John Patrick Shanley
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| Debut works | Welcome to the Moon (1982) Women of Manhattan (1986) |
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| Magnum opus | Doubt: A Parable (2004) | ||||||||||
| Awards | Academy Award (1988), Pulitzer Prize for Drama (2005), Tony Award (2005) | ||||||||||
John Patrick Shanley (born 3 October 1950) is an American playwright. It is rumored that he insists in his contract that not a single word can be changed in the screenplays that he writes, but Shanley has denied that this rumor is true.[1]
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[edit] Biography
Shanley was born in The Bronx, New York City, to a telephone operator mother and a meat-packer father.[2] He is a graduate of New York University.
For his script for the 1987 film, Moonstruck, Shanley won the Academy Award for Best Original Screenplay and the Writers Guild of America Award for Best Screenplay Written Directly for the Screen.
In 1990, Shanley directed his script of Joe Versus the Volcano. Shanley also wrote two songs for the movie: "Marooned Without You" and "The Cowboy Song."
In 2004 Shanley was inducted into the Bronx Walk of Fame.
In 2005, Shanley's play Doubt: A Parable was awarded the Pulitzer Prize for Drama and the Drama Desk Award and Tony Award for Best Play. Doubt: A Parable, is featured in The Fourth Wall, a book of photographs by Amy Arbus in which Shanley also wrote the foreword.
In 2008, Shanley directed a film version of Doubt starring Meryl Streep, Philip Seymour Hoffman and Amy Adams.
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[edit] Filmography
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[edit] Awards and nominations
- Awards
- 1988 Academy Award for Best Screenplay – Moonstruck
- 2005 Drama Desk Award for Outstanding New Play – Doubt: A Parable
- 2005 Pulitzer Prize for Drama – Doubt: A Parable
- 2005 Tony Award for Best Play – Doubt: A Parable
- 2005 Lucille Lortel Award for Outstanding Play – Doubt: A Parable
- 2005 Drama Critics' Circle Award – Doubt: A Parable
- 2005 Obie Award for Playwriting – Doubt: A Parable
- Nominations
- 2003 Emmy Award for Outstanding Writing for a Miniseries, or Dramatic Special – Live from Baghdad
- 2005 Drama Desk Award Outstanding New Play – Sailor's Song
- 2008 Golden Globe for Best Screenplay – Doubt
- 2008 Academy Award for Best Adapted Screenplay – Doubt
- 2008 Critics' Choice Award for Writer – Doubt
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[edit] External links
- John Patrick Shanley at the Internet Broadway Database
- John Patrick Shanley at the Internet Movie Database
- John Patrick Shanley at the Internet off-Broadway Database
- MovieMaker
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