Michael Lewis

Award won Role or nomination

1. 1960 age 0

   Born

2. 2011 age 51

   CreditMoneyballscreenwriter

3. 2015 age 55

   CreditThe Big Shortscreenwriter

• BPBrad Pitt2 titles
• RWRobin Wright1 title
• CBChristian Bale1 title
• WPWally Pfister1 title
• AMArnon Milchan1 title
• SZSteven Zaillian1 title
• KGKaren Gillan1 title
• CPChris Pratt1 title
• MTMarisa Tomei1 title
• GMGlenn Morshower1 title

• Spouse

  • TSTabitha Soren

Nothing recorded for: Partner, Parents, Children, Siblings, Influenced by, Studied under, Taught.

• I'd stumbled into a job at Salomon Brothers in 1985, and stumbled out, richer, in 1988, and even though I wrote a book about the experience, the whole thing still strikes me me as totally preposterous-which is one reason the money was so easy to walk away from.

  Michael Lewis (author), CC BY-SA 4.0

• I confess some part of me thought, If only I'd stuck around, this is the sort of catastrophe I might have created.

  Michael Lewis (author), CC BY-SA 4.0

• A thought crossed his mind: How do you make poor people feel wealthy when wages are stagnant? You give them cheap loans.

  Michael Lewis (author), CC BY-SA 4.0

• These guys lied to infinity. What I learned from that experience was that Wall Street didn't give a shit what it sold.

  Michael Lewis (author), CC BY-SA 4.0

• A credit default swap was confusing mainly because it wasn't really a swap at all. It was an insurance policy, typically on a corporate bond, with semiannual premium payments and a fixed term.

  Michael Lewis (author), CC BY-SA 4.0

• Ever since grade school, when his father had shown him the stock tables at the back of the newspaper and told him that the stock market was a crooked place and never to be trusted, let alone invested in, the subject had fascinated him.

  Michael Lewis (author), CC BY-SA 4.0