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Tony Kushner

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Anthony Robert Kushner (born July 16, 1956) is an American author, playwright, and screenwriter. Lauded for his work on stage he's most known for his seminal work Angels in America which earned a Pulitzer Prize and a Tony Award. At the turn of the 21st Century he became known for his numerous film collaborations with Steven Spielberg. He received the National Medal of Arts from President Barack Obama in 2013. Kushner made his Broadway debut in 1993 with both Angels in America: Millennium Approaches and Angels in America: Perestroika. He received the Pulitzer Prize for Drama and the Tony Award for Best Play. He then adapted it into a 2003 miniseries directed by Mike Nichols for which Kushner received a Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Writing for a Limited Series or Movie. In 2003 he wrote the lyrics and book to the musical Caroline, or Change which earned Kushner Tony Award nominations for Best Book of a Musical and Best Original Score. The 2021 Broadway revival of Caroline, or Change earned Kushner a nomination for the 2023 Grammy Award for Best Musical Theater Album, making Kushner among the few playwrights in history nominated for all four major American entertainment awards: the Emmy, Grammy, Oscar, and Tony Awards. He has collaborated with director Steven Spielberg on the films Munich (2005), Lincoln (2012), West Side Story (2021), and The Fabelmans (2022), the former two earning him nominations for the Academy Award for Best Adapted Screenplay. Description above from the Wikipedia article Tony Kushner, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.

Born

New York City, New York, USA on 16th July 1956

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Golden Globe Awards
Self - Winner
Finding Your Roots Image
Finding Your Roots
Self
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POV
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Spielberg
Self
The Jewish Americans Image
The Jewish Americans
Self
Arthur Miller: Writer Image
Arthur Miller: Writer
Self
Mike Nichols: An American Master Image
Mike Nichols: An American Master
Self
Something's Coming: West Side Story Image
Something's Coming: West Side Story
Self
Bully. Coward. Victim. The Story of Roy Cohn Image
Bully. Coward. Victim. The Story of Roy Cohn
Self
Eugene O’Neill: A Documentary Film Image
Eugene O’Neill: A Documentary Film
Self
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The Stories of West Side Story
Self
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Outrage
Self
The Fabelmans: A Family in Film Image
The Fabelmans: A Family in Film
Self
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Wrestling with Angels: Playwright Tony Kushner
Self
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The Royal Road
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Theater of War
Self
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Lincoln: An American Journey
Self
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Live to Tell: The First Gay and Lesbian Prom in America
Self - Playwright, "Angels in America"
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In the Wings: Angels in America On Broadway