James L. Brooks

Award won Role or nomination

1. 1940 age 0

   Born

2. 1983 age 43

   CreditTerms of Endearmentdirector

   CreditTerms of Endearmentproducer

   CreditTerms of Endearmentscreenwriter

3. 1987 age 47

   CreditBroadcast Newsdirector

   CreditBroadcast Newsproducer

   CreditBroadcast Newsscreenwriter

4. 1988 age 48

   CreditBigproducer

5. 1989 age 49

   CreditThe War of the Rosesproducer

6. 1996 age 56

   CreditJerry Maguireproducer

7. 1997 age 57

   CreditAs Good as It Getsdirector

   CreditAs Good as It Getsproducer

   CreditAs Good as It Getsscreenwriter

8. 2001 age 61

   CreditRiding in Cars with Boysproducer

9. 2004 age 64

   CreditSpanglishdirector

   CreditSpanglishscreenwriter

10. 2007 age 67

    CreditThe Simpsons Movieproducer

    CreditThe Simpsons Moviescreenwriter

11. 2010 age 70

    CreditHow Do You Knowdirector

    CreditHow Do You Knowproducer

    CreditHow Do You Knowscreenwriter

12. 2016 age 76

    CreditThe Edge of Seventeenproducer

• RMRichard Marks6 titles
• RSRichard Sakai6 titles
• HZHans Zimmer5 titles
• JNJack Nicholson4 titles
• LMLaurence Mark3 titles
• DDDanny DeVito2 titles
• JKJanusz Kamiński2 titles
• AGAngela Goethals2 titles
• ABAlbert Brooks2 titles
• CJCuba Gooding Jr.2 titles

• I had a screenplay once where I was 90 pages in and I knew it was all over. I knew it was a disaster. And it was driving me crazy because the studio had gone down a path with me, so there was no getting out and I didn’t know how to go past these 90 pages. And then it all worked out—and the change which made it from absolute despair that there was no way to save it to it all working out was minute. But, but key. INTERVIEWER: Which screenplay was that? JAMES L. BROOKS: Uh, it was Terms of Endearment.

  James L. Brooks, CC BY-SA 4.0

• There was a great director who directed a picture that I wrote who barred me from the set—quite appropriately—and said, “I’m sorry, Jim. When you’re directing, you don’t need to know everything. You need the illusion that you do.” And, you know, and I WOULD be there—behind him trying to signal the actors in, you know, in a way I wasn’t even aware of.

  James L. Brooks, CC BY-SA 4.0