American screenwriter and film producer
Roger S. H. Schulman is an American screenwriter and film producer .[ 1] He co-wrote the animated feature Shrek , for which he won the British Academy Award for Best Adapted Screenplay and was nominated for an Oscar for Best Writing (Adapted Screenplay) .[ 2]
Education
A native of Brooklyn, NY , he graduated from Brooklyn College with a degree in English. MS Journalism, Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism .
Career
He co-wrote the animated feature Balto for executive producer Steven Spielberg , and wrote Mulan II and The Jungle Book 2 for Walt Disney Pictures .[ 3] [ 4] He developed and wrote the screenplay for an animated feature about the true story of a tortoise who befriends a baby hippo after the 2004 tsunami . The film has not yet been made. He also had written an unproduced version of Jungle Cruise , a screenplay for Disney, inspired by the theme park attraction , slated to star Tom Hanks and Tim Allen .[ 5]
Schulman has also worked extensively as a producer and writer for television. He was co-creator and executive producer of the series Jonas for the Disney Channel , for which he was nominated for an Emmy award. He was also executive producer of Phil of the Future on Disney Channel. He developed and was executive producer of 2gether for MTV ; he was executive producer for Living Single with Queen Latifah , for which he won an NAACP Image Award ; he also wrote on Parker Lewis Can't Lose and ALF . In addition, he served as co-writer of the original pilot for The Wayans Bros. television series, as well as the pilots The Mother Load , Fresh Man and Just My Luck .
Screenwriting credits
series head writer denoted in bold
Television
Films
References
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Awards for Roger S. H. Schulman
Brenda Chapman (1994)
Andrew Stanton , Joss Whedon , Joel Cohen and Alec Sokolow (1996)
Rita Hsiao, Chris Sanders , Philip LaZebnik , Raymond Singer and Eugenia Bostwick-Singer (1998)
Brad Bird and Tim McCanlies (1999)
John Lasseter , Pete Docter , Ash Brannon , Andrew Stanton , Rita Hsiao, Doug Chamberlin and Chris Webb (2000)
Ted Elliott , Terry Rossio , Joe Stillman and Roger S. H. Schulman (2001)
Hayao Miyazaki (2002)
Andrew Stanton , Bob Peterson and David Reynolds (2003)
Brad Bird (2004)
Steve Box , Nick Park and Mark Burton (2005)
Dick Clement , Ian La Frenais , Christopher Lloyd , Joe Keenan and William Davies (2006)
Brad Bird (2007)
Jonathan Aibel and Glenn Berger (2008)
Wes Anderson and Noah Baumbach (2009)
Chris Sanders , Will Davies and Dean DeBlois (2010)
James Ward Byrkit, John Logan and Gore Verbinski (2011)
Phil Johnston and Jennifer Lee (2012)
Hayao Miyazaki (2013)
Phil Lord and Christopher Miller (2014)
Pete Docter , Meg LeFauve and Josh Cooley (2015)
Jared Bush and Phil Johnston (2016)
Adrian Molina and Matthew Aldrich (2017)
Phil Lord and Rodney Rothman (2018)
Jérémy Clapin and Guillaume Laurant (2019)
Pete Docter , Mike Jones and Kemp Powers (2020)
Mike Rianda and Jeff Rowe (2021)
Dean Fleischer Camp , Jenny Slate , Nick Paley and Elisabeth Holm (2022)
Robert L. Baird and Lloyd Taylor (2023)