Robert Nelson Jacobs
Robert Nelson Jacobs ( born February 24, 1954) is an American screenwriter who has specialized in adapting literary works to film scripts.
Life
Robert Nelson Jacobs grew up as the son of Harold and Merle Jacobs and his brother Larry Jacobs in Stroudsburg, Monroe County, Pennsylvania. Early on he came up with the writing and the film in contact. He discovered his love for film in Stroudsburg 's Sherman Theater, which was located right next to the clothing store of his parents, and at The Grand in East Stroudsburg. Jacobs began in the sixth grade, when he visited the Ramsey Elementary School, with the writing and later took part with his science - fiction stories of writing competitions. During his time at the Stroudsburg High School, he was editor of the student newspaper, The Mountaineer. Through this work, he was the change from junior high to senior high school for a short time as a clerk working at the local newspaper Pocono Record. After his high school graduation in 1972, he went to Yale University, where he not only starred in plays, but also wrote their own. For example, his one-act play The Great Escape or My Neck Goethe Is Killing Me, brought as a comedy to Long Iceland at the Jacobs Goethe's Faust, performed by the Yale School of Drama. After graduating with honors, including the Curtis Literary Prize, in English, he attended the Iowa Writers' Workshop, where he graduated with a Master of Fine Arts.
After he published several short stories, he pulled the early 80s to Los Angeles to write screenplays. But he hardly earned money, so he lived on the support of his parents and his wife above all things. In the meantime, he tried to sell with a writing partner scripts, which came about more or less, although nothing has been produced it. And after he had a few jobs, he landed a setting as dramatic a film production company in which he was to sort out as an assistant to the scripts that did not have appropriate quality. This he did not read about three to four screenplays per week and saw what would make a good script and what. After about a year, he left the place and was able to sell his own script Worlds Apart. In this science fiction story was about a woman who loses her great college love and gets into a parallel universe, where she is married to the man and a family moves out. Although the book was never made into a film, was released eight years later with The Family Man, a comedy starring Nicolas Cage and Téa Leoni in the lead roles, a strikingly similar film. However, the sale Jacobs brought the necessary attention to as a writer as early as 1994 compliant for Tango? to be working.
This success Jacobs was of the Swedish director Lasse Hallstrom for the respective adaptations of Chocolat - A small bite is enough and dedicated vessel news. For the work on Chocolat Jacobs was nominated for various film awards, including an Oscar and BAFTA Film Award. The work was so successful that Jacobs ( German: The paper - conspiracy ) since 2002 for Hallström 's novel A Conspiracy of Paper by David Liss adapted as a screenplay.
Jacobs met his wife Hilary Nelson know in 1983 during a wedding and married her in 1985, after which he took her last name as their own middle name. With her and the two children he lived for decades in La Cañada Flintridge. Only when stopped the long-term success, he and his wife moved to Pasadena, California.
Filmography (selection)
Awards
- Oscar 2001: Best Adapted Screenplay - Chocolat - A small bite is enough ( nominated )
- BAFTA Film Award 2001: Best Adapted Screenplay - Chocolat - A small bite is enough ( nominated )
Works
- The Great Escape or My Neck Goethe Is Killing Me, play