Kenneth Lonergan

Kenneth Lonergan (b. 1962, New York City) is best known as a dramatist (The Waverly Gallery was nominated for a Pulitzer Prize), but he also writes and directs for film. His feature debut, You Can Count on Me (2000), earned an Oscar nomination for Best Screenplay and took the Grand Jury Prize at Sundance. In 1999 he was invited to cooperate on the successful gangster comedy starring Robert De Niro, Analyze This, and he worked on the 2002 sequel as well. He cowrote Martin Scorsese’s Gangs of New York (2002), which was nominated for ten Academy Awards, including screenplay. Margaret represents his second attempt at the helm.

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