Marc Norman

MARC NORMAN is a two-time Academy Award winning writer-producer. His screenplay titled The Challenge became one of the first “ABC Movies of the Week” in 1969. Select film credits include: Oklahoma Crude, Zandy’s Bride, The Killer Elite (co-written with Oscar-winner Sterling Silliphant), Breakout and Mr. Horsepower. Norman wrote the original play Ormer Locklear, which premiered at the Mark Taper Forum in 1980. Norman first envisioned the idea for Shakespeare in Love in 1987 while working with director Ed Zwick (Glory). Norman began the romantic screenplay for Universal Pictures. Tom Stoppard joined the two filmmakers as a co-writer. Miramax acquired the screenplay from Universal and started production with director John Madden in 1998. Norman was awarded two Oscars for Shakespeare in Love, as well as two Golden Globes, a Writer’s Guild Award, a Silver Bear at the Berlin Film Festival and Best Screenplay awards at the Broadcast Film Critics Awards, the New York and Chicago Film Critics Society. Norman has published three novels, including Fool’s Errand and Oklahoma Crude. He also wrote What Happens Next; A History of American Screenwriting, published by Random House in 2007.