Akiva Goldsman

Akiva Goldsman is an American television writer, film writer, producer, and a director. Akiva has worked for many movies as a screenwriter. Some of those films are ‘Batman Forever’, ‘Cindrella Man’, ‘I am Legend’, and many rewrites. In the year 2006, he worked with the famous director Ron Howard to make the movie ‘The Da Vinci Code’ which is based on author Dan Brown’s novel. He received mixed reviews for his work for this film. Akiva has won an Academy Award in the year 2001 for the movie ‘ A Beautiful Mind Click to look into! >> Read More... ’ which is an Oscar-winning film. Akiva belongs to a Jewish Family.

His father, Tev Goldsman is a therapist and his mother, Mira Rothenberg is a child psychologist. He graduated from Wesleyan University, and after graduating from this university, Akiva studies Creative Writing from the University of New York Click to look into! >> Read More... . Later, he started writing screenplays. In the year 1994, he wrote screenplay for the movie, ‘The Silent Fall.’ The director, Joel Schumacher Joel T. Schumacher is an American screenwriter, pr >> Read More... hired Akiva to write the screenplay for the film ‘The Client.’ He wrote screenplays for movies ‘Batman and Robin’ and ‘A Time to Kill’ in the late 1990’s. He was criticised for this work and was nominated for the Golden Raspberry Awards.

Akiva owns a production company named as Weed Road Pictures at the Warner Bros. In the year 2010, he produced the movie ‘The Toxic Avenger’ and wrote the first season of the Dark Tower series. Akiva made his directing debut from the movie ‘The Winter’s Tale’ which is based on Mark Helprin’s novel. He produced and co-wrote the film ‘Dark Tower’ which will release in the year 2017. Paramount Pictures declared that Akiva would be the head of a team of filmmakers and writers to make Hasbro’s Transformers franchise. In the year 2008, Akiva worked for the first season of the series ‘Fringe.’ It is a horror/mystery series.

He worked as a consulting producer, director, and a writer. ‘Bad Dreams’ was the first episode for which Akiva worked as a writer and a director. He acted as only a consulting producer for the fifth season of ‘Fringe.’ Akiva has also worked as an executive producer for the Paranormal Activity movie series. Akiva got married twice and his second wife was Rebecca Spikings-Goldsman. She was a producer and daughter of famous producer Barry Spikings. She died in the year 2010 due to a heart attack. After that, Akiva has remained single and had no spouse.