LOGAN, John 1963–

PERSONAL

Born 1963, in Chicago, IL; father, served in U.S. Navy. Education: Northwestern University, B.F.A., theatre, 1983.

Addresses: Agent—Creative Artists Agency, 9830 Wilshire Blvd., Beverly Hills, CA 90212.

Career: Producer, director, and writer.

Awards, Honors: Outer Critics Circle Award, best off–Broadway play, 1998, for Never the Sinner; Sierra Award nomination (with David Franzoni and William Nicholson), best screenplay—original, Las Vegas Film Critics Society, 2000, Academy Award nomination (with Franzoni and Nicholson), best writing—screenplay written directly for the screen, Film Award nomination (with Franzoni and Nicholson), best screenplay—original, British Academy of Film and Television Arts, Saturn Award nomination (with Franzoni and Nicholson), best writing, Academy of Science Fiction, Fantasy & Horror Films, 2001, all for Gladiator; Emmy Award nomination, outstanding writing for a miniseries or a movie, 2000, Writer Guild of America Award (TV), adapted long form, 2001, both for RKO 281; Golden Globe Award nomination, best screenplay—motion picture, Writers Guild of America Award (screen) nomination, best screenplay written directly for the screen, Golden Satellite Award nomination, best screenplay—original, Broadcast Film Critics Association Award nomination, best writer, Film Award nomination, best screenplay (original), British Academy of Film and Television Arts, 2005, all for The Aviator; Helen Hayes Award nomination, play category.

CREDITS

Film Work:

Executive producer, Bats, Destination Films, 1999.

Coproducer, The Time Machine, DreamWorks, 2002.

Television Appearances; Specials:

A Life without Limits: The Making of the Aviator (documentary), F/X, 2004.

Stage Director:

Hauptman, Cherry Lane Theatre, New York City, 1992.

WRITINGS

Screenplays:

(With others) Any Given Sunday (based on a story by Logan), Warner Bros., 1999.

Bats, Destination Films, 1999.

(With others) Gladiator, DreamWorks, 2000.

The Time Machine (adapted from H. G. Wells' book of the same title), DreamWorks, 2002.

Star Trek: Nemesis, Paramount, 2002.

Sinbad: Legend of the Seven Seas, DreamWorks, 2003.

The Last Samurai (also known as The Last Samurai: Bushidou), Warner Bros., 2003.

The Aviator, Warner Bros., 2004.

Sweeney Todd, DreamWorks, 2005.

Television Movies:

Tornado!, Fox, 1996.

RKO 281 (also known as RKO 281: The Battle over Citizen Kane), HBO, 1999.

Stage Plays:

Never the Sinner, produced 1985.

Also wrote Hauptmann, produced in Chicago, IL; Riverview, produced at Goodman Theatre, Chicago; The View from Golgotha, produced in Australia; Speaking in Tongues, produced in Washington, DC; Of Poems, Youth, and Spring.

OTHER SOURCES

Periodicals:

New York Times, January 9, 2005.