Name Menno Meyjes Role Screenwriter | Books The Siege: The Screenplay | |
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Born 1954 (age 60–61) Eindhoven, Netherlands Occupation Screenwriter, director, producer Education San Francisco Art Institute Awards Hugo Award for Best Dramatic Presentation, Goya Award for Best Adapted Screenplay Nominations Academy Award for Best Writing Adapted Screenplay Movies Manolete, Martian Child, The Dinner, The Color Purple, Max Similar People Steven Spielberg, Bobby Coleman, Jeffrey Boam, Jacob Derwig, Thekla Reuten | ||
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Menno Meyjes (born 1954, Eindhoven) is a Dutch-born screenwriter, film director and producer.
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Meyjes moved to the United States in 1972 and studied at San Francisco Art Institute. He was nominated for several awards for his screenplay to the 1985 film The Color Purple, adapted from the novel by Alice Walker. In 1989 he gained recognition for cowriting Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade with George Lucas and winning a Goya Award for El Sueño del mono loco.
In 2002 Meyjes wrote and directed the film Max.
He attended San Francisco Art Institute; there he studied with George Kuchar, James Broughton, and Larry Jordan.
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