Akiva Goldsman
Highest Rated: 84% Star Trek Into Darkness (2013)
Lowest Rated: 8% Rings (2017)
Birthday: Jul 7, 1962
Birthplace: Not Available
Screenwriter Akiva Goldsman was born in Brooklyn, NY, where his mother and father were both child psychologists. Goldsman graduated from Wesleyan University in 1983, where one of his classmates was Paul Schiff; they lived together in a student house where the misadventures of the residents helped to inspire the campus comedy P.C.U., which Schiff produced. After graduating from Wesleyan, Goldsman studied creative writing at New York University, and later took up screenwriting. Goldsman's first screenplay to be produced was for the comedy-drama Indian Summer; his experiences with his parents helped to inform his second produced screenplay, Silent Fall, which concerned a psychologist dealing with an autistic child who witnessed a crime. Goldsman next adapted two John Grisham novels for the screen, The Client and A Time to Kill, and two films in the Batman franchise, Batman Forever and Batman & Robin. Goldsman took on the duties of producer as well as screenwriter for the first time in 1998 with the screen adaptation of the once-popular TV series Lost in Space; Goldman was also producer on the thriller Deep Blue Sea. In 2001, Goldsman won both a Golden Globe and an Oscar for his screenplay for the film A Beautiful Mind, based on the biography of John Nash written by Sylvia Nasar; Goldsman's script was also nominated for awards by the American Film Institute, the British Academy of Film and Television Arts, and the Chicago Film Critics Association.
Highest Rated Movies
Filmography
Movies
| Credit | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 77% | Doctor Sleep | Executive Producer | — | 2019 |
| 16% | The Dark Tower | Screenwriter Producer | $50.7M | 2017 |
| 15% | Transformers: The Last Knight | Producer | $130.2M | 2017 |
| 30% | King Arthur: Legend Of The Sword | Producer | $39.1M | 2017 |
| 8% | Rings | Screenwriter | $27.8M | 2017 |
| 15% | The 5th Wave | Screenwriter | — | 2016 |
| 28% | Insurgent | Screenwriter | $114.2M | 2015 |
| No Score Yet | El Aro 3 | Screenwriter | — | 2015 |
| No Score Yet | Zbuntowana 3D | Screenwriter | — | 2015 |
| 13% | Winter's Tale | Screenwriter Producer Director | $10.7M | 2014 |
| 75% | Lone Survivor | Producer | $97.7M | 2014 |
| No Score Yet | A New York Winter's Tale | Director | — | 2014 |
| 84% | Star Trek Into Darkness | Starfleet Admiral | $228.8M | 2013 |
| 24% | Paranormal Activity 4 | Executive Producer | $54M | 2012 |
| No Score Yet | Dreamers | Actor | — | 2012 |
| 67% | Paranormal Activity 3 | Executive Producer | $104M | 2011 |
| 36% | Finding Joe | Akiva Goldsman | $56K | 2011 |
| 79% | Fair Game | Producer | $9.6M | 2010 |
| 59% | Paranormal Activity 2 | Executive Producer | $84.8M | 2010 |
| 12% | Jonah Hex | Producer | $10.6M | 2010 |
| 48% | The Losers | Producer | $23.5M | 2010 |
| 36% | Angels & Demons | Screenwriter | $133.4M | 2009 |
| 41% | Hancock | Executive #1 Producer | $228M | 2008 |
| 68% | I Am Legend | Producer Screenwriter | $256.4M | 2007 |
| 52% | I'm Reed Fish | Executive Producer | — | 2007 |
| 45% | Brooklyn Rules | Executive Producer | $0.3M | 2007 |
| 26% | The Da Vinci Code | Screenwriter | $217.6M | 2006 |
| 33% | Poseidon | Producer | $60.7M | 2006 |
| 59% | Mr. & Mrs. Smith | Producer | $186.3M | 2005 |
| 80% | Cinderella Man | Screenwriter | $61.7M | 2005 |
| 24% | Mindhunters | Producer | — | 2005 |
| 46% | Constantine | Producer | $75.5M | 2005 |
| 56% | I, Robot | Screenwriter | $144.8M | 2004 |
| 62% | Starsky & Hutch | Producer | $87.2M | 2004 |
| 58% | The Missing | Screenwriter | $27M | 2003 |
| 74% | A Beautiful Mind | Screenwriter | — | 2001 |
| 60% | Deep Blue Sea | Producer | — | 1999 |
| 21% | Practical Magic | Screenwriter | — | 1998 |
| 28% | Lost in Space | Producer Screenwriter | — | 1998 |
| 11% | Batman & Robin | Screenwriter | — | 1997 |
| 66% | A Time to Kill | Screenwriter | — | 1996 |
| 39% | Batman Forever | Screenwriter | — | 1995 |
| 22% | Silent Fall | Screenwriter | — | 1994 |
| 78% | The Client | Screenwriter | — | 1994 |
TV
| Credit | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| 90% |
Star Trek: Picard 2020 |
Executive Producer |
2020 |
| 82% |
Titans 2018 |
Executive Producer Screenwriter Director |
2019 2018 |
| 96% |
Underground 2016-2017 |
Executive Producer |
2017 2016 |
| 70% |
Childhood's End 2015 |
Producer Executive Producer |
2015 |
| 90% |
Fringe 2008-2013 |
Producer Screenwriter Director |
2013 2012 2011 2010 2009 |
| No Score Yet |
Unscripted 2005 |
2005 |
QUOTES FROM Akiva Goldsman CHARACTERS
Starfleet Admiral says: Intellect alone is useless in a fight, Mr. Spock. You.. You can't even break a rule. How would you be expected to break bone?
Starfleet Admiral says: Intellect alone is useless in a fight, Mr. Spock. You... you can't even break a rule. How would you be expected to break bone?
Christopher Pike says: I believe in you Jim.
Starfleet Admiral says: I believe in you, Jim.
James Kirk says: Scotty are you good
Starfleet Admiral says: Scotty, are you good?
Scotty says: it not easy just give me two seconds alright you mad bastard
Scotty says: It's not easy. Just give me two seconds, alright, you mad bastard?
James Kirk says: scotty we gotta jump
Starfleet Admiral says: Scotty, we gotta jump.
Scotty says: what
Scotty says: What?
James Kirk says: jump jump
Starfleet Admiral says: Jump! Jump!
Scotty says: oh god
Scotty says: Oh, God.
Leonard "Bones" McCoy says: there trying to kill us, there trying to kill us Jim
Starfleet Admiral says: They're trying to kill us. They're trying to kill us, Jim.