Tom Benedek

Tom Benedek has written screenplays for Robert Zemeckis, Lawerence Kasdan, Lili Fini Zanuck and Richard Zanuck, David Brown, Ron Howard, Martin Scorsese, Sydney Pollack, Richard Rush, Harold Ramis, Lauren Schuler Donner and Richard Donner, Ray Stark, Brian Grazer, Working Title, Jersey Film, Chris Blackwell and many others. He wrote the screenplay for Cocoon and other films.

He is a member of the Writers’ Guild of America, West and the Writers’ Branch of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences. He has taught screenwriting at the University of Southern California School of Cinematic Arts and UCLA. He currently teaches at the University of Michigan at Ann Arbor where he is a James Gindin Visiting Artist and at the University of Massachusetts. Tom is a graduate of the University of Massachusetts at Amherst where he received a Bachelor’s Degree with Individual Concentration in Film.

He studied at L’Institut de Formation Cinematographique in Paris and is a graduate of the Director’s Program at the American Film Institute.

Also a visual artist, Tom’s photography can be viewed at TOMBENEDEK.COM.