---
name: "Charles Randolph"
canonical: "https://film.one/person/charles-randolph"
fi1m_id: "charles-randolph"
imdb_id: "nm1017488"
tmdb_id: 1474332
wikidata_id: "Q22074016"
roles: ["Writer"]
born: "28 February 1963"
reviewed_on_fi1m: 3
average_fi1m_score: 68
average_as: "writer"
average_over: 3
updated: "2026-10-05T04:03:24.456418+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."
---

# Charles Randolph

## Identity

Charles Randolph

- **Canonical:** https://film.one/person/charles-randolph
- **Type:** Person
- **Fi1m ID:** charles-randolph
- **IMDb ID:** nm1017488
- **TMDB ID:** 1474332
- **Wikidata ID:** Q22074016
- **Same entity:** https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles_Randolph, https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q22074016, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm1017488/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/1474332

Writer. Born 28 February 1963 in Nashville, Tennessee, USA.

## Details

- **Work:** Writer
- **Born:** 28 February 1963, Nashville, Tennessee, USA
- **Active:** 2005–2019
- **Also known as:**  Charles Dale Randolph
- **Frequently works with:** [Nicole Kidman](https://film.one/person/nicole-kidman.md)
- **Academy Awards:** 1 Oscar (1 won)
- **Average Fi1m score:** 68, as writer, over 3 titles
- **Fi1m score by decade:** 2000s 62 (1), 2010s 72 (2)
- **Fi1m against the critics:** 68 to 62 across 3 titles
- **Score spread:** 1 at 80+, 2 at 60–79, 0 under 60
- **Genres:** Drama 2, Comedy 1, Crime 1, Thriller 1
- **Screen time:** 6 hours of reviewed films
- **Box office:** $358m across 3 films with figures
- **Elsewhere:** https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles_Randolph, https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q22074016, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm1017488/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/1474332

## Streaming the US now

- **Pluto TV:** [*The Big Short*](https://film.one/film/the-big-short.md) (80)
- **Netflix:** [*The Interpreter*](https://film.one/film/the-interpreter.md) (62)

For United States; add `?region=XX` for another country.

## Biography

Charles Randolph is an American screenwriter and producer. Born in Nashville, Tennessee, he graduated from Yale Divinity School and worked as a professor of philosophy and cultural studies before entering screenwriting in the late 1990s following a chance meeting in Los Angeles.

His credits include the screenplays for *The Life of David Gale* (2003), *The Interpreter* (2005), *Love & Other Drugs* (2010), *The Big Short* (2015) and *Bombshell* (2019). He shared the Academy Award for Best Adapted Screenplay, as well as BAFTA, Writers Guild of America and Critics' Choice awards, for co-writing *The Big Short* with Adam McKay. He has also produced several of his projects and is married to actress Mili Avital.

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

## On Fi1m (3)

- *Bombshell* (2019), Fi1m 63, Writer, Producer — [page](https://film.one/film/bombshell.md)
- *The Big Short* (2015), Fi1m 80, Screenplay — [page](https://film.one/film/the-big-short.md)
- *The Interpreter* (2005), Fi1m 62, Screenplay — [page](https://film.one/film/the-interpreter.md)

## Complete filmography (7)

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

- *Bombshell* (2019), Writer, Producer — Fi1m 63, [page](https://film.one/film/bombshell.md)
- *The Big Short* (2015), Screenplay — Fi1m 80, [page](https://film.one/film/the-big-short.md)
- *Love & Other Drugs* (2010), Screenplay, Producer
- *Tenderness* (2009), Producer
- *The Interpreter* (2005), Screenplay — Fi1m 62, [page](https://film.one/film/the-interpreter.md)
- *The Life of David Gale* (2003), Screenplay
- *Killing Gawker*, Screenplay

## Awards

### Academy Awards — 1 won

- 2016: Best Writing, Adapted Screenplay (won), for *The Big Short*

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

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