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Busy screenwriter Paul Attanasio began his career as film critic for The Washington Post (1984-87) and as host of "The Movie Show" (Cinemax, 1986-87), a cable series devoted to movie reviews, interviews and behind-the-scenes-reports on the contemporary film scene. He got his first scriptwriting break creating the pilot for the NBC series "Homicide: Life on the Street", a gritty look at the Baltimore police, produced by Barry Levinson. Levinson than brought Attanasio aboard "Disclosure" (1994), a thriller based on the Michael Crichton bestseller about sexual harassment in the workplace....

Filmography

Burnt Creek - ( Screenplay / / Announced / )
Burnt Creek - ( Source Material / / Announced / )
East of Eden (Remake) - ( Screenplay / / Announced / )
My Father the Spy - ( Producer / / Announced / )
My Father the Spy - ( Screenplay / / Announced / )
Riptide - ( Screenplay / / Announced / )
The Fighter - ( Screenplay / / Announced / )
The Good German - ( Screenplay / 2006 / Released / )
The Sum of All Fears - ( Screenplay / 2002 / Released / )
Sphere - ( Screenplay / 1998 / Released / Village Roadshow Pictures Worldwide )
Donnie Brasco - ( Screenplay / 1997 / Released / Village Roadshow Pictures Worldwide )
Disclosure - ( Screenplay / 1994 / Released / )
Quiz Show - ( Screenplay / 1994 / Released / )
TV Credits
Century City ( 2004 / Released ): Creator / Executive Producer
TV Episode Executive Producer

Love and Games ( 2004 )
TV Episode Executive Producer

To Know Her ( 2004 )
TV Episode Executive Producer

House ( 2004 / Released ): Executive Producer / Writer
Wilson's Heart ( 2008 )
TV Episode Executive Producer

House's Head ( 2008 )
TV Episode Executive Producer

Living the Dream ( 2008 )
TV Episode Executive Producer

TV Episode Executive Producer

TV Episode Executive Producer

Gideon's Crossing ( 2000 / Released ): Creator / Executive Producer / Writer
Homicide: The Movie ( 2000 / Released ): Characters as Source Material
Homicide: Life on the Street ( Released ): Creator / Writer
The Movie Show ( Released ): Actor
Full Biography (Back to top)

Busy screenwriter Paul Attanasio began his career as film critic for The Washington Post (1984-87) and as host of "The Movie Show" (Cinemax, 1986-87), a cable series devoted to movie reviews, interviews and behind-the-scenes-reports on the contemporary film scene. He got his first scriptwriting break creating the pilot for the NBC series "Homicide: Life on the Street", a gritty look at the Baltimore police, produced by Barry Levinson. Levinson than brought Attanasio aboard "Disclosure" (1994), a thriller based on the Michael Crichton bestseller about sexual harassment in the workplace. Robert Redford tapped him to work on the critically well-received "Quiz Show" (1994), about the game show scandals of the 1950s. The screenwriter picked up an Oscar nod for his screenplay. Attanasio then reteamed with producer Levinson, writing the screenplay for Mike Newell's crime drama "Donnie Brasco" (1997), featuring Al Pacino and Johnny Depp, before undertaking a second adaptation (sharing credit with Steve Hauser) of a Crichton novel, "Sphere" (1998), directed by Levinson and starring Dustin Hoffman, Samuel L Jackson and Sharon Stone.

Profession(s):
screenwriter, TV host, film critic, producer
Sometimes Credited As:
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Family
brother:Robert Attanasio (born c. 1963)
daughter:Annie Attanasio (born c. June 1992)
father:Jospeh Attanasio
mother:Connie Attanasio
wife:Katie Jacobs

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Education
Harvard University Cambridge, Massachusetts 1981
Harvard Law School Cambridge, Massachusetts JD 1984
Awards (Back to top)
BAFTA Award Best Adapted Screenplay "Quiz Show" 1994

Milestones (Back to top)
2007 Reportedly did uncredited rewrite for "The Bourne Ultimatum"
2006 Penned the adaptation for "The Good German" directed by Steven Soderbergh and starring George Clooney
2004 Executive produced "House M.D." (Fox) a medical drama starring Hugh Laurie
2002 Penned the pilot "R.U.S./H."; also served as an executive producer
2000 Created the ABC medical drama "Gideon's Crossing" loosely-based on the experience of the real life Dr. Jerome Groopman
1999 Received six-episode series commitment from ABC for hourlong medical drama based on the nonfiction work "The Measure of Our Days"; series expected to debut in fall 2000
1998 Co-screenwriting credit on Levinson-directed "Sphere", adapted from Michael Crichton's novel
1997 Scripted Mike Newell's hit mob movie "Donnie Brasco" (produced by Levinson); received second Oscar nomination for Best Adapted Screenplay
1994 Feature film screenwriting debut, "Quiz Show"; Levinson's company (Baltimore Pictures) was one of producers; earned Best Adapted Screenplay Academy Award nomination
1994 Adapted the Michael Crichton novel "Disclosure" for Levinson
1993 TV scriptwriting debut with the pilot episode of NBC's "Homicide: Life in the Streets" (produced by Barry Levinson)
1987 Moved to L.A.
1984 Hired to work at law firm of Cravath, Swaine & Moore; turned job down to intern at The Washington Post
1984 - 1987 Worked as a film critic for The Washington Post
Raised in Tenafly, New Jersey
Host of film review and interview cable series, "The Movie Show" (Cinemax)


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