# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/anthony-mccarten
# Generated: 2026-08-31T18:39:51.805Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/anthony-mccarten"
name: "Anthony McCarten"
slug: "anthony-mccarten"
description: "Anthony McCarten is a New Zealand writer and filmmaker. He is best known for writing big-budget biopics The Theory of Everything (2014), Darkest Hour (2017), Bohemian Rhapsody (2018), The Two Popes (2019), and Whitney Houston: I Wanna Dance with Somebody (2022). McCarten has been nominated for four Academy Awards, including twice for Best Adapted Screenplay, for The Theory of Everything and The Two Popes."
tagline: "New Zealand writer"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Anthony_McCarten_2012.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "New Zealand"
  isoCode: "NZ"
category:
  name: "Writers"
  slug: "writers"
profileType:
  name: "Writer / Author"
  slug: "writer"
birthDate: "1961"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
  popularity:           50.24
  momentum:             0
  historical:           14.720852
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     65
  profileCompleteness:  75
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
  - platform:  "IMDB"
    url:       "https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0565026/"
    handle:    "nm0565026"
sources:
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    title: "Маккартен, Энтони"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "أنتوني ماكارتن"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "انتونى ماكارتن"
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    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Άντονι ΜακΚάρτεν"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Anthony McCarten"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "آنتونی مک‌کارتن"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Anthony McCarten"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "アンソニー・マッカーテン"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "ენტონი მაკარტენი"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "앤서니 매카튼"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Anthony McCarten"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Anthony McCarten"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Anthony McCarten"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"
  - url: "https://www.themoviedb.org/person/1041394"
    title: "Anthony McCarten"
    type:  "DATABASE"

# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump