12 Facts About Scott Frank

Scott Frank was born to a Jewish family in Fort Walton Beach, Florida, on March 10,1960.

Scott Frank's family moved to Los Gatos, California where he went to high school.

Scott Frank attended the University of California, Santa Barbara, graduating in 1982 with a Bachelor of Arts in film studies.

Scott Frank credited the success of Get Shorty with reviving his interest in the job after a bad experience on Malice, and was particularly pleased as a longtime fan of Elmore Leonard's novels that he felt had not received satisfactory film adaptations previously.

Scott Frank won both the Writers Guild of America Award for Best Adapted Screenplay and the Edgar Award from the Mystery Writers of America, and was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Adapted Screenplay.

In 2007, Scott Frank made his directorial debut on The Lookout, a script he had started work on in 1998 and which was originally meant to be directed by Sam Mendes, who eventually departed the project to make Road to Perdition while encouraging Scott Frank to take on the task himself.

Scott Frank had attempted to recruit Sydney Pollack, the director of The Interpreter whom he considered a mentor, to direct the project.

Scott Frank won the Independent Spirit Award for Best First Feature for his work on the film.

In January 2016, Scott Frank published his first novel, Shaker, a crime mystery published by Penguin Random House.

Scott Frank worked in the burgeoning superhero genre for the first time, making two films with director James Mangold, The Wolverine and Logan.

However, Netflix outbid HBO for the project, which Scott Frank both wrote and directed.

Scott Frank won the 2021 Emmy for Outstanding Directing for a Limited or Anthology Series or Movie.