Roger Avary

Roger Avary
Roger Avary in Ojai, California, 2012
Born	Roger d'Avary (1965-08-23) August 23, 1965 (age 51) Flin Flon, Manitoba, Canada
Occupation	Film director, television director, screenwriter, film producer, television producer
Years active	1992-present

Roger Avary (born August 23, 1965) is a Canadian film and television producer, screenwriter and director in the American mass media industry. He worked on Reservoir Dogs and Pulp Fiction, for which he and Quentin Tarantino were awarded the Oscar for Best Original Screenplay at the 67th Academy Awards. He wrote the screenplays of Silent Hill and Beowulf. He also directed Killing Zoe and The Rules of Attraction.

Avary contributed material which, combined with Quentin Tarantino's, formed the screenplay of Pulp Fiction (1994) for which he and Tarantino won the Academy Award for Best Original Screenplay.

Avary also wrote and directed the neo-noir cult thriller Killing Zoe (1994) which Tarantino executive produced. The film was honored with le Prix très spécial à Cannes 1994, the very same year that Pulp Fiction won the Palme d'Or. It continued to win awards worldwide on the festival circuit, including the Grand Prize at Japan's Yubari International Fantastic Film Festival in February 1994 and the Italian Mystfest.