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Robert Nelson Jacobs
- Department:Writing
- Place of birth:Pensylvania, USA
- Birthday:2/24/1954
- Popularity:1
Biography:
Robert Nelson Jacobs is an American screenwriter.
In 2000, he received an Academy Award nomination for best adapted screenplay for Chocolat. In 2014, Jacobs was elected president of the Writers Guild Foundation, a non-profit organization devoted to promoting and preserving the craft of writing for the screen.
He attended Yale University, where he received the Curtis Literary Prize for his short fiction and graduated with honors. He earned his master's degree from the Iowa Writers’ Workshop. Jacobs began his career as a writer of short stories that were published in little, prestigious magazines that generated little, prestigious income. Jacobs’ love of movies brought him to California, where it took a number of years for his work to finally start paying the rent.
Jacobs’ screenplay credits include Out to Sea, Dinosaur, Chocolat, The Shipping News, Flushed Away, The Water Horse, and Extraordinary Measures.
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Acting and producing career
Producing
- 2010movie
Extraordinary Measures
as Screenplay
- 2007movie
The Water Horse
as Screenplay
- 2006movie
Flushed Away
as Additional Writing
- 2001movie
The Shipping News
as Screenplay
- 2000movie
Chocolat
as Screenplay
- 2000movie
Dinosaur
as Screenplay
- 2000movie
Dinosaur
as Story
- 1997movie
Out to Sea
as Screenplay
- -movie
Encore
as Screenplay