Josh Singer

Josh Singer (born 1972) is an American screenwriter and producer. He is best known for writing The Fifth Estate (2013), Spotlight (2015), The Post (2017) and First Man (2018). He won the Academy Award for Best Original Screenplay for Spotlight and was nominated for the Golden Globe for Best Screenplay for Spotlight and The Post.

Works

Law & Order: Special Victims Unit

In the criminal justice system, sexually-based offenses are considered especially heinous. In New York City, the dedicated detectives who investigate these vicious felonies are members of an elite squad known as the Special Victims Unit. These are their stories.

Release Date1999-09-20

DepartmentWriting

JobWriter

Episode Count2

Vote Count4080

The West Wing

The West Wing provides a glimpse into presidential politics in the nation's capital as it tells the stories of the members of a fictional presidential administration. These interesting characters have humor and dedication that touches the heart while the politics that they discuss touch on everyday life.

Release Date1999-09-22

DepartmentWriting

JobWriter

Episode Count5

Vote Count536

Fringe

FBI Special Agent Olivia Dunham, brilliant but formerly institutionalized scientist Walter Bishop and his scheming, reluctant son Peter uncover a deadly mystery involving a series of unbelievable events and realize they may be a part of a larger, more disturbing pattern that blurs the line between science fiction and technology.

Release Date2008-09-09

DepartmentWriting

JobWriter

Episode Count9

Vote Count2662

Lie to Me

The world's leading deception researcher, Dr. Cal Lightman, studies facial expression, body language and tone of voice to determine when a person is lying and why, which helps law enforcement and government agencies uncover the truth. But his skills also make it easier for him to deceive others.

Release Date2009-01-21

DepartmentWriting

JobWriter

Episode Count4

Vote Count1619

The Last Thing He Told Me

A woman must forge a relationship with her teenage stepdaughter in order to find her husband, who has mysteriously disappeared.

Release Date2023-04-13

DepartmentProduction

JobExecutive Producer

Episode Count8

Vote Count148

Spotlight

The true story of how the Boston Globe uncovered the massive scandal of child molestation and cover-up within the local Catholic Archdiocese, shaking the entire Catholic Church to its core.

Release Date2015-11-06

DepartmentWriting

JobWriter

Vote Count8578

The Post

A cover-up that spanned four U.S. Presidents pushed the country's first female newspaper publisher and a hard-driving editor to join an unprecedented battle between journalist and government. Inspired by true events.

Release Date2017-12-22

DepartmentProduction

JobExecutive Producer

Vote Count4793

First Man

A look at the life of the astronaut, Neil Armstrong, and the legendary space mission that led him to become the first man to walk on the Moon on July 20, 1969.

Release Date2018-10-10

DepartmentProduction

JobExecutive Producer

Vote Count5504

Maestro

A towering and fearless love story chronicling the lifelong relationship between Leonard Bernstein and Felicia Montealegre Cohn Bernstein. A love letter to life and art, Maestro at its core is an emotionally epic portrayal of family and love.

Release Date2023-11-22

DepartmentWriting

JobWriter

Vote Count799

American Pastoral

Set in postwar America, a man watches his seemingly perfect life fall apart as his daughter's new political affiliation threatens to destroy their family.

Release Date2016-10-20

DepartmentVisual Effects

Job3D Artist

Vote Count726

Raines

Raines is a crime drama television series focused on Michael Raines, a 'mentally haunted' LAPD detective, who interacts with imaginary manifestations of dead crime victims in order to solve criminal cases. Raines must deal with his unique, unintentional method, as it causes problems with his co-workers and in his personal life.

Release Date2007-03-15

DepartmentWriting

JobWriter

Episode Count1

Vote Count14

The Fifth Estate

A look at the relationship between WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange and his early supporter and eventual colleague Daniel Domscheit-Berg, and how the website's growth and influence led to an irreparable rift between the two friends.

Release Date2013-10-11

DepartmentWriting

JobScreenplay

Vote Count1050

The Night We Lost Him

When the patriarch of a famed hotel empire dies under suspicious circumstances, his daughter and her estranged brother join forces to find out what happened, unraveling a larger mystery about who their father really was.

DepartmentWriting

JobScreenplay