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My Take
Roger Avary is one of those names I associate with a specific moment in cinema. Sharing the Best Original Screenplay Oscar for Pulp Fiction in 1995, alongside Quentin Tarantino, put him at the center of an era that rewired how dialogue could sound on screen. I find it interesting that he's Canadian-born and built a career spanning writing, directing, and producing rather than staying in one lane. I don't want to flatten his work down to a single famous credit, but that screenplay carries undeniable weight. What I'd most want to ask him is how it felt to help shape a script that so many writers still study today.
Overview
Roger Roberts Avary (born August 23, 1965) is a Canadian-American film director, screenwriter, and producer. He is best known for his work with Quentin Tarantino on the script for Pulp Fiction (1994), for which they won Best Original Screenplay at the 67th Academy Awards.
Summary adapted from Wikipedia, licensed under CC BY-SA 4.0.
1. Profile
- Name (English)
- Roger Avary
- Name (Japanese)
- ロジャー・エイヴァリー
- Reading
- ろじゃー・えいゔぁりー
- Born
- August 23, 1965 (age 60)
- Zodiac / Chinese zodiac
- Virgo / Snake
- Origin
- Flin Flon, Manitoba, Canada
- Blood type
- Private
- Height
- Private
- Agency
- Private
- Occupation
- screenwriter / film director / television producer / film producer / director
2. Background
- Elementary school
- Private
- Junior high
- Private
- High school
- Private
- University
- Private
Awards & achievements
- 1995 Academy Award for Best Writing, Original Screenplay
3. Relationships
- Spouse
- Private
- Children
- Private
- Parents
- Private
- Siblings
- Private
4. Personality
Motto
Private
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.