# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/paul-weitz
# Generated: 2026-09-07T19:38:19.953Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/paul-weitz"
name: "Paul Weitz"
slug: "paul-weitz"
description: "Paul John Weitz is an American screenwriter, director and producer. He is the older brother of filmmaker Chris Weitz. Together they worked on the comedy films American Pie and About a Boy; for the latter, they were both nominated for the Academy Award for Best Adapted Screenplay. Weitz is also a writer, executive producer, and director of the Amazon Prime Video dramedy series Mozart in the Jungle."
tagline: "American filmmaker"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Paul_Weitz_at_2015_Sundance_(cropped).jpg?width=1200"
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: "1965-11-19"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
  popularity:           53.15
  momentum:             0.9788918205804749
  historical:           17.56625866666667
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     65
  profileCompleteness:  75
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
  - platform:  "IMDB"
    url:       "https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0919369/"
    handle:    "nm0919369"
sources:
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    title: "Wikiquote"
    type:  "WEBSITE"
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    title: "پول ويتز"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Пол Вайц"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "پۆڵ وایتز"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paul_Weitz_(filmmaker)"
    title: "Paul Weitz (filmmaker)"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paul_Weitz"
    title: "Paul Weitz"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "پال وایتز (فیلم‌ساز)"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paul_Weitz"
    title: "Paul Weitz"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://hu.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paul_Weitz_(filmrendez%C5%91)"
    title: "Paul Weitz (filmrendező)"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://id.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paul_Weitz_(pembuat_film)"
    title: "Paul Weitz (pembuat film)"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paul_Weitz"
    title: "Paul Weitz"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "ポール・ワイツ"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ko.wikipedia.org/wiki/%ED%8F%B4_%EC%99%80%EC%9D%B4%EC%B8%A0"
    title: "폴 와이츠"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://nl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paul_Weitz_(regisseur)"
    title: "Paul Weitz (regisseur)"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://pam.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paul_Weitz_(gagawang_pelikula)"
    title: "Paul Weitz (gagawang pelikula)"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://pt.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paul_Weitz_(cineasta)"
    title: "Paul Weitz (cineasta)"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://sv.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paul_Weitz"
    title: "Paul Weitz"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ur.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D9%BE%D8%A7%D9%84_%D9%88%DB%8C%D9%B9%D8%B2_(%D9%81%D9%84%D9%85_%D8%B3%D8%A7%D8%B2)"
    title: "پال ویٹز (فلم ساز)"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "保罗·韦兹"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q1968839"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"
  - url: "https://www.themoviedb.org/person/3289"
    title: "Paul Weitz"
    type:  "DATABASE"

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