Scott Frank

Scott Frank, born on March 10, 1960, is a multi-talented American filmmaker. With his expertise in directing, producing, screenwriting, and even writing books, Frank has made a significant impact in the film industry. His exceptional skills have earned him two Academy Award nominations for Best Adapted Screenplay, thanks to his remarkable work on movies like Out of Sight (1998) and Logan (2017). Throughout his career, Frank has contributed to numerous films, both in credited and uncredited roles. Recently, he has collaborated with Netflix, showcasing his talent in creating captivating television miniseries. One of his notable achievements includes co-creating the highly acclaimed series, The Queen's Gambit, alongside Allan Scott.

Works

Inside 'Out of Sight'

A behind-the-scenes look at the making of the 1998 movie "Out of Sight".

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On Story

An inside look at the creative process behind some of our most popular and beloved movies and television shows. All episodes feature recorded conversations between acclaimed and award-winning screenwriters, TV creators, and filmmakers from the Austin Film Festival's annual conference and year round events.

Release Date2011-04-16

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Episode Count1

Vote Count2

Creating The Queen's Gambit

A fascinating character. Exquisite sets. A wig for every era. The stars, creators and crew reveal how the hit series about a chess prodigy came to life.

Release Date2021-01-10

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Vote Count133

Making 'Logan'

This six-part documentary covers a variety of subjects, which at least give fans the opportunity to clarify that Dafne Keen is not the devil child she appears to be in the film. Segments include: - Crafting the Story (12:19) - Casting the Film (20:36) - Designing the World (17:55) - Creating the Score (4:25) - Stunts and Fights (16:53) and - Wrapping Logan (4:06)

Release Date2017-05-23

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Shameless

Chicagoan Frank Gallagher is the proud single dad of six smart, industrious, independent kids, who without him would be... perhaps better off. When Frank's not at the bar spending what little money they have, he's passed out on the floor. But the kids have found ways to grow up in spite of him. They may not be like any family you know, but they make no apologies for being exactly who they are.

Release Date2011-01-09

DepartmentDirecting

JobDirector

Episode Count1

Vote Count2950

Dept. Q

A brash but brilliant cop becomes head of a new police department, where he leads an unlikely team of misfits in solving Edinburgh's cold cases.

Release Date2025-05-29

DepartmentProduction

JobExecutive Producer

Episode Count9

Vote Count159

The Queen's Gambit

In a 1950s orphanage, a young girl reveals an astonishing talent for chess and begins an unlikely journey to stardom while grappling with addiction.

Release Date2020-10-23

DepartmentDirecting

JobDirector

Episode Count7

Vote Count4963

Godless

A ruthless outlaw terrorizes the West in search of a former member of his gang, who’s found a new life in a quiet town populated only by women.

Release Date2017-11-22

DepartmentWriting

JobWriter

Episode Count7

Vote Count620

Karen Sisco

As a U.S. Deputy Marshal, based on Miami, Florida's Gold Coast, Karen must deal with the underbelly of South Beach nightlife and Palm Beach high life while tracking down fugitives. She also struggles to win the respect of her fellow officers. Karen occasionally gets advice from her father, a retired Miami police officer turned private investigator, who is Karen’s confidant, counselor, and confessor.

Release Date2003-10-01

DepartmentProduction

JobExecutive Consultant

Episode Count10

Vote Count11

Monsieur Spade

Detective Sam Spade is pulled out of his tranquil retirement in France to investigate a series of brutal murders.

Release Date2024-01-14

DepartmentProduction

JobExecutive Producer

Episode Count6

Vote Count54

Logan

In the near future, a weary Logan cares for an ailing Professor X in a hideout on the Mexican border. But Logan's attempts to hide from the world and his legacy are upended when a young mutant arrives, pursued by dark forces.

Release Date2017-02-28

DepartmentWriting

JobScreenplay

Vote Count19680

Minority Report

John Anderton is a top 'Precrime' cop in the late-21st century, when technology can predict crimes before they're committed. But Anderton becomes the quarry when another investigator targets him for a murder charge.

Release Date2002-06-20

DepartmentWriting

JobScreenplay

Vote Count9030

Fallen Angels

A neo-noir anthology television series, set in somber Los Angeles right after World War II and before the election of American President John F. Kennedy. The episodes, although filmed in color, mimicked what had been done by Hollywood filmmakers during the film noir era of the 1940s and 1950s in terms of tone, look, and story content.

Release Date1993-08-01

DepartmentWriting

JobTeleplay

Episode Count1

Vote Count11

Dawn of the Dead

A group of survivors take refuge in a shopping mall after the world is taken over by aggressive, flesh-eating zombies.

Release Date2004-03-19

DepartmentWriting

JobScreenplay

Vote Count4176

A Walk Among the Tombstones

Private investigator Matthew Scudder is hired by a drug kingpin to find out who kidnapped and murdered his wife.

Release Date2014-09-18

DepartmentWriting

JobScreenplay

Vote Count2861

No Exit

Stranded at a rest stop in the mountains during a blizzard, a recovering addict discovers a kidnapped child hidden in a car belonging to one of the people inside the building which sets her on a terrifying struggle to identify who among them is the kidnapper.

Release Date2022-02-24

DepartmentProduction

JobProducer

Vote Count1203

Marley & Me

A newly married couple, in the process of starting a family, learn many of life's important lessons from their trouble-loving retriever, Marley. Packed with plenty of laughs to lighten the load, the film explores the highs and lows of marriage, maturity and confronting one's own mortality, as seen through the lens of family life with a dog.

Release Date2008-12-25

DepartmentWriting

JobScreenplay

Vote Count4637

Birdland

Dr. Brian McKenzie, the chief of psychiatry at Riverview Hospital in Oakland, deals with patients while trying to juggle his own problems.

Release Date1994-01-05

DepartmentCreator

JobCreator

Vote Count1

Out of Sight

Meet Jack Foley, a smooth criminal who bends the law and is determined to make one last heist. Karen Sisco is a federal marshal who chooses all the right moves … and all the wrong guys. Now they're willing to risk it all to find out if there's more between them than just the law.

Release Date1998-06-26

DepartmentWriting

JobScreenplay

Vote Count1319

Get Shorty

Chili Palmer is a Miami mobster who gets sent to L.A. to collect a bad debt from Harry Zimm, a Hollywood producer who specializes in cheesy horror films. When Chili meets Harry's leading lady, the romantic sparks fly. After pitching his own life story as a movie idea, Chili learns that being a mobster and being a Hollywood producer really aren't all that different.

Release Date1995-10-20

DepartmentWriting

JobScreenplay

Vote Count1104

Flight of the Phoenix

When an oil rig in the Gobi Desert of Mongolia proves unproductive, an aircraft crew are sent to shut the operation down and fly them out. On the flight out over the desert on the way to Beijing, Capt. Frank Towns and co-pilot A.J. are unable to keep their cargo plane, a C-119 Flying Boxcar, in the air when a violent sandstorm strikes. Crash-landing in a remote uncharted part of the desert, the two pilots and their passengers -- a crew of oil workers and a drifter -- must work together to survive by rebuilding the aircraft. Soon, low supplies and a band of merciless smugglers add even greater urgency to their task.

Release Date2004-12-17

DepartmentWriting

JobScreenplay

Vote Count886

The Interpreter

After Silvia Broome, an interpreter at United Nations headquarters, overhears plans of an assassination, an American Secret Service agent is sent to investigate.

Release Date2005-04-08

DepartmentWriting

JobScreenplay

Vote Count1474

Malice

A tale about a happily married couple who would like to have children. Tracy teaches infants, Andy's a college professor. Things are never the same after she is taken to hospital and operated upon by Jed, a "know all" doctor.

Release Date1993-09-29

DepartmentWriting

JobScreenplay

Vote Count473

The One I Love

Ethan and Sophie are a married couple on the brink of separation when, at the urging of their therapist, they decide to salvage their relationship by escaping to a beautiful vacation house for the weekend.

Release Date2014-08-08

DepartmentCrew

JobThanks

Vote Count718

Little Man Tate

Dede is a sole parent trying to bring up her son Fred. When it is discovered that Fred is a genius, she is determined to ensure that Fred has all the opportunities that he needs, and that he is not taken advantage of by people who forget that his extremely powerful intellect is harboured in the body and emotions of a child.

Release Date1991-09-06

DepartmentWriting

JobScreenplay

Vote Count314

Heaven's Prisoners

A hardened New Orleans cop, Dave Robicheaux, finally tosses in the badge and settles into life on the bayou with his wife. But a bizarre plane crash draws him back into the fray when his family is viciously threatened.

Release Date1996-05-17

DepartmentWriting

JobScreenplay

Vote Count81

Dead Again

In 1949, composer Roman Strauss is executed for the murder of his wife. In 1990s Los Angeles, a detective comes across a mute amnesiac woman who is somehow linked to the Strauss murder.

Release Date1991-08-23

DepartmentWriting

JobWriter

Vote Count386

The Wolverine

Wolverine faces his ultimate nemesis - and tests of his physical, emotional, and mortal limits - in a life-changing voyage to modern-day Japan.

Release Date2013-07-21

DepartmentWriting

JobScreenplay

Vote Count9838

The Lookout

Chris is a once promising high school athlete whose life is turned upside down following a tragic accident. As he tries to maintain a normal life, he takes a job as a janitor at a bank, where he ultimately finds himself caught up in a planned heist.

Release Date2007-03-09

DepartmentDirecting

JobDirector

Vote Count655

Bruiser

During summer break, 14-year-old Darious explores the boundaries of his manhood through tumultuous interactions with Malcolm his strict father and a burgeoning mentorship with mysterious drifter Porter.

Release Date2022-12-02

DepartmentProduction

JobProducer

Vote Count26

Plain Clothes

To prove his brother's innocence, undercover officer Nick enrolls in high school again, dealing with crushes, bullies, humiliations, popularity swings, and quirky teachers and staff to find the real murderer.

Release Date1988-04-15

DepartmentWriting

JobScreenplay

Vote Count32

East of Wall

After the death of her husband, Tabatha — a young, tattooed, rebellious horse trainer — wrestles with financial insecurity and unresolved grief while providing refuge for a group of wayward teenagers on her broken-down ranch in the Badlands.

Release Date2025-08-15

DepartmentProduction

JobExecutive Producer

Hoke

Life and misadventures of homicide detective Hoke Moseley during the 1980s.

Release Date2014-01-01

DepartmentWriting

JobWriter

Vote Count2

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