# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/bruce-joel-rubin
# Generated: 2026-08-14T10:35:19.886Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/bruce-joel-rubin"
name: "Bruce Joel Rubin"
slug: "bruce-joel-rubin"
description: "Bruce Joel Rubin is an American screenwriter, meditation teacher, and photographer. His films often explore themes of life and death with metaphysical and science fiction elements. Prominent among them are Jacob's Ladder, My Life and Ghost, for which he received the Oscar for Best Original Screenplay. Ghost was also nominated for Best Picture, and was the highest-grossing film of 1990. He is sometimes credited as \"Derek Saunders\" or simply \"Bruce Rubin\"."
tagline: "American screenwriter"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "United States"
  isoCode: "US"
category:
  name: "Directors"
  slug: "directors"
profileType:
  name: "Movie Director"
  slug: "director"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q33999"
birthDate: "1943-03-10"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
  popularity:           49.52
  momentum:             0.608424336973479
  historical:           12.30224
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     70
  profileCompleteness:  65
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
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    url:       "https://www.instagram.com/brucejoelrubin/"
    handle:    "brucejoelrubin"
  - platform:  "IMDB"
    url:       "https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0748022/"
    handle:    "nm0748022"
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    title: "Bruce Joel Rubin"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump