Jay Cocks

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Jay Cocks (born January 12, 1944 in New York City ) is an American screenwriter and film critic.

Cocks studied at Kenyon College and worked as a film critic for Time magazine . He has been a full-time screenwriter since 1993. Cocks mainly works with director Martin Scorsese , including on the film Silence in 2016 .

His work on the Titanic script was not mentioned in the credits.

In his career so far, Cocks has been nominated twice for an Oscar . 1994 for Best Adapted Screenplay for Time of Innocence and 2003 for Best Screenplay for Gangs of New York .

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  1. kenyon.edu, accessed February 17, 2017
  2. backstage.com, accessed February 17, 2017