| Jay Cocks | |
|---|---|
| Born | January 12, 1944 |
Jay Cocks (born January 12, 1944) is a film critic and motion picture screenwriter.[1][2]
He is a graduate of Kenyon College.[3] He was a critic for Time, Newsweek, and Rolling Stone, among other magazines, before moving into film writing.
As a screenwriter, he worked on Martin Scorsese's The Age of Innocence[4] and Gangs of New York[5] -- a screenplay he started working on in 1976 -- as well as Kathryn Bigelow's Strange Days.[6] Cocks also performed an uncredited rewrite of James Cameron's screenplay for Titanic.[7]