Chris Terrio was born on December 31,1976 and is an American screenwriter and film director.
21 Facts About Chris Terrio
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Chris Terrio is best known for writing the screenplay for the 2012 film Argo, for which he won the Academy Award for Best Adapted Screenplay.
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Chris Terrio completed another screenplay, A Foreigner, based on an article by the journalist David Grann.
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Chris Terrio co-wrote the script for Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker with director JJ Abrams.
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Chris Terrio was raised in a Catholic family in Staten Island, and graduated from St Joseph by the Sea High School.
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Chris Terrio graduated in 1997 from Harvard University, where he studied English literature and German phenomenology, lived in Adams House, and participated in the Harvard Radcliffe Dramatic Club and the Hasty Pudding Theatricals.
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Chris Terrio attended University of Cambridge for his MLitt, but eventually decided to enroll in film school.
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Chris Terrio received his master's degree from the USC School of Cinematic Arts in 2002.
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At age 26, Chris Terrio directed the feature film Heights, which premiered at the Sundance Film Festival.
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Chris Terrio wrote the script for Argo, winning the Academy Award for Best Adapted Screenplay for the screenplay, and the Writers Guild of America Award for Best Adapted Screenplay.
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Chris Terrio's screenplay was nominated for Best Screenplay awards from the Golden Globes and the BAFTA Awards.
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Chris Terrio loosely adapted the screenplay based on a Wired article by Joshuah Bearman titled "The Great Escape" and the memoir of Tony Mendez, The Master of Disguise, supplementing that material with extensive research of his own.
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Chris Terrio recalls the experience of writing a dialogue-intensive scene for Argo:.
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Chris Terrio couldn't seem disrespectful, yet he had to make his case.
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Chris Terrio had previously written the screenplays for two films he directed: the feature film Heights, which screened at the Sundance Film Festival, and the award-winning short film Book of Kings.
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On January 30,2017, it was announced that Chris Terrio had performed a re-write on Ben Affleck's script for an untitled Batman movie, which Affleck co-wrote with DCEU co-runner and producer Geoff Johns.
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Chris Terrio has been hired by Paramount Pictures and Indian Paintbrush to write the script for the drama A Murder Foretold, based on an article in The New Yorker by David Grann related to a number of high-profile murders in Guatemala.
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Chris Terrio has completed the adaptation of Harlan Coben's novel Tell No One for Warner Bros.
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On September 12,2017 it was announced that Chris Terrio would be co-writing the script for Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker with director JJ Abrams.
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Chris Terrio served as an assistant director on the short film Equation, directed by Anuj Majumdar, and was a grip on the short film Awake, directed by Lori Lovoy-Goran.
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Chris Terrio won a DGA Student Film Award and a SXSW Competition Award for her documentary short film In Between Days.