About Brian Helgeland
Brian Thomas Helgeland is an American screenwriter, film producer, and director. He is best known for writing the screenplays for the films L.A. Confidential (1998) and Mystic River (2003). He wrote and directed the films 42, a biopic of Jackie Robinson; and Legend, about the rise and fall of the infamous London gangsters, the Kray twins. His work on L.A. Confidential earned him an Academy Award for Best Adapted Screenplay. In 1998, Helgeland won an Academy Award for Best Adapted Screenplay for L.A. That year Helgeland also won a Razzie for The Postman, being one of only three people to have previously achieved this dubious feat (preceded by Alan Menken in 1993 and followed by Sandra Bullock in 2010). In 1990, Helgeland and Manny Coto sold a script, The Ticking Man, for $1 million, but the film was never made.
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