Michael Arndt is best known as the writer of the films Little Miss Sunshine, Toy Story 3, and Star Wars: The Force Awakens.
13 Facts About Michael Arndt
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Michael Arndt has been credited under the pseudonyms Michael deBruyn and Rick Kerb, which are mainly used for script revisions.
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Michael Arndt's father was a member of the Foreign Service, and as a result he lived in various countries, including Sri Lanka and India; he lived in Virginia for a time.
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Michael Arndt graduated from Langley High School in McLean, and attended The Potomac School.
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Michael Arndt graduated from the Tisch School of the Arts at New York University.
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Michael Arndt was a script reader for some time, and was a personal assistant to actor Matthew Broderick until late 1999, when he chose to begin writing screenplays full-time.
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Michael Arndt won multiple Best Original Screenplay awards for Little Miss Sunshine, from the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences, the British Academy of Film and Television Arts, and the Writers Guild of America.
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Michael Arndt was later invited to join the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences.
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Michael Arndt began collaborating with Lee Unkrich and other Pixar personnel on the screenplay for Toy Story 3 in 2006, working from a treatment by Andrew Stanton, who co-wrote the two preceding films in the series.
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Michael Arndt was nominated for Best Adapted Screenplay for his work for Toy Story 3, and became the first ever screenwriter to be nominated for both Academy Awards for Best Original Screenplay and Best Adapted Screenplay for his first two screenplays.
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Michael Arndt was one of several screenwriters brought on to perform script revisions for Men in Black 3.
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Michael Arndt wrote the script for The Hunger Games sequel, The Hunger Games: Catching Fire, based on the best-selling novel of the same name by Suzanne Collins.
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In November 2012, Michael Arndt was announced as the screenwriter for Star Wars: The Force Awakens.