Ted Elliott (screenwriter)

Ted Elliott

Born	(1961-07-04) July 4, 1961 Santa Ana, California, United States
Occupation	Film writer / Film producer

Ted Elliott (born July 4, 1961) is an American screenwriter. Along with his writing partner Terry Rossio, Elliott has written some of the most successful American films of the past 30 years, including Aladdin, Shrek and the Pirates of the Caribbean series. In 2004, he was elected to the Board of Directors of the Writers Guild of America; his term on the board ended in 2006. Along with fellow former board member Craig Mazin, Elliott runs artfulwriter.com,^[1] a website aimed at professional screenwriters. He is also a co-founder with Terry Rossio of Wordplay.

In 2005, Elliott ran for president of the Writers Guild of America, west, but lost to animation writer and historical figurine maker Patric Verrone. Verrone received 1301 votes; Elliott received 591.

Awards, nominations

2001 - Nominated for Academy Award for Writing Adapted Screenplay for Shrek
2002 - Nominated for Nebula Award nomination for Best Script for Shrek
2003 - Nominated for Bram Stoker Award for Best Screenplay for Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl
2004 - Nominated for Hugo Award for Best Dramatic Presentation for Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl
2013 - Nominated for Golden Raspberry Award for Worst Screenplay for The Lone Ranger

Filmography (partial listing)

1989 Little Monsters (screenwriter)
1992 Aladdin (screenwriter)
1994 The Puppet Masters (screenwriter)
1998 The Mask of Zorro (screenwriter)
1998 Antz (consultant/advisor)
1998 Godzilla (original screenplay, story by)
1998 Small Soldiers (screenwriter)
2000 Monkey Island film (cancelled, screenwriter)^[2]
2000 The Road to El Dorado (screenwriter)
2001 Shrek (co-producer/screenwriter)
2002 Treasure Planet (story by)
2003 Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl (screenwriter)
2003 Sinbad: Legend of the Seven Seas (consultant/advisor)
2004 National Treasure (screenwriter) (uncredited)
2005 Instant Karma (producer)
2005 The Legend of Zorro (story by)
2006 Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man's Chest (screenwriter)
2007 Pirates of the Caribbean: At World's End (screenwriter)
2007 National Treasure: Book of Secrets (story by)
2009 G-Force (associate producer/writer uncredited)
2011 Pirates of the Caribbean: On Stranger Tides (screenwriter/associate producer)
2013 The Lone Ranger (screenwriter)

References

↑ The Artful Writer
↑ Staff (September 2009). "Tails from Monkey Island". Retro Gamer. Imagine Publishing (70): 28–35.

Ted Elliott Filmography and Biography, provided by Wordplayer.com

External links

http://www.wordplayer.com Wordplayer.com
Ted Elliott at the Internet Movie Database

Annie Award for Writing in a Feature Production

Andrew Stanton, Joss Whedon, Joel Cohen and Alec Sokolow (1996)
Rita Hsiao, Chris Sanders, Philip LaZebnik, Raymond Singer and Eugenia Bostwick-Singer (1998)
Brad Bird and Tim McCanlies (1999)
John Lasseter, Pete Docter, Ash Brannon, Andrew Stanton, Rita Hsiao, Doug Chamberlin and Chris Webb (2000)
Ted Elliott, Terry Rossio, Joe Stillman and Roger S. H. Schulman (2001)
Hayao Miyazaki (2002)
Andrew Stanton, Bob Peterson and David Reynolds (2003)
Brad Bird (2004)
Steve Box, Nick Park and Mark Burton (2005)
Dick Clement, Ian La Frenais, Christopher Lloyd, Joe Keenan and William Davies (2006)
Brad Bird (2007)
Jonathan Aibel and Glenn Berger (2008)
Wes Anderson and Noah Baumbach (2009)
Chris Sanders, Will Davies and Dean DeBlois (2010)
James Ward Byrkit, John Logan and Gore Verbinski (2011)
Phil Johnston and Jennifer Lee (2012)
Hayao Miyazaki (2013)
Phil Lord and Christopher Miller (2014)
Pete Docter, Meg LeFauve and Josh Cooley (2015)

BAFTA Award for Best Adapted Screenplay

Ruth Prawer Jhabvala (1983)
Bruce Robinson (1984)
Richard Condon and Janet Roach (1985)
Kurt Luedtke (1986)
Claude Berri and Gérard Brach (1987)
Jean-Claude Carrière and Philip Kaufman (1988)
Christopher Hampton (1989)
Nicholas Pileggi and Martin Scorsese (1990)
Dick Clement, Roddy Doyle and Ian La Frenais (1991)
Michael Tolkin (1992)
Steven Zaillian (1993)
Paul Attanasio (1994)
John Hodge (1995)
Anthony Minghella (1996)
Baz Luhrmann and Craig Pearce (1997)
Elaine May (1998)
Neil Jordan (1999)
Stephen Gaghan (2000)
Ted Elliott, Terry Rossio, Roger S. H. Schulman and Joe Stillman (2001)
Charlie Kaufman and Donald Kaufman (2002)
Philippa Boyens, Peter Jackson and Fran Walsh (2003)
Alexander Payne and Jim Taylor (2004)
Larry McMurtry and Diana Ossana (2005)
Jeremy Brock and Peter Morgan (2006)
Ronald Harwood (2007)
Simon Beaufoy (2008)
Jason Reitman and Sheldon Turner (2009)
Aaron Sorkin (2010)
Bridget O'Connor and Peter Straughan (2011)
David O. Russell (2012)
Steve Coogan and Jeff Pope (2013)
Anthony McCarten (2014)
Adam McKay and Charles Randolph (2015)

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