16 Facts About Al Reinert

Al Reinert was an American journalist, film director, screenwriter and producer.

Al Reinert co-wrote the screenplays for the Ron Howard film Apollo 13 and Final Fantasy: The Spirits Within, but is best known for directing and producing For All Mankind, an award-winning 1989 documentary about NASA's Apollo program.

Al Reinert died of lung cancer at his home in Wimberley, Texas on December 31,2018.

Al Reinert went to high school in Fort Worth, Texas and attended West Point for a year before dropping out with the aim of playing professional baseball.

Al Reinert soon worked his way up from crime reporting to covering politics, but his own left-leaning political views put him at odds with the newspaper's management.

Al Reinert's first story for Texas Monthly was a nostalgic take on the heyday of NASA's human lunar landing Apollo program.

Al Reinert contributed to Rolling Stone, Esquire and The New York Times Magazine.

Al Reinert spent hundreds of hours interviewing former astronauts and culled through thousands of hours of NASA footage.

In 1996, the film was nominated for nine Oscars, including Best Adapted Screenplay, but Broyles' and Al Reinert's effort lost to Emma Thompson's work on Sense and Sensibility.

Al Reinert eventually moved to Los Angeles to continue his screen writing career.

Al Reinert co-wrote and shared an Emmy Award for the 1998 HBO miniseries From the Earth to the Moon.

Tired of Los Angeles' "dehumanizing" film industry, Al Reinert sought a project that would take him back to Texas.

Al Reinert took the film across the US where he showed it in private screenings at Audubon Society meetings and museums.

At the time of his death, Al Reinert was working on another space-based documentary, Above It All, about the International Space Station.

Al Reinert is best known for her role as Patsy in the 1983 film Terms of Endearment.

Al Reinert died from lung cancer at his home in Wimberley, Texas on December 31,2018.