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A. Scott Frank (born March 10, 1960) is an American film director, producer, screenwriter, and author. Frank has received two Academy Award nominations for Best Adapted Screenplay for Out of Sight (1998) and Logan (2017). His film work, credited and uncredited, extends to dozens of films.
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- 'The Queen’s Gambit' (2020) The Queen’s Gambit is Frank’s masterpiece. It takes a whole lot for chess to be exciting on screen, but Frank pulled it off with his creative choices as a filmmaker.
- 'Minority Report' (2002) Minority Report is one of Steven Spielberg’s best modern films and showed incredible foresight into the development of technology; the notion of law enforcement being based on predetermined decisions is far more terrifying in a world wrestling with the consequences of developing artificial intelligence.
- 'Logan' (2017) Logan is one of the greatest superhero movies ever made and took everything Frank and Mangold had mastered with The Wolverine and improved upon it even further.
- 'Out of Sight' (1998) One of Steven Soderbergh’s best movies, Out of Sight follows the cat burglar Jack Foley (George Clooney), who is forced to go on the run with the U.S. Marshall Karen Sisco (Jennifer Lopez) after a robbery scheme goes awry.
Scott Frank is an American screenwriter, producer and director, known for Logan, Out of Sight and The Queen's Gambit. He was born in 1960 in Florida and has been nominated for two Oscars and won 19 awards.
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Dec 4, 2017 · Scott Frank, the writer and director of 'Godless', talks about the challenges and rewards of making a huge western miniseries for Netflix. He reveals how he planned the shootout, the lighting, the locations, and the characters for the epic show.
Director and co-creator of the Netflix show "The Queen's Gambit", Scott Frank, discusses the 5 key filmmaking principles he used in the making of The Queen's...
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Aug 29, 2018 · Scott Frank packed his Emmy-nominated Netflix miniseries with train robberies and shootouts — but challenged Western norms by putting women in charge of the town. Originally broadcast...
Dec 11, 2017 · Scott Frank packed his Netflix miniseries with train robberies and shootouts, but Godless isn't exactly a typical Western. For one thing, the town at the center of the...
