Life and career

Kloves, born in Austin, Texas, grew up in Sunnyvale, California, where he graduated from Fremont High School. He attended the University of California, Los Angeles but dropped out when he was not admitted into the film school in his third year. As an unpaid intern for a Hollywood agent, he gained attention for a screenplay he wrote called Swings. This led to a meeting where he successfully pitched Racing with the Moon (1984).

His first experience with professional screenwriting left him wanting more interaction with the actors so that the characters would stay true to his vision. Kloves wrote The Fabulous Baker Boys and also intended it to be his directorial debut. After years of trying to sell the project in Hollywood, the film finally got off the ground and was released in 1989. The Fabulous Baker Boys did reasonably well, but his next shot as writer/director for Flesh and Bone in 1993 fared poorly at the box office. Kloves then stopped writing for three years.

Realizing that he had to return to writing to support his family, he began adapting Michael Chabon's novel Wonder Boys into a screenplay. Kloves was offered the chance to direct but he declined, preferring to direct only his own original work. This was his first try at adapting another work to film. His screenplay was nominated for a Golden Globe and an Academy Award after the film's release in 2000.

Warner Bros. sent Kloves a list of novels that the company was considering to adapt as films. The listing included the first Harry Potter novel, which intrigued him despite his usual indifference to these catalogs. He went on to write the screenplays for the first four films in the series. However, he turned down writing the fifth film, stating that "The fourth film, Goblet of Fire, was really hard to do. I wrote on it for two years. But it’s not that simple and I don’t know that I’ll ever fully understand why I didn’t do it." After Michael Goldenberg wrote the screenplay for the fifth film, Kloves then returned to write the sixth, seventh and eighth installments.

As of 2011, Kloves is working on a film adaptation of Mark Haddon's novel The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time, which he will write and direct. He has also a draft written of the yet unproduced fantasy film Akira.

Filmography

Year	Title	Role	Notes
1984	Racing with the Moon	Screenplay
1989	The Fabulous Baker Boys	Director/Screenplay	Sutherland Trophy Nominated-National Society of Film Critics Award for Best Screenplay Nominated-New York Film Critics Circle Award for Best New Director Nominated-Writers Guild of America Award for Best Original Screenplay
1993	Flesh and Bone	Director/Screenplay
2000	Wonder Boys	Screenplay	Boston Society of Film Critics Award for Best Screenplay Broadcast Film Critics Association Award for Best Adapted Screenplay Las Vegas Film Critics Society Award for Best Adapted Screenplay USC Scripter Award Nominated-Academy Award for Best Adapted Screenplay Nominated-BAFTA Award for Best Adapted Screenplay Nominated-Chicago Film Critics Association Award for Best Screenplay Nominated-Golden Globe Award for Best Screenplay Nominated-London Critics Circle Film Award for Screenwriter of the Year Nominated-Los Angeles Film Critics Association Award for Best Screenplay Nominated-National Society of Film Critics Award for Best Screenplay Nominated-Online Film Critics Society Award for Best Screenplay Nominated-Phoenix Film Critics Society Award for Best Adapted Screenplay Nominated-Writers Guild of America Award for Best Adapted Screenplay
2001	Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone	Screenplay	Nominated-BAFTA Children's Award for Best Feature Film Nominated-Hugo Award for Best Dramatic Presentation
2002	Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets	Screenplay	Nominated-BAFTA Children's Award for Best Feature Film Nominated-Hugo Award for Best Dramatic Presentation - Long Form
2004	Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban	Screenplay	Nominated-Hugo Award for Best Dramatic Presentation - Long Form Nominated-Saturn Award for Best Writer
2005	Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire	Screenplay	Nominated-Hugo Award for Best Dramatic Presentation - Long Form Nominated-Saturn Award for Best Writing
2009	Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince	Screenplay
	Fantastic Mr. Fox	Special Thanks
2010	Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows - Part 1	Screenplay	Nominated-Hugo Award for Best Dramatic Presentation - Long Form
2011	Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows - Part 2	Screenplay	Nominated-Hugo Award for Best Dramatic Presentation - Long Form Nominated-San Diego Film Critics Society Award for Best Adapted Screenplay
2012	The Amazing Spider-Man	Screenplay	with James Vanderbilt & Alvin Sargent
2016	Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them	Producer
2018	Jungle Book	Producer

[ Source: Wikipedia ]