1. Paul Albert Attanasio was born on November 14,1959 and is an American screenwriter and producer.
10 Facts About Paul Attanasio
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Paul Attanasio has twice been nominated for the Academy Award for Best Adapted Screenplay, once for Quiz Show and once for Donnie Brasco.
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Paul Albert Attanasio was born in the Bronx borough of New York City on November 14,1959, the son of real estate broker Connie and commercial consultant Joseph Attanasio.
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Paul Attanasio is a 1981 graduate of Harvard College, where he lived in Currier House, and earned his Juris Doctor degree at Harvard Law School in 1984.
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Paul Attanasio was a film critic for The Washington Post from 1984 to 1987.
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Paul Attanasio started writing for television with the CBS sitcom Doctor Doctor and the NBC crime drama series Homicide: Life on the Street, for which he holds a "created by" credit.
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In 1995 Paul Attanasio won a BAFTA Award for Best Adapted Screenplay for his work on Quiz Show.
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Paul Attanasio later wrote the screenplays for the thriller Disclosure, the gangster thriller Donnie Brasco, the science fiction thriller Sphere, and the political thrillers The Sum of All Fears and The Good German.
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Paul Attanasio created Tommy and co-created Bull, which premiered in 2020 and 2016, respectively.
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In 2017, it was confirmed that Paul Attanasio would be writing and executive producing a new Amazon Video series titled Tong Wars.