Stephen Gaghan

Stephen Gaghan (born May 6, 1965) is an American screenwriter and director.[2] He is noted for writing the screenplay for Steven Soderbergh's film Traffic,[2] based on a Channel 4 series, for which he won the Academy Award,[3] as well as Syriana

Syriana which he wrote and directed.

Contents

1 Childhood and education 2 Career 3 Personal life 4 Filmography

4.1 As director 4.2 As writer 4.3 As actor 4.4 As producer 4.5 Personal appearances

5 Awards and nominations 6 References 7 External links

Childhood and education[edit] Gaghan was born in Louisville, Kentucky, the son of the former Elizabeth Jane Whorton and her first husband, Stephen Gaghan
Stephen Gaghan (d. 1980), and a stepson of Tom Haag. Gaghan attended Kentucky Country Day School, a college preparatory school in Louisville.[citation needed] He was an All-State soccer player where he held the assist record at the school for nearly three decades.[citation needed] He is a grandson of Jerry Gaghan, a newspaper columnist and drama critic for Variety and the Philadelphia Daily News.[4] Gaghan wrote in a 2001 article in Newsweek, "I also wanted to be a writer, like my grandfather, who carried a card in his wallet that read, "If you find me, call my son [my father] at this number..."[5] In his final days of high school before graduation, Gaghan was expelled for driving a go-cart through the halls of the school. During the release of Traffic, a critic commented on one of the teen characters in the movie who is a drug addict and a straight-A student, calling it unrealistic, which Gaghan defended by stating that he had straight A's while he was addicted to drugs and alcohol. As Gaghan wrote in an article published in Newsweek
Newsweek in February 2001, "I wasn't much different from my peers, except where they could stop drinking after three or six or 10 drinks, I couldn't stop and wouldn't stop until I had progressed through marijuana, cocaine, heroin and, finally, crack and freebase--which seem for so many people to be the last stop on the elevator." Gaghan has stated that he began dealing with his addictions in 1997. "Over one long, five-day weekend, I had three separate heroin dealers get arrested," he said. "My dealer, my backup dealer and my backup-backup dealer. I was left alone, and I just hit that place, that total incomprehensible demoralization. That was the end of it; up five days straight, locked in the bathroom, convinced there was nowhere else to go, I had to kill myself, I'm going to kill myself. I just couldn't take another minute of it."[6] He attended the University of Kentucky
University of Kentucky and was a member of Delta Tau Delta fraternity.[7] He was a student on the Fall 1986 Voyage of the "Semester at Sea" Study Abroad Program where he attended classes on board the SS Universe and sailed around the world. He attended Babson College in Massachusetts.[8] He also started a catalog company, Fallen Empire Inc., which he hoped would support his writing career.[citation needed] Career[edit]

Gaghan and Anna Deavere Smith
Anna Deavere Smith at the 2012 Sundance Film Festival

Gaghan wrote the screenplay for Traffic, for which he won an Academy Award for Best Adapted Screenplay in 2000. In addition to Traffic, Gaghan also directed and wrote the screenplays for Syriana
Syriana (2005) and Abandon (2002), the former receiving comparable critical acclaim to Traffic, while the latter turned out to be a total fiasco. Other writing credits include Havoc (2005), The Alamo (2004) and Rules of Engagement (2000), as well as a handful of episodes of various television series. Gaghan turned down the chance to adapt Dan Brown's novel, The Da Vinci Code. In his television writing career, he won an Emmy Award
Emmy Award for co-writing a NYPD Blue
NYPD Blue episode entitled Where's Swaldo, in 1997. In addition to NYPD Blue, he has also written for The Practice
The Practice and New York Undercover. His next project is a film adaptation of Malcolm Gladwell's book, Blink: The Power of Thinking Without Thinking. He has also been hired by Warner Bros.
Warner Bros. to write the screenplay of the Dead Spy Running franchise written by author Jon Stock.[9] He is also set to direct crime thriller Candy Store.[10] On January 19, 2017 it was announced that Ubisoft
Ubisoft had hired Gaghan to direct the film adaptation of the popular video game The Division.[11] Personal life[edit] Gaghan has a son Gardner (b. 1999) and a daughter Elizabeth (b. 2001) from a previous relationship with actress Michael McCraine.[1] On May 19, 2007, Gaghan married Marion "Minnie" Mortimer.[1] Together they have a daughter Tuesday (b. February 2, 2009)[12] and a son Johnny (b. May 20, 2014).[13] Filmography[edit] As director[edit]

Abandon (2002) Syriana
Syriana (2005) Gold (2016) The Voyage of Doctor Dolittle
The Voyage of Doctor Dolittle (2019)

As writer[edit]

New York Undercover
New York Undercover (1995) (TV) American Gothic (1995–1996) (TV) NYPD Blue
NYPD Blue (1996) (TV) The Practice
The Practice (1997) (TV) Sleepwalkers (1997) (TV) Rules of Engagement (2000) (story by Jim Webb) Traffic (2000) Abandon (2002) (also Director) The Alamo (2004) (with Leslie Bohem and John Lee Hancock) Havoc (2005) (with Jessica Kaplan) Syriana
Syriana (2005) (also Director) Metro (2011) (TV) Call of Duty: Ghosts (2013) (Video Game) The Voyage of Doctor Dolittle
The Voyage of Doctor Dolittle (2019)

As actor[edit]

Alfie (2004) Entourage (2008)

As producer[edit]

Sleepwalkers

Personal appearances[edit]

Entourage The Henry Rollins Show Film '72 Sunday Morning Shootout The Charlie Rose Show The Big Story HBO First Look Hollywood High (2003) 73rd Academy Awards Inside Traffic: The Making of Traffic

Awards and nominations[edit] Gaghan has won an Emmy Award, Writers Guild of America Awards, Golden Globe Award, and an Academy Award. References[edit]

^ a b c L. Hamilton, William (May 27, 2007). " Stephen Gaghan
Stephen Gaghan and Minnie Mortimer". The New York Times. ^ a b "Stephen Gaghan". The New York Times. ^ Gaghan, Stephen (June 24, 2013). "How One Writer Turned a Love for Writing Into an Oscar- and Emmy-Award Winning Career". Indiewire. ^ "George Skinner, a Broadcast Pioneer". Broadcast Pioneers. ^ Gaghan, Stephen (2001). "The Enemy is Every One of Us". Newsweek. ^ Lyman, Rick (February 5, 2001). "The Screenwriter
Screenwriter for 'Traffic' Says He Drew on His Past of Drug Use". The New York Times. ^ " Delta Tau Delta
Delta Tau Delta Fraternity". Oudelts.chapterspot.com. ^ "Babson at the movies" (PDF). Babson Magazine. ^ " Stephen Gaghan
Stephen Gaghan set to adapt 'Dead Spy'". The Hollywood Reporter. 2009-02-19. Archived from the original on 2009-02-23. Retrieved 2009-03-31. ^ "Jason Clarke And Omar Sy To Star In Stephen Gaghan
Stephen Gaghan Thriller 'Candy Store'". Deadline.com. 4 April 2013. Retrieved 15 July 2013. ^ Kroll, Justin (January 19, 2017). " Stephen Gaghan
Stephen Gaghan to Direct 'The Division' Movie Starring Jake Gyllenhaal and Jessica Chastain (EXCLUSIVE)". Variety. ^ Minnie Mortimer. "Minnie Mortimer". Guest of a Guest. Archived from the original on October 28, 2012. Retrieved November 15, 2012. ^ Colleen Crivello. "Mom Crush: Minnie Mortimer Gaghan". minimode. Retrieved October 16, 2016.

External links[edit]

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Films directed

Abandon (2002) Syriana
Syriana (2005) Gold (2016) The Voyage of Doctor Dolittle
The Voyage of Doctor Dolittle (2019)

Films written

Rules of Engagement (2000) Traffic (2000) Abandon (2002) The Alamo (2004) Havoc (2005) Syriana
Syriana (2005) Gold (2016) The Voyage of Doctor Dolittle
The Voyage of Doctor Dolittle (2019)

Games written

Call of Duty: Ghosts (2013)

Awards for Stephen Gaghan

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Academy Award
Academy Award for Best Adapted Screenplay

1928–1950

Benjamin Glazer (1928) Hanns Kräly (1929) Frances Marion
Frances Marion (1930) Howard Estabrook
Howard Estabrook (1931) Edwin J. Burke (1932) Victor Heerman
Victor Heerman and Sarah Y. Mason
Sarah Y. Mason (1933) Robert Riskin
Robert Riskin (1934) Dudley Nichols (1935) Pierre Collings
Pierre Collings and Sheridan Gibney (1936) Heinz Herald, Geza Herczeg, and Norman Reilly Raine
Norman Reilly Raine (1937) Ian Dalrymple, Cecil Arthur Lewis, W. P. Lipscomb, and George Bernard Shaw (1938) Sidney Howard
Sidney Howard (1939) Donald Ogden Stewart
Donald Ogden Stewart (1940) Sidney Buchman and Seton I. Miller (1941) George Froeschel, James Hilton, Claudine West, and Arthur Wimperis (1942) Philip G. Epstein, Julius J. Epstein, and Howard E. Koch (1943) Frank Butler, and Frank Cavett (1944) Charles Brackett and Billy Wilder
Billy Wilder (1945) Robert Sherwood (1946) George Seaton
George Seaton (1947) John Huston
John Huston (1948) Joseph L. Mankiewicz
Joseph L. Mankiewicz (1949) Joseph L. Mankiewicz
Joseph L. Mankiewicz (1950)

1951–1975

Harry Brown and Michael Wilson (1951) Charles Schnee (1952) Daniel Taradash (1953) George Seaton
George Seaton (1954) Paddy Chayefsky
Paddy Chayefsky (1955) John Farrow, S. J. Perelman, and James Poe (1956) Carl Foreman
Carl Foreman and Michael Wilson (1957) Alan Jay Lerner
Alan Jay Lerner (1958) Neil Paterson (1959) Richard Brooks
Richard Brooks (1960) Abby Mann (1961) Horton Foote (1962) John Osborne
John Osborne (1963) Edward Anhalt (1964) Robert Bolt (1965) Robert Bolt (1966) Stirling Silliphant (1967) James Goldman (1968) Waldo Salt (1969) Ring Lardner Jr.
Ring Lardner Jr. (1970) Ernest Tidyman (1971) Francis Ford Coppola
Francis Ford Coppola and Mario Puzo
Mario Puzo (1972) William Peter Blatty
William Peter Blatty (1973) Francis Ford Coppola
Francis Ford Coppola and Mario Puzo
Mario Puzo (1974) Bo Goldman
Bo Goldman and Lawrence Hauben (1975)

1976–2000

William Goldman
William Goldman (1976) Alvin Sargent (1977) Oliver Stone
Oliver Stone (1978) Robert Benton (1979) Alvin Sargent (1980) Ernest Thompson
Ernest Thompson (1981) Costa-Gavras
Costa-Gavras and Donald E. Stewart (1982) James L. Brooks
James L. Brooks (1983) Peter Shaffer (1984) Kurt Luedtke (1985) Ruth Prawer Jhabvala
Ruth Prawer Jhabvala (1986) Bernardo Bertolucci
Bernardo Bertolucci and Mark Peploe (1987) Christopher Hampton
Christopher Hampton (1988) Alfred Uhry
Alfred Uhry (1989) Michael Blake (1990) Ted Tally (1991) Ruth Prawer Jhabvala
Ruth Prawer Jhabvala (1992) Steven Zaillian (1993) Eric Roth (1994) Emma Thompson
Emma Thompson (1995) Billy Bob Thornton
Billy Bob Thornton (1996) Curtis Hanson
Curtis Hanson and Brian Helgeland (1997) Bill Condon (1998) John Irving
John Irving (1999) Stephen Gaghan
Stephen Gaghan (2000)

2001–present

Akiva Goldsman
Akiva Goldsman (2001) Ronald Harwood (2002) Philippa Boyens, Peter Jackson, and Fran Walsh (2003) Alexander Payne
Alexander Payne and Jim Taylor (2004) Larry McMurtry
Larry McMurtry and Diana Ossana (2005) William Monahan
William Monahan (2006) Joel Coen and Ethan Coen (2007) Simon Beaufoy (2008) Geoffrey S. Fletcher
Geoffrey S. Fletcher (2009) Aaron Sorkin
Aaron Sorkin (2010) Alexander Payne, Jim Rash, and Nat Faxon
Nat Faxon (2011) Chris Terrio (2012) John Ridley
John Ridley (2013) Graham Moore (2014) Adam McKay
Adam McKay and Charles Randolph (2015) Barry Jenkins
Barry Jenkins and Tarell Alvin McCraney
Tarell Alvin McCraney (2016) James Ivory
James Ivory (2017)

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BAFTA Award for Best Adapted Screenplay

Ruth Prawer Jhabvala
Ruth Prawer Jhabvala (1983) Bruce Robinson
Bruce Robinson (1984) Richard Condon and Janet Roach (1985) Kurt Luedtke (1986) Claude Berri
Claude Berri and Gérard Brach (1987) Jean-Claude Carrière
Jean-Claude Carrière and Philip Kaufman
Philip Kaufman (1988) Christopher Hampton
Christopher Hampton (1989) Nicholas Pileggi
Nicholas Pileggi and Martin Scorsese
Martin Scorsese (1990) Dick Clement, Roddy Doyle
Roddy Doyle and Ian La Frenais (1991) Michael Tolkin
Michael Tolkin (1992) Steven Zaillian (1993) Paul Attanasio
Paul Attanasio (1994) John Hodge (1995) Anthony Minghella
Anthony Minghella (1996) Baz Luhrmann
Baz Luhrmann and Craig Pearce
Craig Pearce (1997) Elaine May
Elaine May (1998) Neil Jordan
Neil Jordan (1999) Stephen Gaghan
Stephen Gaghan (2000) Ted Elliott, Terry Rossio, Roger S. H. Schulman and Joe Stillman (2001) Charlie Kaufman
Charlie Kaufman and Donald Kaufman (2002) Philippa Boyens, Peter Jackson
Peter Jackson and Fran Walsh (2003) Alexander Payne
Alexander Payne and Jim Taylor (2004) Larry McMurtry
Larry McMurtry and Diana Ossana (2005) Jeremy Brock and Peter Morgan (2006) Ronald Harwood (2007) Simon Beaufoy (2008) Jason Reitman
Jason Reitman and Sheldon Turner (2009) Aaron Sorkin
Aaron Sorkin (2010) Bridget O'Connor and Peter Straughan (2011) David O. Russell
David O. Russell (2012) Steve Coogan
Steve Coogan and Jeff Pope
Jeff Pope (2013) Anthony McCarten (2014) Adam McKay
Adam McKay and Charles Randolph (2015) Luke Davies
Luke Davies (2016) James Ivory
James Ivory (2017)

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Critics' Choice Movie Award for Best Screenplay

Screenplay (1995–1996, 2001–2008, retired)

Emma Thompson
Emma Thompson (1995) Anthony Minghella
Anthony Minghella (1996) Christopher Nolan
Christopher Nolan (2001) Charlie Kaufman
Charlie Kaufman (2002) Jim Sheridan, Kirsten Sheridan, and Naomi Sheridan (2003) Alexander Payne
Alexander Payne and Jim Taylor (2004) Paul Haggis
Paul Haggis and Bobby Moresco (2005) Michael Arndt
Michael Arndt (2006) Diablo Cody
Diablo Cody (2007) Simon Beaufoy (2008)

Screenplay, Original (1997–2000, 2009–present)

Matt Damon
Matt Damon and Ben Affleck
Ben Affleck (1997) Tom Stoppard
Tom Stoppard and Marc Norman (1998) Alan Ball (1999) Cameron Crowe
Cameron Crowe (2000) Quentin Tarantino
Quentin Tarantino (2009) David Seidler (2010) Woody Allen
Woody Allen (2011) Quentin Tarantino
Quentin Tarantino (2012) Spike Jonze
Spike Jonze (2013) Alejandro G. Iñárritu, Nicolás Giacobone, Alexander Dinelaris Jr., and Armando Bo (2014) Tom McCarthy and Josh Singer (2015) Damien Chazelle
Damien Chazelle / Kenneth Lonergan
Kenneth Lonergan (2016) Jordan Peele
Jordan Peele (2017)

Screenplay, Adapted (1997–2000, 2009–present)

Curtis Hanson
Curtis Hanson and Brian Helgeland (1997) Scott Smith (1998) Frank Darabont
Frank Darabont (1999) Stephen Gaghan
Stephen Gaghan (2000) Jason Reitman
Jason Reitman and Sheldon Turner (2009) Aaron Sorkin
Aaron Sorkin (2010) Steven Zaillian, Aaron Sorkin, and Stan Chervin (2011) Tony Kushner
Tony Kushner (2012) John Ridley
John Ridley (2013) Gillian Flynn
Gillian Flynn (2014) Adam McKay
Adam McKay and Charles Randolph (2015) Eric Heisserer (2016) James Ivory
James Ivory (2017)

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Primetime Emmy Award
Emmy Award for Outstanding Writing for a Drama Series

1955–1975

Reginald Rose for Twelve Angry Men (1955) Rod Serling
Rod Serling (1960) Rod Serling
Rod Serling (1961) Reginald Rose (1962) Robert Thom / Reginald Rose for "The Madman" (1963) Ernest Kinoy for "Blacklist" and Rod Serling
Rod Serling for "It's Mental Work" (1964) David Karp for "The 700 Year Old Gang" (1965) Millard Lampell for "Eagle in a Cage" (1966) Bruce Geller for "Mission: Impossible" (1967) Loring Mandel for "Do Not Go Gentle Into That Good Night" (1968) JP Miller
JP Miller for "The People Next Door" (1969) Richard Levinson & William Link for "My Sweet Charlie" (1970) Joel Oliansky for "To Taste of Death But Once" (1971) Richard Levinson & William Link for "Death Lends a Hand" (1972) John McGreevey for "The Scholar" (1973) Joanna Lee for "The Thanksgiving Story" (1974) Howard Fast
Howard Fast for "Benjamin Franklin: The Ambassador" (1975)

1976–2000

Sherman Yellen for "John Adams: Lawyer" (1976) William Blinn & Ernest Kinoy for "Show #2" (1977) Gerald Green for "Holocaust" (1978) Michele Gallery for "Dying" (1979) Seth Freeman for "Cop" (1980) Steven Bochco, Michael Kozoll for "Hill Street Station" (1981) Steven Bochco, Michael Kozoll, Jeff Lewis, Michael I. Wagner, Anthony Yerkovich for "Freedom's Last Stand" (1982) David Milch
David Milch for "Trial by Fury" (1983) Tom Fontana, John Masius, John Ford Noonan for "The Women" (1984) Patricia Green for "Who Said It's Fair, Part 2" (1985) Tom Fontana, John Masius, Joe Tinker for "Time Heals, Parts I & II" (1986) Steven Bochco, Terry Louise Fisher for "The Venus Butterfly" (1987) Paul Haggis, Marshall Herskovitz
Marshall Herskovitz for "Business as Usual" (1988) Joseph Dougherty for "First Day/Last Day" (1989) David E. Kelley
David E. Kelley for "Blood, Sweat, and Fears" (1990) David E. Kelley
David E. Kelley for "On the Toad Again" (1991) Diane Frolov / Andrew Schneider for "Seoul Mates" (1992) Tom Fontana for "Three Men and Adena" (1993) Ann Biderman for "Steroid Roy" (1994) Lance A. Gentile for "Love's Labor Lost" (1995) Darin Morgan
Darin Morgan for "Clyde Bruckman's Final Repose" (1996) Stephen Gaghan
Stephen Gaghan / David Milch
David Milch / Michael R. Perry for "Where's Swaldo?" (1997) Bill Clark
Bill Clark / Nicholas Wootton
Nicholas Wootton / David Milch
David Milch for "Lost Israel: Part II" (1998) David Chase
David Chase / James Manos Jr. for "College" (1999) Rick Cleveland & Aaron Sorkin
Aaron Sorkin for "In Excelsis Deo" (2000)