Scott Frank
A. Scott Frank is an American screenwriter, film director, and author. He has earned two Academy Awards for Best Adapted Screenplay nominations for Out of Sight and Logan.
Early life and education
Frank was born to a Jewish family in Fort Walton Beach, Florida on March 10, 1960. He attended the University of California, Santa Barbara, graduating in 1982 with a Bachelor of Arts in film studies. Frank earned a Master of Arts degree in Screenwriting from the AFI Conservatory in 1984.Career
In 2008, Scott Frank's directorial debut, The Lookout, won the Independent Spirit award for Best First Feature.Along with The Lookout, Frank's also penned Little Man Tate, Dead Again, Malice, Heaven's Prisoners, Get Shorty, Out of Sight, Minority Report, The Interpreter, Marley & Me, The Wolverine, A Walk Among the Tombstones and Logan.
Out of Sight, nominated for an Academy Award for Best Adapted Screenplay, won the Writers Guild of America Award for Best Adapted Screenplay, the Edgar Award from the Mystery Writers of America, and as Best Screenplay awards from the National Society of Film Critics and the Boston Society of Film Critics.
Minority Report won the Saturn Award for Best Science Fiction Screenplay. Get Shorty was nominated for both a Golden Globe and a Writers Guild of America Award for Best Adapted Screenplay and, as was Dead Again, was nominated for an Edgar Award for Best Mystery Screenplay.
In January 2016, Frank published his first novel, Shaker, a crime mystery published by Penguin Random House.
Writing work
| Year | Series | Notes |
| 1988 | The Wonder Years | Episode: "The Phone Call" |
| 1993 | Fallen Angels | Episode: "Dead End for Delia" |
| 2004 | Karen Sisco | Episode: "He Was a Friend of Mine" |
| 2011 | Shameless | Also director, episode: "It's Time to Kill the Turtle" |
| 2017 | Godless | Also creator, executive producer, and director |
| TBA | The Queen's Gambit | Also co-creator, executive producer, and director |