Terri Tatchell

Terri Tatchell
Tatchell in October 2009
Born	(1978-01-01) January 1, 1978
Occupation	Screenwriter
Years active	2006–present
Spouse(s)	Neill Blomkamp

Terri Tatchell is a Canadian screenwriter, best known for co-writing the screenplay of District 9^[1] and was nominated for Best Adapted Screenplay at the 82nd Academy Awards.^[2]

Career

Tatchell graduated in 2001 from the Vancouver Film School's Writing for Film and Television program.^[3] She began her screenwriting career in 2006 with the IDEALOGUE short action film Adicolor Yellow under the direction of her husband Neill Blomkamp.^[4] In 2008, Tatchell wrote, with Blomkamp, the screenplay of the science-fiction film District 9,^[5] which was released in 2009. Her work on District 9 has since garnered a number of awards nominations,^[6] including an Academy Award nomination for Best Adapted Screenplay^[7] and the Saturn Awards.^[8] She won the 2009 Bradbury Award from the Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers of America for her work on the screenplay.^[9]

Filmography

Adicolor Yellow (2006)
District 9 (2009)
Chappie (2015)
Terminus (TBA)

References

↑ "District 9 Oscar nominations: statements from Neill Blomkamp and Terri Tatchell". Georgia Straight Vancouver's News & Entertainment Weekly. Retrieved 15 May 2015.
↑ "Horror at the Oscars Part 1: The Quickening". Dread Central. Retrieved 15 May 2015.
↑ "Women In Film + Television Vancouver - Board of Directors Archive". womeninfilm.ca. Retrieved 15 May 2015.
↑ Meredith Woerner. "What's Next For District 9 Creators? Stone Monsters And Gritty Worlds". io9. Retrieved 15 May 2015.
↑ Ronald Jack. "THE RUNAGATES CLUB". therunagatesclub.blogspot.com. Retrieved 15 May 2015.
↑ "Horror at the Oscars? Hell F*cking Yeah!". bloody-disgusting.com. Retrieved 15 May 2015.
↑ "District 9 Writer Tackling Stone Monsters". Dread Central. Retrieved 15 May 2015.
↑ "The 36th Annual Saturn Awards Nominees". bloody-disgusting.com. Retrieved 15 May 2015.
↑ Standlee, Kevin (May 15, 2010). "Nebula Awards Results". Science Fiction Awards Watch. Retrieved May 15, 2010.

External links

Terri Tatchell at the Internet Movie Database

Films directed by Neill Blomkamp

Theatrical films	District 9 (2009) Elysium (2013) Chappie (2015)

Short films	Tetra Vaal (2003) Tempbot (2005) Alive in Joburg (2005) Yellow (2006)

Nebula Award for Best Script/Ray Bradbury Award

Nebula Award for Best Script	Soylent Green – Stanley R. Greenberg (1973) Sleeper – Woody Allen (1974) Young Frankenstein – Mel Brooks and Gene Wilder (1975) Star Wars – George Lucas (1977) The Sixth Sense – M. Night Shyamalan (1999) Galaxy Quest – David Howard and Robert Gordon (2000) Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon James Schamus, Kuo Jung Tsai, and Hui-Ling Wang (2001) The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring – Fran Walsh, Philippa Boyens, and Peter Jackson (2002) The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers – Fran Walsh, Philippa Boyens, Stephen Sinclair, and Peter Jackson (2003) The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King – Fran Walsh, Philippa Boyens, and Peter Jackson (2004) Serenity – Joss Whedon (2005) Howl's Moving Castle – Hayao Miyazaki, Cindy Davis Hewitt, and Donald H. Hewitt (2006) Pan's Labyrinth – Guillermo del Toro (2007) WALL-E – Andrew Stanton, Jim Reardon, and Pete Docter (2008)

Ray Bradbury Award for Outstanding Dramatic Presentation	Terminator 2: Judgment Day – James Cameron (1992) Babylon 5 – J. Michael Straczynski (1999) 2000X – Tales of the Next Millennia – Yuri Rasovsky and Harlan Ellison (2001) Joss Whedon (2008) District 9 – Neill Blomkamp and Terri Tatchell (2009) Inception – Christopher Nolan (2010) Doctor Who: "The Doctor's Wife" – Richard Clark and Neil Gaiman (2011) Beasts of the Southern Wild – Benh Zeitlin, Lucy Alibar (2012) Gravity – Alfonso Cuarón and Jonás Cuarón (2013) Guardians of the Galaxy – James Gunn and Nicole Perlman (2014) Mad Max: Fury Road – George Miller, Brendan McCarthy and Nico Lathouris (2015)

Authority control	WorldCat Identities VIAF: 107614462 LCCN: no2009203643 ISNI: 0000 0001 1938 7311 GND: 141071028 SUDOC: 142496103 BNF: cb16186564w (data)

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