Melissa Marie Mathison (Los Angeles, June 3, 1950 - November 4, 2015) was an American scenario writer. She was Harrison Ford's second wife, with whom she has two children.
She wrote the scenario for E.T. The Extra-Terrestrial of film director Steven Spielberg from 1982, for which she was nominated for Oscar and a Saturn Award. She also wrote the screenplay for Martin Scorsese's Film Kundun in 1997 about the young fourteenth Dalai Lama Tenzin Gyatso. For the scenario of this film, she received the Light of Truth Award from the International Campaign for Tibet.
Other handbooks of her hand were The Black Stallion of 1979 and The Indian in the Cupboard of 1995.
As a buddhist, she was interviewed for the documentary Refuge of film director John Halpern from 2006.
In 2016, "The BFG" comes from Steven Spielberg in the halls, to the book of Roald Dahl. It's the last movie of which Melissa Mathison wrote the script. Externe link
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