Barry Morrow

Barry Morrow ( born June 12, 1948 in Austin, Minnesota) is an American film producer and screenwriter Ronald Bass with the Oscar for best original screenplay for Rain Man received at the Academy Awards in 1989.

Biography

Morrow, who suffers from a mental disability, studied post-school at St. Olaf College, but left in 1970 without this conclusion, as him for missing a point.

At the beginning of the 1980s, he wrote his life story (1981 ) by Anthony Page with Mickey Rooney was filmed in the title role, under the title of Bill and for which he received together with screenwriter Corey Blechman an Emmy Award for the most outstanding template for a TV movie.

His first major success as a writer he had with Rain Man (1988 ) by Barry Levinson, for which he received the Academy Award for Best Original Screenplay was awarded along with Ronald Bass at the Oscar ceremony in 1989. In addition, he and bass for the BAFTA Awardfür were nominated Best Original Screenplay (1990 ), the Golden Globe Award for Best Screenplay (1989 ) and the Prize of the Writers Guild of America (WGA Award) for Best Original Screenplay (1989).

Later he teamed up with Richard Heus a film production company, the Morrow - Heus Productions, and not only wrote more screenplays, but now being produced movies like Trevor and Penner ( 1991) by George Kaczender and Race the Sun - In the race against time ( 1996) by Charles T. Kanganis. For Baby Switch - child of foreign parents (1991 ) he was nominated with hay and the other producers Michael O'Hara, Lawrence Horowitz, Mark Sennet and Ervin Zavada for an Emmy for outstanding TV movie.

Morrow, of his college degree caught up in 1989, is involved in numerous charitable organizations such as the Association of Retarded Citizens, the National Association of Social Workers and the Austism Society of America and has been for decades an advocate of rights for people with disabilities.