---
name: "Marc Norman"
canonical: "https://film.one/person/marc-norman"
fi1m_id: "marc-norman"
imdb_id: "nm0635565"
tmdb_id: 20061
wikidata_id: "Q919063"
roles: ["Writer"]
born: "10 February 1941"
reviewed_on_fi1m: 2
average_fi1m_score: 80
average_as: "writer"
average_over: 2
updated: "2026-09-17T17:57:52.053553+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."
---

# Marc Norman

## Identity

Marc Norman

- **Canonical:** https://film.one/person/marc-norman
- **Type:** Person
- **Fi1m ID:** marc-norman
- **IMDb ID:** nm0635565
- **TMDB ID:** 20061
- **Wikidata ID:** Q919063
- **Same entity:** https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marc_Norman, https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q919063, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0635565/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/20061

Writer. Born 10 February 1941 in Los Angeles.

## Details

- **Work:** Writer
- **Born:** 10 February 1941, Los Angeles
- **Active:** 1966–1998
- **Academy Awards:** 2 Oscars (2 won · 1 nominated)
- **Average Fi1m score:** 80, as writer, over 2 titles
- **Fi1m score by decade:** 1960s 82 (1), 1990s 79 (1)
- **Elsewhere:** https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marc_Norman, https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q919063, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0635565/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/20061

## Streaming the US now

- **Apple TV:** [*Mission: Impossible*](https://film.one/tv/mission-impossible-1966.md) (82), [*Shakespeare in Love*](https://film.one/film/shakespeare-in-love.md) (79)

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## Biography

Marc Norman (born 10 February 1941) is an American screenwriter, novelist and playwright. He began his career in the mailroom at Universal Studios in the mid-1960s and later wrote for television series including *Get Smart* and an episode of *Mission: Impossible* (1966).

Norman wrote several feature films in the 1970s, including *Oklahoma Crude* (1973), *Zandy’s Bride* (1974), *The Killer Elite* (1975) and *Breakout* (1975). In 1995 he contributed to the screenplay for *Cutthroat Island*. He is best known as co-writer, with Tom Stoppard, of the screenplay for *Shakespeare in Love* (1998); the pair won the Academy Award for Best Original Screenplay, and Norman shared the Best Picture Oscar as a producer of the film.

Norman earned an MA in English literature from the University of California, Berkeley, in 1964. He is also the author of the non-fiction work *What Happens Next: A History of American Screenwriting* (2007).

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

## On Fi1m (2)

- *Shakespeare in Love* (1998), Fi1m 79, Writer, Producer — [page](https://film.one/film/shakespeare-in-love.md)
- *Mission: Impossible* (1966), Fi1m 82, Writer — [page](https://film.one/tv/mission-impossible-1966.md)

## Complete filmography (11)

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

- *Shakespeare in Love* (1998), Producer, Writer — Fi1m 79, [page](https://film.one/film/shakespeare-in-love.md)
- *Cutthroat Island* (1995), Screenplay
- *The Aviator* (1985), Screenplay
- *The White Shadow* (1978), series, Director
- *The Killer Elite* (1975), Screenplay
- *Breakout* (1975), Screenplay
- *Zandy's Bride* (1974), Screenplay
- *Oklahoma Crude* (1973), Writer
- *Five Desperate Women* (1971), Teleplay
- *The Challenge* (1970), Writer
- *Mission: Impossible* (1966), series, Writer — Fi1m 82, [page](https://film.one/tv/mission-impossible-1966.md)

## Awards

### Academy Awards — 2 won, 1 nominated

- 2000: Best Picture (nominated), for *Shakespeare in Love*
- 1999: Best Picture (won), for *Shakespeare in Love*
- 1999: Best Writing, Original Screenplay (won), for *Shakespeare in Love*

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

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