Paul Webb (born 1947 or 1948) is a British screenwriter and playwright.
He is known for writing the screenplay of the 2014 film ''
Selma
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*Selma, Nova Scotia, Canada
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*Selma, Arkansas
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''. For his work in ''Selma'', Webb won the Central Ohio Film Critics Association Award for Best Original Screenplay. Webb was also nominated for the
Satellite Award for Best Original Screenplay
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for his work in ''Selma'', which he lost to
Dan Gilroy
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for ''
Nightcrawler''. In addition to ''Selma'', Webb also served as one of the writers for the 2017
BET
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miniseries ''
Madiba
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''.
Webb also wrote a play about the assassination of
Thomas Becket
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titled ''Four Knights in Knaresborough'', which was staged in London in 1999.
[ Among Webb's unrealized projects include a film adaptation of ''Four Knights'' (optioned by ]Harvey Weinstein
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), a film adaptation of the novel ''Spanish Assassins'' and an unused screenplay draft of ''Lincoln
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* Lincoln, England, cathedral city and county town of Lincolnshire, England
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'' (2012).[ Webb also wrote an epic-type screenplay for ]Michael Mann
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about the Russian oligarchs
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Living people
British male screenwriters
21st-century British screenwriters
1940s births