Biography
Scott Z. Burns is an American screenwriter, director and producer. He was born on 17 July 1962 in Golden Valley, Minnesota, and graduated summa cum laude from the University of Minnesota in 1985 with a degree in English.
Burns began his career in advertising, working on campaigns including the original 'Got Milk?' series, before moving into film and television. He has written screenplays for The Bourne Ultimatum (2007), The Informant! (2009), Contagion (2011), Side Effects (2013) and The Laundromat (2019). Several of these were directed by Steven Soderbergh, with whom he has collaborated extensively. Burns also wrote and directed the 2019 film The Report.
He produced the documentary An Inconvenient Truth (2006) and created the Apple TV+ series Extrapolations (2023).
