Kenneth Lonergan
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Kenneth Lonergan (b. 16 October 1962) is a playwright, screenwriter, and director born in the Bronx, New York City, New York. He began writing in high school, later graduating from the NYU Playwriting Program.
His first success came with the play This is Our Youth (1996), and was followed by The Waverley Gallery (1999), based on his grandmother's Greenwich Village Gallery, and later Lobby Hero (2002).
Lonergan's film career began with his screenplay for the gangland comedy Analyze This (1999). He was subsequently offered a job writing The Adventures of Rocky and Bullwinkle (2000), which wasn't quite what he had in mind as a career direction, but enjoyed anyway, despite its poor critical reception.
Lonergan directed his next screenplay for You Can Count on Me (2000), which was executive produced by Martin Scorsese, and Lonergan went on to contribute to the screenplay for Gangs of New York (2002). In 2006 he wrote and directed the film Margaret starring Anna Paquin, Matt Damon and Matthew Broderick.
[edit] Awards
- Nominated for Academy Award for Best Screenplay, 2002.
- Nominated for Writers Guild of America Award for Best Original Screenplay.
- You Can Count On Me
- Winner of Sundance Grand Jury Prize for Drama, 2000.
- Winner of Waldo Salt Screenwriting Award, 2000.
- Winner Los Angeles Film Critics Association Award for Best Screenplay.
- Winner of Writers Guild of America award for Best Screenplay, 2001.
- Winner of AFI Award for Best Film and Best New Writer.
- National Board of Review Top Ten films of 2001.
- Nominated for Academy Award for Best Original Screenplay, 2000.
- Nominated for Golden Globe Award for Best Screenplay, 2001.
In addition Laura Linney won the Award for Best Actress from the New York Film Critics Circle, the Toronto Film Critics Association and the National Society of Film Critics for her performance in this film.
- Lobby Hero
- Nominated for Drama Desk Award for Best Play.
- Nominated for Outer Critics Circle Award for Best Play and John Gassner Playwrighting Award.
- Nominated for Olivier Award for Best Play.
- The Waverley Gallery
- Nominated for Pulitzer Prize 2001.
- This is Our Youth
- Nominated for Drama Desk Award for Best Play.
