Alan Ball (screenwriter)

Alan Ball ( born May 13, 1957 in Atlanta, Georgia) is an Academy Award-winning screenwriter who achieved a high level of awareness with his screenplay for the film American Beauty. He also works as a producer and director.

Ball is also the creator of the highly successful and award-winning HBO television series Six Feet Under - Died is always (2001-2005), for which he also worked as a producer and sometimes a writer and director. On 27 February 2012 ball kicked off as a scriptwriter of TV series True Blood.

Filmography

Screenwriter

Producer, often as an executive producer or co- producer

Director

• 2001-05: Six Feet Under - Died Forever ( Six Feet Under) (TV series, seven episodes)
• 2007: Outspoken - Nothing is private ( Towelhead )
• 2008: True Blood (TV series, two episodes)
• 2010: All Signs of Death ( TV movie )

Awards

• 2000 Oscar ( Best Original Screenplay ) for American Beauty
• 2002 Emmy (Director for a Drama Series ) for the pilot episode of Six Feet Under