Aaron Sorkin
Screenwriter and Playwright
Sorkin, 65, made his name with the play A Few Good Men, his first produced play (1989) and screenplay (1992), which is now being revived on Broadway. He ventured into TV, first with ABC’s Sports Night (1998-2000), then with The West Wing (1999-2006), the latter of which proved to be one of the most critically acclaimed and popular shows of all time.
Subsequent TV shows included NBC’s Studio 60 on the Sunset Strip (2006-2007) and HBO’s The Newsroom (2012-2014), while additional screenplays included 2007’s Charlie Wilson’s War, the aforementioned The Social Network, 2011’s Moneyball and 2015’s Steve Jobs. He won the best adapted screenplay Oscar for Social Network and was nominated for it again the following year for Moneyball. He won the best screenplay Golden Globe for Social Network and Steve Jobs.
He has since then directed films that he also wrote, including Molly's Game (2017), The Trial of the Chicago 7 (2020) and Being the Ricardos (2021), garnering additional screenplay Oscar noms for Molly's Game and The Trial of the Chicago 7, the latter of which was also nominated for the best picture Oscar. Now comes The Social Reckoning, starring Mikey Madison, Jeremy Allen White and Jeremy Strong.
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