William Monahan

William Monahan is the kind of screenwriter I deeply respect, because he came to film as a real writer first, a Boston novelist and journalist who knew the weight of a sentence. His adaptation of The Departed, reworking Hong Kong's Infernal Affairs into the rot of South Boston, won him the Academy Award and felt like a translation in the truest sense, faithful in spirit yet utterly his own. What I admire most is his ear for dialogue that smells of a specific place. Monahan reminds me that the best adaptations aren't copies, they're reincarnations carried by a writer who knows exactly where he's from.

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Name (English)

William Monahan

Name (Japanese)

ウィリアム・モナハン

Reading

うぃりあむ・もなはん

Born

November 3, 1960 (age 65)

Origin

Boston, Massachusetts, United States

Occupation

screenwriter / novelist / writer / journalist / critic

Zodiac / Chinese zodiac

Scorpio / Rat

University

University of Massachusetts Amherst

Awards & achievements

• 2007 Academy Award for Best Writing, Adapted Screenplay

• Wikipedia (English)https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William%20Monahan
• Wikipedia (Japanese)https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E3%82%A6%E3%82%A3%E3%83%AA%E3%82%A2%E3%83%A0%E3%83%BB%E3%83%A2%E3%83%8A%E3%83%8F%E3%83%B3
• Wikidatahttps://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q611586

Tags

• Massachusetts
• screenwriter
• novelist
• writer

Last updated

September 18, 2026

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