August Wilson
Best known as a Story Creator based on credits in that role in 2 films, with $0 worldwide aggregate box office (rank #4,376) |
Best-known technical roles: Fences (Screenwriter) |
Most productive collaborators: Denzel Washington, Viola Davis, Stephen McKinley Henderson, Scott Rudin, Jovan Adepo |
Career Summary
Movies | Domestic Box Office | International Box Office | Worldwide Box Office | ||
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In Technical Roles | Story Creator | 2 | $0 | $0 | $0 |
Screenwriter | 1 | $57,682,904 | $6,599,977 | $64,282,881 |
Latest Ranking on Selected Box Office Record Lists
Record | Rank | Amount |
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Top Grossing Screenwriter at the Domestic Box Office (Rank 1,701-1,800) | 1,726 | $57,682,904 |
Top Grossing Screenwriter at the International Box Office (Rank 3,401-3,500) | 3,485 | $6,599,977 |
Top Grossing Screenwriter at the Worldwide Box Office (Rank 2,201-2,300) | 2,280 | $64,282,881 |
See the Acting Credits tab for all Acting Box Office Records and the Technical Credits tab for all Technical Box Office Records.
2016 - Awards Season - And the Oscar Goes to... La La Land Moonlight!
February 26th, 2017
It’s Oscar night and we were live blogging the show. Read on the the highlights of what turned out to be a crazy night.
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2016 - Awards Season: Oscars - Nominations - Final Look
February 26th, 2017
It’s Oscar night and we will be live blogging the show. Before that, let’s take a last look at the nominations with a few annotations. Nominees in italics are those that have received the most votes from our readers so far in our Oscar contest (which is open to new entries until noon, Pacific, today—enter now!). Bold films are those films I think will win. Meanwhile, those that are Underlined are those I want to win. Not all categories have underlined nominees, because not all categories have someone I’m cheering for, or because there are two nominees I couldn’t pick between.
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2016 Awards Season: Oscar Highlight: Best Adapted Screenplay
February 22nd, 2017
With our annual Oscar Prediction contest underway, now is the best time to look at the nominees and try and figure out who the favorites are and which films should just feel honored to be nominated. Today we look at the two Screenwriting Categories, finishing with Best Adapted Screenplay. This is a harder category to judge, because the consensus favorite, Moonlight, was considered an original screenplay by nearly everyone else.
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2016 Awards Season: Oscar Nominations
January 24th, 2017
The Oscar nominations were announced starting at 5:18 am Pacific time. Nothing is good that early in the morning. Worse still, it’s a boring year for nominations with very few surprises worth talking about, especially in the biggest categories. Leading the way was La La Land with 14 nominations, tying the record.
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2016 - Awards Season: WGA - Nominations
January 4th, 2017
The Writers Guild of America is the latest group nominees to be announced. There are a lot of categories that WGA hand out awards, but only three of them are theatrical releases. The list of nominees include several major Awards Season players, like Hidden Figures, but there are also some surprises.
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2016 Preview: December
December 1st, 2016
November was good, but not great. Fortunately, 2016 had a large enough lead going into November that the month only needed to be good. In fact, it could have been mediocre and 2016 would have still had an excellent shot to end the year above 2015. As for December, it’s a race between Star Wars and Star Wars. Almost no one thinks Rogue One is going to match The Force Awakens, but if Rogue One earns just half of what The Force Awakens managed, then 2016 will come out on top in the year-over-year comparison. There are only two other films with a better than 50/50 chance of hitting $100 million, Passengers and Sing. Either one could earn second place for the month, but Passengers will likely start faster. Last December, the only other film to earn more than $100 million was Daddy’s Home, which earned just a hair over $150 million. There’s a chance both Passengers and Sing will earn more than $150 million, which would be a boon to the box office. However, Star Wars: The Force Awakens was just too strong last year and it would take a miracle for 2016 to have a stronger December. That said, it would take a complete collapse for 2016 not to top 2015 in raw dollars. The growth might not be enough to keep pace with ticket price inflation, on the other hand.
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Release Date | Title | Role | Domestic Box Office | International Box Office | Worldwide Box Office |
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Dec 18, 2020 | Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom | Story based on the play by | |||
Dec 16, 2016 | Fences | Based on play by | $57,682,904 | $6,599,977 | $64,282,881 |
Averages | $57,682,904 | $6,599,977 | $64,282,881 | ||
Totals | 2 | $57,682,904 | $6,599,977 | $64,282,881 |
Writer Credits
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Release Date | Title | Opening Weekend | Maximum Theaters | Domestic Box Office | Worldwide Box Office | Domestic Share |
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Dec 18, 2020 | Ma Rainey’s Black Bott… | |||||
Dec 16, 2016 | Fences | $129,462 | 2,368 | $57,682,904 | $64,282,881 | 89.7% |
Averages | $129,462 | 2,368 | $57,682,904 | $64,282,881 | 89.7% | |
Totals | 2 | $57,682,904 | $64,282,881 |
Latest Ranking on All Technical Box Office Record Lists
Record | Rank | Amount |
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Top Grossing Screenwriter at the Domestic Box Office (Rank 1,701-1,800) | 1,726 | $57,682,904 |
Top Grossing Screenwriter at the International Box Office (Rank 3,401-3,500) | 3,485 | $6,599,977 |
Top Grossing Screenwriter at the Worldwide Box Office (Rank 2,201-2,300) | 2,280 | $64,282,881 |