Aaron Sorkin

ARON SORKIN graduated from Syracuse University with a B.F.A. in Theatre in 1983. He made his Broadway playwriting debut at the age of 28 with the military courtroom drama, A Few Good Men, for which he received the John Gassner Award as Outstanding New American Playwright. His subsequent film adaptation was nominated for four Academy Awards and five Golden Globes, including Best Picture and Best Screenplay. He followed this success with the screenplays for Malice, starring Alec Baldwin and Nicole Kidman, and The American President, starring Michael Douglas and Annette Bening. Mr. Sorkin produced and wrote the television series Sports Night for ABC for two years, winning the Humanitas Prize and the Television Critics Association Award. He spent the next four years writing and producing the NBC series The West Wing, winning the Emmy Award for Outstanding Drama Series all four years. For his work on The West Wing, Mr. Sorkin also twice received the Peabody Award, the Humanitas Prize, the Television Critics Association Award and the Golden Globe, Writers Guild and Producers Guild Awards. Mr. Sorkin’s script Chicago 7 is in pre-production with Ben Stiller set to direct. Sorkin is currently writing a film about the formation of the social network Facebook and the story of its founder, Mark Zuckerberg. Once complete, he will adapt the book "The Challenge: Hamdan v. Rumsfeld and the Fight Over Presidential Power” which George Clooney will star in and produce with his Smoke House production company. The courtroom drama is focused on Navy lawyer Charles Swift and Georgetown University law professor Neal Katyal’s efforts to ensure a fair trial for Osama bin Laden's driver, Salim Hamdan, who'd been held at Guantanamo Bay for five years. In 2008 Mr. Sorkin wrote and produced the NBC television series Studio 60 on the Sunset Strip and his latest film, Charlie Wilson's War, was released. Directed by Mike Nichols, it stars Tom Hanks, Philip Seymour Hoffman and Julia Roberts.