18 Facts About Mark Boal

Mark Boal was born on January 23,1973 and is an American journalist, screenwriter, and film producer.

Mark Boal has won two Academy Awards, a BAFTA Award, two Writers Guild of America Awards, and a Producers Guild of America Award, and has four Golden Globe Award nominations.

Mark Boal was born on January 23,1973, in New York City, the son of Lillian Firestone and William Stetson Boal, Jr.

Mark Boal's half-brother is Christopher Stetson Boal, a playwright and screenwriter.

Mark Boal's mother was born to a Jewish family and his father converted to Judaism.

Mark Boal attended Bronx High School of Science and was on the high school's Speech and Debate Team.

Mark Boal earned his undergraduate degree in Philosophy from Oberlin College in 1995.

Mark Boal has contributed articles to such magazines as The Village Voice, Salon, Rolling Stone and Playboy.

Mark Boal wrote an article about one of the bomb experts, Sergeant Jeffrey S Sarver, in an article entitled, "The Man in the Bomb Suit", published in September 2005 in Playboy magazine.

Mark Boal went on to write an original screenplay, titled The Hurt Locker, about a fictional set of characters and events based on his interviews and observations in Iraq.

Mark Boal was a producer for the 2009 film adaptation set in Iraq, about a US Army Explosive Ordnance Disposal bomb squad.

In March 2010, Master Sergeant Jeffrey S Sarver announced he was suing the producers of The Hurt Locker because Boal allegedly based the main character and "virtually all of the situations" in the film on events involving him.

In March 2011, Mark Boal published an article in Rolling Stone about the Maywand District murders titled: The Kill Team: How US Soldiers in Afghanistan Murdered Innocent Civilians.

Mark Boal wrote the film Zero Dark Thirty, which was released in December 2012.

Mark Boal was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Original Screenplay and the film was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Picture.

Mark Boal lost to Quentin Tarantino who was nominated for Django Unchained.

Mark Boal was nominated for Writing in a Drama by the National Academy of Video Game Trade Reviewers for his work on Call of Duty: Advanced Warfare.

In 2021, it was announced that Mark Boal was in negotiations with Netflix to write a film based on the GameStop short squeeze of January 2021.