A work in constant progress (and occasional regress).
Alias:
Michael DeBruyn
Michael deBruyn
Rick Kerb
Birthplace:
McLean, Virginia, USA
Born:
November 11, 1965
Michael Arndt is an American screenwriter. After graduating from New York University, Arndt was a script reader for some time before choosing to write screenplays instead. He is best known for his first produced screenplay Little Miss Sunshine, for which he received multiple awards including the Academy Award for Best Original Screenplay. Arndt also best known for his second screenplay from the film Toy Story 3, for which he also received multiple awards and nominations including nomination for the Academy Award for Best Adapted Screenplay. This making Arndt the first ever screenwriter to be nominated for both Academy Award for Best Original Screenplay and Best Adapted Screenplay for his first two screenplays.
Additional Writing:
2015 Inside Out
Associate Producer:
2015 Inside Out
2015 Star Wars: The Force Awakens
Director:
2015 Inside Out
2015 Star Wars: The Force Awakens
2017 Endings: The Good, The Bad, and the Insanely Great
Screenplay:
2010 Toy Story 3
2013 Oblivion
2013 The Hunger Games: Catching Fire
2015 Inside Out
2015 Star Wars: The Force Awakens
2017 Endings: The Good, The Bad, and the Insanely Great
2023 The Hunger Games: The Ballad of Songbirds & Snakes
Story Consultant:
2010 Toy Story 3
2013 Oblivion
2013 The Hunger Games: Catching Fire
2015 Inside Out
2015 Star Wars: The Force Awakens
2017 Endings: The Good, The Bad, and the Insanely Great
2018 Incredibles 2
2023 The Hunger Games: The Ballad of Songbirds & Snakes
Writer:
2006 Little Miss Sunshine
2010 Toy Story 3
2013 Oblivion
2013 The Hunger Games: Catching Fire
2015 Inside Out
2015 Star Wars: The Force Awakens
2017 Endings: The Good, The Bad, and the Insanely Great
2018 Incredibles 2
2023 The Hunger Games: The Ballad of Songbirds & Snakes
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Additional data for Film Titles come from The Open Movie Database (OMDb).
At least one plug-in comes from IMDb.
Data are -- hey, it's a plural -- subject to the limitations of their sources. (For example, TMDB search results currently max out at 20.) I am limiting myself to free data sources for now. (No, a "free trial" is not free.)
While much of the above data are retrieved directly from outside APIs and other such sources, data from American Film Institute (AFI) and British Film Institute (BFI) were manually entered the old fashioned way into a MySQL database. Re BFI I took the following liberties:
Regarding profile removals and data corrections:
Filtering is applied here to film projects flagged as "adult" by TheMovieDB. Pending "popular demand" I am contemplating a login and profile system with preferences (such as whether to allow adult images to appear) and permissions (such as data entry).
Whereas the overall purpose of this website is to serve as a personal demo/portfolio/workshop of web and data skills, this Movies section is not meant to compete with or substitute for far more definitive movie websites.
Whether or not he still clings to an award which he won in 1986 as a film critic for his college's newspaper, Jeffrey Hartmann is not responsible for the texts of overviews and biographies supplied by external data sources.