Curated playlist
Best Screenplay Golden Globe winners
- Matt DamonMatt Damon once turned down 10 percent of the profits from Avatar, a film that went on to become the most successful of all time. Director James Cameron made the offer while Damon was still working on the Bourne films, and Damon did not…
- Woody AllenWoody Allen failed a film production course at New York University, then went on to direct Annie Hall.
- Quentin TarantinoQuentin Tarantino turned down Speed and Men in Black to write Pulp Fiction in Amsterdam.
- Emma ThompsonEmma Thompson is the only person to win Oscars for both acting and screenwriting.
- Paul Thomas AndersonPaul Thomas Anderson, the American filmmaker known by his initials PTA, earned a C+ on his very first film school assignment. The task at New York University was simple: write a single page of screenplay. Anderson handed in a page from…
- Francis Ford CoppolaMarlon Brando won the Godfather role only after a screen test and a reduced fee.
- Kenneth BranaghKenneth Branagh won an Oscar for a film about the Belfast he fled at age nine. He won Best Original Screenplay in 2022.
- Ben AffleckBen Affleck directed Argo, and for it he collected the Golden Globe, the Directors Guild Award and the BAFTA for Best Director without ever being nominated for the Academy Award for Best Director. No director had done that before him. The…
- Tom StoppardTom Stoppard arrived in England knowing not a word of Czech. He fled Nazi-occupied Czechoslovakia as a child.
- Aaron SorkinAaron Sorkin, born in Manhattan on the 9th of June 1961, discovered his calling by accident. One weekend he was house-sitting for a friend, found a typewriter, and started typing. Years later he described the feeling as "a phenomenal…