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Alan Ball

American screenwriter · United States · Writers · Born 1957 · age 69

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Alan Erwin Ball is an American writer and director for film and television. Ball is best known for writing the screenplay for the dramedy film American Beauty (1999), for which he won the Academy Award for Best Original Screenplay at the 72nd Academy Awards ceremony.

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2002GLAAD Stephen F. Kolzak AwardAwardPrimetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Directing for a Drama SeriesAward2000Academy Award for Best Writing, Original ScreenplayAward1957Born13 May 1957

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Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Directing for a Drama Series2002
GLAAD Stephen F. Kolzak Award2002
Academy Award for Best Writing, Original Screenplay2000
Writers Guild of America Award
Directors Guild of America Award

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Alan Erwin Ball is an American writer and director for film and television. Ball is best known for writing the screenplay for the dramedy film American Beauty (1999), for which he won the Academy Award for Best Original Screenplay at the 72nd Academy Awards ceremony. He also created the HBO drama series Six Feet Under (2001-2005) and True Blood (2008-2014), and served as an executive producer on the Cinemax action drama series Banshee (2013-2016). He wrote and directed the films Towelhead (2007) and Uncle Frank (2020).

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Writers
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Born 1957 · age 69

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