Melissa Mathison

Personal Info

Know For

Writing

Gender

Female

Birthday

1950-06-03 (65 years old)

Deathday

2015-11-04

Place of Birth

Los Angeles, California, USA

Melissa Mathison

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 (20...

Production

1997

Kundun

as Screenplay

1979

The Black Stallion

as Screenplay

1982

E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial

as Associate Producer

2016

The BFG

as Screenplay

1983

1997

Kundun

as Co-Producer

2016

The BFG

as Associate Producer

1979

Apocalypse Now

as Executive Assistant

1982

The Escape Artist

as Screenplay

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