Margaret Nagle
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| Margaret Nagle | |
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| Occupation | screenwriter, television producer |
| Notable award(s) | Writers Guild of America Award for Boardwalk Empire 2011 and Writers Guild of America Award Long Form Original Screenplay 2006 Warm Springs and nominated for the 2012 Writers Guild of America Award for Best Drama Series for Boardwalk Empire |
Margaret Nagle is a screenwriter and television producer who has been nominated for two Emmy Awards and four Writers Guild Awards. She's won two Writer's Guild of America Awards. Her very first script HBO's "Warm Springs" won the 2005 Emmy Award for Best Television Movie. It also won Nagle the 2006 Writers Guild of America Award for Long Form Original Screenplay. She was also nominated for the 2005 Emmy Award for the same film, which was nominated for Best Writing of a TV Movie for a total of a record-breaking 16 Emmy Awards nominations. The film won 5 Emmys. It starred Cynthia Nixon, Kenneth Branagh, Kathy Bates, David Paymer, Felicia Day and Tim Blake Nelson.
Nagle is currently exec producing a pilot for HBO to star Viola Davis. She has also written a sequel to Warm Springs for HBO based on Jonathan Alter's book The Defining Moment. It will focus on the Roosevelts marriage during FDR's first run for the presidency at the height of the Depression.[citation needed]
Nagle has been chosen by Ron Howard and Brian Grazer to be a member of the very first Imagine/Relliance Writers Lab. An enterprising venture that pools together 9 screenwriters to develop scripts for one year for Universal and Imagine.
Nagle also wrote two episodes for Season One of HBO's Boardwalk Empire. Nagle wrote the scripts "Broadway Limited"[1] and "Anastasia" for the new HBO 2010 series Boardwalk Empire created by Terence Winter and directed by Martin Scorsese. She was a supervising producer on season one of Boardwalk Empire and season two.
Nagle is currently the 2008-12 Governor of Writers of the Academy of Television Arts and Sciences.
Nagle created the one season Lifetime show Side Order of Life in 2007 which was the second highest rated one hour show on Lifetime. It received positive reviews from Variety and The Hollywood Reporter but was a victim of the writer's strike and Lifetime's poor management decisions.
The Eastmans, a medical show centered around a complicated family of doctors, is a CBS 2009 television pilot starring Donald Sutherland, Jesse Bradford, Saffron Burrows, Gaby Hoffman and David Wilson Barnes.
Nagle is named for her great aunt the modern dance pioneer MARGARET NEWELL H'DOUBLER, the famed Modern Dance professor who created the first dance major in academia at University of Wisconsin. H'Doubler also coined the phrase "Modern Dance." Her brother CHARLES NAGLE is an outsider artist of some reknown. He has Cerebral Palsy. His sculptures and paintings have been featured in shows across the United States. He has been profiled on the ABC Evening News.
[edit] Awards/Nominations
- Won Writers Guild of America Award for Best New Show 2011 for Boardwalk Empire.
- Won the Television Academy Honors 2007 award for One hour Series writing/producing for "Side Order of Life"along with Dick Wolf for "Law and Order" and David Kelley for "Boston Legal."
- Won the Writers Guild Award for Best Original Television Movie 2006 for Warm Springs.
- Nominated for the Emmy Award for Best One Hour Series for Television 2011 for BOARDWALK EMPIRE.
- Nominated for the Emmy Award for Best Writing of a Television Movie 2005 for Warm Springs.
- Nominated for the WGA Award 2011 Best New Series and Best Series Boardwalk Empire.
- Nominated for the WGA Award 2012 Best Series Boardwalk Empire.
- Nominated for the Humanitas Award in 2006 for Warm Springs.
- Nominated for the Pen Award 2006 for Best TV movie for Warm Springs.
