--- name: "Scott Frank" canonical: "https://film.one/person/scott-frank" fi1m_id: "scott-frank" imdb_id: "nm0291082" tmdb_id: 2199 wikidata_id: "Q557208" roles: ["Writer","Director","Producer"] born: "10 March 1960" reviewed_on_fi1m: 12 average_fi1m_score: 75 average_as: "writer" average_over: 7 updated: "2026-10-05T12:51:42.055548+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." --- # Scott Frank ## Identity Scott Frank - **Canonical:** https://film.one/person/scott-frank - **Type:** Person - **Fi1m ID:** scott-frank - **IMDb ID:** nm0291082 - **TMDB ID:** 2199 - **Wikidata ID:** Q557208 - **Same entity:** https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scott_Frank, https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q557208, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0291082/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/2199 Writer and director. Born 10 March 1960 in Fort Walton Beach, Florida, USA. ## Details - **Work:** Writer, Director, Producer - **Born:** 10 March 1960, Fort Walton Beach, Florida, USA - **Active:** 1991–present - **Also known as:** A. Scott Frank, سكوت فرانك - **Titles on Fi1m:** 12: 1 acting, 4 directing, 7 writing - **Frequently works with:** [Allan Scott](https://film.one/person/allan-scott.md), [Chloe Pirrie](https://film.one/person/chloe-pirrie.md), [Danny DeVito](https://film.one/person/danny-devito.md), [Hugh Jackman](https://film.one/person/hugh-jackman.md), [Hutch Parker](https://film.one/person/hutch-parker.md), [James Mangold](https://film.one/person/james-mangold.md), [John Dahl](https://film.one/person/john-dahl.md), [Lauren Shuler Donner](https://film.one/person/lauren-shuler-donner.md) - **Academy Awards:** 2 Oscar nominations - **Average Fi1m score:** 75, as writer, over 7 titles - **Fi1m score by decade:** 1990s 80 (4), 2000s 72 (2), 2010s 73 (4), 2020s 74 (2) - **Fi1m against the critics:** 76 to 70 across 6 titles - **Score spread:** 3 at 80+, 4 at 60–79, 0 under 60 - **Genres:** Crime 4, Thriller 3, Action 2, Comedy 2, Drama 2, Mystery 2 - **Screen time:** 12 hours of reviewed films - **Box office:** $1,428m across 6 films with figures - **Elsewhere:** https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scott_Frank, https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q557208, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0291082/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/2199 ## Streaming the US now - **Netflix:** [*Dept. Q*](https://film.one/tv/dept-q.md) (74), [*The Queen's Gambit*](https://film.one/tv/the-queens-gambit.md) (74), [*Godless*](https://film.one/tv/godless.md) (74), [*Shameless*](https://film.one/tv/shameless-2011.md) (70), [*The Interpreter*](https://film.one/film/the-interpreter.md) (62) - **Disney+:** [*Logan*](https://film.one/film/logan.md) (83), [*The Wolverine*](https://film.one/film/the-wolverine.md) (64) - **Apple TV:** [*Minority Report*](https://film.one/film/minority-report.md) (81), [*Dead Again*](https://film.one/film/dead-again.md) (78) - **The Roku Channel:** [*Get Shorty*](https://film.one/film/get-shorty.md) (82) For United States; add `?region=XX` for another country. ## Fi1m on Scott Frank > Scott Frank writes people who talk well and are in no hurry, and that has been his gift for more than thirty years. Given whole series to himself, the talk is as good as ever and the stories run two episodes long. The best thing Scott Frank has written puts two people in the boot of a car and lets them talk. *Out of Sight* (1998) is a love story in which the robbery is what the leads do when they are not thinking about each other, and Frank, adapting Elmore Leonard, understood that the talk was the film and the crime was the excuse. He had done it once already in *Get Shorty* (1995), where the pleasure is watching a Miami loan shark find that Hollywood runs on the rules he already knows. Nobody in either film is in a hurry, and neither is Frank. The plots have been less steady than the dialogue. *Dead Again* (1991) asks for more indulgence than its tangled mystery of hypnosis and reincarnation earns. *Minority Report* (2002), written with Jon Cohen, spends its last stretch explaining a pursuit that had already gripped us. Even *Out of Sight* gets busier and a little less itself once it reaches Detroit. Frank spent much of these years as an uncredited script doctor on other people's films, which may be why his own are so good at scenes and so unsure how many of them a story can hold. His strongest recent film script is one he shared. *Logan* (2017), written with James Mangold and Michael Green, gives Hugh Jackman, Patrick Stewart and Dafne Keen a makeshift family of temperaments that do not fit, and the writing has the sense to let them resist easy warmth. The people are as prickly as his crooks and the plot mostly stays out of their way. Since 2017 he has mostly written and directed whole series himself: *Godless* (2017), *The Queen's Gambit* (2020), *Monsieur Spade* (2024) and *Dept. Q* (2025). The three we have reviewed are all handsome, all well cast and all longer than the story they have to tell. Steven Meizler shot the first two and makes chess look like a knife fight and riders look small under a sky that takes two-thirds of the frame; Carlos Rafael Rivera scores all three sparingly and well. Michelle Tesoro cuts as slowly as Frank writes, which is where the trouble lies. In *Godless* he had a town of women running a mine and kept leaving it for flashbacks. In *The Queen's Gambit* he let his heroine off lightly and let her hotel-room scenes run long. In *Dept. Q* nine episodes carry more subsidiary storylines than one cold case can bear. And yet the opening of *Godless* horrified us, and it was the quiet that did it. A marshal rides into a town a gang has been through, Frank keeps the camera back and the music away, and a decent man on a horse looks at what people have done and says nothing. Frank can do that. He does it, and then cuts to something else for forty minutes. Steven Soderbergh directed *Out of Sight* in 123 minutes. If you are new to Frank, start there. If you want the series, start with *Godless*, and know that the fourth episode is where our patience went. ## Biography Scott Frank is an American screenwriter, director and producer. Born on 10 March 1960 in Fort Walton Beach, Florida, he studied film at the University of California, Santa Barbara and earned an MFA from the American Film Institute Conservatory. He wrote the screenplays for *Get Shorty* (1995), *Out of Sight* (1998), *Minority Report* (2002) and *Logan* (2017). The last two earned him Academy Award nominations for Best Adapted Screenplay. Frank has also directed features including *The Lookout* (2007) and *A Walk Among the Tombstones* (2014). For television he created, wrote and directed the Netflix miniseries *Godless* (2017) and *The Queen's Gambit* (2020), and served as writer, director and executive producer on *Dept. Q* (2025). He has received Writers Guild of America Awards, Emmy Awards and a Directors Guild of America Award. *Sources: en.wikipedia.org, imdb.com.* ## On Fi1m (12) ### Performed in (1) - *Minority Report* (2002), Fi1m 81, as Conceited Customer — [page](https://film.one/film/minority-report.md) ### Directed (4) - *Dept. Q* (2025), Fi1m 74, Director, Creator, Writer, Executive Producer, Other — [page](https://film.one/tv/dept-q.md) - *The Queen's Gambit* (2020), Fi1m 74, Teleplay, Executive Producer, Director, Creator — [page](https://film.one/tv/the-queens-gambit.md) - *Godless* (2017), Fi1m 74, Director, Writer, Creator, Executive Producer, Producer — [page](https://film.one/tv/godless.md) - *Shameless* (2011), Fi1m 70, Director — [page](https://film.one/tv/shameless-2011.md) ### Wrote (7) — the average rests on these - *Logan* (2017), Fi1m 83, Screenplay — [page](https://film.one/film/logan.md) - *The Wolverine* (2013), Fi1m 64, Screenplay — [page](https://film.one/film/the-wolverine.md) - *The Interpreter* (2005), Fi1m 62, Screenplay — [page](https://film.one/film/the-interpreter.md) - *Out of Sight* (1998), Fi1m 86, Screenplay — [page](https://film.one/film/out-of-sight.md) - *Get Shorty* (1995), Fi1m 82, Screenplay — [page](https://film.one/film/get-shorty.md) - *Fallen Angels* (1993), Fi1m 72, Teleplay — [page](https://film.one/tv/fallen-angels-1993.md) - *Dead Again* (1991), Fi1m 78, Writer — [page](https://film.one/film/dead-again.md) ## Complete filmography (30) Every credit, newest first. Titles without a page can be requested for review on the HTML page. - *East of Wall* (2025), Executive Producer - *Dept. Q* (2025), series, Director, Executive Producer, Writer, Other, Creator — Fi1m 74, [page](https://film.one/tv/dept-q.md) - *Monsieur Spade* (2024), series, Executive Producer, Writer, Director, Creator - *Bruiser* (2022), Producer - *No Exit* (2022), Producer - *The Queen's Gambit* (2020), series, Executive Producer, Director, Teleplay, Creator — Fi1m 74, [page](https://film.one/tv/the-queens-gambit.md) - *Godless* (2017), series, Director, Writer, Executive Producer, Producer, Creator — Fi1m 74, [page](https://film.one/tv/godless.md) - *Logan* (2017), Screenplay — Fi1m 83, [page](https://film.one/film/logan.md) - *A Walk Among the Tombstones* (2014), Screenplay, Director - *The One I Love* (2014), Thanks - *Hoke* (2014), Writer, Director - *The Wolverine* (2013), Screenplay — Fi1m 64, [page](https://film.one/film/the-wolverine.md) - *Shameless* (2011), series, Director — Fi1m 70, [page](https://film.one/tv/shameless-2011.md) - *Marley & Me* (2008), Screenplay - *The Lookout* (2007), Director, Writer - *The Interpreter* (2005), Screenplay — Fi1m 62, [page](https://film.one/film/the-interpreter.md) - *Flight of the Phoenix* (2004), Screenplay - *Karen Sisco* (2003), series, Executive Consultant - *Minority Report* (2002), as Conceited Customer · Screenplay, Second Unit Director — Fi1m 81, [page](https://film.one/film/minority-report.md) - *Out of Sight* (1998), Screenplay — Fi1m 86, [page](https://film.one/film/out-of-sight.md) - *Heaven's Prisoners* (1996), Screenplay - *Get Shorty* (1995), Screenplay — Fi1m 82, [page](https://film.one/film/get-shorty.md) - *Birdland* (1994), series, Creator - *Malice* (1993), Screenplay - *Fallen Angels* (1993), series, Teleplay — Fi1m 72, [page](https://film.one/tv/fallen-angels-1993.md) - *Little Man Tate* (1991), Screenplay - *Dead Again* (1991), Writer — Fi1m 78, [page](https://film.one/film/dead-again.md) - *Plain Clothes* (1988), Screenplay, Story - *Sugar Bandits*, Writer - *Fury*, Writer ## Gallery - ![Scott Frank](https://film.one/media/person/9884/gallery-59a6cb03aebc.jpg) Scott Frank — Image via TMDB - ![Scott Frank](https://film.one/media/person/9884/gallery-237a589d1a21.jpg) Scott Frank — Image via TMDB ## Awards ### Academy Awards — 0 won, 2 nominated - 2018: Best Writing, Adapted Screenplay (nominated), for *Logan* - 1999: Best Writing, Adapted Screenplay (nominated), for *Out of Sight* ### Other awards — 1 won - Edgar Awards 1992: Edgar Awards (won) *From Wikidata, which records wins more completely than nominations.* --- © Fi1m Ltd. 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