Doug Atchison

American film director and screenwriter

Doug Atchison
Born	United States
Occupation(s)	Film director, screenwriter

Doug Atchison is an American motion picture director and screenwriter. He received the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences Nicholl Fellowship for the screenplay for Akeelah and the Bee, which Atchison directed as a film in 2006.^[1]

After winning the Nicholl Fellowship, former ICM superagent Lou Pitt guided Atchison's screenplay into production in partnership with Lions Gate Entertainment and 2929 Entertainment. Akeelah and the Bee went on to become a critical and modest commercial success for which Atchison won the 2007 Image Award for Outstanding Writing in a Feature Film/TV Movie.^[2] In 2006, Atchison entered into a three-picture deal with The Weinstein Company.

It was reported in 2012 that Atchison is attached to direct a movie about the hockey player Derek Sanderson.^[3]

Atchison wrote the screenplay for the 2018 feature film Brian Banks for which he won the Humanitas Prize in the Independent Feature Film Category ^[4] and for which Atchison was nominated for the 2020 Image Award for Outstanding Writing in a Motion Picture (Film).^[5]

Atchison graduated from the University of Southern California's School of Cinema-Television.

Filmography

Ellen's Father (short) (1990) - director, writer
The Pornographer (1999) - director, writer
Akeelah and the Bee (2006) - director, writer
Spinning into Butter (2007) - writer
Brian Banks (2018) - writer

References

^ "Academy Nicholl Fellows 1986–Present". Oscars.org. Archived from the original on March 2, 2009. Retrieved February 6, 2014.
^ "Hollywood Reporter 3/1/2007". The Hollywood Reporter. March 2007.
^ The Canadian Press (November 5, 2012). "From buying a Rolls-Royce to stealing booze, the rise and fall of Derek Sanderson". The Hockey News. Retrieved November 6, 2012.
^ "Variety 2/9/19". 9 February 2019.
^ "Hollywood Reporter 1/9/20". The Hollywood Reporter. 9 January 2020.