---
name: "Michael Blake"
canonical: "https://film.one/person/michael-blake"
fi1m_id: "michael-blake"
imdb_id: "nm0086658"
tmdb_id: 7844
wikidata_id: "Q942773"
roles: ["Writer"]
born: "5 July 1945"
died: "2 May 2015"
reviewed_on_fi1m: 1
average_as: "writer"
average_over: 1
updated: "2026-09-17T21:44:31.106414+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."
---

# Michael Blake

## Identity

Michael Blake

- **Canonical:** https://film.one/person/michael-blake
- **Type:** Person
- **Fi1m ID:** michael-blake
- **IMDb ID:** nm0086658
- **TMDB ID:** 7844
- **Wikidata ID:** Q942773
- **Same entity:** https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michael_Blake_(author), https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q942773, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0086658/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/7844

Writer. Born 5 July 1945 in Fort Bragg, North Carolina, USA. Died 2 May 2015.

## Details

- **Work:** Writer
- **Born:** 5 July 1945, Fort Bragg, North Carolina, USA
- **Died:** 2 May 2015
- **Academy Awards:** 1 Oscar (1 won)
- **Elsewhere:** https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michael_Blake_(author), https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q942773, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0086658/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/7844

## Streaming the US now

- **AMC+:** [*Dances with Wolves*](https://film.one/film/dances-with-wolves.md) (80)

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

## Biography

Michael Blake was an American author and screenwriter. He wrote the novel *Dances with Wolves* (1988) and its screenplay adaptation for the 1990 film of the same name.

Blake was born in Fort Bragg, North Carolina. He served in the US Air Force, studied journalism at the University of New Mexico and attended film school at the University of California, Berkeley. In the 1980s he wrote the screenplay for *Stacy's Knights* (1983), which starred Kevin Costner. Costner later encouraged Blake to develop the story that became *Dances with Wolves*.

Blake won the Academy Award for Best Adapted Screenplay, a Golden Globe and a Writers Guild of America Award for the *Dances with Wolves* screenplay. He died in Tucson, Arizona, in 2015.

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

## On Fi1m (1)

- *Dances with Wolves* (1990), Fi1m 80, Screenplay — [page](https://film.one/film/dances-with-wolves.md)

## Complete filmography (2)

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

- *Dances with Wolves* (1990), Screenplay — Fi1m 80, [page](https://film.one/film/dances-with-wolves.md)
- *Stacy's Knights* (1983), Screenplay

## Gallery

- ![Author of Dances with wolves](https://film.one/media/person/77467/gallery-f83fb45ba9d2.jpg) Author of Dances with wolves — Terryballard, CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons (https://thumb.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/8/83/Michael_Blake.jpg/1280px-Michael_Blake.jpg?utm_source=commons.wikimedia.org&utm_campaign=imageinfo&utm_content=thumbnail)
- ![Michael Blake](https://film.one/media/person/77467/gallery-8c8d1c16668a.jpg) Michael Blake — Terryballard, CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons (https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/7/7d/Michael_Blake_%282%29.jpg?utm_source=commons.wikimedia.org&utm_campaign=imageinfo&utm_content=thumbnail_unscaled)

## Awards

### Academy Awards — 1 won

- 1991: Best Writing, Adapted Screenplay (won), for *Dances with Wolves*

### Golden Globes — 2 won

- 1992: Best Screenplay (won), for *Dances with Wolves*
- 1991: Best Screenplay (won), for *Dances with Wolves*

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

---
© Fi1m Ltd. Written by AI under a human editor; checked against sources before publication. Quote with attribution and a link to the canonical URL. Canonical: https://film.one/person/michael-blake