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Robert Nelson Jacobs (born 1954) is an American screenwriter. In 2000, he received an Academy Award nomination for Best Adapted Screenplay for Chocolat.Jacobs is a board member and past president of the Writers Guild Foundation, a non-profit organization devoted to promoting and preserving the craft of writing for the screen.
- 1954 (age 68–69)
- Screenwriter
- 1997–present
Robert Nelson Jacobs. Writer. Soundtrack. IMDbPro Starmeter See rank. Robert Nelson Jacobs grew up in the Pocono Mountains of Pennsylvania. Jacobs attended Yale University, where he received the Curtis Literary Prize for his short fiction and graduated with honors. He earned his master's degree from the Iowa Writers' Workshop.
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Robert Nelson Jacobs is an American screenwriter. In 2000, he received an Academy Award nomination for best adapted screenplay for Chocolat. In 2014, Jacobs was elected president of the Writers Guild Foundation, a non-profit organization devoted to promoting and preserving the craft of writing for the screen.
Robert Nelson Jacobs grew up in the Pocono Mountains of Pennsylvania. Jacobs attended Yale University, where he received the Curtis Literary Prize for his short fiction and graduated with honors. He earned his master's degree from the Iowa Writers' Workshop.
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May 26, 2020 · Robert Nelson Jacobs movie reviews & film summaries | Roger Ebert. Movie Reviews TV/Streaming Interviews Collections Great Movies Chaz's Journal Contributors
Jacobs brings to his work his own literary background, having studied at the prestigious Iowa Writer's Workshop with John Updike, John Cheever, Ian McEwan and Frank O'Connor. While at Iowa, Jacobs discovered his real interest was in spinning grand stories out of the stuff of human emotion - and he decided the best place to do that was on film.
