Stephen Gaghan is an American screenwriter and director.
13 Facts About Stephen Gaghan
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Stephen Gaghan is noted for writing the screenplay for Steven Soderbergh's film Traffic, based on a Channel 4 series, for which he won the Academy Award for Best Adapted Screenplay, as well as Syriana which he wrote and directed.
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Stephen Gaghan wrote and directed the thriller Abandon and the family film Dolittle, and directed the drama Gold.
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Stephen Gaghan was an All-State soccer player where he held the assist record at the school for nearly three decades.
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Stephen Gaghan is a grandson of Jerry Gaghan, a newspaper columnist and drama critic for Variety and the Philadelphia Daily News.
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Stephen Gaghan wrote in a 2001 article in Newsweek, "I wanted to be a writer, like my grandfather, who carried a card in his wallet that read, "If you find me, call my son [my father] at this number.
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Stephen Gaghan attended the University of Kentucky and was a member of Delta Tau Delta fraternity.
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Stephen Gaghan was a student on the Fall 1986 Voyage of the "Semester at Sea" Study Abroad Program where he attended classes on board the SS Universe and sailed around the world.
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Stephen Gaghan eventually graduated from Babson College in 1988 with a degree in screenwriting.
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Stephen Gaghan wrote the screenplay for Traffic, for which he won an Academy Award for Best Adapted Screenplay in 2000.
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Stephen Gaghan turned down the chance to adapt Dan Brown's novel, The Da Vinci Code.
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Stephen Gaghan's next project is a film adaptation of Malcolm Gladwell's book, Blink: The Power of Thinking Without Thinking.
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Stephen Gaghan is set to direct crime thriller Candy Store.