Sheldon Turner Articles

Precious screenwriter Geoffrey Fletcher, Up in the Air co-screenwriter Sheldon Turner Photos: Matt Pettit / ©A.M.P.A.S. Click on the photo to enlarge it.

Best Original Screenplay, The Hurt Locker Best Adapted Screenplay, Up in the Air Jason Reitman and Sheldon Turner's win for Up in the Air, about an expert corporate-downsizer played by George Clooney, is all but assured. Reitman and Turner's screenplay has been the most honored by US film critics and it has won the Writers Guild Award. Mark Boal's The Hurt Locker screenplay is somewhat [...]

Jeremy Renner in The Hurt Locker (top); Anna Kendrick, George Clooney in Up in the Air (bottom) The Writers Guild of America came up with some pretty shocking choices at their 2010 awards held this evening: Mark Boal's The Hurt Locker (directed by Kathryn Bigelow) for best original screenplay, Jason Reitman and Sheldon Turner's Up in the Air (directed by Reitman) for best adapted screenplay, [...]

Sheldon Turner, George Clooney, and T Bone Burnett get merry at at the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences' Oscar Nominees Luncheon at the Beverly Hilton Hotel in Beverly Hills on Monday, February 15, 2010. T Bone Burnett is in the running for the song "The Weary Kind," which he co-wrote with Ryan Bingham for Crazy Heart, starring Jeff Bridges as an aging country [...]