Akiva Goldsman

Premiere: Producer Akiva Goldsman at the Los Angeles premiere of 20th Century Fox's Mr. & Mrs. Smith - 6/7/2005 Photo: Steve Granitz, WireImage.com

Biography

Born 07/07/1962

Perhaps no other screenwriter in the annals of Hollywood history had as varied a career as Akiva Goldsman. For the first decade of his life as a film scribe, Goldsman collaborated with Joel Schumacher on some of the director’s more derided films, including “Batman Forever” (1995) and the...
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Awards

  • In 2002, received Writers Guild of America Award for Adapted Screenplay
  • In 2002, received Academy Award for Adapted Screenplay
  • In 2002, received Golden Globe Award for Best Screenplay - Motion Picture

Highlights

  • In 2009, Penned "Angels & Demons," the film adaptation of Dan Brown's novel and sequel to "The Da Vinci Code"; re-teamed with Hanks and Howard
  • In 2008, Re-teamed with Will Smith to produce the superhero comedy, "Hancock"
  • In 2007, Produced and co-wrote with Reed Fish, the semi-autobiographical tale about seizing the day, "I'm Reed Fish"

Family & Companions

  • Tev Goldsman: father (Co-founded Blueberry Treatment Centers, one of the first group homes for emotionally disturbed children; divorced from Goldsman's mother)
  • Mira Rothenberg: mother (Holocaust survivor; co-founded Blueberry Treatment Centers, one of the first group homes for emotionally disturbed children; divorced from Goldsman's father)

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