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Jonathan Nolan Biography

Birth Place:
London, England
Profession
screenwriter

Fast Facts

  • Shed his English accent after moving to Chicago once he learned that having an English accent there was unpopular
  • Majored in English while at Georgetown University and was a staff writer for their student newspaper The Hoya
  • Wrote the short story Memento Mori which was used by his older brother Christopher Nolan as the basis for his 2000 thriller Memento
  • First television series he developed was the CBS science fiction crime drama Person Of Interest
  • Wrote a pilot for an adaptation of Michael Crichton's Westworld with his wife Lisa Joy and the pair served as showrunners after the show was picked up by HBO

Awards

  • 2017Writers Guild Awards-Drama Series: nominated
  • 2017Writers Guild Awards-New Series: nominated
  • 2017Producers Guild Awards-Norman Felton Award for Outstanding Producer of Episodic Television, Drama: nominated
  • 2017Emmy-Outstanding Drama Series: nominated
  • 2009Writers Guild Awards-Adapted Screenplay: nominated
  • 2008Chicago Film Critics Association-Best Adapted Screenplay: nominated
  • 2001Oscar-Best Writing (Original Screenplay): nominated

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