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name: "Robert Nelson Jacobs"
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roles: ["Writer"]
born: "24 February 1954"
reviewed_on_fi1m: 1
average_as: "writer"
average_over: 1
updated: "2026-09-20T07:02:46.125413+00:00"
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# Robert Nelson Jacobs

Writer. Born 24 February 1954 in Pennsylvania, USA.

## Details

- **Work:** Writer
- **Born:** 24 February 1954, Pennsylvania, USA
- **Academy Awards:** 1 Oscar nomination
- **Elsewhere:** https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Nelson_Jacobs, https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q1355139, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0414608/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/5308

## Streaming the US now

- **Hulu:** [*Chocolat*](https://film.one/film/chocolat.md) (60)

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## Biography

Robert Nelson Jacobs is an American screenwriter. He grew up in the Pocono Mountains of Pennsylvania and attended Yale University, where he received the Curtis Literary Prize for short fiction and graduated with honours. He later earned a master's degree from the Iowa Writers' Workshop.

Jacobs began his career writing short stories before moving to California to work in film. His screenplay credits include *Out to Sea* (1997), *Dinosaur* (2000), *Chocolat* (2000), *The Shipping News* (2001), *The Water Horse* (2007) and *Extraordinary Measures* (2010), as well as additional material for *Flushed Away* (2006). He received an Academy Award nomination for Best Adapted Screenplay for *Chocolat* and has served as president of the Writers Guild Foundation.

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

## On Fi1m (1)

- *Chocolat* (2000), Fi1m 60, Screenplay — [page](https://film.one/film/chocolat.md)

## Complete filmography (8)

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

- *Extraordinary Measures* (2010), Writer
- *The Water Horse* (2007), Screenplay
- *Flushed Away* (2006), as Additional Writing
- *The Shipping News* (2001), Screenplay
- *Chocolat* (2000), Screenplay — Fi1m 60, [page](https://film.one/film/chocolat.md)
- *Dinosaur* (2000), Screenplay, Story
- *Out to Sea* (1997), Writer
- *Encore*, Writer

## Awards

### Academy Awards — 0 won, 1 nominated

- 2001: Best Writing, Adapted Screenplay (nominated), for *Chocolat*

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

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