Ronald Bass

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Ronald Jay "Ron" Bass (born March 26, 1942 in Los Angeles , California ) is an American film producer and award-winning screenwriter .

biography

Bass began working as a screenwriter in film productions in the mid- 1980s and was first involved in Codename: Emerald (1985), a Jonathan Sanger film based on his novel The Emerald Illusion .

His first great success as a screenwriter he had with Man Rain (1988) by Barry Levinson , for which he and Barry Morrow at the Oscar ceremony in 1989 the Oscar for Best Original Screenplay was awarded. He and Morrow also won the British Academy Film Award (BAFTA Award) for Best Original Screenplay (1990), the Golden Globe Award for Best Screenplay (1989), and the Writers Guild of America Award (WGA Award) for Best Original Screenplay (1989) nominated.

For Wayne Wang's 1993 screenplay for Daughters of Heaven , he and Amy Tan , based on the novel, were nominated for the 1995 BAFTA Award for Best Adapted Screenplay. He and Amy Tan also received nominations for the USC Script Writer Award (1994) and the WGA Award for Best Adapted Screenplay (1994).

Bass, who was a member of the jury at the 1997 Venice Film Festival , also received the ShoWest Award for Screenwriter of the Year 1998 and the 2003 Hollywood Film Festival Prize and the Ojai Film Prize for his outstanding work in screenwriting Festival 2003 for his life's work.

Other well-known films with scripts written by him were The Stone Garden (1987) by Francis Ford Coppola , The Black Widow (1987) by Bob Rafelson , The Enemy in My Bed (1991) by Joseph Ruben , When a Man Loves a Woman - Eine Almost Perfect Love (1994) by Luis Mandoki , Waiting for Mr. Right (1995) by Forest Whitaker , Dangerous Minds (1995) by John N. Smith , My Best Friend's Wedding (1997) by PJ Hogan , Behind the Horizon (1998) by Vincent Ward , Verlockendefallen (1999) by Jon Amiel , Snow Falling on Cedars (1999) by Scott Hicks , Depth of Desire (2000) by Alain Berliner and Mozart and the Whale (2005) by Petter Næss .

Some of these films he also worked as a producer and was together with Jerry Zucker at the Satellite Awards 1997 with The Best Friend's Wedding nominated in the Best Picture (Comedy / Musical).

Bass, who worked as one of the most prolific writers in Hollywood a staff of employees, received by the film production company Carolco Pictures solely for the adaptation of the thriller Manhattan Ghost Story by TM Wright , a fee of two million dollars . His previously unfilmed scripts include the adaptations of The Shipping News , Memoirs of a Geisha and The Diving Bell and the Butterfly .

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SURNAME Bass, Ronald
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Bass, Ronald Jay (full name); Bass, Ron
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American screenwriter and film producer
DATE OF BIRTH March 26, 1942
PLACE OF BIRTH Los Angeles , California