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My Take
Michael Arndt is the kind of writer I admire precisely because most people couldn't name him, yet they've felt his work. Little Miss Sunshine won him the Academy Award for Best Original Screenplay, and from McLean, Virginia and NYU's Tisch he went on to Toy Story 3, The Hunger Games: Catching Fire and The Force Awakens. What I respect is the range, an indie family road trip, a Pixar masterpiece, then giant franchises. That tells me he can serve a story at any scale. He's proof to me that the screenwriter, not just the director, is often the quiet architect of a film I love.
Overview
Michael Arndt is an American screenwriter, who has written for the films Little Miss Sunshine (2006), Toy Story 3 (2010), The Hunger Games: Catching Fire (2013), and Star Wars: The Force Awakens (2015). Arndt won the Academy Award for Best Original Screenplay for Little Miss Sunshine and was nominated for Best Adapted Screenplay for Toy Story 3.
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1. Profile
- Name (English)
- Michael Arndt
- Name (Japanese)
- マイケル・アーント
- Reading
- まいける・あーんと
- Born
- November 22, 1970 (age 55)
- Zodiac / Chinese zodiac
- Scorpio / Dog
- Origin
- McLean, Virginia, United States
- Blood type
- Private
- Height
- Private
- Agency
- Private
- Occupation
- screenwriter / film screenwriter
2. Background
- Elementary school
- Private
- Junior high
- Private
- High school
- Langley High School
- University
- New York University Tisch School of the Arts
Awards & achievements
- 2007 Academy Award for Best Writing, Original Screenplay
- 2007 BAFTA Award for Best Original Screenplay
- 2007 Writers Guild of America Award for Best Original Screenplay
3. Relationships
- Spouse
- Private
- Children
- Private
- Parents
- Private
- Siblings
- Private
4. Personality
Motto
Private
5. Works & records
| Category | Title | Role | Year |
|---|---|---|---|
| Notable work | Little Miss Sunshine | — | |
| Notable work | Toy Story 3 | — | |
| Notable work | The Hunger Games: Catching Fire | — |
6. Links
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7. About this entry
Tags
- Last updated
- 2026-06-02
Facts are limited to publicly available information up to 2024; non-public items are marked "Private / Unknown". English text is machine-assisted (facts translated by Sonnet, "My Take" written by Opus 4.8). The Japanese page is the source of record.