Enjoy a 30-minute virtual meeting with Academy Award-winning film and television writer, Josh Singer!
Josh Singer is an Academy Award-winning film and television writer who tells thought-provoking stories. He brings interesting, challenging and inspiring real-life characters to the screen. Most recently, Singer wrote the script for Damien Chazelle’s Neil Armstrong biopic, First Man, starring Ryan Gosling as the pioneering astronaut. Selected to open the prestigious Toronto International Film Festival, Venice Film Festival and Telluride Film Festival, the feature uncovers the life of Neil Armstrong and the legendary space mission that led him to become the first man to walk on the moon. After four years of extensive research, Singer's diligent efforts to portray an intimate view into the life of Neil Armstrong earned him BAFTA and Critic's Choice nominations for best adapted screenplay. First Man was released by Universal Pictures in October 2018. The film earned an Academy Award and three nominations, a Golden Globe and one nomination, and seven BAFTA nominations.
Upcoming, Singer is teaming up with Bradley Cooper in scripting the Leonard Bernstein biopic, Maestro, directed by and starring Cooper and Carey Mulligan. The film will be released by Netflix. Singer is also adapting the #1 New York Times Bestseller, The Last Thing He Told Me, as a limited series for Apple with his wife, author Laura Dave. Singer and Liz Hannah recently co-wrote Steven Spielberg’s celebrated historical drama The Post. The film, starring Meryl Streep and Tom Hanks, was released by 20th Century Fox in December 2017 and earned two Academy Award nominations, including Best Picture, and six Golden Globe nominations with honors for Best Screenplay and Best Motion Picture, Drama. When a cover-up that spanned four U.S. Presidents regarding the Vietnam war was discovered, the country's first female newspaper publisher and a hard-driving editor were pushed to join an unprecedented battle between the press and the government. Singer and Hannah were also awarded the prestigious WGA Paul Selvin Award for their script.
Previously, Singer co-wrote the acclaimed drama Spotlight with director Tom McCarthy and was an executive producer on the project. The film, which stars Mark Ruffalo, Michael Keaton, Liev Schreiber and Rachel McAdams, follows the true story of how the Boston Globe uncovered the Catholic Church child molestation scandal in 2002. The film won Best Picture at the 88th Academy Awards and, for his contribution, Singer earned the Academy Award for Best Original Screenplay, adding to previous accolades including a Critics’ Choice Award, WGA Award and BAFTA Award.
Singer made his feature writing debut with the Wikileaks drama The Fifth Estate, starring Benedict Cumberbatch and Daniel Bruhl, directed by Bill Condon. Prior to writing films, Singer worked on a number of critically acclaimed television shows including Fox’s cult sci-fi series Fringe, NBC’s long-running hit Law & Order: Special Victims Unit, and NBC’s Emmy-winning The West Wing, which earned him two WGA Award nominations. Singer graduated from Yale University where he studied Mathematics and Economics and earned his JD at Harvard Law School and MBA at Harvard Business School. Born in Philadelphia, PA, Singer currently lives in Santa Monica, CA with his wife and son.