Tom Schulman
Tom Schulman ( born 1951 in Nashville, Tennessee ) is an oscar award winning, American screenwriter, producer and director.
Life
Schulman graduated in 1972 graduated from Vanderbilt University with the rank of "Bachelor of Arts". He now lives married in California.
Career
Already in the 80s Schulman's career began as a producer for television and for the film.
First real attention, as well as the highlight of his career, however, came only in 1989, when Schulman wrote the screenplay for the film The Dead Poets Society. The drama is about the life of some male students at a school with arch-conservative values tradition. The boys are educated but contrary to the strict disciplinary policies of the school by her English teacher, Mr. Keating to free-thinking and questioning students, true to the central tenet of the film: Carpe Diem. Tom Schulman's real teacher to student times served as his source of inspiration for the embodied by Robin Williams, John Keating. The film was extremely well received by critics and was nominated for several Oscars, including Best Picture, Best Director and Best Actor. Schulman won only one of the parties of this production in the category for Best Original Screenplay and was thus able to take the coveted gold statue to take home. A novel based on the movie, was written later by Nancy H. Kleinbaum.
In the same year the films My partner with the second view and favorite appeared, I Shrunk the Kids, for which Schulman co-authored the screenplays. The latter was still a huge success at the box office, it was in the 90 increasingly silent about Tom Schulman. Followed in 1991 with What About Bob? One last significant hit with viewers and critics. In 1992, the value written by Schulman movie Medicine Man - The Last Days of Eden, with Sean Connery in the lead role. Nevertheless, it was this shot by John McTiernan adventure film does not convince the critics.
In 1997, Schulman, in which he has written himself screenplay 8 Heads in a Duffel Bag debut as a director. A year later, based on Schulman's screenplay comedy was followed by The Guru, with Eddie Murphy in the lead role, which was but also criticized by the experts.
However, Schulman also went to his work as producer on to and produced in 2000, the comedy Me, Myself & Irene. In 2004, Schulman was until today last screenplay. The script written by him Welcome to Mooseport was a film starring Gene Hackman, but found like other films in Schulman's participation before, poorly received by the critics.