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Robert Nelson Jacobs

Robert Nelson Jacobs

Known For Writing
Birthday Feb 24, 1954 (71)
Birthplace Pensylvania, USA
Popularity 0.6 (history)
Updated Aug 19, 2025
Entry Date Aug 19, 2025
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Biography

Robert Nelson Jacobs is an American screenwriter. In 2000, he received an Academy Award nomination for best adapted screenplay for Chocolat. In 2014, Jacobs was elected president of the Writers Guild Foundation, a non-profit organization devoted to promoting and preserving the craft of writing for ... the screen. He attended Yale University, where he received the Curtis Literary Prize for his short fiction and graduated with honors. He earned his master's degree from the Iowa Writers’ Workshop. Jacobs began his career as a writer of short stories that were published in little, prestigious magazines that generated little, prestigious income. Jacobs’ love of movies brought him to California, where it took a number of years for his work to finally start paying the rent. Jacobs’ screenplay credits include Out to Sea, Dinosaur, Chocolat, The Shipping News, Flushed Away, The Water Horse, and Extraordinary Measures.

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Extraordinary Measures

Extraordinary Measures

2010

Screenplay

The Water Horse

The Water Horse

2007

Screenplay

Flushed Away

Flushed Away

2006

Additional Writing

The Shipping News

The Shipping News

2001

Screenplay

Dinosaur

Dinosaur

2000

Story, Screenplay

Chocolat

Chocolat

2000

Screenplay

Out to Sea

Out to Sea

1997

Screenplay

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Organization Category Movie
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