Tom Schulman
, b. 1951
Tom Schulman was born in Nashville, Tennessee in 1951. He graduated in philosophy at Vanderbilt University, located in his hometown. After that he moved to Los Angeles to attend USC Film School. He resigned after two semesters and started working in educational films and theatre. Schulman has written and co-written numerous scripts, such as Honey, I Shrunk the Kids (1989), Second Sight (1989), Holy Man (1989), What about Bob? (1991) and Welcome to Mooseport (2004). He also produced the movie Indecent Proposal (1993) and directed 8 Heads in a Duffel Bag (1997). In 2009 he was elected vice president of the Writers Guild of America, West (WGAW). Schulman remains best known for his semi-autobiographical screenplay Dead Poets Society, which won the Best Screenplay Academy Award in 1989.
Sources:
McCurrie, Tom, Dead Poet Society’s Tom Schulman on the art of surviving Hollywood, Writers SuperCentre, 2004 (accessed: September 14, 2022).
Tom Schulman Biography at filmreference.com (accessed: September 14, 2022).
Bio prepared by Zofia Kowalska, University of Warsaw, z.kowalska4@student.uw.edu.pl
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