Stuart Beattie (born 4 August 1971) is an

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filmmaker. His screenplay for ''

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'' (2004) earned him nominations for the

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and

Saturn Award for Best Writing The Saturn Awards for Best Writing is a Saturn Award presented by the Academy of Science Fiction, Fantasy & Horror Films. Unlike most awards rewarding writing in films, it recognizes only the writer(s) of the screenplay, and not those of the story ...

. Beattie was born in

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and raised in

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. He attended

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in Sydney, where his mother, Sandra, was a languages teacher; and later

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in Bathurst.

Filmography

Film

Uncredited rewrites * '' The Messengers'' (2007) * '' Punisher: War Zone'' (2008)

Television

References

External links

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Stuart Beattie judged The Film of the Month competition in March 2009 on the independent filmmakers networking site Shooting People.Interview With Stuart Beattie , The Rip It Up Music Website
1971 births Living people 21st-century Australian male writers 21st-century Australian screenwriters Action film directors Australian film directors Australian film producers Australian male screenwriters Charles Sturt University alumni People educated at Knox Grammar School Film directors from Melbourne Writers from Melbourne {{screen-writer-stub