Ron Shelton Biography

Fast Facts

• Won a Boston Society of Film Critics Award, a Los Angeles Film Critics Association Award, and a New York Film Critics Circle Award for "Bull Durham" in 1988
• Won a National Society of Film Critics Award for Best Screenplay for "Bull Durham" in 1989
• Won a Writers Guild of America Award for Best Screenplay Written Directly for the Screen for "Bull Durham" in 1989
• Was drafted by the Baltimore Orioles during the MLB Amateur Draft in 1966
• Started out as an associate producer and creative consultant on the 1981 film "The Pursuit of D․B․ Cooper․"
• Quote: "(On "Bull Durham"): "We follow [baseball] every day and it becomes more of your life․ As a player, that was the hard part․ There was never a day off․ I don't think any sports movie had ever approached it like that․""
• Quote: "What I tried to do was concentrate on the moments between the big plays․․․I think that's why perhaps people responded to that movie and my other sports movies - they get to see the drama that they can never see on television․"
• Best known as the writer and director of "White Men Can't Jump" and "Bull Durham․"