James Toback

James Toback (/ˈtoʊbæk/; born November 23, 1944) is an American film director and screenwriter. His screenplay for Bugsy won the 1991 Los Angeles Film Critics Association award for best screenplay of the year and was nominated for both the Academy Award for best original screenplay and for the Golden Globe best screenplay award. Toback's documentary Tyson, which he directed and co-produced, was featured at the 2008 Cannes Film Festival, winning a prize in the festival's Un Certain Regard section. That film was nominated for best documentary awards in several United States competitions. In 2009, the San Francisco International Film Festival selected Toback for its annual Kanbar Award for excellence in screenwriting. Filmmaker Nicholas Jarecki examined Toback in a 2005 documentary The Outsider: A Film about James Toback. Interspliced with a narrative tracking Toback's 2004 whirlwind creati...