Ray, Billy

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Ray, Billy

PERSONAL

Son of Rick Ray (an agent); married Stacy Sherman; children: two.

Addresses: Agent— Bruce Kaufman, International Creative Management, 10250 Constellation Way, 9th Floor, Los Angeles, CA 90067.

Career: Writer and director.

Member: Academy of Motion Pictures Arts and Sciences.

Awards, Honors: Washington DC Area Film Critics Association Award nomination, best screenplay adaptation, 2003, Independent Spirit Award nomination, Independent Features Project/West, nominations for Golden Satellite Award, International Press Academy, Chlotrudis Award, and Online Film Critics Society Award, all best screenplay adaptation, Chicago Film Critics Association Award nomination, most promising filmmaker, and Online Film Critics Society Award nomination, best breakthrough filmmaker, all 2004, for Shattered Glass.

CREDITS

Film Director:

Shattered Glass, Lions Gate Films, 2003.

Breach, Universal, 2007.

Film Appearances:

Pass! Screenwriters on Surviving Hollywood Rejection, Grand Rive Films/Jade Tiger Productions, 2008.

Television Work; Series:

Creator, Earth 2, NBC, 1994.

Television Appearances; Specials:

The 2004 IFP/West Independent Spirit Awards, Bravo and Independent Film Channel, 2004.

Television Appearances; Episodic:

"Breach," HBO First Look, HBO, 2007.

RECORDINGS

Videos:

In–Flight Movie: The Making of "Flightplan," Buena Vista Home Entertainment, 2006.

The Dialogue: An Interview with Screenwriter Billy Ray, 2007.

WRITINGS

Screenplays:

Color of Night (also based on story by Ray), Buena Vista, 1994.

The Shooter (also known as Hidden Assassin, Desafio final, Strelec, and Unico sospechoso), Miramax/Dimension Films, 1995.

Volcano, Twentieth Century-Fox, 1997.

Hart's War, Metro—Goldwyn—Mayer, 2002.

Shattered Glass, Lions Gate Films, 2003.

Suspect Zero (also known as Suspect 0), Paramount, 2004.

(Uncredited) Friday Night Lights, Universal, 2004.

Flightplan, Buena Vista, 2005.

Breach, Universal, 2007.

Television Movies:

Legalese, TNT, 1998.