# Charlie Kaufman

Charlie Kaufman (Nova York, 1 de novembre de 1958) és un guionista estatunidenc. Nomenat per la revista Premiere com una de les 100 persones més poderoses de Hollywood.

## Biografia

Kaufman va néixer al si d'una família jueva a Nova York. Va iniciar la seva carrera en televisió escrivint dos episodis per a Busca't la vida de Chris Eliott, així com una dotzena d'altres episodis per a programes com Ned i Stacey i The Dana Carvey Show. Va tenir reconeixement per primera vegada a l'escriure Being John Malkovich, film que li va valer una nominació a l'Oscar i un premi BAFTA. També va escriure Human nature, la qual va ser dirigida per Michel Gondry, i després va treballar amb Spike Jonze altra vegada com l'escriptor per a Adaptation: el lladre d'orquídies, la qual li va valer altra nominació a l'Oscar i el seu segon BAFTA. En aquesta pel·lícula es presentava a un personatge, Charlie Kaufman, que resultava ser una versió bastant irreal de l'escriptor.
També va escriure Confessions d'una ment perillosa, un retrat biogràfic de Chuck Barris, un conductor d'un programa de concursos del qui es pensava era un home clau de la CIA. Va ser dirigida per George Clooney, que debutava com a director.
Kaufman, molt molest, va criticar a Clooney per fer alteracions dramàtiques al guió de la pel·lícula sense si més no consultar-lo amb ell. El guionista va afirmar en una entrevista amb William Arnold: «L'usual per a un escriptor és lliurar un guió i després desaparèixer. Però això no és per a mi. Vull estar involucrat de principi a fi. I aquests directors (Gondry, Jonze) ho saben i ho respecten.» Després va arribar Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind (Oblida't de mi!), la seva segona pel·lícula amb el director Michel Gondry, pel qual va rebre el seu primer premi Oscar al millor guió original, el seu tercer BAFTA i el prestigiós PEN American Center 2005.
Un patró interessant en els treballs de Kaufman és que sovint se centren en un protagonista masculí introvertit, una mica tímid, i una figura dominant femenina. Això succeïx amb Eternal sunshine.. (Joel/Clementine), El lladre d'orquídies (Charlie), i Com ser John Malkovich (Craig/Maxine).

## Referències

* ↑ Ebert, Roger. «Synecdoche, New York Movie Review (2008)», 05-11-2008. [Consulta: 16 octubre 2015]. "Charlie Kaufman is one of the few truly important writers to make screenplays his medium."
* ↑ «Charlie Kaufman Is The 21st Century's 'Mad Genius Of Cinema'». GQ. June 3, 2016.
* ↑ «Charlie Kaufman: Screenwriters Lecture». British Academy of Film and Television Arts. [Consulta: 16 octubre 2015]. "One of modern cinema's most celebrated writers"...
* ↑ Ulin, David L. «Why Charlie Kaufman Is Us». , 14-05-2006. "In exploring our inner selves, he's become one of the best writers of his generation, David L. Ulin argues."
* ↑ Applebaum, Stephen. «It's not easy being Charlie Kaufman». The Jewish Chronicle, 07-05-2009. [Consulta: 27 abril 2018].
* ↑ Feinstein, Howard. «Decade: Charlie Kaufman on "Synecdoche, New York"». IndieWire, 28-12-2009. [Consulta: 27 abril 2018].
* ↑ Solomons, Jason. «Tradition? No, I just want to write what I think is funny». The Jewish Chronicle, 17-03-2016. [Consulta: 27 abril 2018].
Premis de Charlie Kaufman :
Oscar al millor guió original1940–1975
Preston Sturges (1940)
Herman J. Mankiewicz i Orson Welles (1941)
Michael Kanin i Ring Lardner Jr. (1942)
Norman Krasna (1943)
Lamar Trotti (1944)
Richard Schweizer (1945)
Muriel Box i Sydney Box (1946)
Sidney Sheldon (1947)
No concedit (1948)
Robert Pirosh (1949)
Charles Brackett, D. M. Marshman Jr., i Billy Wilder (1950)
Alan Jay Lerner (1951)
T. E. B. Clarke (1952)
Charles Brackett, Richard L. Breen, i Walter Reisch (1953)
Budd Schulberg (1954)
Sonya Levien i William Ludwig (1955)
Albert Lamorisse (1956)
George Wells (1957)
Nathan E. Douglas i Harold Jacob Smith (1958)
Clarence Greene, Maurice Richlin, Russell Rouse, i Stanley Shapiro (1959)
I. A. L. Diamond i Billy Wilder (1960)
William Inge (1961)
Ennio de Concini, Pietro Germi, i Alfredo Giannetti (1962)
James Webb (1963)
S. H. Barnett, Peter Stone i Frank Tarloff (1964)
Frederic Raphael (1965)
Claude Lelouch i Pierre Uytterhoeven (1966)
William Rose (1967)
Mel Brooks (1968)
William Goldman (1969)
Francis Ford Coppola i Edmund H. North (1970)
Paddy Chayefsky (1971)
Jeremy Larner (1972)
David S. Ward (1973)
Robert Towne (1974)
Frank Pierson (1975)
1976–2000
Paddy Chayefsky (1976)
Woody Allen i Marshall Brickman (1977)
Robert C. Jones, Waldo Salt, i Nancy Dowd (1978)
Steve Tesich (1979)
Bo Goldman (1980)
Colin Welland (1981)
John Briley (1982)
Horton Foote (1983)
Robert Benton (1984)
William Kelley, Pamela Wallace, i Earl W. Wallace (1985)
Woody Allen (1986)
John Patrick Shanley (1987)
Ronald Bass i Barry Morrow (1988)
Tom Schulman (1989)
Bruce Joel Rubin (1990)
Callie Khouri (1991)
Neil Jordan (1992)
Jane Campion (1993)
Quentin Tarantino i Roger Avary (1994)
Christopher McQuarrie (1995)
Joel Coen i Ethan Coen (1996)
Ben Affleck i Matt Damon (1997)
Marc Norman i Tom Stoppard (1998)
Alan Ball (1999)
Cameron Crowe (2000)
2001–present
Julian Fellowes (2001)
Pedro Almodóvar (2002)
Sofia Coppola (2003)
Pierre Bismuth, Michel Gondry i Charlie Kaufman (2004)
Paul Haggis i Bobby Moresco (2005)
Michael Arndt (2006)
Diablo Cody (2007)
Dustin Lance Black (2008)
Mark Boal (2009)
David Seidler (2010)
Woody Allen (2011)
Quentin Tarantino (2012)
Spike Jonze (2013)
Alejandro G. Iñárritu, Nicolás Giacobone, Alexander Dinelaris Jr., i Armando Bo (2014)
Tom McCarthy i Josh Singer (2015)
Kenneth Lonergan (2016)
Jordan Peele (2017)
Nick Vallelonga, Brian Currie i Peter Farrelly (2018)
Bong Joon-ho i Han Jin-won (2019)
Emerald Fennell (2020)
Kenneth Branagh (2021)
Daniel Kwan i Daniel Scheinert (2022)
Justine Triet i Arthur Harari (2023)
BAFTA al millor guió adaptat1983–2000
Ruth Prawer Jhabvala (1983)
Bruce Robinson (1984)
Richard Condon i Janet Roach (1985)
Kurt Luedtke (1986)
Claude Berri i Gérard Brach (1987)
Jean-Claude Carrière i Philip Kaufman (1988)
Christopher Hampton (1989)
Nicholas Pileggi i Martin Scorsese (1990)
Dick Clement, Roddy Doyle i Ian La Frenais (1991)
Michael Tolkin (1992)
Steven Zaillian (1993)
Paul Attanasio (1994)
John Hodge (1995)
Anthony Minghella (1996)
Baz Luhrmann i Craig Pearce (1997)
Elaine May (1998)
Neil Jordan (1999)
Stephen Gaghan (2000)
2001–present
Ted Elliott, Terry Rossio, Roger S. H. Schulman i Joe Stillman (2001)
Charlie Kaufman i Donald Kaufman (2002)
Philippa Boyens, Peter Jackson i Fran Walsh (2003)
Alexander Payne i Jim Taylor (2004)
Larry McMurtry i Diana Ossana (2005)
Jeremy Brock i Peter Morgan (2006)
Ronald Harwood (2007)
Simon Beaufoy (2008)
Jason Reitman i Sheldon Turner (2009)
Aaron Sorkin (2010)
Bridget O'Connor i Peter Straughan (2011)
David O. Russell (2012)
Steve Coogan i Jeff Pope (2013)
Anthony McCarten (2014)
Adam McKay i Charles Randolph (2015)
Luke Davies (2016)
James Ivory (2017)
Spike Lee, David Rabinowitz, Charlie Wachtel i Kevin Willmott (2018)
Taika Waititi (2019)
Christopher Hampton i Florian Zeller (2020)
Sian Heder (2021)
Edward Berger, Lesley Paterson i Ian Stokell (2022)
Cord Jefferson (2023)
Premi de Los Angeles Film Critics Association al millor guió1975–2000
Joan Tewkesbury (1975)
Paddy Chayefsky (1976)
Woody Allen i Marshall Brickman (1977)
Paul Mazursky (1978)
Robert Benton (1979)
John Sayles (1980)
John Guare (1981)
Larry Gelbart i Murray Schisgal (1982)
James L. Brooks (1983)
Peter Shaffer (1984)
Terry Gilliam, Charles McKeown i Tom Stoppard (1985)
Woody Allen (1986)
John Boorman (1987)
Ron Shelton (1988)
Gus Van Sant i Daniel Yost (1989)
Nicholas Kazan (1990)
James Toback (1991)
David Webb Peoples (1992)
Jane Campion (1993)
Quentin Tarantino i Roger Avary (1994)
Emma Thompson (1995)
Joel Coen i Ethan Coen (1996)
Curtis Hanson i Brian Helgeland (1997)
Warren Beatty i Jeremy Pikser (1998)
Charlie Kaufman (1999)
Kenneth Lonergan (2000)
2001–present
Christopher Nolan (2001)
Alexander Payne i Jim Taylor (2002)
Shari Springer Berman i Robert Pulcini (2003)
Alexander Payne i Jim Taylor (2004)
Noah Baumbach / Dan Futterman (2005)
Peter Morgan (2006)
Tamara Jenkins (2007)
Mike Leigh (2008)
Jason Reitman i Sheldon Turner (2009)
Aaron Sorkin (2010)
Asghar Farhadi (2011)
Chris Terrio (2012)
Richard Linklater, Ethan Hawke i Julie Delpy (2013)
Wes Anderson (2014)
Tom McCarthy i Josh Singer (2015)
Iorgos Lànthimos i Efthimis Filippou (2016)
Jordan Peele (2017)
Nicole Holofcener i Jeff Whitty (2018)
Noah Baumbach (2019)
Emerald Fennell (2020)
Ryusuke Hamaguchi i Takamasa Oe (2021)
Todd Field (2022)
Premi del Cercle de Crítics de Cinema de Florida al millor guióGuió (1996–2009)
Joel Coen i Ethan Coen (1996)
Curtis Hanson i Brian Helgeland (1997)
Marc Norman i Tom Stoppard (1998)
Alexander Payne i Jim Taylor (1999)
David Mamet (2000)
Christopher Nolan (2001)
Charlie i Donald Kaufman (2002)
Sofia Coppola (2003)
Alexander Payne i Jim Taylor (2004)
Larry McMurtry i Diana Ossana (2005)
William Monahan (2006)
Diablo Cody (2007)
Simon Beaufoy (2008)
Scott Neustadter i Michael H. Weber (2009)
Guió original (2010–present)
Christopher Nolan (2010)
Michel Hazanavicius (2011)
Rian Johnson (2012)
Spike Jonze (2013)
Wes Anderson i Hugo Guinness (2014)
Tom McCarthy i Josh Singer (2015)
Efthimis Filippou i Iorgos Lànthimos (2016)
Jordan Peele (2017)
Boots Riley (2018)
Ronald Bronstein i Benny i Josh Safdie (2019)
Lee Isaac Chung (2020)
Wes Anderson (2021)
Park Chan-wook i Jeong Seo-Gyeong (2022)
Celine Song (2023)
Guió adaptat (2010–present)
Aaron Sorkin (2010)
Alexander Payne, Nat Faxon i Jim Rash (2011)
Chris Terrio (2012)
John Ridley (2013)
Gillian Flynn (2014)
Adam McKay i Charles Randolph (2015)
Whit Stillman (2016)
James Ivory (2017)
Nicole Holofcener i Jeff Whitty (2018)
Greta Gerwig (2019)
Charlie Kaufman (2020)
Jane Campion (2021)
Sarah Polley (2022)
Tony McNamara (2023)
Premi Satellite al millor guió adaptatDècada del 1990
Anthony Minghella (1996)
Curtis Hanson i Brian Helgeland (1997)
Bill Condon (1998)
John Irving (1999)
Dècada del 2000
Doug Wright (2000)
Robert Festinger i Todd Field (2001)
Charlie Kaufman i Donald Kaufman (2002)
Brian Helgeland (2003)
Paul Haggis (2004)
Robin Swicord (2005)
William Monahan (2006)
Christopher Hampton (2007)
Peter Morgan (2008)
Geoffrey S. Fletcher (2009)
Dècada del 2010
Aaron Sorkin (2010)
Alexander Payne, Jim Rash, i Nat Faxon (2011)
David Magee (2012)
Steve Coogan i Jeff Pope (2013)
Graham Moore (2014)
Aaron Sorkin (2015)
Kieran Fitzgerald i Oliver Stone (2016)
Scott Neustadter i Michael H. Weber (2017)
Nicole Holofcener i Jeff Whitty (2018)
Todd Phillips i Scott Silver (2019)
Dècada del 2020
Christopher Hampton i Florian Zeller (2020)
Sian Heder (2021)
Sarah Polley (2022)
Premi Saturn al millor guió Dècada del 1970
William Peter Blatty (1973)
Ib Melchior/Harlan Ellison (1974/75)
Jimmy Sangster (1976)
George Lucas (1977)
Elaine May i Warren Beatty (1978)
Nicholas Meyer (1979)
Dècada del 1980
William Peter Blatty (1980)
Lawrence Kasdan (1981)
Melissa Mathison (1982)
Ray Bradbury (1983)
James Cameron i Gale Anne Hurd (1984)
Tom Holland (1985)
James Cameron (1986)
Michael Miner i Edward Neumeier (1987)
Gary Ross i Anne Spielberg (1988)
William Peter Blatty (1989/90)
Dècada del 1990
Ted Tally (1991)
James V. Hart (1992)
Michael Crichton i David Koepp (1993)
Jim Harrison i Wesley Strick (1994)
Andrew Kevin Walker (1995)
Kevin Williamson (1996)
Mike Werb i Michael Colleary (1997)
Andrew Niccol (1998)
Charlie Kaufman (1999)
Dècada del 2000
David Hayter (2000)
Steven Spielberg (2001)
Scott Frank i Jon Cohen (2002)
Fran Walsh, Philippa Boyens, i Peter Jackson (2003)
Alvin Sargent (2004)
Christopher Nolan i David S. Goyer (2005)
Michael Dougherty i Dan Harris (2006)
Brad Bird (2007)
Christopher i Jonathan Nolan (2008)
James Cameron (2009)
Dècada del 2010
Christopher Nolan (2010)
Jeff Nichols (2011)
Quentin Tarantino (2012)
Spike Jonze (2013)
Christopher i Jonathan Nolan (2014)
Lawrence Kasdan, J. J. Abrams, i Michael Arndt (2015)
Eric Heisserer (2016)
Rian Johnson (2017)
Bryan Woods, Scott Beck, i John Krasinski (2018/19)
Quentin Tarantino (2019/20)
Dècada del 2020
Guillermo del Toro i Kim Morgan (2021/22)
James Cameron, Rick Jaffa i Amanda Silver (2022/23)
Premi Bram Stoker al millor guió
Alex Proyas / Bill Condon (1998)
M. Night Shyamalan (1999)
Steven Katz (2000)
Christopher Nolan i Jonathan Nolan (2001)
Brent Hanley (2002)
Don Coscarelli (2003)
Charlie Kaufman, Michel Gondry i Pierre Bismuth / Simon Pegg i Edgar Wright (2004)
Jessica Sharzer (2011)
Joss Whedon i Drew Goddard (2012)
Glen Mazzara (2013)
Jennifer Kent (2014)
David Robert Mitchell (2015)
Robert Eggers (2016)
Jordan Peele (2017)
Meredith Averill (2018)
Jordan Peele (2019)
Leigh Whannell (2020)
Mike Flanagan, James Flanagan i Jeff Howard (2021)
Scott Derrickson i C. Robert Cargill / Matt i Ross Duffer (2022)
Premi de la National Society of Film Critics al millor guió
David Newman i Robert Benton (1967)
John Cassavetes (1968)
Paul Mazursky i Larry Tucker (1969)
Éric Rohmer (1970)
Penelope Gilliatt (1971)
Ingmar Bergman (1972)
George Lucas, Gloria Katz i Willard Huyck (1973)
Ingmar Bergman (1974)
Robert Towne i Warren Beatty (1975)
Alain Tanner i John Berger (1976)
Woody Allen i Marshall Brickman (1977)
Paul Mazursky (1978)
Steve Tesich (1979)
Bo Goldman (1980)
John Guare (1981)
Murray Schisgal i Larry Gelbart (1982)
Bill Forsyth (1983)
Lowell Ganz, Babaloo Mandel i Bruce Jay Friedman (1984)
Albert Brooks i Monica Johnson (1985)
Hanif Kureishi (1986)
John Boorman (1987)
Ron Shelton (1988)
Gus Van Sant i Daniel Yost (1989)
Charles Burnett (1990)
David Cronenberg (1991)
David Webb Peoples (1992)
Jane Campion (1993)
Quentin Tarantino i Roger Avary (1994)
Amy Heckerling (1995)
Albert Brooks i Monica Johnson (1996)
Curtis Hanson i Brian Helgeland (1997)
Scott Frank (1998)
Charlie Kaufman (1999)
Kenneth Lonergan (2000)
Julian Fellowes (2001)
Ronald Harwood (2002)
Shari Springer Berman i Robert Pulcini (2003)
Alexander Payne i Jim Taylor (2004)
Noah Baumbach (2005)
Peter Morgan (2006)
Tamara Jenkins (2007)
Mike Leigh (2008)
Joel Coen i Ethan Coen (2009)
Aaron Sorkin (2010)
Asghar Farhadi (2011)
Tony Kushner (2012)
Richard Linklater, Ethan Hawke, i Julie Delpy (2013)
Wes Anderson (2014)
Tom McCarthy i Josh Singer (2015)
Kenneth Lonergan (2016)
Greta Gerwig (2017)
Armando Iannucci, David Schneider i Ian Martin (2018)
Bong Joon-ho i Han Jin-won (2019)
Eliza Hittman (2020)
Ryusuke Hamaguchi i Takamasa Oe (2021)
Todd Field (2022)
Samy Burch (2023)
Premi Online Film Critics Society al millor guió original
Paul Thomas Anderson (1997)
Andrew Niccol (1998)
Charlie Kaufman (1999)
Cameron Crowe (2000)
Alejandro Amenábar / David Lynch (2001)
Todd Haynes (2002)
Sofia Coppola (2003)
Charlie Kaufman (2004)
George Clooney i Grant Heslov (2005)
Guillermo del Toro (2006)
Diablo Cody (2007)
Jim Reardon i Andrew Stanton (2008)
Quentin Tarantino (2009)
Christopher Nolan (2010)
Woody Allen (2011)
Wes Anderson i Roman Coppola (2012)
Spike Jonze (2013)
Wes Anderson (2014)
Tom McCarthy i Josh Singer (2015)
Taylor Sheridan (2016)
Jordan Peele (2017)
Boots Riley (2018)
Bong Joon-ho i Han Jin-won (2019)
Emerald Fennell (2020)
Michael Sarnoski i Vanessa Block (2021)
Martin McDonagh (2022)
David Hemingson (2023)
Premi del Sindicat de Guionistes dels Estats Units al millor guió original Drama original (1969–1983)
William Goldman (1969)
Francis Ford Coppola i Edmund H. North (1970)
Penelope Gilliatt (1971)
Jeremy Larner (1972)
Steve Shagan (1973)
Robert Towne (1974)
Frank Pierson (1975)
Paddy Chayefsky (1976)
Arthur Laurents (1977)
Nancy Dowd, Robert C. Jones & Waldo Salt (1978)
Mike Gray, T. S. Cook & James Bridges (1979)
Bo Goldman (1980)
Warren Beatty & Trevor Griffiths (1981)
Melissa Mathison (1982)
Horton Foote (1983)
Comèdia original (1969–1983)
Paul Mazursky & Larry Tucker (1969)
Neil Simon (1970)
Paddy Chayefsky (1971)
Peter Bogdanovich, Buck Henry, David Newman & Robert Benton (1972)
Melvin Frank & Jack Rose (1973)
Mel Brooks, Norman Steinberg, Andrew Bergman, Richard Pryor & Alan Uger (1974)
Robert Towne & Warren Beatty (1975)
Bill Lancaster (1976)
Woody Allen & Marshall Brickman (1977)
Larry Gelbart & Sheldon Keller (1978)
Steve Tesich (1979)
Nancy Meyers, Harvey Miller & Charles Shyer (1980)
Steve Gordon (1981)
Don McGuire, Larry Gelbart & Murray Schisgal (1982)
Lawrence Kasdan & Barbara Benedek (1983)
Guió original (1984–present)
Woody Allen (1984)
William Kelley & Earl W. Wallace (1985)
Woody Allen (1986)
John Patrick Shanley (1987)
Ron Shelton (1988)
Woody Allen (1989)
Barry Levinson (1990)
Callie Khouri (1991)
Neil Jordan (1992)
Jane Campion (1993)
Richard Curtis (1994)
Randall Wallace (1995)
Joel Coen i Ethan Coen (1996)
James L. Brooks & Mark Andrus (1997)
Marc Norman & Tom Stoppard (1998)
Alan Ball (1999)
Kenneth Lonergan (2000)
Julian Fellowes (2001)
Michael Moore (2002)
Sofia Coppola (2003)
Pierre Bismuth, Michel Gondry, & Charlie Kaufman (2004)
Paul Haggis & Bobby Moresco (2005)
Michael Arndt (2006)
Diablo Cody (2007)
Dustin Lance Black (2008)
Mark Boal (2009)
Christopher Nolan (2010)
Woody Allen (2011)
Mark Boal (2012)
Spike Jonze (2013)
Wes Anderson & Hugo Guinness (2014)
Tom McCarthy & Josh Singer (2015)
Barry Jenkins & Tarell Alvin McCraney (2016)
Jordan Peele (2017)
Bo Burnham (2018)
Bong Joon-ho & Han Jin-won (2019)
Emerald Fennell (2020)
Adam McKay & David Sirota (2021)
Daniel Kwan i Daniel Scheinert (2022)
David Hemingson (2023)
San Diego Film Critics Society Award al millor guió original
James L. Brooks (1997)
Peter Howitt (1998)
Charlie Kaufman (1999)
Cameron Crowe (2000)
Richard Kelly (2001)
Jill Sprecher i Karen Sprecher (2002)
Peter Mullan (2003)
Mike Leigh (2004)
Shane Black (2005)
Karen Moncrieff (2006)
Diablo Cody (2007)
Tom McCarthy (2008)
Quentin Tarantino (2009)
Chris Morris, Jesse Armstrong, i Sam Bain (2010)
Woody Allen (2011)
Paul Thomas Anderson (2012)
Spike Jonze (2013)
Dan Gilroy (2014)
Jemaine Clement i Taika Waititi (2015)
Taylor Sheridan (2016)
Jordan Peele (2017)
Bo Burnham (2018)
Noah Baumbach (2019)
Lee Isaac Chung (2020)
Fran Kranz (2021)
Martin McDonagh (2022)
Greta Gerwig i Noah Baumbach (2023) :