Writer-director Brian Helgeland’s films often examine the darker forces that pull people in, often to their own detriment. Helgeland’s script for L.A. Confidential earned him an Oscar for Best Adapted ...

Helgeland was also Oscar nominated in 2004 for his Adapted Screenplay of Clint Eastwood’s Mystic River. Finestkind stars Ben Foster, Tommy Lee Jones, Jenna Ortega and Toby Wallace.

EXCLUSIVE: WME has signed Oscar-winning writer and director Brian Helgeland for representation in all areas. Helgeland won the Academy Award for Best Adapted Screenplay for L.A. Confidential, the ...

Oscar Winner Brian Helgeland on 30-Year Journey to Make ‘Finestkind,’ Most Personal Film of His Career. The Paramount+ film, streaming Dec. 15, stars Ben Foster, Toby Wallace, Jenna Ortega and ...

John Helgeland was instrumental in setting up North Dakota's first ethics institution, the Northern Plains Ethics Institute, according to information from NDSU’s department of history ...

Hollywood is overflowing with stories about films that took years of blood, sweat and tears to bring to the screen. Brian Helgeland’s Finestkind represents one of the longest kinds. The Oscar ...

EXCLUSIVE: WME has signed Oscar-winning writer and director Brian Helgeland for representation in all areas. Helgeland won the Academy Award for Best Adapted Screenplay for L.A. Confidential, the ...

Helgeland, 62, said he first heard the word “finestkind” — a New England fishing trade expression — when he was growing up in New Bedford, where his father, father’s uncle, and mother ...

Helgeland’s involvement in a “Game of Thrones” spinoff was revealed as early as 2017, a few years before the flagship HBO series came to an end. In May 2021, screenwriter Amanda Segel was ...

Academy Award-winning screenwriter Brian Helgeland reveals why ‘Cool Hand Luke’ is one of those films he can't resist watching whenever it crosses his path. May 25, 2024 from The Treatment. Listen 5 ...

Helgeland has been around awhile and has written and directed a lot of movies you probably like (starting with writing A Nightmare on Elm Street 4: The Dream Master), so it’s kind of weird to ...

Oscar Helgeland, my Norwegian-born grandfather, moved there after the Stock Market Crash in 1929 put an abrupt end to his career as the captain of a wealthy Manhattanite’s Hudson River-based yacht.