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Michael Arndt is an American screenwriter. He is best known as the writer of the films Little Miss Sunshine (2006), Toy Story 3 (2010), and Star Wars: The Force Awakens (2015). Arndt won the Academy Award for Best Original Screenplay for Little Miss Sunshine and was nominated for Best Adapted Screenplay for Toy Story 3 .
- Screenwriter, script reader, personal assistant
- McLean, Virginia, U.S.
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Mar 23, 2022 · It also makes it all the more ironic that Arndt was once briefly fired from "Little Miss Sunshine." To hear Arndt tell it (as he did in a February 2007 interview with SF360), the trouble started ...
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Sep 3, 2022 · In the foreword to the book version of the script for Little Miss Sunshine (Newmarket Shooting Script series), Michael Arndt detailed how he wrote the screenplay. On Tuesday, May 23, 2000, at 4:27 p.m., I sat down to write LMS [Little Miss Sunshine]. I wrote twelve pages the first day, thirty-seven pages the second, and — pulling an all ...
Apr 6, 2014 · Oscar winner Michael Arndt talks screenwriting, and offers some advice. By Meredith Alloway · April 6, 2014. Little Miss Sunshine changed the industry. It proved an indie film could enter the Oscar race and that it could win. Screenwriter Michael Arndt took home the Best Original Screenplay Award in 2007 for his simple yet complex script.
Box office. $101.1 million [1] Little Miss Sunshine is a 2006 American tragicomedy [2] road film directed by Jonathan Dayton and Valerie Faris (in their directorial debut) from a screenplay written by Michael Arndt. The film stars an ensemble cast consisting of Greg Kinnear, Steve Carell, Toni Collette, Paul Dano, Abigail Breslin, and Alan ...
