Robert Nelson Jacobs

Born 1954 · American screenwriter

Robert Nelson Jacobs is an American screenwriter. In 2000, he received an Academy Award nomination for Best Adapted Screenplay for Chocolat. Jacobs is a board member and past president of the Writers Guild Foundation, a non-profit organization devoted to promoting and preserving the craft of writing for the screen.

Robert Nelson Jacobs, in order

1. 1997 Out to Sea: wrote · directed by Martha Coolidge
2. 2000 Chocolat: wrote · directed by Lasse Hallström
3. 2000 Dinosaur: wrote · directed by Eric Leighton and Ralph Zondag · critics 66%, audiences 48% · streaming on Disney+
4. 2001 The Shipping News: wrote · directed by Lasse Hallström
5. 2007 The Water Horse: wrote · directed by Jay Russell
6. 2010 Extraordinary Measures: wrote · directed by Tom Vaughan · critics 29%, audiences 53% · streaming on Hoopla