Melissa Mathison

Writing

Born: 1950-06-03
Died: 2015-11-04
From: Los Angeles, California, USA
Gender: Female
Height: 180.00 m
Popularity: 0.4

Also Known As

Melissa Marie Mathison

Biography

Melissa Marie Mathison (June 3, 1950 – November 4, 2015) was an American film and television screenwriter and an activist for the Tibetan independence movement. She was best known for writing the screenplays for the films The Black Stallion (1979) and E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial (1982), the latter of which earned her the Saturn Award for Best Writing and a nomination for the Academy Award for Best Original Screenplay. Mathison later wrote The Indian in the Cupboard (1995), based on Lynne Reid Banks's 1980 children's novel of the same name, and Kundun (1997), a biographical-drama film about the Dalai Lama. Her final film credit was The BFG (2016), which marked her third collaboration with film director Steven Spielberg. Description above from the Wikipedia article Melissa Mathison, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.

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Awards & Nominations1 won · 1 nominated

🏆 Won

Light of Truth Award

1998
Nominated

Academy Award for Best Writing, Original Screenplay

E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial

1983