Tony Kushner
Known for WritingBorn 1956-07-16Manhattan, New York City, New York, USA
Anthony Robert Kushner (born July 16, 1956) is an American author, playwright, and screenwriter. Lauded for his work on stage he's most known for his seminal work Angels in America which earned a Pulitzer Prize and a Tony Award. At the turn of the 21st Century he became known for his numerous film collaborations with Steven Spielberg. He received the National Medal of Arts from President Barack Obama in 2013.
Kushner made his Broadway debut in 1993 with both Angels in America: Millennium Approaches and Angels in America: Perestroika. He received the Pulitzer Prize for Drama and the Tony Award for Best Play. He then adapted it into a 2003 miniseries directed by Mike Nichols for which Kushner received a Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Writing for a Limited Series or Movie.
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In 2003 he wrote the lyrics and book to the musical Caroline, or Change which earned Kushner Tony Award nominations for Best Book of a Musical and Best Original Score. The 2021 Broadway revival of Caroline, or Change earned Kushner a nomination for the 2023 Grammy Award for Best Musical Theater Album, making Kushner among the few playwrights in history nominated for all four major American entertainment awards: the Emmy, Grammy, Oscar, and Tony Awards.
He has collaborated with director Steven Spielberg on the films Munich (2005), Lincoln (2012), West Side Story (2021), and The Fabelmans (2022), the former two earning him nominations for the Academy Award for Best Adapted Screenplay.
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Known for
Spielberg
2017 · as Self
Mike Nichols: An American Master
2016 · as Self
Theater of War
2008 · as Self
Wilde Salomé
2013 · as Self
Untitled Nathan Lane Documentary
as Self
Arthur Miller: Writer
2017 · as Self
Bully. Coward. Victim. The Story of Roy Cohn
2019 · as Self
Wrestling with Angels: Playwright Tony Kushner
2006 · as Self
Eugene O’Neill: A Documentary Film
2006 · as Self
Live to Tell: The First Gay and Lesbian Prom in America
1995 · as Self - Playwright, "Angels in America"
The Stories of West Side Story
2022 · as Self
The Fabelmans: A Family in Film
2023 · as Self
Something's Coming: West Side Story
2021 · as Self
Lincoln: An American Journey
2013 · as Self
The Royal Road
2015 · as (archive sound)
In the Wings: Angels in America On Broadway
1993
Outrage
2009 · as Self