John August
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August at the August 2007 Sundance Film Festival
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| Born |
John Meise August 4, 1970 Boulder, Colorado, U.S. |
| Education | Drake University, USC (MFA) |
| Occupation | Screenwriter, director, producer |
| Years active | 1998–present |
| Spouse(s) | Michael August (m. 2008) |
| Children | 1 |
John August (born August 4, 1970) is an American screenwriter and film director, and host of the Scriptnotes podcast along with Craig Mazin.
He also writes and maintains the popular screenwriting blog johnaugust.com, and develops screenwriter-targeted software.
He is a member of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences, voting in the Writers branch. In 2016, he was awarded the WGAw's Valentine Davies Award for his dignified contributions to the entertainment industry and the community-at-large.
August was born and raised in Boulder, Colorado. He earned a degree in journalism from Drake University in Des Moines, Iowa and an MFA in film from The Peter Stark Producing Program at the University of Southern California. He lives in Los Angeles.
August's debut film was 1999's critically acclaimed Go, for which he also served as co-producer and second unit director.
In 1998, August acquired the film rights to Daniel Wallace's Big Fish. His adaptation became the 2003 Tim Burton film of the same name and earned August a 2003 BAFTA Award nomination for Best Adapted Screenplay.
Since 2003, August has written the screenplay for several Tim Burton films, including Charlie and the Chocolate Factory (an adaptation of Roald Dahl's classic children's book), Corpse Bride, and Frankenweenie. August also shared story credit with Seth Grahame-Smith on Burton's Dark Shadows.
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