---
name: "Stephen J. Rivele"
canonical: "https://film.one/person/stephen-j-rivele"
fi1m_id: "stephen-j-rivele"
imdb_id: "nm0729151"
tmdb_id: 17786
wikidata_id: "Q3973190"
roles: ["Writer"]
born: "6 May 1949"
died: "17 May 2024"
reviewed_on_fi1m: 1
average_as: "writer"
average_over: 1
updated: "2026-10-05T20:11:27.137193+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."
---

# Stephen J. Rivele

## Identity

Stephen J. Rivele

- **Canonical:** https://film.one/person/stephen-j-rivele
- **Type:** Person
- **Fi1m ID:** stephen-j-rivele
- **IMDb ID:** nm0729151
- **TMDB ID:** 17786
- **Wikidata ID:** Q3973190
- **Same entity:** https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stephen_J._Rivele, https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q3973190, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0729151/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/17786

Writer. Born 6 May 1949 in Philadelphia. Died 17 May 2024.

## Details

- **Work:** Writer
- **Born:** 6 May 1949, Philadelphia
- **Died:** 17 May 2024
- **Academy Awards:** 1 Oscar nomination
- **Elsewhere:** https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stephen_J._Rivele, https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q3973190, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0729151/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/17786

## Streaming the US now

- **Netflix:** [*Ali*](https://film.one/film/ali.md) (68)

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## Biography

Stephen J. Rivele was an American screenwriter, producer, novelist and poet. Born in Philadelphia on 6 May 1949, he became the first American student accepted at the Paris Film Conservatory in 1975 and studied with director Éric Rohmer at the University of Paris, receiving a master’s degree in film directing. He later founded Philadelphia’s Performing Arts Theater with actor Jon Polito.

Rivele maintained a thirty-year screenwriting partnership with Christopher Wilkinson. Their joint credits include the screenplay for Oliver Stone’s *Nixon* (1995), for which they shared an Academy Award nomination with Stone; *Ali* (2001); *Copying Beethoven* (2006); *Pawn Sacrifice* (2014); and *Birth of the Dragon* (2016). He also contributed the story for *Miles Ahead* (2015) and wrote *Like Dandelion Dust* (2009). Rivele died on 17 May 2024 in Pasadena, California.

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

## On Fi1m (1)

- *Ali* (2001), Fi1m 68, Screenplay — [page](https://film.one/film/ali.md)

## Complete filmography (7)

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

- *Birth of the Dragon* (2017), Screenplay, Producer
- *Miles Ahead* (2016), Story
- *Pawn Sacrifice* (2015), Story
- *Like Dandelion Dust* (2009), Writer
- *Copying Beethoven* (2006), Screenplay
- *Ali* (2001), Screenplay — Fi1m 68, [page](https://film.one/film/ali.md)
- *Nixon* (1995), Screenplay

## Awards

### Academy Awards — 0 won, 1 nominated

- 1996: Best Writing, Original Screenplay (nominated), for *Nixon*

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

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