Charlie Kaufman

Biography

Charles Stuart Kaufman is an American filmmaker and novelist. His work is distinguished by postmodernist and surrealist storytelling, with many critics considering him an auteur. Getting his start as a television writer, Kaufman gained prominence for his collaborations with directors Spike Jonze and Michel Gondry on Being John Malkovich (1999), Adaptation (2002), and Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind (2004), before going on to direct films himself with Synecdoche, New York (2008), Anomalisa (2015), and I'm Thinking of Ending Things (2020). In 2020, he released a novel, Antkind.

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Awards & recognition

• ★Time Machine Award · 2008
• ★Academy Award — Best Writing, Original Screenplay · 2005
• ★Writers Guild of America Award
• ☆Academy Award — Best Animated Feature · 2016 · nominated
• ☆Academy Award — Best Writing, Original Screenplay · 2005 · nominated