Akiva Goldsman
Highest Rated: 80% Cinderella Man (2005)
Lowest Rated: 8% Rings (2017)
Birthday: Jul 07, 1962
Birthplace: New York, New York, USA
Perhaps no other screenwriter in the annals of Hollywood history had as varied a career as Akiva Goldsman. For the first decade of his life as a film scribe, Goldsman collaborated with Joel Schumacher on some of the director's more derided films, including "Batman Forever" (1995) and the universally lambasted "Batman & Robin" (1997). Despite the financial success of both movies, Goldsman was trapped in a cycle of taking any job that came his way, rather than putting pen to paper on the stories he wanted to write. By the time the millennium rolled around, Goldsman was one of the top scribes working in the business, thanks in part to a lucrative side business as an uncredited writer-for-hire. But he finally received the respect he deserved when he became a member of the power trio that included director Ron Howard and star Russell Crowe on "A Beautiful Mind" (2001), which earned Goldsman his first Academy Award win. Following another critically acclaimed Howard-Crowe-Goldsman collaboration on "Cinderella Man" (2005), he baited controversy with successful adaptations of Dan Brown's "The Da Vinci Code" (2006) and "Angels and Demons" (2009), both of which confirmed that he was the top working screenwriter of his day.
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Filmography
Movies
| Credit | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Without Remorse | Producer | - | 2021 |
| 78% | 89% | Doctor Sleep | Executive Producer | $31.6M | 2019 |
| 16% | 45% | The Dark Tower |
Screenwriter, Producer |
$50.7M | 2017 |
| 8% | 23% | Rings | Screenwriter | $27.8M | 2017 |
| 30% | 69% | King Arthur: Legend of the Sword | Producer | $39.1M | 2017 |
| No Score Yet | 41% | Stephanie | Director | - | 2017 |
| 15% | 38% | The 5th Wave | Screenwriter | $34.9M | 2016 |
| 28% | 58% | The Divergent Series: Insurgent | Screenwriter | $130.1M | 2015 |
| No Score Yet | 44% | A New York Winter's Tale | Director | - | 2014 |
| 13% | 43% | Winter's Tale |
Director, Screenwriter, Producer |
$12.6M | 2014 |
| 75% | 87% | Lone Survivor | Producer | $125.1M | 2013 |
| 23% | 34% | Paranormal Activity 4 | Executive Producer | $53.9M | 2012 |
| 66% | 51% | Paranormal Activity 3 | Executive Producer | $104M | 2011 |
| 12% | 20% | Jonah Hex | Producer | $10.5M | 2010 |
| 79% | 65% | Fair Game | Producer | $9.5M | 2010 |
| 58% | 48% | Paranormal Activity 2 | Executive Producer | $84.7M | 2010 |
| 49% | 54% | The Losers | Producer | $23.6M | 2010 |
| 37% | 57% | Angels & Demons | Screenwriter | $133.4M | 2009 |
| 41% | 59% | Hancock | Producer | $227.9M | 2008 |
| 52% | 41% | I'm Reed Fish | Executive Producer | $2.2K | 2007 |
| 68% | 68% | I Am Legend |
Screenwriter, Producer |
$256.4M | 2007 |
| 33% | 43% | Poseidon | Producer | $60.7M | 2006 |
| 26% | 57% | The Da Vinci Code | Writer | $217.5M | 2006 |
| 60% | 58% | Mr. & Mrs. Smith | Producer | $186.3M | 2005 |
| 80% | 91% | Cinderella Man | Screenwriter | $61.6M | 2005 |
| 56% | 70% | I, Robot | Screenwriter | $144.8M | 2004 |
| 24% | 57% | Mindhunters | Producer | $4.5M | 2004 |
| 62% | 49% | Starsky & Hutch | Producer | $88.2M | 2004 |
| 74% | 93% | A Beautiful Mind | Writer | $170.7M | 2001 |
| 59% | 39% | Deep Blue Sea | Producer | $73.6M | 1999 |
| 22% | 73% | Practical Magic | Writer | $46.8M | 1998 |
| 28% | 24% | Lost in Space |
Writer, Producer |
$69.1M | 1998 |
| 11% | 16% | Batman & Robin | Writer | $107.3M | 1997 |
| 67% | 85% | A Time to Kill | Screenwriter | $108.7M | 1996 |
| 39% | 32% | Batman Forever | Writer | $182.5M | 1995 |
| 78% | 69% | The Client | Screenwriter | $90.8M | 1994 |
TV
| Credit | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 87% | 56% | Star Trek: Picard | Executive Producer | 2020 |
| 80% | 72% | Titans |
Creator, Director, Executive Producer, Writer |
2018-2019 |
| 96% | 87% | Underground | Executive Producer | 2017 |
| No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Childhood's End | Executive Producer | 2015 |
| No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Breakthrough | Director | 2015 |
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.