---
name: "John Hodge"
canonical: "https://film.one/person/john-hodge"
fi1m_id: "john-hodge"
imdb_id: "nm0388076"
tmdb_id: 8999
wikidata_id: "Q337976"
roles: ["Writer"]
born: "1 July 1964"
reviewed_on_fi1m: 3
average_fi1m_score: 72
average_as: "writer"
average_over: 2
updated: "2026-09-17T15:37:28.288053+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."
---

# John Hodge

## Identity

John Hodge

- **Canonical:** https://film.one/person/john-hodge
- **Type:** Person
- **Fi1m ID:** john-hodge
- **IMDb ID:** nm0388076
- **TMDB ID:** 8999
- **Wikidata ID:** Q337976
- **Same entity:** https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Hodge_(screenwriter), https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q337976, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0388076/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/8999

Writer. Born 1 July 1964 in Glasgow, Scotland, UK.

## Details

- **Work:** Writer
- **Born:** 1 July 1964, Glasgow, Scotland, UK
- **Active:** 1994–2000
- **Titles on Fi1m:** 3: 1 acting, 2 writing
- **Frequently works with:** [Andrew Macdonald](https://film.one/person/andrew-macdonald.md), [Danny Boyle](https://film.one/person/danny-boyle.md), [Ewan McGregor](https://film.one/person/ewan-mcgregor.md)
- **Academy Awards:** 1 Oscar nomination
- **Average Fi1m score:** 72, as writer, over 2 titles
- **Fi1m score by decade:** 1990s 83 (2), 2000s 55 (1)
- **Elsewhere:** https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Hodge_(screenwriter), https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q337976, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0388076/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/8999

## Streaming the US now

- **Amazon Prime Video:** [*The Beach*](https://film.one/film/the-beach.md) (55)

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

## Biography

John Hodge is a Scottish screenwriter and dramatist. Born in Glasgow in 1964, he studied medicine at the University of Edinburgh before turning to writing. He began his screenwriting career after meeting producer Andrew Macdonald at the Edinburgh Film Festival in 1991.

Hodge's first produced screenplay was *Shallow Grave* (1994), directed by Danny Boyle and starring Ewan McGregor. He adapted Irvine Welsh's novel for *Trainspotting* (1996), which earned him a BAFTA Award for Best Adapted Screenplay and an Academy Award nomination. Subsequent collaborations with Boyle include *A Life Less Ordinary* (1997), *The Beach* (2000), *Trance* (2013) and *T2 Trainspotting* (2017). His play *Collaborators* won the 2012 Olivier Award for Best New Play.

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

## On Fi1m (3)

### Performed in (1)

- *Shallow Grave* (1994), Fi1m 78, as DC Mitchell — [page](https://film.one/film/shallow-grave.md)

### Wrote (2) — the average rests on these

- *The Beach* (2000), Fi1m 55, Screenplay — [page](https://film.one/film/the-beach.md)
- *Trainspotting* (1996), Fi1m 88, Screenplay — [page](https://film.one/film/trainspotting.md)

## Complete filmography (18)

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

- *Goodbye June* (2025), Executive Producer
- *The Ipcress File* (2022), series, Screenplay, Executive Producer, Creator
- *T2 Trainspotting* (2017), Screenplay, Adaptation
- *The Program* (2015), Screenplay
- *Antigang* (2015), Story
- *Trance* (2013), Writer
- *The Sweeney* (2012), Writer
- *National Theatre Live: Collaborators* (2011), Writer
- *Alien Love Triangle* (2008), Writer
- *The Seeker: The Dark Is Rising* (2007), Screenplay
- *The Final Curtain* (2002), Writer
- *The Beach* (2000), Screenplay — Fi1m 55, [page](https://film.one/film/the-beach.md)
- *Exterior Park - Day* (1999), Writer
- *A Life Less Ordinary* (1997), Screenplay
- *Trainspotting* (1996), Screenplay — Fi1m 88, [page](https://film.one/film/trainspotting.md)
- *The Last Ten Minutes* (1995), Writer
- *Shallow Grave* (1994), as DC Mitchell · Screenplay — Fi1m 78, [page](https://film.one/film/shallow-grave.md)
- *A Spy by Nature*, Screenplay

## Awards

### Academy Awards — 0 won, 1 nominated

- 1997: Best Writing, Adapted Screenplay (nominated), for *Trainspotting*

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

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