title="Robert Towne">Robert Towne</a> & <a href="/wiki/Warren_Beatty" title="Warren Beatty">Warren Beatty</a> (1975)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Bill_Lancaster" title="Bill Lancaster">Bill Lancaster</a> (1976)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Woody_Allen" title="Woody Allen">Woody Allen</a> & <a href="/wiki/Marshall_Brickman" title="Marshall Brickman">Marshall Brickman</a> (1977)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Larry_Gelbart" title="Larry Gelbart">Larry Gelbart</a> & <a href="/wiki/Sheldon_Keller" title="Sheldon Keller">Sheldon Keller</a> (1978)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Steve_Tesich" title="Steve Tesich">Steve Tesich</a> (1979)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Nancy_Meyers" title="Nancy Meyers">Nancy Meyers</a>, <a href="/wiki/Harvey_Miller_(screenwriter)" title="Harvey Miller (screenwriter)">Harvey Miller</a> & <a href="/wiki/Charles_Shyer" title="Charles Shyer">Charles Shyer</a> (1980)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Steve_Gordon_(director)" title="Steve Gordon (director)">Steve Gordon</a> (1981)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Don_McGuire_(actor)" title="Don McGuire (actor)">Don McGuire</a>, <a href="/wiki/Larry_Gelbart" title="Larry Gelbart">Larry Gelbart</a> & <a href="/wiki/Murray_Schisgal" title="Murray Schisgal">Murray Schisgal</a> (1982)</li> <li><a class="mw-selflink selflink">Lawrence Kasdan</a> & <a href="/wiki/Barbara_Benedek" title="Barbara Benedek">Barbara Benedek</a> (1983)</li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="background: #ABCDEF;width:1%">Original Screenplay (1984–present)</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Woody_Allen" title="Woody Allen">Woody Allen</a> (1984)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/William_Kelley_(screenwriter)" title="William Kelley (screenwriter)">William Kelley</a> & <a href="/wiki/Earl_W._Wallace" title="Earl W. Wallace">Earl W. Wallace</a> (1985)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Woody_Allen" title="Woody Allen">Woody Allen</a> (1986)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/John_Patrick_Shanley" title="John Patrick Shanley">John Patrick Shanley</a> (1987)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Ron_Shelton" title="Ron Shelton">Ron Shelton</a> (1988)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Woody_Allen" title="Woody Allen">Woody Allen</a> (1989)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Barry_Levinson" title="Barry Levinson">Barry Levinson</a> (1990)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Callie_Khouri" title="Callie Khouri">Callie Khouri</a> (1991)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Neil_Jordan" title="Neil Jordan">Neil Jordan</a> (1992)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Jane_Campion" title="Jane Campion">Jane Campion</a> (1993)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Richard_Curtis" title="Richard Curtis">Richard Curtis</a> (1994)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Randall_Wallace" title="Randall Wallace">Randall Wallace</a> (1995)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Coen_brothers" title="Coen brothers">Joel Coen & Ethan Coen</a> (1996)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/James_L._Brooks" title="James L. Brooks">James L. Brooks</a> & <a href="/wiki/Mark_Andrus" title="Mark Andrus">Mark Andrus</a> (1997)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Marc_Norman" title="Marc Norman">Marc Norman</a> & <a href="/wiki/Tom_Stoppard" title="Tom Stoppard">Tom Stoppard</a> (1998)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Alan_Ball_(screenwriter)" title="Alan Ball (screenwriter)">Alan Ball</a> (1999)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Kenneth_Lonergan" title="Kenneth Lonergan">Kenneth Lonergan</a> (2000)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Julian_Fellowes" title="Julian Fellowes">Julian Fellowes</a> (2001)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Michael_Moore" title="Michael Moore">Michael Moore</a> (2002)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Sofia_Coppola" title="Sofia Coppola">Sofia Coppola</a> (2003)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Pierre_Bismuth" title="Pierre Bismuth">Pierre Bismuth</a>, <a href="/wiki/Michel_Gondry" title="Michel Gondry">Michel Gondry</a>, & <a href="/wiki/Charlie_Kaufman" title="Charlie Kaufman">Charlie Kaufman</a> (2004)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Paul_Haggis" title="Paul Haggis">Paul Haggis</a> & <a href="/wiki/Robert_Moresco" title="Robert Moresco">Bobby Moresco</a> (2005)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Michael_Arndt" title="Michael Arndt">Michael Arndt</a> (2006)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Diablo_Cody" title="Diablo Cody">Diablo Cody</a> (2007)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Dustin_Lance_Black" title="Dustin Lance Black">Dustin Lance Black</a> (2008)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Mark_Boal" title="Mark Boal">Mark Boal</a> (2009)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Christopher_Nolan" title="Christopher Nolan">Christopher Nolan</a> (2010)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Woody_Allen" title="Woody Allen">Woody Allen</a> (2011)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Mark_Boal" title="Mark Boal">Mark Boal</a> (2012)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Spike_Jonze" title="Spike Jonze">Spike Jonze</a> (2013)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Wes_Anderson" title="Wes Anderson">Wes Anderson</a> & <a href="/wiki/Hugo_Guinness" title="Hugo Guinness">Hugo Guinness</a> (2014)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Tom_McCarthy_(director)" title="Tom McCarthy (director)">Tom McCarthy</a> & <a href="/wiki/Josh_Singer" title="Josh Singer">Josh Singer</a> (2015)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Barry_Jenkins" title="Barry Jenkins">Barry Jenkins</a> & <a href="/wiki/Tarell_Alvin_McCraney" title="Tarell Alvin McCraney">Tarell Alvin McCraney</a> (2016)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Jordan_Peele" title="Jordan Peele">Jordan Peele</a> (2017)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Bo_Burnham" title="Bo Burnham">Bo Burnham</a> (2018)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Bong_Joon-ho" title="Bong Joon-ho">Bong Joon-ho</a> & <a href="/wiki/Han_Jin-won" title="Han Jin-won">Han Jin-won</a> (2019)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Emerald_Fennell" title="Emerald Fennell">Emerald Fennell</a> (2020)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Adam_McKay" title="Adam McKay">Adam McKay</a> & <a href="/wiki/David_Sirota" title="David Sirota">David Sirota</a> (2021)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Daniels_(directors)" title="Daniels (directors)">Daniel Kwan and Daniel Scheinert</a> (2022)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/David_Hemingson" 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<li><a href="/wiki/Armyan_Bernstein" title="Armyan Bernstein">Armyan Bernstein</a>, <a href="/wiki/Dan_Gordon_(screenwriter)" title="Dan Gordon (screenwriter)">Dan Gordon</a>, <a href="/wiki/Rubin_Carter" title="Rubin Carter">Rubin Carter</a>, Sam Chaiton, and Terry Swinton (1999)</li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="background: #EEDD82;width:1%">2000s</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Steve_Kloves" title="Steve Kloves">Steve Kloves</a> and <a href="/wiki/Michael_Chabon" title="Michael Chabon">Michael Chabon</a> (2000)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Akiva_Goldsman" title="Akiva Goldsman">Akiva Goldsman</a> and <a href="/wiki/Sylvia_Nasar" title="Sylvia Nasar">Sylvia Nasar</a> (2001)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/David_Hare_(playwright)" title="David Hare (playwright)">David Hare</a> and <a href="/wiki/Michael_Cunningham" title="Michael Cunningham">Michael Cunningham</a> (2002)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Brian_Helgeland" title="Brian Helgeland">Brian Helgeland</a> and <a href="/wiki/Dennis_Lehane" title="Dennis Lehane">Dennis Lehane</a> / <a href="/wiki/Gary_Ross" title="Gary Ross">Gary Ross</a> and <a href="/wiki/Laura_Hillenbrand" title="Laura Hillenbrand">Laura Hillenbrand</a> (2003)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Paul_Haggis" title="Paul Haggis">Paul Haggis</a> and <a href="/wiki/F.X._Toole" title="F.X. Toole">F.X. Toole</a> (2004)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Dan_Futterman" title="Dan Futterman">Dan Futterman</a> and <a href="/wiki/Gerald_Clarke_(author)" title="Gerald Clarke (author)">Gerald Clarke</a> (2005)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/David_Arata" title="David Arata">David Arata</a>, <a href="/wiki/Alfonso_Cuar%C3%B3n" title="Alfonso Cuarón">Alfonso Cuarón</a>, <a href="/wiki/Mark_Fergus_and_Hawk_Ostby" title="Mark Fergus and Hawk Ostby">Mark Fergus, Hawk Ostby</a>, Timothy J. Sexton, and <a href="/wiki/P._D._James" title="P. D. James">P. D. James</a> (2006)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Coen_brothers" title="Coen brothers">Joel Coen, Ethan Coen</a>, and <a href="/wiki/Cormac_McCarthy" title="Cormac McCarthy">Cormac McCarthy</a> (2007)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Simon_Beaufoy" title="Simon Beaufoy">Simon Beaufoy</a> and <a href="/wiki/Vikas_Swarup" title="Vikas Swarup">Vikas Swarup</a> (2008)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Jason_Reitman" title="Jason Reitman">Jason Reitman</a>, <a href="/wiki/Sheldon_Turner" title="Sheldon Turner">Sheldon Turner</a>, and <a href="/wiki/Walter_Kirn" title="Walter Kirn">Walter Kirn</a> (2009)</li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="background: #EEDD82;width:1%">2010s</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-even" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Aaron_Sorkin" title="Aaron Sorkin">Aaron Sorkin</a> and <a href="/wiki/Ben_Mezrich" title="Ben Mezrich">Ben Mezrich</a> (2010)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Alexander_Payne" title="Alexander Payne">Alexander Payne</a>, <a href="/wiki/Jim_Rash" title="Jim Rash">Jim Rash</a>, <a href="/wiki/Nat_Faxon" title="Nat Faxon">Nat Faxon</a>, and <a href="/wiki/Kaui_Hart_Hemmings" title="Kaui Hart Hemmings">Kaui Hart Hemmings</a> (2011)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Chris_Terrio" title="Chris Terrio">Chris Terrio</a>, <a href="/wiki/Tony_Mendez" title="Tony Mendez">Antonio J. Mendez</a>, and <a href="/wiki/Joshuah_Bearman" title="Joshuah Bearman">Joshuah Bearman</a> (2012)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/John_Ridley" title="John Ridley">John Ridley</a> and <a href="/wiki/Solomon_Northup" title="Solomon Northup">Solomon Northup</a> (2013)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Graham_Moore_(writer)" title="Graham Moore (writer)">Graham Moore</a> and <a href="/wiki/Andrew_Hodges" title="Andrew Hodges">Andrew Hodges</a> (2014)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Adam_McKay" title="Adam McKay">Adam McKay</a>, <a href="/wiki/Charles_Randolph" title="Charles Randolph">Charles Randolph</a>, and <a href="/wiki/Michael_Lewis" title="Michael Lewis">Michael Lewis</a> (2015)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Barry_Jenkins" title="Barry Jenkins">Barry Jenkins</a> and <a href="/wiki/Tarell_Alvin_McCraney" title="Tarell Alvin McCraney">Tarell Alvin McCraney</a> (2016)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/James_Ivory" title="James Ivory">James Ivory</a> and <a href="/wiki/Andr%C3%A9_Aciman" title="André Aciman">André Aciman</a> (2017)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Debra_Granik" title="Debra Granik">Debra Granik</a>, <a href="/wiki/Anne_Rosellini" title="Anne Rosellini">Anne Rosellini</a>, and <a href="/wiki/Peter_Rock_(novelist)" title="Peter Rock (novelist)">Peter Rock</a> (2018)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Greta_Gerwig" title="Greta Gerwig">Greta Gerwig</a> and <a href="/wiki/Louisa_May_Alcott" title="Louisa May Alcott">Louisa May Alcott</a> (2019)</li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="background: #EEDD82;width:1%">2020s</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Chlo%C3%A9_Zhao" title="Chloé Zhao">Chloé Zhao</a> and <a href="/wiki/Jessica_Bruder" title="Jessica Bruder">Jessica Bruder</a> (2020)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Maggie_Gyllenhaal" title="Maggie Gyllenhaal">Maggie Gyllenhaal</a> and <a href="/wiki/Elena_Ferrante" title="Elena Ferrante">Elena Ferrante</a> (2021)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Sarah_Polley" title="Sarah Polley">Sarah Polley</a> and <a href="/wiki/Miriam_Toews" title="Miriam Toews">Miriam Toews</a> (2022)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Cord_Jefferson" title="Cord Jefferson">Cord Jefferson</a> and <a href="/wiki/Percival_Everett" title="Percival Everett">Percival Everett</a> (2023)</li></ul> </div></td></tr></tbody></table></div> <div class="navbox-styles"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1129693374"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1236075235"></div><div role="navigation" class="navbox" aria-labelledby="Laurel_Award_for_Screenwriting_Achievement" style="padding:3px"><table class="nowraplinks hlist mw-collapsible autocollapse navbox-inner" style="border-spacing:0;background:transparent;color:inherit"><tbody><tr><th scope="col" class="navbox-title" colspan="2" style="background: #ABCDEF"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1129693374"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1239400231"><div class="navbar plainlinks hlist navbar-mini"><ul><li class="nv-view"><a href="/wiki/Template:Laurel_Award_for_Screenwriting_Achievement" title="Template:Laurel Award for Screenwriting Achievement"><abbr title="View this template">v</abbr></a></li><li class="nv-talk"><a href="/wiki/Template_talk:Laurel_Award_for_Screenwriting_Achievement" title="Template talk:Laurel Award for Screenwriting Achievement"><abbr title="Discuss this template">t</abbr></a></li><li class="nv-edit"><a href="/wiki/Special:EditPage/Template:Laurel_Award_for_Screenwriting_Achievement" title="Special:EditPage/Template:Laurel Award for Screenwriting Achievement"><abbr title="Edit this template">e</abbr></a></li></ul></div><div id="Laurel_Award_for_Screenwriting_Achievement" style="font-size:114%;margin:0 4em"><a href="/wiki/Laurel_Award_for_Screenwriting_Achievement" title="Laurel Award for Screenwriting Achievement">Laurel Award for Screenwriting Achievement</a></div></th></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="background: #ABCDEF;width:1%">1950s</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Sonya_Levien" title="Sonya Levien">Sonya Levien</a> (1953)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Dudley_Nichols" title="Dudley Nichols">Dudley Nichols</a> (1954)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Robert_Riskin" title="Robert Riskin">Robert Riskin</a> (1955)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Julius_J._Epstein" title="Julius J. Epstein">Julius Epstein</a> & <a href="/wiki/Philip_G._Epstein" title="Philip G. Epstein">Philip Epstein</a> and <a href="/wiki/Albert_Hackett" title="Albert Hackett">Albert Hackett</a> & <a href="/wiki/Frances_Goodrich" title="Frances Goodrich">Frances Goodrich</a> (1956)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Charles_Brackett" title="Charles Brackett">Charles Brackett</a> & <a href="/wiki/Billy_Wilder" title="Billy Wilder">Billy Wilder</a> (1957)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/John_Lee_Mahin" title="John Lee Mahin">John Lee Mahin</a> (1958)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Nunnally_Johnson" title="Nunnally Johnson">Nunnally Johnson</a> (1959)</li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="background: #ABCDEF;width:1%">1960s</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-even" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Norman_Krasna" title="Norman Krasna">Norman Krasna</a> (1960)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/George_Seaton" title="George Seaton">George Seaton</a> (1961)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Philip_Dunne_(writer)" title="Philip Dunne (writer)">Philip Dunne</a> (1962)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Joseph_L._Mankiewicz" title="Joseph L. Mankiewicz">Joseph L. Mankiewicz</a> (1963)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/John_Huston" title="John Huston">John Huston</a> (1964)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Sidney_Buchman" title="Sidney Buchman">Sidney Buchman</a> (1965)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Isobel_Lennart" title="Isobel Lennart">Isobel Lennart</a> (1966)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Richard_Brooks" title="Richard Brooks">Richard Brooks</a> (1967)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Casey_Robinson" title="Casey Robinson">Casey Robinson</a> (1968)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Carl_Foreman" title="Carl Foreman">Carl Foreman</a> (1969)</li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="background: #ABCDEF;width:1%">1970s</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Dalton_Trumbo" title="Dalton Trumbo">Dalton Trumbo</a> (1970)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/James_Poe" title="James Poe">James Poe</a> (1971)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Ernest_Lehman" title="Ernest Lehman">Ernest Lehman</a> (1972)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/William_Rose_(screenwriter)" title="William Rose (screenwriter)">William Rose</a> (1973)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Paddy_Chayefsky" title="Paddy Chayefsky">Paddy Chayefsky</a> (1974)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Preston_Sturges" title="Preston Sturges">Preston Sturges</a> (1975)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Michael_Wilson_(writer)" title="Michael Wilson (writer)">Michael Wilson</a> (1976)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Samson_Raphaelson" title="Samson Raphaelson">Samson Raphaelson</a> (1977)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Edward_Anhalt" title="Edward Anhalt">Edward Anhalt</a> (1978)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Neil_Simon" title="Neil Simon">Neil Simon</a> (1979)</li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="background: #ABCDEF;width:1%">1980s</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-even" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Billy_Wilder" title="Billy Wilder">Billy Wilder</a> & <a href="/wiki/I._A._L._Diamond" title="I. A. L. Diamond">I. A. L. Diamond</a> (1980)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Ben_Hecht" title="Ben Hecht">Ben Hecht</a> (1981)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Paul_Osborn" title="Paul Osborn">Paul Osborn</a> (1982)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Lamar_Trotti" title="Lamar Trotti">Lamar Trotti</a> (1983)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Melville_Shavelson" title="Melville Shavelson">Melville Shavelson</a>, <a href="/wiki/Jack_Rose_(screenwriter)" title="Jack Rose (screenwriter)">Jack Rose</a>, <a href="/wiki/Norman_Panama" title="Norman Panama">Norman Panama</a>, and <a href="/wiki/Melvin_Frank" title="Melvin Frank">Melvin Frank</a> (1984)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/William_Goldman" title="William Goldman">William Goldman</a> (1985)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Waldo_Salt" title="Waldo Salt">Waldo Salt</a> (1986)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Woody_Allen" title="Woody Allen">Woody Allen</a> (1987)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Irving_Ravetch" title="Irving Ravetch">Irving Ravetch</a> & <a href="/wiki/Harriet_Frank_Jr." title="Harriet Frank Jr.">Harriet Frank Jr.</a> (1988)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Ring_Lardner_Jr." title="Ring Lardner Jr.">Ring Lardner Jr.</a> (1989)</li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="background: #ABCDEF;width:1%">1990s</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Donald_Ogden_Stewart" title="Donald Ogden Stewart">Donald Ogden Stewart</a> (1990)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Alvin_Sargent" title="Alvin Sargent">Alvin Sargent</a> (1991)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Frank_Pierson" title="Frank Pierson">Frank Pierson</a> (1992)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Horton_Foote" title="Horton Foote">Horton Foote</a> (1993)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Ruth_Prawer_Jhabvala" title="Ruth Prawer Jhabvala">Ruth Prawer Jhabvala</a> (1994)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Charles_Bennett_(screenwriter)" title="Charles Bennett (screenwriter)">Charles Bennett</a> (1995)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Daniel_Taradash" title="Daniel Taradash">Daniel Taradash</a> (1996)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Robert_Towne" title="Robert Towne">Robert Towne</a> (1997)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Bo_Goldman" title="Bo Goldman">Bo Goldman</a> (1998)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Paul_Schrader" title="Paul Schrader">Paul Schrader</a> (1999)</li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="background: #ABCDEF;width:1%">2000s</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-even" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Jean-Claude_Carri%C3%A8re" title="Jean-Claude Carrière">Jean-Claude Carrière</a> (2000)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Betty_Comden" title="Betty Comden">Betty Comden</a> and <a href="/wiki/Adolph_Green" title="Adolph Green">Adolph Green</a> (2001)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Blake_Edwards" title="Blake Edwards">Blake Edwards</a> (2002)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Mel_Brooks" title="Mel Brooks">Mel Brooks</a> (2003)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/John_Michael_Hayes" title="John Michael Hayes">John Michael Hayes</a> (2004)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/David_Mamet" title="David Mamet">David Mamet</a> (2005)</li> <li><a class="mw-selflink selflink">Lawrence Kasdan</a> (2006)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Robert_Benton" title="Robert Benton">Robert Benton</a> (2007)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Budd_Schulberg" title="Budd Schulberg">Budd Schulberg</a> (2008)</li> <li>No award (2009)</li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="background: #ABCDEF;width:1%">2010s</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Barry_Levinson" title="Barry Levinson">Barry Levinson</a> (2010)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Steven_Zaillian" title="Steven Zaillian">Steven Zaillian</a> (2011)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Eric_Roth" title="Eric Roth">Eric Roth</a> (2012)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Tom_Stoppard" title="Tom Stoppard">Tom Stoppard</a> (2013)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Paul_Mazursky" title="Paul Mazursky">Paul Mazursky</a> (2014)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Harold_Ramis" title="Harold Ramis">Harold Ramis</a> (2015)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Elaine_May" title="Elaine May">Elaine May</a> (2016)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Oliver_Stone" title="Oliver Stone">Oliver Stone</a> (2017)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/James_L._Brooks" title="James L. 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Brooks</a> (2018)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Lowell_Ganz" title="Lowell Ganz">Lowell Ganz</a> and <a href="/wiki/Babaloo_Mandel" title="Babaloo Mandel">Babaloo Mandel</a> (2019)</li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="background: #ABCDEF;width:1%">2020s</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-even" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Nancy_Meyers" title="Nancy Meyers">Nancy Meyers</a> (2020)</li> <li>No award (2021)</li> <li>No award (2022)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Charlie_Kaufman" title="Charlie Kaufman">Charlie Kaufman</a> (2023)</li></ul> </div></td></tr></tbody></table></div> <div class="navbox-styles"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1129693374"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1236075235"></div><div role="navigation" class="navbox authority-control" 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