Menno Meyjes

Menno Meyjes born 1954 is a Dutch screenwriter film director and producer He is an Academy Award and a BAFTA Award nominee and a Goya Award and Hugo Award winner Meyjes was born in Bloemendaal North Holland in 1954 He moved to the United States in 1972 and studied at San Francisco Art Institute graduating with a masters degree in 1980 In 1984 he founded the graphic design magazine Emigre with fellow Dutchmen Marc Susan and Rudy VanderLans Meyjes first gained attention for his spec script The Childrens Crusade which was later produced in 1987 by Francis Ford Coppola as Lionheart His first produced screenplay was the 1985 film The Color Purple directed by Steven Spielberg and based on Alice Walkers 1982 novel of the same name He was nominated for an Academy Award and a BAFTA Award for Best Adapted Screenplay Meyjes worked with Steven Spielberg again when he was a script doctor for Empire of the Sun 1987 and then cowrote the story for Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade in 1989 The same year he won a Goya Award for writing the Spanish film Twisted Obsession In 2002 Meyjes wrote and directed the film Max In 2012 Meyjes adapted the Dutch novel The Dinner into a film Description above from the Wikipedia article Menno Meyjes licensed under CCBYSA full list of contributors on Wikipedia