ATTANASIO, Paul 1959–

PERSONAL

Born November 14, 1959, in Bronx, NY; son of Joseph (a commercial consultant) and Connie (a real estate broker) Attanasio; married Katie Jacobs (a producer); children: Annie. Education: Harvard University, B.A., 1981, J.D., 1984.

Addresses:

Agent—Creative Artists Agency, 9830 Wilshire Blvd., Beverly Hills, CA 90212. Office—Heel & Toe Films, 2059 Broadway, Santa Monica, CA 90404.

Career:

Screenwriter, producer, and television series creator. Heel & Toe Films, Santa Monica, CA, partner. Washington Post, journalist and film critic, 1984–87. Military service: Served in the armed forces.

Member:

Writers Guild of America East.

Awards, Honors:

ShoWest Award, screenwriter of the year, ShoWest Conventions, 1995; Academy Award nomination, best screenplay based on material from another medium, Golden Globe Award nomination, best screenplay, Writers Guild of America Award (Screen) nomination, best screenplay based on material previously produced or published, Film Award, best adapted screenplay, British Academy of Film and Television Arts, 1995, all for Quiz Show; ALFS Award, screenwriter of the year, London Critics Circle Film Awards, 1996, for Quiz Show and Disclosure; Academy Award nomination, best screenplay based on material from another medium, 1997, Writers Guild of America Award (Screen) nomination, best screenplay based on material previously produced or published, 1998, USC Scripter Award nomination (with Joseph D. Pistone and Richard Woodley), Edgar Award nomination, best motion picture, Edgar Allan Poe Awards, 1998, all for Donnie Brasco.

CREDITS

Television Appearances; Series:

Host, The Movie Show, Cinemax, 1986–87.

Television Work; Series:

Co–creator, Homicide: Life on the Streets (also known as H:LOTS and Homicide), NBC, 1993–99.

Executive producer and creator, Gideon's Crossing, ABC, 2000.

Executive producer and creator, Century City, CBS, 2004.

Executive producer, House, M.D. (also known as House), Fox, 2004—.

Television Work; Pilots:

Executive producer, R.U.S./H., CBS, 2002.

Executive producer, Hotel Guam, CBS, 2003.

WRITINGS

Screenplays:

(With Cindy Cirile and Alan B. McElroy) Rapid Fire, Twentieth Century–Fox, 1992.

Disclosure (adapted from Michael Crichton's book of the same title), Warner Bros., 1994.

Quiz Show (adapted from Richard N. Goodwin's Remembering America: A Voice from the 60s), Buena Vista, 1994.

Donnie Brasco (adapted from Donnie Brasco: My Undercover Life in the Mafia by Joseph D. Pistone and Richard Woodley), Columbia/TriStar, 1995.

(With Barry Levinson) Sphere (adapted from Michael Crichton's book of the same title), Warner Bros., 1997.

(Uncredited) Armageddon, Buena Vista, 1998.

(Uncredited) Town & Country, New Line Cinema, 2001.

(With David Pyne) The Sum of All Fears (adapted from Tom Clancy's novel of the same title; also known as Der Anschlag), Paramount, 2002.

Beyond the Sea, Lions Gate Releasing, 2004.

Television Episodes:

"Pediatricks," Doctor, Doctor, 1989.

"Don't Mess with Elephants," Doctor, Doctor, 1989.

"See No Evil," Homicide: Life on the Streets (also known as H:LOTS and Homicide), NBC, 1994.

"The Lottery," Gideon's Crossing, ABC, 2000.

Television Pilots:

"Gone for Goode," Homicide: Life on the Streets (also known as H:LOTS and Homicide), NBC, 1993.

R.U.S./H., CBS, 2002.

Other:

Contributor to periodicals, including Esquire.

OTHER SOURCES

Periodicals:

Entertainment Weekly, December 16, 1994, p. 43.