Jay Cocks
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| Jay Cocks | |
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| Born | January 12, 1944 |
Jay Cocks (born January 12, 1944) is a film critic and motion picture screenwriter.[1][2]
He is a graduate of Kenyon College.[3] He was a critic for Time, Newsweek, and Rolling Stone, among other magazines, before moving into film writing.
As a screenwriter, he worked on Martin Scorsese's The Age of Innocence[4] and Gangs of New York[5] -- a screenplay he started working on in 1976 -- as well as Kathryn Bigelow's Strange Days.[6] Cocks also performed an uncredited rewrite of James Cameron's screenplay for Titanic.[7]
[edit] Award Nominations
- Academy Award: Best Adapted Screenplay, The Age of Innocence (1993)
- Academy Award: Best Original Screenplay, Gangs of New York (2002)
- BAFTA Award: Best Original Screenplay, Gangs of New York (2002)
[edit] References
- ^ http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0168379/
- ^ http://search.time.com/results.html?N=0&Nty=1&p=0&cmd=tags&srchCat=Full+Archive&Ntt=Jay+Cocks&x=0&y=0
- ^ http://www.kenyon.edu/x1135.xml
- ^ http://www.nytimes.com/1993/09/17/movies/review-film-the-age-of-innocence-grand-passions-and-good-manners.html?scp=3&sq=Jay%20Cocks&st=cse
- ^ http://movies.nytimes.com/movie/review?res=9e06e4d8103df933a15751c1a9649c8b63&scp=3&sq=Gangsof%20New%20York&st=cse
- ^ http://movies.nytimes.com/person/282184/Jay-Cocks/filmography
- ^ http://nndb.com/people/172/000070959/
[edit] External links
- Jay Cocks at the Internet Movie Database
