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Melissa Marie Mathison was an American film and television screenwriter and an activist for the Tibetan independence movement. She was best known for writing the screenplays for the films The Black Stallion (1979) and E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial (1982), the latter of which earned her the Saturn Award for Best Writing and a nomination for the Academy Award for Best Original Screenplay.
Aug 9, 2019 · Melissa Mathison was born Melissa Marie Mathison, on June 3, 1950, in Los Angeles, to Richard Randolph Mathison and Margaret (Pegeen) Jean Mathison (née Kieffer). Her father was the Los Angeles bureau chief of ‘Newsweek,’ and her mother was a food writer and a convenience-food entrepreneur. She had a happy childhood in Hollywood Hills and ...
Nov 5, 2015 · Melissa Marie Mathison was born June 3, 1950, in Los Angeles. Her father was the Los Angeles bureau chief for Newsweek. “We weren’t your mainstream ’50s family,” she said in an interview ...
Jun 29, 2016 · The script for “The BFG” was the first by Melissa Mathison in nearly two decades and the last she wrote before she died, in November, at the age of sixty-five, of neuroendocrine cancer, an ...
Nov 5, 2015 · Veteran screenwriter Melissa Mathison has died of neuroendocrine cancer at the age of 65. Mathison was most famous for writing E.T., though in the course of her three-decade career she also penned ...
Sep 12, 2023 · Harrison Ford's divorce from Melissa Mathison was one of the most expensive in show business, with Mathison receiving an $85 million settlement and a portion of Ford's future earnings. Ford's pay for his early roles, such as Han Solo in Star Wars, was significantly lower compared to his later films, but he eventually earned a base salary of $15 ...
Nov 4, 2015 · Screenwriter Melissa Mathison, an Academy Award nominee for “E.T. The Extra Terrestrial,” died in Los Angeles on Wednesday after an illness, according to her brother Dirk Mathison. She was 65.
