Michael Arndt

Michael Arndt is an American screenwriter.

Biography

Michael Arndt, son of members of the U.S. State Department, spent his childhood including India, Sri Lanka and the U.S. state of Virginia. He attended the early 1990s, the New York University Film School and passed slowly thereafter as a staff and freelance script reader in the film business impact. Arndt later worked as a personal assistant to the renowned U.S. film actor Matthew Broderick, whom he assisted in the film projects Addicted to Love (1997) and Godzilla (1998). According to Inspector Gadget (1999) Arndt announced his position at Broderick. Ten years of membership in the movie business had the Americans introduced a $ 25,000 financial reserves. He retired to his apartment in Brooklyn, New York, to be itself active as a screenwriter. Six stories Arndt worked out, but it was only the seventh script - with the simplest plot his own words - should bring him the desired success.

The story of a bizarre U.S. Southern family, which breaks up with her ​​six year old daughter to a beauty contest to California, was revised several times by Arndt. He then put it in front of the two independent film producer Ron Yerxa and Albert Berger, who participated in projects such as Cold Mountain (2003) and Little Children (2006 ). The screenplay was circulated some time in Hollywood, before 2001, the directing duo Jonathan Dayton and Valerie Faris is the substance accepted by the two interpretations after the first reading as a mix of American Beauty and Billy Elliot. Only in 2006 it was the two music video and commercial directors managed to bring Arndt's tragicomedy with Greg Kinnear, Alan Arkin, Steve Carell, Toni Collette and Abigail Breslin under the title Little Miss Sunshine on the canvas.

The eight million dollar expensive independent film was destined critical and public success. Little Miss Sunshine played alone at the U.S. box office more than seven times its production costs and was nominated for the Academy Awards 2007 in four categories, including best film of the year. In addition to the staging of the two film directors and the performance of the acting ensemble Michael Arndt moved with his screenplay into the focus of criticism. His first work was pointed out by the New York Times because of the numerous cleverly used and funny one-liners and situations that aim in part to sheer absurdity and earned him an Academy Award, British Academy Film Awards ( BAFTA ) and the Independent Spirit Award, as well as the prices of Writers Guild of America and the film critics associations of Dallas - Fort Worth and Los Angeles one. Even in Germany, where he was honored by the Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung for his biting irony and understood as a " caricature of the American promise of happiness ", the film had success at the box office.

Michael Arndt lives in New York. Thanks to the success of Little Miss Sunshine, he was commissioned by the prestigious Endeavor Talent Agency under contract, which represents such well-known filmmakers such as Paul Thomas Anderson, David E. Kelley, Michael Moore or Martin Scorsese. The American who cherishes a passion for films of Preston Sturges, Billy Wilder and Woody Allen, studios recently worked at Pixar Animation on the film script to Lee Unkrichs Toy Story 3 The sequel to the animated films Toy Story (1995) and Toy Story 2 (1999) was released in 2010 and again brought him together with John Lasseter, Andrew Stanton and Lee Unkrich, among other nominations for the British BAFTA and Oscar one.

In 2013 he wrote the screenplay for the fantasy film The Hunger Games - Catching Fire, the sequel to The Hunger Games - The Hunger Games.

Filmography (selection)

  • 2006: Little Miss Sunshine
  • 2010: Toy Story 3
  • 2013: Oblivion
  • 2013: The Hunger Games - Catching Fire ( The Hunger Games: Catching Fire )

Awards

Oscar

  • 2007: Best Original Screenplay for Little Miss Sunshine
  • 2011: nominated for Best Adapted Screenplay for Toy Story 3

British Academy Film Award

  • 2007: Best Original Screenplay for Little Miss Sunshine
  • 2011: nominated for Best Adapted Screenplay for Toy Story 3

Broadcast Film Critics Association Awards

  • 2007: Best Screenplay for Little Miss Sunshine

Chicago Film Critics Association Awards

  • 2006: nominated for Best Original Screenplay for Little Miss Sunshine

Dallas - Fort Worth Film Critics Association Awards

  • 2006: Best Screenplay for Little Miss Sunshine

Independent Spirit Awards

  • 2007: Best First Screenplay for Little Miss Sunshine

Los Angeles Film Critics Association Awards

  • 2006: New Generation Award for Little Miss Sunshine

Online Film Critics Society Awards

  • 2007: nominated for Best Original Screenplay for Little Miss Sunshine

Palm Springs International Film Festival

  • 2007: Vanguard Award for Little Miss Sunshine

Satellite Awards

  • 2010: nominated for Best Original Screenplay for Toy Story 3

Southeastern Film Critics Association Awards

  • 2006: Best Original Screenplay for Little Miss Sunshine

Washington DC Area Film Critics Association Awards

  • 2006: Best Original Screenplay for Little Miss Sunshine
  • 2010: nominated for Best Adapted Screenplay for Toy Story 3

Writers Guild of America

  • 2007: Best Original Screenplay for Little Miss Sunshine
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