Years active 1971-present | ||
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Occupation Screenwriter, film producer and director Movies Straight Outta Compton, Welcome to Death Row Nominations Academy Award for Best Original Screenplay, Writers Guild of America Award for Best Original Screenplay Similar Alan Wenkus, Andrea Berloff, Jonathan Herman, Neil Brown Jr, O'Shea Jackson Jr | ||
S leigh savidge discusses straight outta compton oscar snub at the 2016 writers guild awards
S. Leigh Savidge III is an American screenwriter, film producer, director, and founder of Xenon Pictures, a production and licensing company.
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In 2001, Savidge wrote and produced Welcome to Death Row, a documentary about Death Row Records, which was later turned into a book of the same name. He is known for his works in the restored version of The Harder They Come (restored in 2006) and Straight Outta Compton (2015), for which he co-wrote the original draft of the screenplay and also served as one of its executive producers. His 2001 documentary Welcome to Death Row was shopped as a feature length sequel to Straight Outta Compton on the heels of its success, and Savidge received a nomination for Best Original Screenplay at the 88th Academy Awards.
He founded the production company Xenon Pictures in 1986.