---
name: "Jan Sardi"
canonical: "https://film.one/person/jan-sardi"
fi1m_id: "jan-sardi"
imdb_id: "nm0764982"
tmdb_id: 67887
wikidata_id: "Q3161747"
roles: ["Writer"]
born: "1 January 1953"
reviewed_on_fi1m: 2
average_fi1m_score: 78
average_as: "writer"
average_over: 2
updated: "2026-09-23T11:29:21.155243+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."
---

# Jan Sardi

## Identity

Jan Sardi

- **Canonical:** https://film.one/person/jan-sardi
- **Type:** Person
- **Fi1m ID:** jan-sardi
- **IMDb ID:** nm0764982
- **TMDB ID:** 67887
- **Wikidata ID:** Q3161747
- **Same entity:** https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jan_Sardi, https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q3161747, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0764982/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/67887

Writer. Born 1 January 1953 in Melbourne, Victoria, Australia.

## Details

- **Work:** Writer
- **Born:** 1 January 1953, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia
- **Active:** 1996–2004
- **Academy Awards:** 1 Oscar nomination
- **Average Fi1m score:** 78, as writer, over 2 titles
- **Fi1m score by decade:** 1990s 82 (1), 2000s 74 (1)
- **Elsewhere:** https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jan_Sardi, https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q3161747, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0764982/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/67887

## Biography

Jan Sardi is an Australian screenwriter. Born in Melbourne in 1953, he trained as a teacher, graduating with a Bachelor of Education from Melbourne State College in 1978, before leaving the profession in 1983 to write full time.

His early screenplays include *Moving Out* (1983) and *Street Hero* (1984). He received an Academy Award nomination for Best Original Screenplay for *Shine* (1996), directed by Scott Hicks. Sardi adapted the novel by Nicholas Sparks for *The Notebook* (2004) and Li Cunxin's memoir for *Mao's Last Dancer* (2009). He also wrote and directed *Love's Brother* (2004) and co-wrote the miniseries *The Secret River* (2015). In 2020 he was appointed an Officer of the Order of Australia for services to the film and television industries.

*Sources: en.wikipedia.org, imdb.com, smh.com.au, ilglobo.com.*

## On Fi1m (2)

- *The Notebook* (2004), Fi1m 74, Screenplay — [page](https://film.one/film/the-notebook.md)
- *Shine* (1996), Fi1m 82, Screenplay — [page](https://film.one/film/shine.md)

## Complete filmography (17)

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

- *The Journey Is the Destination* (2016), Screenplay
- *The Secret River* (2015), series, Screenplay
- *Mao’s Last Dancer* (2009), Screenplay
- *The Notebook* (2004), Screenplay — Fi1m 74, [page](https://film.one/film/the-notebook.md)
- *Love's Brother* (2004), Director, Writer
- *Shine* (1996), Screenplay — Fi1m 82, [page](https://film.one/film/shine.md)
- *Halifax f.p.* (1994), series, Writer
- *The Man from Snowy River* (1994), series, Writer
- *The Feds* (1993), series, Writer
- *One Crazy Night* (1992), Writer
- *Bony* (1992), series, Writer
- *Phoenix* (1992), series, Writer
- *Breakaway* (1990), Screenplay
- *Ground Zero* (1987), Writer
- *The Flying Doctors* (1986), series, Writer
- *Street Hero* (1984), Writer
- *Moving Out* (1983), Screenplay

## Awards

### Academy Awards — 0 won, 1 nominated

- 1997: Best Writing, Original Screenplay (nominated), for *Shine*

### Other awards — 1 won

- Officer of the Order of Australia 2020: Officer of the Order of Australia (won)

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

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