Title: Milk (2008 American film)
Content:  In early 1991, Oliver Stone was planning to produce, but not direct, a film on Milk's life; he wrote a script for the film, called The Mayor of Castro Street. In July 1992, director Gus Van Sant was signed with Warner Bros. to direct the biopic with actor Robin Williams in the lead role. By April 1993, Van Sant parted ways with the studio, citing creative differences. Other actors considered for Harvey Milk at the time included Richard Gere, Daniel Day-Lewis, Al Pacino, and James Woods. In April 2007, the director sought to direct the biopic based on a script by Dustin Lance Black, while at the same time, director 
Title: Milk (2008 American film)
Content:  a nomination for Producer of the Year for the 20th Producers Guild of America Awards. ; January 8, 2009, Gus Van Sant received a nomination for Outstanding Directorial Achievement for the 61st Directors Guild of America Awards. ; The film won Best Original Screenplay at the 62nd Writers Guild of America Awards ; The film received four BAFTA award nominations, including Best Film, for the 62nd British Academy Film Awards. ; January 22, 2009 the film received 8 Academy Award nominations, including Best Picture, and winning two, for Best Original Screenplay (Dustin Lance Black) and Best Actor in a Leading Role (Sean Penn). Milk had received accolades from several film critics organizations.
Title: Milk (2017 film)
Content:  Milk is a Canadian short drama film, directed by Heather Young and released in 2017. The film stars Babette Hayward as a woman working as a farmhand on a dairy farm, who finds herself facing an unplanned pregnancy of her own. Young has described the film as inspired by the contrast between the industrialization of the birthing process among farm animals, contrasted against the way pregnancy and motherhood are treated among humans. The film premiered at the 2017 Toronto International Film Festival. It was subsequently named to TIFF's year-end Canada's Top Ten list for short films in 2017.
Title: Milk Money (film)
Content:  The screenplay written by John Mattson was sold to Paramount Pictures in 1992 for $1.1 million, a record for a romantic comedy spec script. Mattson was sued by Dino De Laurentiis (DDLC), the lawsuit alleged that Mattson's agent had made a verbal agreement to sell the script to DDLC for $1 million, before selling the script to Paramount for $1.1 million. The film was originally set up with Joe Dante to direct and his frequent partner, Michael Finnell, to produce, but they left the project over disputes regarding the budget and their fees. Paramount had wanted Dante to work for less than his normal directing fee, and to shoot the film in Canada using a non-union crew with a budget of $14 million. Shot in various locations in Pittsburgh, Cincinnati and Lebanon, Ohio, the story is set in an Ohio suburb named "Middleton", outside of an unnamed city (for which Pittsburgh was used).
Title: Milk (2008 American film)
Content:  need to give people hope" and added it "is superbly crafted, covering huge amounts of time, people and the zeitgeist without a moment of lapsed energy or inattention to detail . . . Black's screenplay is based solely on his own original research and interviews, and it shows: The film is richly flavored with anecdotal incidents and details. Milk surfaces in a season filled with movies based on real lives, but this is the first one that inspires a sense of intimacy with its subjects." A. O. Scott of The New York Times called Milk, "A Marvel", and wrote the film "is a fascinating, multi-layered history 
Title: Milk (2008 American film)
Content:  many mandatory scenes . . . the quality of the writing, acting and directing generally invests them with the feel of real life and credible personal interchange, rather than of scripted stops along the way from aspiration to triumph to tragedy. And on a project whose greatest danger lay in its potential to come across as agenda-driven agitprop, the filmmakers have crucially infused the story with qualities in very short supply today – gentleness and a humane embrace of all its characters." Kirk Honeycutt of The Hollywood Reporter said the film "transcends any single genre as a very human document that touches first and foremost on 
Title: Milk (2021 film)
Content:  Milk (Молоко) is a 2021 Russian comedy-drama film directed by Karen Oganesyan. It was theatrically released on September 23, 2021 by Sony Pictures Productions and Releasing (SPPR).
Title: Milk and Bookies
Content:  Philipps ; Malin Åkerman ; Garcelle Beauvais ; Tiffani Thiessen ; Sarah Michelle Gellar ; Zachary Quinto ; Ali Wentworth ; Elizabeth Banks ; Ashlee Simpson ; Pete Wentz ; Megan Nicole ; Henry Winkler ; Stefan Lessard ; Damon Lindelof ; Kat Dennings ; John Cho ; Gwendoline Christie ; Lena Dunham ; Adam Campbell ; Ali Larter ; Glenn Howerton ; Molly Sims ; KaDee Strickland ; Joe Hahn ; Jonathan Schaech ; Heather McDonald ; Majandra Delfino ; David Walton ; Jillian Rose Reed ; Skai Jackson ; Danielle Panabaker ; Rebecca Gayheart ; Eric Dane ; Tom Felton ; Naomi Scott ; Karan Brar ; Jason Behr ; Lena Headey ; Tamera Mowry ; Miranda Cosgrove ; David Koechner ; B.J. Novak ; Paget Brewster 
Title: List of accolades received by Milk (film)
Content:  received a nomination for Producer of the Year for the 20th Producers Guild of America Awards. ; January 8, 2009, Gus Van Sant received a nomination for Outstanding Directorial Achievement for the 61st Directors Guild of America Awards. ; The film won Best Original Screenplay at the 62nd Writers Guild of America Awards ; The film received four BAFTA award nominations, including Best Film, for the 62nd British Academy Film Awards. ; January 22, 2009 the film received 8 Academy Award nominations, including Best Picture, and winning two for Best Original Screenplay and Best Actor in a Leading Role (Sean Penn). Milk had received accolades from several film critics organizations. 
Title: Milk (2008 American film)
Content:  Academy Award for Best Documentary Feature for 1984, and was awarded Special Jury Prize at the first Sundance Film Festival, among other awards). Various scripts were considered in the early 1990s, but projects fell through for different reasons, until 2007. Much of Milk was filmed on Castro Street and other locations in San Francisco, including Milk's former storefront, Castro Camera. The film was released to critical acclaim and grossed $54 million worldwide. It earned numerous accolades from film critics and guilds for Penn's performance, Van Sant's directing, and Black's screenplay, it received 8 Oscar nominations at the 81st Academy Awards, including Best Picture and went on to win two: Best Actor for Penn, his second Oscar, and Best Original Screenplay for Black.

Question: Who was the screenwriter for Milk?
Answer: Dustin Lance Black.