---
name: "Peter Hedges"
canonical: "https://film.one/person/peter-hedges"
fi1m_id: "peter-hedges"
imdb_id: "nm0373282"
tmdb_id: 3290
wikidata_id: "Q2001087"
roles: ["Writer"]
born: "6 July 1962"
reviewed_on_fi1m: 1
average_as: "writer"
average_over: 1
updated: "2026-10-05T02:48:43.757529+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."
---

# Peter Hedges

## Identity

Peter Hedges

- **Canonical:** https://film.one/person/peter-hedges
- **Type:** Person
- **Fi1m ID:** peter-hedges
- **IMDb ID:** nm0373282
- **TMDB ID:** 3290
- **Wikidata ID:** Q2001087
- **Same entity:** https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peter_Hedges, https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q2001087, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0373282/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/3290

Writer. Born 6 July 1962 in Des Moines, Iowa, USA.

## Details

- **Work:** Writer
- **Born:** 6 July 1962, Des Moines, Iowa, USA
- **Academy Awards:** 1 Oscar nomination
- **Elsewhere:** https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peter_Hedges, https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q2001087, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0373282/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/3290

## Biography

Peter Hedges is an American novelist, screenwriter and film director. Born on 6 July 1962 in West Des Moines, Iowa, he studied drama at the University of North Carolina School of the Arts.

His debut novel, *What's Eating Gilbert Grape* (1991), was adapted into a 1993 film for which he wrote the screenplay. In 2002 he received an Academy Award nomination for Best Adapted Screenplay for *About a Boy*. He wrote and directed the films *Pieces of April* (2003), *Dan in Real Life* (2007), *The Odd Life of Timothy Green* (2012) and *Ben Is Back* (2018).

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

## On Fi1m (1)

- *About a Boy* (2002), Fi1m 77, Screenplay — [page](https://film.one/film/about-a-boy.md)

## Complete filmography (12)

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

- *The Same Storm* (2022), Writer, Director, Original Music Composer
- *Good as New* (2020), Director, Writer
- *Ben Is Back* (2018), Director, Writer, Producer
- *Little Sister* (2016), as Bill Lunsford
- *The Odd Life of Timothy Green* (2012), Screenplay, Director
- *Dan in Real Life* (2007), Screenplay, Director
- *Pieces of April* (2003), Director, Writer
- *About a Boy* (2002), Screenplay — Fi1m 77, [page](https://film.one/film/about-a-boy.md)
- *A Map of the World* (1999), Screenplay
- *What's Eating Gilbert Grape* (1993), Novel, Screenplay
- *Sammy* (1977), as Matt Redding
- *The 99'ers*, Screenplay

## Awards

### Academy Awards — 0 won, 1 nominated

- 2003: Best Writing, Adapted Screenplay (nominated), for *About a Boy*

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

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