Birth Place: Scarsdale, NY, USA
His works include the Broadway plays A Few Good Men, The Farnsworth Invention and To Kill a Mockingbird; the television series Sports Night (1998–2000), The West Wing (1999–2006), Studio 60 on the Sunset Strip (2006–07), and The Newsroom (2012–14). He wrote the film screenplay for the legal drama A Few Good Men (1992), the comedy The American President (1995), and several biopics including Charlie Wilson's War (2007), Moneyball (2011), and Steve Jobs (2015). For writing 2010's The Social Network, he won an Academy Award for Best Adapted Screenplay and Golden Globe Award for Best Screenplay.
He made his feature film debut as a director in 2017 with the crime drama Molly's Game, which garnered mostly positive reviews and earned him a third Academy Award nomination for Best Adapted Screenplay. As a writer, Sorkin is recognized for his trademark fast-paced dialogue and extended monologues, complemented by frequent collaborator Thomas Schlamme's storytelling technique called the "walk and talk". These sequences consist of single tracking shots of long duration involving multiple characters engaging in conversation as they move through the set; characters enter and exit the conversation as the shot continues without any cuts.
Aaron SorkinA Few Good Men
Aaron SorkinA Few Good Men For Promissing Playwright
Aaron Sorkin, A Few Good Men
Aaron Sorkin has written 5 shows including A Few Good Men (Playwright), Making Movies (Playwright), Marty (Bookwriter), The Farnsworth Invention (Playwright), To Kill A Mockingbird (Author).
Aaron Sorkin has been nominated for several awards for his work on "A Few Good Men," including The Charles MacArthur Award for Outstanding New Play or Musical (Helen Hayes Awards) and the John Gassner Playwriting Award (Outer Critics Circle Awards) for Promising Playwright and again for Playwriting.
Aaron Sorkin has won the John Gassner Playwriting Award from the Outer Critics Circle Awards for "A Few Good Men" for Promising Playwright and for the play itself.
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