Nancy Oliver

Nancy Oliver (born February 8, 1955 ) is an American screenwriter . Your screenplay for Lars und die Frauen has won several awards.

Life

Oliver studied literature at the University of Massachusetts at Amherst and theater at Florida State University in Tallahassee . There she met Alan Ball and founded a theater group with him, the General Nonsense Theater Company . After graduating, Oliver worked as a writer and director for various theaters in Florida. In 1997 Oliver moved to Los Angeles , shortly afterwards she became a writer on the HBO series Six Feet Under , for which she wrote the scripts and co-produced three seasons.

She wrote the screenplay for a feature film with Lars und die Frauen for the first time and was nominated and awarded several prizes for it. Oliver has been working for the television series True Blood since 2008 .

Filmography

2003–2005: Six Feet Under - People always die ( Six Feet Under )
2006: windfall
2007: Lars and the Real Girl ( Lars and the Real Girl )
since 2008: True Blood

Awards and nominations (selection)

NBR Award 2007 for Lars and the women
Satellite Awards 2007 : Nomination for Lars and the women
Academy Awards 2008 : Nomination in the category “Best Original Screenplay” for Lars and the women
Humanitas Prize 2008 for Lars and the women
WGA Award 2008: Nomination for Lars and the women
Producers Guild of America (PGA Award) 2010: Nomination for True Blood

Web links

Nancy Oliver in the Internet Movie Database (English)

Individual evidence

↑ Margy Rochlin: Guy and Doll, and the Woman Behind Them , New York Times article, October 7, 2007, accessed January 11, 2011.
^ ^A ^b ^c Nancy Oliver on theoscarsite.com, accessed January 11, 2011.
↑ Interview with Nancy Oliver ( Memento of the original from August 13, 2011 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. on moviefone.com, accessed January 11, 2011. @1@ 2

personal data
SURNAME	Oliver, Nancy
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	American screenwriter
DATE OF BIRTH	February 8, 1955

[nyt-1] Margy Rochlin: Guy and Doll, and the Woman Behind Them , New York Times article, October 7, 2007, accessed January 11, 2011.

[os-2] A ^b ^c Nancy Oliver on theoscarsite.com, accessed January 11, 2011.

[cm-3] Interview with Nancy Oliver ( Memento of the original from August 13, 2011 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. on moviefone.com, accessed January 11, 2011. @1@ 2