Title: The Yards
Content:  The Yards is a 2000 American crime film directed by James Gray. It was written by Gray and Matt Reeves, and stars Mark Wahlberg, Joaquin Phoenix, Charlize Theron and James Caan. The setting is the commuter rail yards in New York City, in the boroughs of the Bronx, Queens, and Brooklyn. In the film's plot, bribery, corporate crime and political corruption are commonplace in "the yards", where contractors repair railway cars for the city Transit Authority (TA). Rival companies sabotage each other's work to win bids. The undercutting leads to murder.
Title: The Whole Nine Yards (film)
Content:  The Whole Nine Yards is a 2000 American crime comedy film directed by Jonathan Lynn and distributed by Warner Bros. It was written by Mitchell Kapner and stars Bruce Willis, Matthew Perry, Amanda Peet, Michael Clarke Duncan, and Natasha Henstridge. Its story follows a mild-mannered dentist as he travels to Chicago to inform a mob boss about the whereabouts of his new neighbor, a former hitman with a price on his head. The film was produced by Morgan Creek Productions, Franchise Pictures, Rational Packaging, and Lansdown Films and was released on February 18, 2000. The film received mixed reviews from critics and grossed $106 million. A sequel, The Whole Ten Yards, was released in 2004.
Title: The Yards
Content: Cannes Film Festival (2000): ; Golden Palm Nomination: James Gray 
Title: The Whole Ten Yards
Content:  The Whole Ten Yards is a 2004 American crime comedy film directed by Howard Deutch and starring Bruce Willis, Matthew Perry, Amanda Peet, Natasha Henstridge, and Kevin Pollak. It is a sequel to the 2000 film The Whole Nine Yards. It was based on characters created by Mitchell Kapner, who was the writer of the first film. The film was released on April 7, 2004 in the United States. Unlike the first film, which was a commercial success despite receiving mixed reviews, The Whole Ten Yards was a critical and commercial failure.
Title: Hal Yates
Content:  Hal Yates (July 26, 1899 &ndash; August 1, 1969) was an American screenwriter and film director. He wrote for 96 films between 1924 and 1953. He also directed 88 films between 1926 and 1953. He started his career in entertainment in a vaudeville double-act called 'Yates and Lawley'. Yates first worked at the Hal Roach Studios where he directed a few early Laurel and Hardy comedies (including the lost Hats Off),and later worked at the RKO studios directing short films featuring Edgar Kennedy and Leon Errol. He was born in Chicago, Illinois, and died in Los Angeles, California.
Title: The Yards
Content: National Board of Review Awards (2000): ; Best Supporting Actor: Joaquin Phoenix ; Broadcast Film Critics Association (2001): ; Best Supporting Actor: Joaquin Phoenix 
Title: Dornford Yates
Content:  play Forty Years On (1972): "Sapper, Buchan, Dornford Yates, practitioners in that school of Snobbery with Violence that runs like a thread of good-class tweed through twentieth-century literature." Yates also wrote other thrillers in the same style, but with different characters. Besides these two genres, some of Yates' novels do not easily fall into either the humorous or the thriller category. Anthony Lyveden was Dornford Yates's first novel, telling the story of an impoverished ex-officer. Originally, it was published in monthly instalments in The Windsor Magazine, Valerie French, the sequel to Anthony Lyveden features mostly the same cast. At 
Title: The Violent Years
Content: The screenplay, originally titled Teenage Girl Gang, was written (without billing) by Edward D. Wood, Jr., the director of Glen or Glenda and Plan 9 from Outer Space. The Violent Years was the most financially successful film with creative input from Ed Wood. ; Star Jean Moorhead was the Playboy Playmate for October 1955.  The film's working title was "Teenage Killers". Although the opening credits indicate that Headliner Productions copyrighted the film in 1956, it is not included in the Copyright Catalog. The Violent Years was actually based on the story by Roy Reid.
Title: Francis Lewis High School
Content: In The Yards, Joaquin Phoenix plays a character who graduated from Francis Lewis High School. The film's director, James Gray, grew up in Flushing. 
Title: Gary Yates (director)
Content:  Gary Yates (born in Montreal, Quebec) is a Canadian film director, producer, and screenwriter. His films include Seven Times Lucky, High Life, Niagara Motel and Taken in Broad Daylight. Yates’ films have won eight international awards and been nominated for twelve Genie Awards and six Director's Guild Awards. His feature film Seven Times Lucky premiered at the Sundance Film Festival and won Best Film and Best Screenplay at the Method Fest Film Festival in Los Angeles. His heist-comedy High Life premiered at the Berlin Film Festival. Johanna Schneller named High Life one of the 10 Best Films of 2010.

Question: Who was the screenwriter for The Yards?
Answer: Matt Reeves.
Matthew George "Matt" Reeves.
Matthew George Reeves.