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Melissa Mathison
Los Angeles, California, USA
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…
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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.
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2017
Spielberg
Movie Self
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2016
The BFG
Movie Screenplay
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2012
The 'E.T.' Journals
Movie Self
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2006
Refuge
Movie Self
- 2002
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1998
In Search of 'Kundun' with Martin Scorsese
Movie Self
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1997
Kundun
Movie Screenplay
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1996
The Making of 'E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial'
Movie Self
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1995
The Indian in the Cupboard
Movie Screenplay
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1991
Son of the Morning Star
TV show Teleplay
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1983
Twilight Zone: The Movie
Movie Screenplay
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1982
E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial
Movie Elliot's School Nurse (uncredited)
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1982
The Escape Artist
Movie Screenplay
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1979
The Black Stallion
Movie Screenplay
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1979
Apocalypse Now
Movie Executive Assistant
