Robert Nelson Jacobs

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 nonprofit 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 masters 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