Title: Scott Z. Burns
Content:  Scott Z. Burns (born 1962) is an American screenwriter, producer, and director.
Title: Scott Z. Burns
Content:  Burns was born in Golden Valley, Minnesota and graduated summa cum laude in 1985 with a degree in English from the University of Minnesota. He currently lives in Los Angeles.
Title: Scott Z. Burns
Content: The Library (2014) writer 
Title: Scott Burns (newspaper columnist)
Content:  Scott Burns is a newspaper columnist and author who has covered personal finance and investments for over 30 years. He is known for creating the "Couch Potato Portfolio" investment strategy, which advocates the use of index funds over managed funds or stock-picking. In 2006, he co-founded the Web startup AssetBuilder, where he serves as chief investment strategist.
Title: Scott Z. Burns
Content:  After graduating from the University of Minnesota, Burns began his career in advertising and later became a television commercials director. He was part of the team at Goodby, Silverstein & Partners responsible for the original Got Milk? campaign. Burns has written screenplays for The Bourne Ultimatum (2007), The Informant! (2009), and Contagion (2011), all of which feature Matt Damon. His films The Informant!, Contagion, and Side Effects (2013) were directed by Steven Soderbergh. Burns also produced the Academy Award-winning An Inconvenient Truth. Burns wrote and directed the 2019 film The Report, a drama about the secret torture program inside the CIA. Public interest in Burns' 2011 film Contagion renewed during the COVID-19 pandemic, making it the seventh-most downloaded film on iTunes by March 6, 
Title: Scott Burns (newspaper columnist)
Content:  Burns began his career as a newspaper columnist at the Boston Herald in 1977 where he was also the financial editor. The column was nationally syndicated in 1981 and is now distributed by Universal Press Syndicate. In 1985 he joined the staff of The Dallas Morning News where his column became one of the most widely read features in the paper. Retiring as a Dallas Morning News staff member in 2006, he continued to contribute to the paper through his ongoing syndication. He announced his retirement in 2017 In August 2006, Burns co-founded AssetBuilder, a registered investment advisory firm, with former Microsoft executive Kennon Grose. The firm offers investors a means to employ an advanced version of Burns' "Couch Potato Portfolio" investment methodology through a Web-based service platform. Burns is chief investment strategist for AssetBuilder.
Title: Scott Z. Burns
Content: "Filthy Lucre" (Californication) (2007) director ; Extrapolations (TBA) showrunner, writer and director 
Title: Anthony Scott Burns
Content:  Anthony Scott Burns (born May 9, 1977) is a Canadian filmmaker, visual effects artist and musician. After starting his film career as a visual effects artist and director, as of 2015 he is directing three feature films in pre-production: Dark Matter, Holidays, and Plan B Entertainment's Alpha. He also releases music under the moniker Pilotpriest. His film,  Our House, was released in 2018.
Title: Scott Burns (record producer)
Content:  Scott Burns is an American computer engineer and a former music producer of death metal records from late 1980s and 1990s. He was crucial to the emergence of the Florida death metal scene. He has produced many records for many famous death metal bands, including Death, Deicide, Cannibal Corpse, Sepultura, Obituary, Atheist, Transmetal, Suffocation, and Cynic. He has engineered some of the top genre-defining death metal albums such as Death's Human, Massacre's From Beyond, Obituary's Slowly We Rot, and Assück's Misery Index. He most recently worked on the album Frozen in Time (2005) by Obituary. Burns has since quit producing full-time to work in computer programming.
Title: Scott Burns (newspaper columnist)
Content:  Burns graduated from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology with a degree in humanities and biology (1962).

Question: What is Scott Z. Burns's occupation?
Answer: screenwriter.
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