Ted Tally

Ted Tally (born April 9, 1952) is an American playwright and screenwriter. A graduate of Yale, he has received awards including the Academy Award for Best Adapted Screenplay, the Writers Guild of America Award, the Chicago Film Critics Award, and the Edgar Award from the Mystery Writers of America.

Career

Screenwriter

Born William Theodore Tally in North Carolina, Tally was educated at Yale College and the Yale School of Drama, and has also taught at each of them. His most notable credit is the screenplay for The Silence of the Lambs, which won him the Academy Award for Best Adapted Screenplay as well as the Writers Guild of America Award, Chicago Film Critics Award and an Edgar Award from the Mystery Writers of America. Other scripts include White Palace, Before and After, The Juror and All the Pretty Horses.^[1]

After declining to write the screenplay for Hannibal, Tally returned to the franchise to write Red Dragon. When asked by Inside Film Online why he opted not to write the screenplay for Hannibal, he responded, "For a lot of reasons. I didn't like the book. The director, Jonathan Demme, and I read it and were horrified. We didn't see how we could make a movie from it that we could be proud of and not feel sleazy about it, without making it a totally different story, which we could have done on our own. It was upsetting because we had a friendship with Tom Harris and felt we owed him a lot. But he was defensive and didn't want anything changed and it was frustrating because it would have been the biggest payday for all of us, putting us up there in Spielberg territory."^[2]

Plays and awards

Terra Nova was given a staged reading at the Eugene O'Neill Theater Center in 1977 and went on to win an Obie Award. Coming Attractions won the Outer Critics Circle Award. Tally's plays include Hooters, Little Footsteps, and Silver Linings. His television scripts include The Comedy Zone, Hooters, Terra Nova for BBC, and The Father Clements Story, which won him the Christopher Award. His other honors include fellowships from the NEA and the Guggenheim Foundation.

Other activities

Tally is also credited as an associate producer for Mission to Mars (2000), as well as creative consultant for Madagascar (2005) and story consultant for Shrek 2 (2004).

References

↑ http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0848217/
↑ "Austin Heart of Film Screenwriters Conference Draws Top Talent". Inside Film Magazine. April 1999.

External links

Academy Award for Best Adapted Screenplay

1928–1940	Benjamin Glazer (1928) Hanns Kräly (1929) Joseph W. Farnham, Martin Flavin, Frances Marion, and Lennox Robinson (1930) Howard Estabrook (1931) Edwin J. Burke (1932) Victor Heerman and Sarah Y. Mason (1933) Robert Riskin (1934) Dudley Nichols (1935) Pierre Collings and Sheridan Gibney (1936) Heinz Herald, Geza Herczeg, and Norman Reilly Raine (1937) Ian Dalrymple, Cecil Arthur Lewis, W. P. Lipscomb, and George Bernard Shaw (1938) Sidney Howard (1939) Donald Ogden Stewart (1940)

1941–1960	Sidney Buchman and Seton I. Miller (1941) George Froeschel, James Hilton, Claudine West, and Arthur Wimperis (1942) Philip G. Epstein, Julius J. Epstein, and Howard Koch (1943) Frank Butler, and Frank Cavett (1944) Charles Brackett and Billy Wilder (1945) Robert Sherwood (1946) George Seaton (1947) John Huston (1948) Joseph L. Mankiewicz (1949) Joseph L. Mankiewicz (1950) Harry Brown and Michael Wilson (1951) Charles Schnee (1952) Daniel Taradash (1953) George Seaton (1954) Paddy Chayefsky (1955) John Farrow, S. J. Perelman, and James Poe (1956) Carl Foreman and Michael Wilson (1957) Alan Jay Lerner (1958) Neil Paterson (1959) Richard Brooks (1960)

1961–1980	Abby Mann (1961) Horton Foote (1962) John Osborne (1963) Edward Anhalt (1964) Robert Bolt (1965) Robert Bolt (1966) Stirling Silliphant (1967) James Goldman (1968) Waldo Salt (1969) Ring Lardner Jr. (1970) Ernest Tidyman (1971) Francis Ford Coppola and Mario Puzo (1972) William Peter Blatty (1973) Francis Ford Coppola and Mario Puzo (1974) Bo Goldman and Laurence Hauben (1975) William Goldman (1976) Alvin Sargent (1977) Oliver Stone (1978) Robert Benton (1979) Alvin Sargent (1980)

1981–2000	Ernest Thompson (1981) Costa-Gavras and Donald E. Stewart (1982) James L. Brooks (1983) Peter Shaffer (1984) Kurt Luedtke (1985) Ruth Prawer Jhabvala (1986) Bernardo Bertolucci and Mark Peploe (1987) Christopher Hampton (1988) Alfred Uhry (1989) Michael Blake (1990) Ted Tally (1991) Ruth Prawer Jhabvala (1992) Steven Zaillian (1993) Eric Roth (1994) Emma Thompson (1995) Billy Bob Thornton (1996) Curtis Hanson and Brian Helgeland (1997) Bill Condon (1998) John Irving (1999) Stephen Gaghan (2000)

2001–present	Akiva Goldsman (2001) Ronald Harwood (2002) Philippa Boyens, Peter Jackson, and Fran Walsh (2003) Alexander Payne and Jim Taylor (2004) Larry McMurtry and Diana Ossana (2005) William Monahan (2006) Joel Coen and Ethan Coen (2007) Simon Beaufoy (2008) Geoffrey S. Fletcher (2009) Aaron Sorkin (2010) Alexander Payne, Jim Rash, and Nat Faxon (2011) Chris Terrio (2012) John Ridley (2013) Graham Moore (2014) Adam McKay and Charles Randolph (2015)

Saturn Award for Best Writing

William Peter Blatty (1973)
Ib Melchior/Harlan Ellison (1974/75)
Jimmy Sangster (1976)
George Lucas (1977)
Elaine May and Warren Beatty (1978)
Nicholas Meyer (1979)
William Peter Blatty (1980)
Lawrence Kasdan (1981)
Melissa Mathison (1982)
Ray Bradbury (1983)
James Cameron and Gale Anne Hurd (1984)
Tom Holland (1985)
James Cameron (1986)
Michael Miner and Edward Neumeier (1987)
Gary Ross and Anne Spielberg (1988)
William Peter Blatty (1989/90)
Ted Tally (1991)
James V. Hart (1992)
Michael Crichton and David Koepp (1993)
Jim Harrison and Wesley Strick (1994)
Andrew Kevin Walker (1995)
Kevin Williamson (1996)
Mike Werb and Michael Colleary (1997)
Andrew Niccol (1998)
Charlie Kaufman (1999)
David Hayter (2000)
Steven Spielberg (2001)
Scott Frank and Jon Cohen (2002)
Fran Walsh, Philippa Boyens, and Peter Jackson (2003)
Alvin Sargent (2004)
Christopher Nolan and David S. Goyer (2005)
Michael Dougherty and Dan Harris (2006)
Brad Bird (2007)
Christopher and Jonathan Nolan (2008)
James Cameron (2009)
Christopher Nolan (2010)
Jeff Nichols (2011)
Quentin Tarantino (2012)
Spike Jonze (2013)
Christopher and Jonathan Nolan (2014)
Lawrence Kasdan, J. J. Abrams, and Michael Arndt (2015)

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