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name: "Alec Sokolow"
canonical: "https://film.one/person/alec-sokolow"
fi1m_id: "alec-sokolow"
imdb_id: "nm0812513"
tmdb_id: 12893
wikidata_id: "Q3609030"
roles: ["Writer"]
born: "1 January 1963"
reviewed_on_fi1m: 2
average_fi1m_score: 66
average_as: "writer"
average_over: 2
updated: "2026-10-05T04:50:24.849538+00:00"
licence: "© Fi1m Ltd. Written by AI under a human editor; checked against sources before publication. Quote with attribution and a link to the canonical URL."
---

# Alec Sokolow

## Identity

Alec Sokolow

- **Canonical:** https://film.one/person/alec-sokolow
- **Type:** Person
- **Fi1m ID:** alec-sokolow
- **IMDb ID:** nm0812513
- **TMDB ID:** 12893
- **Wikidata ID:** Q3609030
- **Same entity:** https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alec_Sokolow, https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q3609030, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0812513/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/12893

Writer. Born 1 January 1963 in New York City, New York, USA.

## Details

- **Work:** Writer
- **Born:** 1 January 1963, New York City, New York, USA
- **Active:** 1995–2006
- **Frequently works with:** [Joel Cohen](https://film.one/person/joel-cohen.md)
- **Academy Awards:** 1 Oscar nomination
- **Average Fi1m score:** 66, as writer, over 2 titles
- **Fi1m score by decade:** 1990s 92 (1), 2000s 40 (1)
- **Elsewhere:** https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alec_Sokolow, https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q3609030, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0812513/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/12893

## Streaming the US now

- **Disney+:** [*Toy Story*](https://film.one/film/toy-story.md) (92), [*Garfield: A Tail of Two Kitties*](https://film.one/film/garfield-a-tail-of-two-kitties.md) (40)

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## Biography

Alec Sokolow is an American screenwriter. He frequently collaborates with writing partner Joel Cohen. Their credits include the screenplay for *Toy Story* (1995), for which Sokolow received an Academy Award nomination for Best Original Screenplay.

Other screenwriting credits include *Money Talks* (1997), *Goodbye Lover* (1998), *Cheaper by the Dozen* (2003), *Garfield: The Movie* (2004), *Garfield: A Tail of Two Kitties* (2006), *Evan Almighty* (2007) and *Daddy Day Camp* (2007). Sokolow and Cohen also co-directed *Monster Mash: The Movie* (1995). He has been active since the early 1990s.

*Sources: en.wikipedia.org, imdb.com.*

## On Fi1m (2)

- *Garfield: A Tail of Two Kitties* (2006), Fi1m 40, Screenplay — [page](https://film.one/film/garfield-a-tail-of-two-kitties.md)
- *Toy Story* (1995), Fi1m 92, Screenplay — [page](https://film.one/film/toy-story.md)

## Complete filmography (22)

Every credit, newest first. Titles without a page can be requested for review on the HTML page.

- *Bad River* (2024), Writer, Executive Producer
- *The Inseparables* (2023), Story, Screenplay
- *Rock Dog 2: Rock Around the Park* (2021), Writer
- *Magic Arch* (2020), Writer
- *Rymdresan* (2020), Screenplay
- *Norm of the North: Keys to the Kingdom* (2018), Writer
- *I am Little Red* (2017), Director
- *I Am Jane Doe* (2017), Producer
- *Shooting an Elephant* (2016), Writer, Producer
- *The Last Godfather* (2010), Writer
- *Daddy Day Camp* (2007), Story
- *Evan Almighty* (2007), Story
- *Garfield: A Tail of Two Kitties* (2006), Screenplay — Fi1m 40, [page](https://film.one/film/garfield-a-tail-of-two-kitties.md)
- *Cheaper by the Dozen 2* (2005), Characters
- *Garfield* (2004), Screenplay
- *Cheaper by the Dozen* (2003), Screenplay
- *Goodbye Lover* (1999), Screenplay
- *Money Talks* (1997), Screenplay
- *Toy Story* (1995), Screenplay — Fi1m 92, [page](https://film.one/film/toy-story.md)
- *Monster Mash: The Movie* (1995), Director, Screenplay
- *Q.*, Screenplay, Producer
- *Brady vs. Manning*, Producer

## Awards

### Academy Awards — 0 won, 1 nominated

- 1996: Best Writing, Original Screenplay (nominated)

*From Wikidata, which records wins more completely than nominations.*

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