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Jessie Nelson Biography
Birth Name:Jessie Nelson
Birth Place:Los Angeles County, California, United States
Profession Writer, Producer, Actress, Director, Composer, Script department
Fast Facts
- Was nominated for a Humanitas Prize in the feature film category for "I Am Sam" in 2002
- Won a Naguib Mahfouz Award for best first or second work for "I Am Sam" in 2002
- Won a Producers Guild of America Stanley Kramer Award for "I Am Sam" in 2002
- Briefly studied at the University of California at Santa Cruz but left to join the New York theater company Mabou Mines
- Best known as the writer, producer and director of "I Am Sam․"
- Was the writer and director of the short film "To the Moon, Alice" that screened at the 1990 Sundance Film Festival
- Is the co-author of the children's book "Labracadabra" with Karen Leigh Hopkins, released in 2011
- Wrote and produced the films "The Story of Us," "Fred Claus" and "Because I Said So․"
Awards
- 2002Naguib Mahfouz Award for the Best First or Second Work-: winner
- 2002Golden Pyramid-: nominated
- 2002Humanitas Prize-Feature Film Category: nominated
- 2002Stanley Kramer Award-: winner
- 2021Image Award-Outstanding Writing in a Drama Series: nominated