1. Peter Craig was born on November 10,1969 and is an American novelist and screenwriter.
11 Facts About Peter Craig
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Peter Craig is best known for co-writing the screenplays to The Town, The Batman, and Top Gun: Maverick, earning an Academy Award nomination for the last.
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Peter Craig is one of two children of Steve Craig and actress Sally Field, since divorced.
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Peter Craig attended the Iowa Writers' Workshop at the University of Iowa and studied under authors Tobias Wolff and Marilynne Robinson.
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In 2016, Peter Craig adapted his own novel, Blood Father, into a film of the same name directed by Jean-Francois Richet, and then adapted the novel Horse Soldiers, Doug Stanton's nonfiction account of the war in Afghanistan, into the film 12 Strong.
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In 2022, Peter Craig co-wrote the screenplay Top Gun: Maverick with Justin Marks, Christopher McQuarrie, Ehren Kruger, and Eric Warren Singer, which earned him a nomination for the Academy Award for Best Adapted Screenplay.
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Peter Craig co-wrote the screenplay for The Mother with Andrea Berloff and Misha Green.
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Peter Craig has been nominated for two Writers Guild of America Awards and a Critics' Choice Movie Award for Best Adapted Screenplay.
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Peter Craig has been married three times and divorced twice: first to Amy Scattergood, the Los Angeles Times food writer, and then to Jennifer DeFrancisco.
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Peter Craig has two daughters with Scattergood, and a son with DeFrancisco.
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Peter Craig is currently married to Cristina Esposito whom he wed in 2023, a teacher and PhD candidate.