Michael Blake Wiki: Salary, Married, Wedding, Spouse, Family
Michael Blake was born on July 5, 1945 in Fort Bragg, North Carolina, USA as Michael Lennox Webb. He was a writer, known for Dances with Wolves (1990), Stacy's Knights (1983) and Winnetou. He was married to Marianne Mortensen. He died on May 2, 2015 in Tucson, Arizona, USA.
Net Worth
$7 Million
Date Of Birth
July 5, 1945
Died
May 2, 2015, Tucson, Arizona, United States
Place Of Birth
Fort Bragg, North Carolina, USA
Height
1.83 m
Profession
Politician
Education
Northwestern University
Nationality
American
Siblings
Zack Michael
IMDB
Awards
Academy Award for Best Writing Adapted Screenplay, Golden Globe Award for Best Screenplay - Motion Picture, Writers Guild of America Award for Best Adapted Screenplay
Nominations
BAFTA Award for Best Adapted Screenplay, AACTA Award for Best Supporting Actress
Movies
Dances with Wolves, Stacy's Knights
TV Shows
Dog with a Blog
Star Sign
Cancer
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Quote
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Characters do not come out of the thin air. I think writers acquire characters by living a life in which something is risked. It's only by being defeated, rejected, exalted, by going through all the peaks and valleys, that you can acquire anything worth writing down.
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Fact
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Was homeless for a period in the mid-1980s while struggling to make it as a screenwriter and writing the novel Dances with Wolves. He lived out of his car and slept on friends' couches, eventually giving up on Hollywood and moving to Bisbee, Arizona. He was living there, working as a dishwasher in a Chinese restaurant, when the novel was published and his old friend Kevin Costner asked him to return to Los Angeles to write the screenplay, for which he later won the Academy Award for Best Adapted Screenplay.
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After staying with Kevin Costner for several months, he wrote Dances with Wolves (1990), that he was reading to Costners' 3 year old daughter before moving out to Arizona.
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Survived bouts with Hodgkin's disease in 1990 and 1992.
Writer
Title
Year
Status
Character
Galloping Ghosts
2016
Documentary inspired by
Dances with Wolves
1990
novel / screenplay
Stacy's Knights
1983
screenplay
Director
Title
Year
Status
Character
Laughing Horse
1986
TV Movie
Producer
Title
Year
Status
Character
The American West: On the Road with Michael Blake
2008
Documentary producer
Miscellaneous
Title
Year
Status
Character
West of Thunder
2012
creative consultant
Thanks
Title
Year
Status
Character
West of Thunder
2012
very special thanks
Inside Story: Dances with Wolves
2011
TV Movie special thanks
Self
Title
Year
Status
Character
Saving America's Horses: A Nation Betrayed
2012
Documentary
Himself
Wild Horses and Renegades
2010
Documentary
Speaker
The American West: On the Road with Michael Blake
2008
Documentary
Himself
Poison Wind
2008
Documentary
Himself
Dances with Wolves: The Creation of an Epic
2003
Video documentary
Himself
The 63rd Annual Academy Awards
1991
TV Special
Himself - Winner: Best Adapted Screenplay
The 48th Annual Golden Globe Awards
1991
TV Special
Himself - Winner: Best Screenplay
The Making of 'Dances with Wolves'
1990
TV Short documentary
Himself
Won Awards
Year
Award
Ceremony
Nomination
Movie
1991
Oscar
Academy Awards, USA
Best Writing, Screenplay Based on Material from Another Medium
Dances with Wolves (1990)
1991
Golden Globe
Golden Globes, USA
Best Screenplay - Motion Picture
Dances with Wolves (1990)
1991
DFWFCA Award
Dallas-Fort Worth Film Critics Association Awards
Best Screenplay
Dances with Wolves (1990)
1991
Spur Award
Western Writers of America
Best Motion Picture
Dances with Wolves (1990)
1991
WGA Award (Screen)
Writers Guild of America, USA
Best Screenplay Based on Material from Another Medium
