Mark Boal (born January 23, 1973) is an American journalist, screenwriter, and film producer. Boal initially worked as a journalist, writing for outlets like Rolling Stone, The Village Voice, Salon, and Playboy. Boal's 2004 article "Death and Dishonor" was adapted for the film In the Valley of Elah, which Boal also co-wrote.
In 2009, he wrote and produced The Hurt Locker, for which he won both the Academy Award for Best Original Screenplay and the Academy Award for Best Picture. In 2012 he wrote and produced Zero Dark Thirty, teaming again with director Kathryn Bigelow, about the tracking and killing of Osama bin Laden. The film earned him Academy Award nominations for Best Original Screenplay and Best Picture and a Writers Guild of America Award for Best Original Screenplay. The pair collaborated a third time for 2017's Detroit.
Boal has won two Academy Awards (with another two nominations), a BAFTA Award, two Writers Guild of America Awards, and a Producers Guild of America Award, and also has four Golden Globe Award nominations.
MarkBoal (born January 23, 1973) is an American journalist, screenwriter, and film producer. Boal initially worked as a journalist, writing for outlets...
Mark Robert Boals (born December 5, 1958) is an American heavy metal vocalist and occasional bassist, best known for his vocals with Yngwie Malmsteen...
Echo 3 is an American action thriller television series created by MarkBoal. The series, filmed in English and Spanish, stars Michiel Huisman, Luke Evans...
directed and co-produced by Kathryn Bigelow and written and co-produced by MarkBoal. The film dramatizes the nearly decade-long international manhunt for...
Cartel Land (2015). She is known for her collaborations with Eric Red and MarkBoal. Bigelow was born in San Carlos, California, the only child of Gertrude...
American war thriller film directed by Kathryn Bigelow and written by MarkBoal. It stars Jeremy Renner, Anthony Mackie, Brian Geraghty, Christian Camargo...
reconciled his belief in spirituality. Pitt has described Springfield as "Mark Twain country, Jesse James country," having grown up with "a lot of hills...
locations have been changed. The screenplay was inspired by journalist MarkBoal's "Death and Dishonor", an article about the murder case published in Playboy...
straight-to-series of 10 episodes by Apple TV+., to be produced by Keshet Studios with MarkBoal as showrunner and executive producer. In May 2021, it was announced that...
screenplay by Whitta and Shyamalan was later polished by Stephen Gaghan and MarkBoal. Jonathan Young, a psychologist and screenwriter, polished the mythic...
Gigliotti, and Redmond Morris 2009 (82nd) The Hurt Locker Kathryn Bigelow, MarkBoal, Nicolas Chartier, and Greg Shapiro Avatar James Cameron and Jon Landau...
reported on Netflix's plans to develop a movie based on the events, with MarkBoal in negotiations to write and Noah Centineo set to star in the film. Separately...
worked as a playwright. He is the half-brother of screenwriter MarkBoal. In 2006, Boal wrote Crazy for the Dog, a comedic melodrama aimed a dissecting...
film became a critical and commercial success upon its release. Film critic Mark Kermode named it the best film of 2010, stating "Inception is proof that...
from the original on April 12, 2017. Retrieved April 12, 2017. Shanahan, Mark (March 15, 2017). "Ben Affleck has Struggled with Alcohol for a Long Time"...
followed by a question-and-answer session hosted by English film critic Mark Kermode. The film was created using original footage from Imperial War Museums'...
Archived from the original on February 10, 2024. Retrieved December 27, 2020. Mark Seal (March 2009). "The Godfather Wars". Vanity Fair. Archived from the original...
Best Directors of the Last 25 Years (for the years 1977–2002). Wildermuth, Mark E. (2005). Blood in the Moonlight: Michael Mann and Information Age Cinema...
by NBCUniversal, a division of Comcast. Founded in 1912 by Carl Laemmle, Mark Dintenfass, Charles O. Baumann, Adam Kessel, Pat Powers, William Swanson...
an action-thriller about the killing of Osama bin Laden from writer MarkBoal and director Kathryn Bigelow, who made the Oscar-winning movie, The Hurt...
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