Screenwriter

Robert Nelson Jacobs

Modern Cinemab. 1954DramaComedyRomanceAdventure

Chronicler of the Human Condition

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The Screenplays

7 total writing credits

SCR

Chocolat

2000

Screenplay

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Dinosaur

2000

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Full Writing Credits

2010Extraordinary MeasuresScreenplay6.3 2007The Water HorseScreenplay6.5 2001The Shipping NewsScreenplay6.4 2000ChocolatScreenplay7.0 2000DinosaurScreenplay6.6 1997Out to SeaScreenplay5.8

About

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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