Jim Taylor Writer
Co-writer of Sideways, winner of 2005's Academy Award for Best Screenplay.
Born and raised in Seattle, Taylor attended Pomona College and received his MFA from NYU in 1995. He is the long-time collaborator of writer-director Alexander Payne, and the two have co-authored four screenplays: Citizen Ruth, Election, About Schmidt, and Sideways. For their work they received two Golden Globes, two Writers Guild Awards, and an Academy Award.
Taylor is currently at work on two screenplays that he will direct. The first is a feature version of The Lost Cause, produced by Scott Rudin. The second screenplay is an adaptation of John Steinbeck's The Winter of Our Discontent, produced by the Steppenwolf Theater Company's film division.