Anthony McCarten is a four-time Academy Award ® nominee and BAFTA-winning screenwriter and producer. A true master of the biopic, McCarten has continually proven his innate ability to craft stories about a wide array of notable figures in a profoundly intimate way that reveals the most human, relatable sides of their lives. Impressively, McCarten’s last four produced screenplays have garnered three Academy Award wins for each of their respective lead actors, two Academy Award nominations for leads in the fourth film and three Best Picture nominations.

His most recent film has been Sony Pictures’ Whitney Houston biopic “I Wanna Dance with Somebody,” starring Naomi Ackie and directed by Kasi Lemmons. McCarten wrote the original screenplay and produced the film alongside the Houston Estate.

McCarten’s previous credits include writing and producing “The Theory of Everything,” starring Eddie Redmayne as Professor Stephen Hawking, writing and producing “Darkest Hour,” starring Gary Oldman as Sir Winston Churchill, writing “Bohemian Rhapsody,” starring Rami Malek as Queen frontman Freddie Mercury and writing “The Two Popes,” starring Sir Anthony Hopkins and Jonathan Pryce. His films have earned a combined $2 billion at the worldwide box office.

McCarten is also a novelist and playwright, having written nine novels and three non-fiction works that have been translated into 26 languages, and multiple stage plays including his most recent, the Broadway production, “The Collaboration,” starring Paul Bettany and Jeremy Pope as iconic artists Andy Warhol and Jean-Michel Basquiat. His Neil Diamond musical “A Beautiful Noise,” is currently running on Broadway.