Melissa Mathison

Known for WritingBorn 1950-06-03Died 2015-11-04Los Angeles, California, USA

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 (2016), which marked her third collaboration with film director Steven Spielberg. Description above from the Wikipedia article Melissa Mathison, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.Read more

Movies & web series

The 'E.T.' Journals

Apocalypse Now

Spielberg

The Making of 'E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial'

E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial

E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial 20th Anniversary Special

In Search of 'Kundun' with Martin Scorsese

Son of the Morning Star

The Black Stallion

Kundun

The BFG

The Indian in the Cupboard

Twilight Zone: The Movie

The Escape Artist

Refuge