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Robert Nelson Jacobs
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Directed movies: 0Directed series: 0All crew credits: 7
TMDB ID: 5308
IMDb ID: nm0414608
Known for: Writing
Born: February 24, 1954
Age: 72
Place of birth: Pensylvania, USA
Gender: Male
Adult content flag: No
Career span: 1997 - 2010
Years active: 14
Average TMDB rating: 6.41
Wikidata: Q1355139
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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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