Stephen Schiff

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Stephen Schiff
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Producers Guild Award

Stephen Schiff is an American screenwriter, producer, and journalist. He is best known for his work at The New Yorker and Vanity Fair, his screenplays for Lolita, True Crime, and Wall Street: Money Never Sleeps, and his work as a writer and producer on the FX television series The Americans.

Early life

Schiff grew up in Littleton, Colorado.[1] He graduated from Wesleyan University.[2]

Career

Schiff began his writing career at

David Denby),[3] and hired and trained such critics as Owen Gleiberman and David Edelstein
.

In 1983, he was a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize in Criticism.[4][5] Later that year, he was named Critic-at-Large of Vanity Fair, a post he held until 1992, when he became a staff writer at The New Yorker, specializing in cultural profiles, many of which appeared under his rubric, "Cultural Pursuits."[6] His subjects included Steven Spielberg, V. S. Naipaul, Stephen Sondheim, Oliver Stone, Muriel Spark, and Edward Gorey.[7]

From 1987 until 1996, Schiff was also the Film Critic of

West 57th, whose other Correspondents included Steve Kroft and Meredith Vieira.[citation needed
]

In 1995, Schiff was asked to write a screenplay adaptation of

New York Times review, critic Caryn James called "Stephen Schiff's discerning, faithful screenplay [...] sensitive to Nabokov's wit as well as his lyricism."[12]

Schiff became a full-time screenwriter,[13] leaving The New Yorker in 2003. His subsequent films include The Deep End of the Ocean (1999), starring Michelle Pfeiffer;[14] True Crime (1999), directed by and starring Clint Eastwood; Wall Street: Money Never Sleeps (2010), Oliver Stone's sequel to the 1987 film Wall Street;[15] and American Assassin (2017).[16]

In 2013, Schiff became a writer and Consulting Producer of the FX television series The Americans,[17] starring Keri Russell and Matthew Rhys. He continued with the show for the rest of its six-season run, rising to the position of writer/Executive Producer for its last two seasons.[18]

Schiff's episode "The Magic of David Copperfield V: The Statue of Liberty Disappears" (Season 4, Episode 8) was named the best episode of the entire series by New York magazine.[19]

For his work on

Writers Guild of America Award nominations.[22][23]

During Schiff's tenure with the show, The Americans was nominated for 72 major awards, winning 23 of them.

From 2011 to 2016, he was also the writer and Executive Producer of the extreme sports documentary series Ultimate Rush.[24]

Schiff served four terms on the governing Council of the

Writers Guild of America East. He also served as the Writers Guild's National Chairman and twice headed the East's negotiating committee. In 2002, he was given the Guild's Richard B. Jablow Award.[25]

Since 2005, he has served as chairman of the Board of the Society for the Study of Myth and Tradition, which publishes Parabola magazine. He is a member of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences (AMPAS), the Academy of Television Arts & Sciences, the Writers Guild of America, the Producers Guild of America, and PEN America.

He contributed the critical essay on Nabokov's Lolita to Harvard University Press's landmark scholarly compendium A New Literary History of America, which was published in September, 2009.[26]

In December 2009, Henry Holt and Company announced that it would publish Schiff's forthcoming biography of Norman Mailer.[27]

In November 2018, Schiff was hired by Lucasfilm to serve as showrunner for Andor TV series. He stepped down from the position in February 2020, and in April 2020 Tony Gilroy replaced him as showrunner. Schiff remained involved with the series, writing the seventh episode ("Announcement") of the first season.

Schiff was an Executive Producer and writer on the Showtime TV series Super Pumped. The show debuted in February 2022.[28]

Filmography

Bibliography

References

  1. ^ Schiff, Stephen (April 22, 1999). "Littleton, Then and Now". The New York Times. Retrieved 2009-08-14.
  2. ^ Dunne, Susan (November 29, 2007). "Going From Book To Film". The Hartford Courant.
  3. The Boston Phoenix, archived from the original
    on 2009-05-06, retrieved 2009-08-14
  4. ^ The Pulitzer Prizes 1983 Finalists, Columbia University: The Pulitzer Prizes, retrieved 2009-08-14
  5. ^ The Pulitzer Prizes Criticism, Columbia University: The Pulitzer Prizes, retrieved 2009-08-14
  6. ^ Carmody, Deirdre (1992-07-02). "www.nytimes.com/1992/07/02/arts/a-tina-brown-goal-for-the-new-yorker-it-s-all-about-mix.html". The New York Times. Retrieved 2010-05-24.
  7. ^ "Archived copy". The New Yorker. Archived from the original on 2011-06-07. Retrieved 2009-08-13.{{cite magazine}}: CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link)
  8. ^ "www.npr.org/search/index.php?searchinput=stephen+schiff". NPR.
  9. ^ Maslin, Janet (1985-01-03). "www.nytimes.com/1985/01/03/movies/stranger-than-paradise-wins-award.html". The New York Times. Retrieved 2010-05-24.
  10. ^ "www.nytimes.com/1987/01/05/movies/critics-vote-blue-velvet-best-86-film.html". The New York Times. 1987-01-05. Retrieved 2010-05-24.
  11. ^ Weinraub, Bernard (1998-08-05). "www.nytimes.com/1998/08/05/movies/lolita-defying-expectations.html". The New York Times. Retrieved 2010-05-24.
  12. ^ James, Caryn (1998-07-31). "www.nytimes.com/1998/07/31/movies/television-review-revisiting-a-dangerous-obsession.html". The New York Times.
  13. ^ Rooney, David; Harris, Dana (2004-07-28). "www.variety.com/article/VR1117908391.html?categoryid=1238&cs=1". Variety. Archived from the original on 2012-09-15.
  14. ^ Maslin, Janet (1999-03-12). "www.nytimes.com/1999/03/12/movies/film-review-a-child-is-gone-and-then-he-is-not.html". The New York Times.
  15. ^ Cieply, Michael (2007-05-05). "Film's Wall Street Predator to Make a Comeback". The New York Times. Retrieved September 23, 2022.
  16. ^ "Review: He's lean. He's mean. He's angry. And he's out to save the world in 'American Assassin'". Los Angeles Times. 14 September 2017.
  17. ^ "The Americans Recap: Partial Truths". 20 March 2014.
  18. ^ "Meet the Cast of the Americans".
  19. ^ "Every Episode of the Americans, Ranked". June 2018.
  20. ^ Petski, Denise (2019-01-07). "'The Americans' Takes Its First Golden Globe For Best Drama Series In Farewell Season". Deadline. Retrieved 2022-09-15.
  21. ^ "The Americans".
  22. ^ "'The Big Short' and 'Spotlight' Win Writers Guild Awards: Complete Winners List". 13 February 2016.
  23. ^ "Writers Guild Award TV Nominations: 'The Americans,' 'Handmaid's Tale,' 'GLOW' Grab Multiple Mentions". 7 December 2017.
  24. ^ [1] Archived 2014-08-22 at the Wayback Machine
  25. ^ "Special Awards History, 1978-2009". Writers Guild of America, East. 1 July 2008. Archived from the original on March 8, 2016. Retrieved 2009-08-14.
  26. ^ "A New Literary History of America, Edited by Greil Marcus and Werner Sollors". Newliteraryhistory.com. Retrieved 2018-09-20.
  27. ^ "Holt Acquires Schiff Bio of Mailer".
  28. ^ Cordero, Rosy (November 23, 2021). "'Super Pumped': Showtime Sets Premiere For Anthology Series From 'Billions' Co-Creators". Deadline Hollywood. Archived from the original on November 24, 2021. Retrieved November 24, 2021.
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