# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/jay-cocks
# Generated: 2026-08-12T17:22:42.547Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/jay-cocks"
name: "Jay Cocks"
slug: "jay-cocks"
description: "John C. \"Jay\" Cocks Jr. is an American film critic and screenwriter. He is a graduate of Kenyon College. He was a critic for Time, Newsweek and Rolling Stone, among other magazines before shifting to screenplay writing. For his work, Cocks has received three Academy Award nominations: two for Best Adapted Screenplay - The Age of Innocence (1993) and A Complete Unknown (2024) - and one for Best Original Screenplay (2002)."
tagline: "American screenwriter"
image: "https://image.tmdb.org/t/p/w500/s8ZLk5hf18oLMi8Sww0Sc1ymjeO.jpg"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "United States"
  isoCode: "US"
category:
  name: "Writers"
  slug: "writers"
profileType:
  name: "Writer / Author"
  slug: "writer"
birthDate: "1944-12-01"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
  popularity:           53.39
  momentum:             7.88219331151728
  historical:           14.05936933333333
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     65
  profileCompleteness:  75
  trendDirection:       "RISING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
  - platform:  "IMDB"
    url:       "https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0168379/"
    handle:    "nm0168379"
sources:
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    title: "Кокс, Джей"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "جاي كوكس"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "جاى كوكس"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Jay Cocks"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jay_Cocks"
    title: "Jay Cocks"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jay_Cocks"
    title: "Jay Cocks"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fa.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%AC%DB%8C_%DA%A9%D8%A7%DA%A9%D8%B3"
    title: "جی کاکس"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fi.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jay_Cocks"
    title: "Jay Cocks"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jay_Cocks"
    title: "Jay Cocks"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://id.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jay_Cocks"
    title: "Jay Cocks"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jay_Cocks"
    title: "Jay Cocks"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E3%82%B8%E3%82%A7%E3%82%A4%E3%83%BB%E3%82%B3%E3%83%83%E3%82%AF%E3%82%B9"
    title: "ジェイ・コックス"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "제이 콕스"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://nl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jay_Cocks"
    title: "Jay Cocks"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://pl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jay_Cocks"
    title: "Jay Cocks"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q1684311"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"
  - url: "https://www.themoviedb.org/person/14393"
    title: "Jay Cocks"
    type:  "DATABASE"

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