David Mamet

American playwright, filmmaker, and author (born 1947)

David Mamet

Mamet in 2008

Born|  (1947-11-30) November 30, 1947 (age 76)
Chicago, Illinois, U.S.
Occupation|

* Author
* playwright
* screenwriter
* film director

Education| Goddard College (BA)
Period| 1970–present
Notable works| The Duck Variations (1971)
Sexual Perversity in Chicago (1974)
Glengarry Glen Ross (1983)[1]
Spouse|

Lindsay Crouse

(m. 1977; div. 1990)​

Rebecca Pidgeon

(m. 1991)​

Children| 4, including Zosia Mamet and Clara Mamet[2]
Signature

David Alan Mamet (/ˈmæmɪt/; born November 30, 1947) is an American playwright, filmmaker, and author.

He won a Pulitzer Prize and received Tony nominations for his plays Glengarry Glen Ross (1984) and Speed-the-Plow (1988). He first gained critical acclaim for a trio of 1970s off-Broadway plays: The Duck Variations, Sexual Perversity in Chicago, and American Buffalo.[3] His plays Race and The Penitent, respectively, opened on Broadway in 2009 and previewed off-Broadway in 2017.

Feature films that Mamet both wrote and directed include House of Games (1987), Homicide (1991), The Spanish Prisoner (1997), and his biggest commercial success, Heist (2001). His screenwriting credits include The Postman Always Rings Twice (1981), The Verdict (1982), The Untouchables (1987), Hoffa (1992), Wag the Dog (1997), and Hannibal (2001). Mamet himself wrote the screenplay for the 1992 adaptation of Glengarry Glen Ross, and wrote and directed the 1994 adaptation of his play Oleanna (1992). He created and produced the CBS series The Unit (2006–2009).

Mamet's books include: On Directing Film (1991), a commentary and dialogue about film-making; The Old Religion (1997), a novel about the lynching of Leo Frank; Five Cities of Refuge: Weekly Reflections on Genesis, Exodus, Leviticus, Numbers and Deuteronomy (2004), a Torah commentary with Rabbi Lawrence Kushner; The Wicked Son (2006), a study of Jewish self-hatred and antisemitism; Bambi vs. Godzilla, a commentary on the movie business; The Secret Knowledge: On the Dismantling of American Culture (2011), a commentary on cultural and political issues; Three War Stories (2013), a trio of novellas about the physical and psychological effects of war; and Everywhere an Oink Oink: An Embittered, Dyspeptic, and Accurate Report of Forty Years in Hollywood (2023), an autobiographical account of his experiences in Hollywood.

## Early life and education

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Mamet was born in 1947 in Chicago to Lenore June (née Silver), a teacher, and Bernard Morris Mamet, a labor attorney. He is Jewish. His paternal grandparents were Polish Jews.[4] Mamet has said his parents were communists and described himself as a red diaper baby.[5] One of his earliest jobs was as a busboy at Chicago's London House and The Second City. He also worked as an actor, editor for Oui magazine and as a cab-driver.[6] He was educated at the progressive Francis W. Parker School and at Goddard College in Plainfield, Vermont. At the Chicago Public Library Foundation 20th anniversary fundraiser in 2006, though, Mamet announced "My alma mater is the Chicago Public Library. I got what little educational foundation I got in the third-floor reading room, under the tutelage of a Coca-Cola sign".[7]

After a move to Chicago's North Side, Mamet met theater director Robert Sickinger, and began to work occasionally at Sickinger's Hull House Theatre. Thus began Mamet's lifelong involvement with the theater.[8]

## Career

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### Theater

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Mamet is a founding member of the Atlantic Theater Company; he first gained acclaim for a trio of off-Broadway plays in 1976, The Duck Variations, Sexual Perversity in Chicago, and American Buffalo.[3] He was awarded the Pulitzer Prize in 1984 for Glengarry Glen Ross, which received its first Broadway revival in the summer of 2005. His play Race, which opened on Broadway on December 6, 2009, and featured James Spader, David Alan Grier, Kerry Washington, and Richard Thomas in the cast, received mixed reviews.[9] His play The Anarchist, starring Patti LuPone and Debra Winger, in her Broadway debut, opened on Broadway on November 13, 2012, in previews and was scheduled to close on December 16, 2012.[10] His 2017 play The Penitent previewed off-Broadway on February 8, 2017.

In 2002, Mamet was inducted into the American Theater Hall of Fame.[11] Mamet later received the PEN/Laura Pels Theater Award for Grand Master of American Theater in 2010.

In 2017, Mamet released an online class for writers entitled David Mamet teaches dramatic writing.[12]

In 2019 Mamet returned to the London West End with a new play, Bitter Wheat, at the Garrick Theatre, starring John Malkovich.[13]

In 2023 it was announced that a new Mamet play, titled Henry Johnson, was expected to debut in Los Angeles starring Shia LaBeouf.[14]

### Film

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Mamet's first film work was as a screenwriter, later directing his own scripts.

According to Joe Mantegna, Mamet worked as a script doctor for the 1978 film Towing.[15]

Mamet's first produced screenplay was the 1981 production of The Postman Always Rings Twice, based on James M. Cain's novel. He received an Academy Award nomination one year later for the 1982 legal drama, The Verdict. He also wrote the screenplays for The Untouchables (1987), Hoffa (1992), The Edge (1997), Wag the Dog (1997), Ronin (1998), and Hannibal (2001). He received a second Academy Award nomination for Wag the Dog.

In 1987, Mamet made his film directing debut with his screenplay House of Games, which won Best Screenplay awards at the 1987 Venice Film Festival and the Film of the Year in 1989 from the London Film Critics' Circle Awards. The film starred his then-wife, Lindsay Crouse, and many longtime stage associates and friends, including fellow Goddard College graduates.[16] Mamet was quoted as saying, "It was my first film as a director and I needed support, so I stacked the deck."[citation needed][17] After House of Games, Mamet later wrote and directed two more films focusing on the world of con artists, The Spanish Prisoner (1997) and Heist (2001). Among those films, Heist enjoyed the biggest commercial success.[18][19][20]

Other films that Mamet both wrote and directed include: Things Change (1988), Homicide (1991) (nominated for the Palme d'Or at 1991 Cannes Film Festival and won a "Screenwriter of the Year" award for Mamet from the London Film Critics' Circle Awards), Oleanna (1994), The Winslow Boy (1999), State and Main (2000), Spartan (2004), Redbelt (2008), and the 2013 bio-pic TV movie Phil Spector.

A feature-length film, a thriller titled Blackbird, was intended for release in 2015, but is still in development.[21]

When Mamet adapted his play for the 1992 film Glengarry Glen Ross, he wrote an additional part (including the monologue "Coffee's for closers") for Alec Baldwin.

Mamet continues to work with an informal repertory company for his films, including Crouse, William H. Macy, Joe Mantegna, and Rebecca Pidgeon, as well as the aforementioned school friends.

Mamet rewrote the script for Ronin under the pseudonym "Richard Weisz" and turned in an early version of a script for Malcolm X which was rejected by director Spike Lee.[22] Mamet also wrote an unproduced biopic script about Roscoe Arbuckle with Chris Farley intended to portray him.[23] In 2000, Mamet directed a film version of Catastrophe, a one-act play by Samuel Beckett featuring Harold Pinter and John Gielgud (in his final screen performance). In 2008, he wrote and directed the mixed martial arts movie Redbelt, about a martial arts instructor tricked into fighting in a professional bout.

In On Directing Film, Mamet advocates for a method of storytelling based on Eisenstein's montage theory, stating that the story should be told through the juxtaposition of uninflected images. This method relies heavily on the cut between scenes, and Mamet urges directors to eliminate as much narration as possible. Mamet asserts that directors should focus on getting the point of a scene across, rather than simply following a protagonist, or adding visually beautiful or intriguing shots. Films should create order from disorder in search of the objective.

In 2023, reports emerged that Mamet would direct and co-write a new film titled Assassination, his first film since 2008. The film will center around the Chicago Mob ordering the assassination of John F. Kennedy, and will star Viggo Mortensen, Shia LaBeouf, Courtney Love, Al Pacino, and John Travolta. The film's production was scheduled to start in September 2023.[24] In October, Barry Levinson took over as the film's director, while Mamet remained as the screenwriter.[25]

In March 2024, Mamet stated that he is currently writing a screenplay centering about Hunter Biden, the second son of U.S. President Joe Biden.[26] In June, Deadline reported that the film, titled The Prince, will directed by Cameron Van Hoy and star Scott Haze as the lead character Parker; alongside Nicolas Cage, J.K. Simmons, Giancarlo Esposito, and Andy Garcia. Mamet added that the film won't be "a travelogue", and will be inspired by Hunter's life, rather than serve as a biopic.[27]

### Books

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Mamet published the essay collection Writing in Restaurants in 1986, followed by the poetry collection The Hero Pony in 1990. He has also published a series of short plays, monologues and four novels, The Village (1994), The Old Religion (1997), Wilson: A Consideration of the Sources (2000), and Chicago (2018). He has written several non-fiction texts, and children's stories, including True and False: Heresy and Common Sense for the Actor (1997). In 2004 he published a lauded version of the classical Faust story, Faustus, however, when the play was staged in San Francisco during the spring of 2004, it was not well received by critics.[28] On May 1, 2010, Mamet released a graphic novel The Trials of Roderick Spode (The Human Ant).

Mamet detailed his conversion from modern liberalism to "a reformed liberal" in The Secret Knowledge: On the Dismantling of American Culture in 2011.[29] Mamet published Three War Stories, a collection of novellas, in 2013 ; the novel The Diary of a Porn Star by Priscilla Wriston-Ranger: As Told to David Mamet With an Afterword by Mr. Mamet in 2019;[30] and the political commentary Recessional: The Death of Free Speech and the Cost of a Free Lunch in 2022. In 2023 Mamet recounted his experiences in Hollywood and the movie-making industry in Everywhere an Oink Oink: An Embittered, Dyspeptic, and Accurate Report of Forty Years in Hollywood.[31]

### Television and radio

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Mamet wrote one episode of Hill Street Blues, "A Wasted Weekend", that aired in 1987. His then-wife, Lindsay Crouse, appeared in numerous episodes (including that one) as Officer McBride. Mamet is also the creator, producer and frequent writer of the television series The Unit, where he wrote a well-circulated memo to the writing staff. He directed a third-season episode of The Shield with Shawn Ryan. In 2007, Mamet directed two television commercials for Ford Motor Company. The two 30-second ads featured the Ford Edge and were filmed in Mamet's signature style of fast-paced dialogue and clear, simple imagery. Mamet's sister, Lynn, is a producer and writer for television shows, such as The Unit and Law & Order.

Mamet has contributed several dramas to BBC Radio through Jarvis & Ayres Productions, including an adaptation of Glengarry Glen Ross for BBC Radio 3 and new dramas for BBC Radio 4. The comedy Keep Your Pantheon (or On the Whole I'd Rather Be in Mesopotamia) was aired in 2007. The Christopher Boy's Communion was another Jarvis & Ayres production, first broadcast on BBC Radio 4 on March 8, 2021.

## Style and reception

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### Mamet speak

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Mamet's style of writing dialogue, marked by a cynical, street-smart edge, has come to be called Mamet speak.[32] Mamet himself has criticized his (and other writers') tendency to write "pretty" at the expense of sound, logical plots.[33] When asked how he developed his style for writing dialogue, Mamet said, "In my family, in the days prior to television, we liked to while away the evenings by making ourselves miserable, based solely on our ability to speak the language viciously. That's probably where my ability was honed."[34]

### Gender issues

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Mamet's plays have frequently sparked debate and controversy.[35] Following a 1992 staging of Oleanna, a play in which a college student accuses her professor of trying to rape her,[36] a critic reported that the play divided the audience by gender and recounted that "couples emerged screaming at each other".[35]

In his 2014 book David Mamet and Male Friendship, Arthur Holmberg examined Mamet's portrayal of male friendships, especially focusing on the contradictions and ambiguities of male bonding as dramatized in Mamet's plays and films.[37]

### Archives

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The papers of David Mamet were sold to the Harry Ransom Center at the University of Texas at Austin in 2007 and first opened for research in 2009.[38] The growing collection consists mainly of manuscripts and related production materials for most of his plays, films, and other writings, but also includes his personal journals from 1966 to 2005. In 2015, the Ransom Center secured a second major addition to Mamet's papers, including more recent works. Additional materials relating to Mamet and his career can be found in the Ransom Center's collections of Robert De Niro, Mel Gussow, Tom Stoppard, Sam Shepard, Paul Schrader, Don DeLillo, and John Russell Brown.

## Personal life

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Mamet and actress Lindsay Crouse married in 1977 and divorced in 1990. The couple have two children. Mamet has been married to actress and singer-songwriter Rebecca Pidgeon since 1991, and they have two children. Mamet and Pidgeon live in Santa Monica, California.[4][5]

Mamet is a Reform Jew and strongly pro-Israel.[39]

### Political views

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In 2005, Mamet became a contributing blogger for The Huffington Post, drawing satirical cartoons with themes including political strife in Israel.[40] In a 2008 essay at The Village Voice titled "Why I Am No Longer a 'Brain-Dead Liberal'"[41] he discussed how his political views had shifted from liberalism to conservatism. In interviews, Mamet has highlighted his agreement with free market theorists such as Friedrich Hayek,[42] the historian Paul Johnson, and economist Thomas Sowell, whom Mamet called "one of our greatest minds". In 2022, Mamet declined to explicitly label himself a Republican, but described himself as a conservative who "would like to conserve those things I grew up with: the love of family, the love of the country, love of service, love of God, love of community".[5]

During promotion of a book, Mamet said British people had "a taint of anti-semitism," claiming they "want to give [Israel] away to some people whose claim is rather dubious."[43] In the same interview, Mamet went on to say that "there are famous dramatists and novelists [in the UK] whose works are full of anti-Semitic filth." He refused to give examples because of British libel laws (the interview was conducted in New York City for the Financial Times).[43][44] He is known for his pro-Israel positions; in his book The Secret Knowledge he claimed that "Israelis would like to live in peace within their borders; the Arabs would like to kill them all."[45]

Mamet endorsed Republican Mitt Romney for president in 2012, and wrote an article for The Jewish Journal of Greater Los Angeles imploring fellow Jewish Americans to vote for Romney.[46][47]

In an essay for Newsweek, published on January 29, 2013, Mamet argued against gun control laws: "It was intended to guard us against this inevitable decay of government that the Constitution was written. Its purpose was and is not to enthrone a Government superior to an imperfect and confused electorate, but to protect us from such a government."[48]

Mamet has described the NFL anthem protests as "absolutely fucking despicable".[4] In a 2020 interview, he described Donald Trump as a "great president" and supported his re-election.[49] After Trump lost the election, Mamet appeared to endorse claims that the election had been illegitimate in his 2022 book Recessional: The Death of Free Speech and the Cost of a Free Lunch, though shortly after its publication, he said he "misspoke" on the subject.[50]

In 2022, Mamet made comments in support of Florida's Parental Rights in Education Act, called the "Don't Say Gay" bill by its critics,[51] which restricts what public school teachers in Florida can discuss with children in kindergarten through third grade about sexual orientation and gender identity. In an interview with Fox News, Mamet claimed that the law was necessary because teachers "are abusing [children] mentally and using sex to do so", further alleging that "teachers are inclined, particularly men because men are predators, to pedophilia".[50][52]

## Works

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### Theatre

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* Lakeboat (1970)
* The Duck Variations (1972)
* Lone Canoe (1972)
* Sexual Perversity in Chicago (1974)
* Squirrels (1974)
* American Buffalo (1975)
* Reunion (1976)
* The Water Engine (1976)
* A Life in the Theatre (1977)
* The Woods (1977)
* The Revenge of the Space Pandas, or Binky Rudich and the Two-Speed Clock (1978)
* Mr. Happiness (1978)
* Prairie du Chien (1979)
* The Blue Hour (1979)
* Lakeboat (revision) (1980)
* Edmond (1982)
* The Frog Prince (1983)
* Glengarry Glen Ross (1983)
* The Shawl (1985)
* Goldberg Street: Short Plays and Monologues (1985)
* The Poet & The Rent (1986)
* Speed-the-Plow (1988)
* Bobby Gould in Hell (1989)
* Oleanna (1992)
* The Cryptogram (1994)
* The Old Neighborhood (1997)
* Boston Marriage (1999)
* Faustus (2004)
* Romance (2005)
* The Voysey Inheritance (adaptation) (2005)
* Keep Your Pantheon (2007)
* November (2007)
* The Vikings and Darwin (2008)
* Race (2009)
* School (2009)
* The Anarchist (2012)
* China Doll (2015)
* The Penitent (2017)
* Bitter Wheat (2019)
* The Christopher Boy's Communion[53] (2020)
* Henry Johnson (2023)

### Film

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Year  | Title  | Director  | Writer  | Notes

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1981  | The Postman Always Rings Twice | No  | Yes  |
1982  | The Verdict | No  | Yes  |
1987  | The Untouchables | No  | Yes  |
House of Games | Yes  | Yes  |
1988  | Things Change | Yes  | Yes  |
1989  | We're No Angels | No  | Yes  |
1991  | Homicide | Yes  | Yes  |
1992  | Glengarry Glen Ross | No  | Yes  | Also based on his play
Hoffa | No  | Yes  | Also associate producer
1994  | Oleanna | Yes  | Yes  | Also based on his play
1996  | American Buffalo | No  | Yes
1997  | The Spanish Prisoner | Yes  | Yes  |
The Edge | No  | Yes  |
Wag the Dog | No  | Yes  |
1998  | Ronin | No  | Yes  | Credited as "Richard Weisz"
1999  | The Winslow Boy | Yes  | Yes  |
2000  | Lakeboat | No  | Yes  | Also based on his play
State and Main | Yes  | Yes  |
2001  | Hannibal | No  | Yes  |
Heist | Yes  | Yes  |
2004  | Spartan | Yes  | Yes  |
2005  | Edmond | No  | Yes  | Also based on his play
2008  | Redbelt | Yes  | Yes  |
2023  | The Penitent | No  | Yes  | Also based on his play
TBA  | The Prince[54] | No  | Yes  | Filming

Short film

Year  | Title  | Director  | Writer

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2000  | Catastrophe | Yes  | No
2010  | Lost Masterpieces of Pornography | Yes  | Yes
Inside the Actor's Workshop | Yes  | Yes
The Marquee | Yes  | Yes
Our Valley | Yes  | Yes
Two Painters | Yes  | Yes

### Television

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Year  | Title  | Director  | Writer  | Executive
Producer  | Notes

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1987  | Hill Street Blues | No  | Yes  | No  | TV Series
Episode "A Wasted Weekend"
1992  | The Water Engine | No  | Yes  | No  | TV Movie
Also based on his play
1993  | A Life in the Theatre | No  | Yes  | Yes
1994  | Texan | No  | Yes  | No  | TV Movie
1996  | Ricky Jay and His 52 Assistants | Yes  | No  | No  | TV Special
1999  | Lansky | No  | Yes  | Yes  | TV Movie
2004  | The Shield | Yes  | No  | No  | TV Series
Episode "Strays"
2006-2009  | The Unit | Yes  | Yes  | Yes  | TV Series; also creator
Directed 4 episodes and wrote 11 episodes
2013  | Phil Spector | Yes  | Yes  | Yes  | TV Movie

Acting roles

Year  | Title  | Role  | Notes

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1987  | Black Widow | Herb  | Theatrical feature film
1992  | The Water Engine | Brown Haired Man  | TV Movie
1996  | Dr. Katz, Professional Therapist | Himself (voice)  | TV animated series
Episode: "New Telephone System"
2011  | The Simpsons | TV animated series
Episode: "Homer the Father"
2023  | Beau is Afraid | Rabbi (voice)  | Theatrical feature film

## Awards and nominations

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Association  | Year  | Category  | Project  | Result  | Ref.

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Theater Awards
Drama Desk Awards | 1977  | Outstanding Play | American Buffalo | Nominated  |
1978  | The Water Engine | Nominated  |

1983

| Edmond | Nominated  |
1984  | Glengarry Glen Ross | Nominated  |
1988  | Speed-the-Plow | Nominated  |
1993  | Oleanna | Nominated  |
1995  | The Cryptogram | Nominated  |
New York Drama Critics' Circle | 1977  | Best American Play  | American Buffalo | Won  |
1984  | Glengarry Glen Ross | Won  |
Pulitzer Prize | 1984  | Drama | Glengarry Glen Ross | Won  |
1995  | The Cryptogram | Nominated  |
Tony Awards | 1984 | Best Play | Glengarry Glen Ross | Nominated  |
1988 | Speed-the-Plow | Nominated  |
Film and Television Awards
Academy Awards | 1982 | Best Adapted Screenplay | The Verdict | Nominated  | [55]
1997 | Wag the Dog | Nominated  | [56]
British Academy Film Awards | 1998 | Best Adapted Screenplay | Wag the Dog | Nominated  | [57]
Golden Globe Awards | 1983 | Best Screenplay | The Verdict | Nominated  | [58]
1987 | House of Games | Nominated  | [58]
1997 | Wag the Dog | Nominated  | [58]
Primetime Emmy Awards | 2013 | Outstanding Miniseries or Movie | Phil Spector | Nominated  | [59]
Outstanding Directing for a Limited Series or Movie | Nominated
Outstanding Writing for a Limited Series or Movie | Nominated

## Bibliography

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* Writing in Restaurants (1987)
* Some Freaks (1989)
* On Directing Film (1991)
* The Cabin: Reminiscence and Diversions (1992)
* The Village (1994)
* A Whore's Profession (1994)
* Make-Believe Town: Essays and Remembrances (1996)
* The Old Religion (1997)
* Three Uses of the Knife (1998)
* True and False: Heresy and Common Sense for the Actor (1999)
* The Chinaman (1999)
* Jafsie and John Henry: Essays (1999)
* Wilson: A Consideration of the Sources (2000)
* South of the Northeast Kingdom (2002)
* Five Cities of Refuge: Weekly Reflections on Genesis, Exodus, Leviticus, Numbers, and Deuteronomy (with Lawrence Kushner) (2003)
* The Wicked Son: Anti-Semitism, Self-hatred, and the Jews (2006)
* Bambi Vs. Godzilla: On the Nature, Purpose, and Practice of the Movie Business (2007)
* Theatre (2010)
* The Trials of Roderick Spode (The Human Ant) (2010)
* The Secret Knowledge: On the Dismantling of American Culture (2011)
* Three War Stories (2013)
* Chicago (2018)
* The Diary of a Porn Star by Priscilla Wriston-Ranger: As Told to David Mamet With an Afterword by Mr. Mamet (2019)
* Recessional: The Death of Free Speech and the Cost of a Free Lunch[60] (2022)
* Everywhere an Oink Oink: An Embittered, Dyspeptic, and Accurate Report of Forty Years in Hollywood (2023)

## Unrealized projects

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* Ace in the Hole remake (1990) – Script for Brian De Palma to direct[61]
* Malcolm X (1992) – Unused early draft[22]
* Charlie Chan in Horse and Rider (1992) – Script for Warner Bros.[62][63]
* Ordinary Daylight (1992) – Adaptation of the memoir, for Warner Bros.[62]
* High and Low remake (1993) – Script for Martin Scorsese to direct[64]
* Untitled "Fatty" Arbuckle biopic (1997)[23][65]
* Diary of a Young London Physician (2002) – Adaptation of Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde, for Warner Bros.[66][67]
* Joan of Bark: The Dog That Saved France (2004) – Writer/director, for Columbia Pictures[68]
* The Prince of Providence  (2004) – Adaptation of the novel, for Michael Corrente to direct[69]
* The Bones (2005) – Adaptation of the novel, for Columbia Pictures[70]
* Whistle (2005) – Adaptation of the novel, for Columbia Pictures[70]
* The Diary of Anne Frank (2009) – Adaptation of the novel, for Disney Pictures[71]
* Come Back to Sorrento (2009) – Adaptation of the novel, for Michael Worth to direct[72]
* Have Gun – Will Travel TV series reboot (2013) – Writer/director, for CBS[73][74]
* Blackbird (2013) – Writer/director[75]
* 7 Deadly Sins TV miniseries (2013) – Writer/director, for Fox[76]
* Speed-the-Plow film adaptation (2016) – Writer/director[77]
* The Force (2017) – Adaptation of the novel, for James Mangold to direct[78]
* Assassination (2023) – Writer/director[24][25]
* Henry Johnson film adaptation (2023) – Writer/director[79][80]

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## Further reading

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* David Mamet (February 12, 2007). "David Mamet: Bambi vs. Godzilla". The Leonard Lopate Show (Interview). Interviewed by Leonard Lopate. New York: WNYC. Retrieved December 23, 2008.
* Radavich, David. "Man among Men: David Mamet's Homosocial Order". American Drama 1:1 (Fall 1991): 46–60.
* Radavich, David. "Rabe, Mamet, Shepard, and Wilson: Mid-American Male Dramatists of the 1970s and '80s". The Midwest Quarterly XLVIII: 3 (Spring 2007): 342–58.

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Plays written|

* The Duck Variations
* Sexual Perversity in Chicago
* Squirrels
* American Buffalo
* Reunion
* The Water Engine
* A Life in the Theatre
* The Woods
* Lakeboat
* Edmond
* The Frog Prince
* Glengarry Glen Ross
* Vint
* The Shawl
* Speed-the-Plow
* Bobby Gould in Hell
* Oleanna
* The Cryptogram
* The Old Neighborhood
* Boston Marriage
* Faustus
* Romance
* November
* Race
* The Anarchist
* China Doll
* The Penitent

Films written only|

* A Life in the Theatre (1979)
* The Postman Always Rings Twice (1981)
* The Verdict (1982)
* The Untouchables (1987)
* We're No Angels (1989)
* Glengarry Glen Ross (1992)
* Hoffa (1992)
* The Water Engine (1992)
* A Life in the Theatre (1993)
* American Buffalo (1996)
* The Edge (1997)
* Wag the Dog (1997)
* Ronin (1998)
* Lansky (1999)
* Lakeboat (2000)
* Hannibal (2001)
* Edmond (2005)
* The Prince (TBA)

Films written
and directed|

* House of Games (1987)
* Things Change (1988)
* Homicide (1991)
* Oleanna (1994)
* The Spanish Prisoner (1997)
* The Winslow Boy (1999)
* State and Main (2000)
* Heist (2001)
* Spartan (2004)
* Redbelt (2008)
* Lost Masterpieces of Pornography (2010)
* Phil Spector (2013)

Books written|

* On Directing Film (1991)
* Three Uses of the Knife (1998)
* True and False: Heresy and Common Sense for the Actor (1999)
* The Wicked Son (2006)

TV series created|

* The Unit (2006–2009)

Family|

* Rebecca Pidgeon
* Lindsay Crouse
* Zosia Mamet
* Clara Mamet
* Lynn Mamet

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Florida Film Critics Circle Award for Best Screenplay

Screenplay
(1996–2009)|

* Joel Coen and Ethan Coen (1996)
* Curtis Hanson and Brian Helgeland (1997)
* Marc Norman and Tom Stoppard (1998)
* Alexander Payne and Jim Taylor (1999)
* David Mamet (2000)
* Christopher Nolan (2001)
* Charlie and Donald Kaufman (2002)
* Sofia Coppola (2003)
* Alexander Payne and Jim Taylor (2004)
* Larry McMurtry and Diana Ossana (2005)
* William Monahan (2006)
* Diablo Cody (2007)
* Simon Beaufoy (2008)
* Scott Neustadter and Michael H. Weber (2009)

Original Screenplay
(2010–present)|

* Christopher Nolan (2010)
* Michel Hazanavicius (2011)
* Rian Johnson (2012)
* Spike Jonze (2013)
* Wes Anderson and Hugo Guinness (2014)
* Tom McCarthy and Josh Singer (2015)
* Efthymis Filippou and Yorgos Lanthimos (2016)
* Jordan Peele (2017)
* Boots Riley (2018)
* Ronald Bronstein and Benny and Josh Safdie (2019)
* Lee Isaac Chung (2020)
* Wes Anderson (2021)
* Park Chan-wook and Jeong Seo-Gyeong (2022)
* Celine Song (2023)

Adapted Screenplay
(2010–present)|

* Aaron Sorkin (2010)
* Alexander Payne, Nat Faxon and Jim Rash (2011)
* Chris Terrio (2012)
* John Ridley (2013)
* Gillian Flynn (2014)
* Adam McKay and Charles Randolph (2015)
* Whit Stillman (2016)
* James Ivory (2017)
* Nicole Holofcener and Jeff Whitty (2018)
* Greta Gerwig (2019)
* Charlie Kaufman (2020)
* Jane Campion (2021)
* Sarah Polley (2022)
* Tony McNamara (2023)

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London Film Critics' Circle Award for Screenwriter of the Year

* Steve Tesich (1980)
* Colin Welland (1981)
* Costa-Gavras and Donald E. Stewart (1982)
* Ruth Prawer Jhabvala (1983)
* Philip Kaufman (1984)
* Alan Bennett (1985)
* Woody Allen (1986)
* Alan Bennett (1987)
* David Mamet (1988)
* Christopher Hampton (1989)
* Woody Allen (1990)
* David Mamet (1991)
* Michael Tolkin (1992)
* Harold Ramis and Danny Rubin (1993)
* Quentin Tarantino (1994)
* Paul Attanasio (1995)
* Joel Coen and Ethan Coen (1996)
* Curtis Hanson and Brian Helgeland (1997)
* Andrew Niccol (1998)
* Alan Ball (1999)
* Charlie Kaufman (2000)
* Joel Coen and Ethan Coen (2001)
* Andrew Bovell (2002)
* John Collee and Peter Weir (2003)
* Charlie Kaufman (2004)
* Paul Haggis and Bobby Moresco (2005)
* Peter Morgan (2006)
* Florian Henckel von Donnersmarck (2007)
* Simon Beaufoy (2008)
* Jesse Armstrong, Simon Blackwell, Armando Iannucci, and Tony Roche (2009)
* Aaron Sorkin (2010)
* Asghar Farhadi (2011)
* Michael Haneke (2012)
* Joel Coen and Ethan Coen (2013)
* Wes Anderson (2014)
* Tom McCarthy and Josh Singer (2015)
* Kenneth Lonergan (2016)
* Martin McDonagh (2017)
* Deborah Davis and Tony McNamara (2018)
* Noah Baumbach (2019)
* Chloé Zhao (2020)
* Ryusuke Hamaguchi and Takamasa Oe (2021)
* Martin McDonagh (2022)
* Justine Triet and Arthur Harari (2023)

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Pulitzer Prize for Drama: Authors

* Jesse Lynch Williams (1918)
* Eugene O'Neill (1920)
* Zona Gale (1921)
* Eugene O'Neill (1922)
* Owen Davis (1923)
* Hatcher Hughes (1924)
* Sidney Howard (1925)
* George Kelly (1926)
* Paul Green (1927)
* Eugene O'Neill (1928)
* Elmer Rice (1929)
* Marc Connelly (1930)
* Susan Glaspell (1931)
* George S. Kaufman, Morrie Ryskind and Ira Gershwin (1932)
* Maxwell Anderson (1933)
* Sidney Kingsley (1934)
* Zoe Akins (1935)
* Robert E. Sherwood (1936)
* Moss Hart and George S. Kaufman (1937)
* Thornton Wilder (1938)
* Robert E. Sherwood (1939)
* William Saroyan (1940)
* Robert E. Sherwood (1941)
* Thornton Wilder (1943)
* Mary Chase (1945)
* Russel Crouse and Howard Lindsay (1946)
* Tennessee Williams (1948)
* Arthur Miller (1949)
* Richard Rodgers, Oscar Hammerstein II and Joshua Logan (1950)
* Joseph Kramm (1952)
* William Inge (1953)
* John Patrick (1954)
* Tennessee Williams (1955)
* Albert Hackett and Frances Goodrich (1956)
* Eugene O'Neill (1957)
* Ketti Frings (1958)
* Archibald MacLeish (1959)
* Jerome Weidman, George Abbott, Jerry Bock and Sheldon Harnick (1960)
* Tad Mosel (1961)
* Frank Loesser and Abe Burrows (1962)
* Frank D. Gilroy (1965)
* Edward Albee (1967)
* Howard Sackler (1969)
* Charles Gordone (1970)
* Paul Zindel (1971)
* Jason Miller (1973)
* Edward Albee (1975)
* Michael Bennett, Nicholas Dante, James Kirkwood Jr., Marvin Hamlisch and Edward Kleban (1976)
* Michael Cristofer (1977)
* Donald L. Coburn (1978)
* Sam Shepard (1979)
* Lanford Wilson (1980)
* Beth Henley (1981)
* Charles Fuller (1982)
* Marsha Norman (1983)
* David Mamet (1984)
* James Lapine and Stephen Sondheim (1985)
* August Wilson (1987)
* Alfred Uhry (1988)
* Wendy Wasserstein (1989)
* August Wilson (1990)
* Neil Simon (1991)
* Robert Schenkkan (1992)
* Tony Kushner (1993)
* Edward Albee (1994)
* Horton Foote (1995)
* Jonathan Larson (1996)
* Paula Vogel (1998)
* Margaret Edson (1999)
* Donald Margulies (2000)
* David Auburn (2001)
* Suzan-Lori Parks (2002)
* Nilo Cruz (2003)
* Doug Wright (2004)
* John Patrick Shanley (2005)
* David Lindsay-Abaire (2007)
* Tracy Letts (2008)
* Lynn Nottage (2009)
* Tom Kitt and Brian Yorkey (2010)
* Bruce Norris (2011)
* Quiara Alegría Hudes (2012)
* Ayad Akhtar (2013)
* Annie Baker (2014)
* Stephen Adly Guirgis (2015)
* Lin-Manuel Miranda (2016)
* Lynn Nottage (2017)
* Martyna Majok (2018)
* Jackie Sibblies Drury (2019)
* Michael R. Jackson (2020)
* Katori Hall (2021)
* James Ijames (2022)
* Sanaz Toossi (2023)
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* Sonya Levien (1953)
* Dudley Nichols (1954)
* Robert Riskin (1955)
* Julius Epstein & Philip Epstein and Albert Hackett & Frances Goodrich (1956)
* Charles Brackett & Billy Wilder (1957)
* John Lee Mahin (1958)
* Nunnally Johnson (1959)

1960s|

* Norman Krasna (1960)
* George Seaton (1961)
* Philip Dunne (1962)
* Joseph L. Mankiewicz (1963)
* John Huston (1964)
* Sidney Buchman (1965)
* Isobel Lennart (1966)
* Richard Brooks (1967)
* Casey Robinson (1968)
* Carl Foreman (1969)

1970s|

* Dalton Trumbo (1970)
* James Poe (1971)
* Ernest Lehman (1972)
* William Rose (1973)
* Paddy Chayefsky (1974)
* Preston Sturges (1975)
* Michael Wilson (1976)
* Samson Raphaelson (1977)
* Edward Anhalt (1978)
* Neil Simon (1979)

1980s|

* Billy Wilder & I. A. L. Diamond (1980)
* Ben Hecht (1981)
* Paul Osborn (1982)
* Lamar Trotti (1983)
* Melville Shavelson, Jack Rose, Norman Panama, and Melvin Frank (1984)
* William Goldman (1985)
* Waldo Salt (1986)
* Woody Allen (1987)
* Irving Ravetch & Harriet Frank Jr. (1988)
* Ring Lardner Jr. (1989)

1990s|

* Donald Ogden Stewart (1990)
* Alvin Sargent (1991)
* Frank Pierson (1992)
* Horton Foote (1993)
* Ruth Prawer Jhabvala (1994)
* Charles Bennett (1995)
* Daniel Taradash (1996)
* Robert Towne (1997)
* Bo Goldman (1998)
* Paul Schrader (1999)

2000s|

* Jean-Claude Carrière (2000)
* Betty Comden and Adolph Green (2001)
* Blake Edwards (2002)
* Mel Brooks (2003)
* John Michael Hayes (2004)
* David Mamet (2005)
* Lawrence Kasdan (2006)
* Robert Benton (2007)
* Budd Schulberg (2008)
* No award (2009)

2010s|

* Barry Levinson (2010)
* Steven Zaillian (2011)
* Eric Roth (2012)
* Tom Stoppard (2013)
* Paul Mazursky (2014)
* Harold Ramis (2015)
* Elaine May (2016)
* Oliver Stone (2017)
* James L. Brooks (2018)
* Lowell Ganz and Babaloo Mandel (2019)

2020s|

* Nancy Meyers (2020)
* No award (2021)
* No award (2022)
* Charlie Kaufman (2023)

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