Michael Arndt

Michael Arndt is an American screenwriter who has written for the films Little Miss Sunshine 2006 Toy Story 3 2010 and Star Wars The Force Awakens 2015 Arndt won the Academy Award for Best Original Screenplay for Little Miss Sunshine and was nominated for Best Adapted Screenplay for Toy Story 3 This made Arndt the first screenwriter nominated for the Academy Award for Best Original Screenplay and Best Adapted Screenplay for his first two screenplays He has also been credited under the pseudonyms Michael deBruyn and Rick Kerb mainly used for script revisions Description above from the Wikipedia article Michael Arndt licensed under CCBYSA full list of contributors on Wikipedia