Director

Melissa Mathison

Writing

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Directed movies: 0Directed series: 0All crew credits: 9

TMDB ID: 9964

IMDb ID: nm0558953

Known for: Writing

Born: June 3, 1950

Died: November 4, 2015

Age: 65

Place of birth: Los Angeles, California, USA

Gender: Female

Adult content flag: No

Career span: 1979 - 2017

Years active: 39

Average TMDB rating: 6.96

Wikidata: Q435696

Also known as

Melissa Marie Mathison

Frequent jobs

Screenplay (6)Associate Producer (1)Executive Assistant (1)Teleplay (1)

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Biography

Melissa Marie Mathison (June 3, 1950 – November 4, 2015) was an American film and television screenwriter and an activist for the Tibetan independence movement. She was best known for writing the screenplays for the films The Black Stallion (1979) and E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial (1982), the latter of which earned her the Saturn Award for Best Writing and a nomination for the Academy Award for Best Original Screenplay. Mathison later wrote The Indian in the Cupboard (1995), based on Lynne Reid Banks's 1980 children's novel of the same name, and Kundun (1997), a biographical-drama film about the Dalai Lama. Her final film credit was The BFG (2016), which marked her third collaboration with film director Steven Spielberg. Description above from the Wikipedia article Melissa Mathison, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.