Early life and education

Frank was born in Fort Walton Beach, Florida on March 10, 1960.

He attended the University of California, Santa Barbara, graduating in 1982 with a B.A. in film studies.

Career

In 2008, Scott Frank’s directorial debut, The Lookout, won the Independent Spirit award for Best First Feature.

Along with The Lookout, Mr. Frank’s other screenplays include Little Man Tate, Dead Again, Malice, Heaven's Prisoners, Get Shorty, Out of Sight, Minority Report, The Interpreter, Marley & Me, The Wolverine and A Walk Among the Tombstones (also directed).

Out of Sight, nominated for an Academy Award for Best Adapted Screenplay, won the Writers Guild of America Award for Best Adapted Screenplay, the Edgar Award from the Mystery Writers of America as well as Best Screenplay awards from the National Society of Film Critics and the Boston Society of Film Critics.

Minority Report won the Saturn Award for Best Science Fiction Screenplay. Get Shorty was nominated for both a Golden Globe and a Writers Guild Award for Best Adapted Screenplay and, along with Dead Again, was nominated for an Edgar Award for Best Mystery Screenplay.

In January 2016, Frank debuted as a novelist with Shaker. The novel is a crime mystery published by Penguin/Random House.

Writing work

Films

Year	Film	Notes
1988	Plain Clothes	with Dan Vining
1991	Dead Again	directed by Kenneth Branagh
1991	Little Man Tate	directed by Jodie Foster
1991	The Walter Ego	short
1993	Malice	with Aaron Sorkin
1995	Get Shorty	directed by Barry Sonnenfeld
1996	Heaven's Prisoners	with Harley Peyton
1998	Out of Sight	directed by Steven Soderbergh
2002	Minority Report	with Jon Cohen
2004	Flight of the Phoenix	with Edward Burns
2005	The Interpreter	with Charles Randolph and Steven Zaillian
2007	The Lookout	also director
2008	Marley & Me	with Don Roos
2013	The Wolverine	with Mark Bomback
2014	A Walk Among the Tombstones	also director
2016	Assassin's Creed	with Bill Collage, Adam Cooper and Michael Lesslie

TV

Year	Film	Notes
1988	The Wonder Years	episode "The Phone Call"
1993	Fallen Angels	episode "Dead End for Delia"
2004	Karen Sisco	episode "He Was a Friend of Mine"
2011	Shameless	also director, episode "It's Time to Kill the Turtle"

[ Source: Wikipedia ]