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Writer
Alexander Dinelaris
Alexander Dinelaris Jr. is a screenwriter. He is one of four who won the Academy Award for Best Original Screenplay for the 2014 film Birdman at the 87th Academy Awards in 2015. Dinelaris also wrote the book for the Broadway musical On Your Feet, which is about the life and career of Gloria Estefan. For this, he was nominated for the Outer Critics Circle Award for Outstanding Book of a Musical. In 2019, he formed his New York-based production company, Lexicon. He announced that its first feature film will be an adaptation of the Broadway musical Jekyll & Hyde, which Dinelaris will adapt into a screenplay and produce. That same year, he filmed the short film In This, Our Time, which he wrote and directed.
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Alexander Dinelaris Jr conducted the first workshop of Boman Irani's Spiral Bound. On February 8, 2023, it was announced that Alexander Dinelaris Jr is working with Residente to co-write a new film, Porto Rico. Description above from the Wikipedia article Alexander Dinelaris, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
Known for
The Revenant2015
Birdman or (The Unexpected Virtue of Ignorance)2014
Digger2026
Carmen2023
In the Summers2024
The Mehta Boys2024
Dovecote2024
Bounce2022
Filmography
- TBAOn Your Feet!FilmMusical
- TBAPorto RicoFilmScreenplay
- TBAPetrichorFilmWriter, Producer
- 2026DiggerFilmExecutive Producer, Screenplay
- 2024In the SummersFilmProducer
- 2024The Mehta BoysFilmExecutive Producer, Writer
- 2024DovecoteFilmWriter, Producer
- 2023CarmenFilmScreenplay
- 2022BounceFilmDirector
- 2015The RevenantFilmCo-Producer
- 2014Birdman or (The Unexpected Virtue of Ignorance)FilmAssociate Producer, Writer