David Franzoni

David Franzoni is a screenwriter with historically angled vision. He is married to Nancy Franzoni and has Son Hudson Franzoni. David lived in Vermont, Northeast, USA, in his earlier age. His alma mater is the University of Vermont. He was a partner with a native film company. After studying geology and paleontology for a semester, he dropped out from the University of Vermont for acquiring more knowledge about the film industry; David went to Berlin. He had traveled eastern and western Europe and Turkey before he went to the Middle Eastern countries like India, Thailand, Singapore. David also visited Australia. He wanted to start his career with comedy scripts and hence “Jumpin’ Jack Flash” October 10, 1986, USA, starring Whoopi Goldberg She is one of the few that gave us tremendous laug >> Read More... was released. It was his original and first comedy script. He worked with Penny Marshall Carol Penny Marshall, born on 15 October, 1943 in >> Read More... (Director), Lawrence Gordon (Producer) and Thomas Newman (Music Director) during the movie. After this first release, David went to London to work with Cesar- winning Director, Bob Swaim.

Further, he made releases such as “Amistad”, “Citizen Cohn”, “ King Arthur Click to look into! >> Read More... ”, “ Gladiator Click to look into! >> Read More... ”. “Amistad” was a story which was portrayed in a film by Steven Spielberg Steven Spielberg is an American producer, director >> Read More... . After working with Bob Swaim, Franzoni returned to Los Angeles and made a best-selling biography, “Citizen Cohn” which was cast for HBO, released in 1992 and was starring James Woods James Woods is an American producer and an actor w >> Read More... . Franzoni won “PEN Center USA West Literary Award” in 1993 for “Citizen Cohn”. He also won “CableACE” Award in 1993 for the same. The award was shared with Mark Rosenberg, Paula Weinstein, Doro Bachrach and Frank Pierson. While living with his family in Rome, he wrote “Amistad” in 1998 and began the research of his original script ”Gladiator.” Then David got the most important break with the release of “Gladiator” in 2000. David won the Oscar, the Golden Globe, the BAFTA (British Academy Award), PGA award and was nominated for Saturn, ACCA and Sierra Awards. It was David’s first Oscar award. After the success of Gladiator, his second big screenplay i.e., “King Arthur” was released in 2004. David Franzoni worked with Jerry Bruckheimer Jerry Bruckheimer is one of the most successful Am >> Read More... and Antonie Fuqua during “King Arthur”.