---
name: "Terence Winter"
canonical: "https://film.one/person/terence-winter"
fi1m_id: "terence-winter"
imdb_id: "nm1010540"
tmdb_id: 62635
wikidata_id: "Q591945"
roles: ["Writer","Producer","Director"]
born: "2 October 1960"
reviewed_on_fi1m: 5
average_fi1m_score: 71
average_as: "writer"
average_over: 4
updated: "2026-10-23T04:07:47.987230+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."
---

# Terence Winter

## Identity

Terence Winter

- **Canonical:** https://film.one/person/terence-winter
- **Type:** Person
- **Fi1m ID:** terence-winter
- **IMDb ID:** nm1010540
- **TMDB ID:** 62635
- **Wikidata ID:** Q591945
- **Same entity:** https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Terence_Winter, https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q591945, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm1010540/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/62635

Writer and producer. Born 2 October 1960 in Brooklyn, New York City, New York, USA.

## Details

- **Work:** Writer, Producer, Director
- **Born:** 2 October 1960, Brooklyn, New York City, New York, USA
- **Active:** 1995–present
- **Also known as:** Terence Patrick Winter, Теренс Уинтер, 테렌스 윈터, Terry Winter
- **Titles on Fi1m:** 5: 1 directing, 4 writing
- **Frequently works with:** [Allen Coulter](https://film.one/person/allen-coulter.md), [Dave Flebotte](https://film.one/person/david-flebotte.md), [Alan Taylor](https://film.one/person/alan-taylor.md), [Andrew Schneider](https://film.one/person/andrew-schneider.md), [Diane Frolov](https://film.one/person/diane-frolov.md), [Lawrence Konner](https://film.one/person/lawrence-konner.md), [Martin Scorsese](https://film.one/person/martin-scorsese.md), [Steve Buscemi](https://film.one/person/steve-buscemi.md)
- **Primetime Emmy Awards:** 2 Emmys (2 won)
- **Average Fi1m score:** 71, as writer, over 4 titles
- **Fi1m score by decade:** 1990s 84 (2), 2010s 81 (2), 2020s 48 (1)
- **Fi1m against the critics:** 70 to 67 across 3 titles
- **Score spread:** 2 at 80+, 1 at 60–79, 1 under 60
- **Genres:** Drama 4, Crime 2, Action & Adventure 1, Comedy 1, History 1, Music 1
- **Screen time:** 5 hours of reviewed films
- **Box office:** $588m across 2 films with figures
- **Elsewhere:** https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Terence_Winter, https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q591945, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm1010540/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/62635

## Streaming the US now

- **HBO Max:** [*The Sopranos*](https://film.one/tv/the-sopranos.md) (94), [*Boardwalk Empire*](https://film.one/tv/boardwalk-empire.md) (80)
- **Paramount+:** [*The Wolf of Wall Street*](https://film.one/film/the-wolf-of-wall-street.md) (82), [*Bob Marley: One Love*](https://film.one/film/bob-marley-one-love.md) (48)
- **The Roku Channel:** [*Xena: Warrior Princess*](https://film.one/tv/xena-warrior-princess.md) (74)

For United States; add `?region=XX` for another country.

## Fi1m on Terence Winter

> Terence Winter lets greedy, dangerous men explain themselves, and makes their explanations funny enough to keep us listening. We rate his crime writing highly, though he can give their appetites more attention than the people living with them.

Jordan Belfort talks as though his appetites require no explanation in *The Wolf of Wall Street* (2013). Terence Winter's screenplay gives Leonardo DiCaprio a man who can be compelling company without becoming likeable. We laughed at the casualness of that talk: nobody seems to think their behaviour calls for an apology. Winter is a fine writer of people who have made themselves comfortable with doing harm. His trouble is knowing when we have spent enough time with them.

An early writing credit on *Xena: Warrior Princess* (1995) gives little warning of the crime dramas that followed. Winter joined *The Sopranos* (1999) in its second season, in 2000, and wrote or co-wrote 25 episodes. That series remains our strongest recommendation among his credits, with its frightening characters made painfully recognisable and often funny. His ear for untidy, believable speech fits that company.

With *Boardwalk Empire* (2010), which he created, Winter had more responsibility for the whole. Steve Buscemi's Nucky Thompson approaches Prohibition in Atlantic City as a chance to make money, a premise well suited to Winter's interest in people who can justify anything to themselves. Martin Scorsese directed the first episode, while the writing team included Howard Korder and Dennis Lehane. We recommend staying with it, though the first season takes too long arranging its gangsters and officials. The acting helps; the thin writing for women other than Margaret does not.

Scorsese and Winter find a freer comic rhythm in *The Wolf of Wall Street*, with dialogue that gives the actors more to do than advertise wickedness. Schoonmaker's editing keeps individual scenes moving even when the screenplay repeats itself. Sex, drugs and extravagance stop telling us anything new about Belfort well before the film stops showing them. Margot Robbie gives Naomi Lapaglia enough force to make the lack of room for her especially frustrating.

*Bob Marley: One Love* (2024) shows what happens when the writing will not get close enough to its subject. Winter shares screenplay credit with Frank E. Flowers, Zach Baylin and director Reinaldo Marcus Green, so the failure is not his alone. The film lists achievements and keeps Marley out of reach, despite Kingsley Ben-Adir's command of the walk, voice and stage. Start with *The Wolf of Wall Street*, provided three hours of Belfort is an evening you are prepared to give him.

## Biography

Terence Winter is an American writer and producer of television and film. He joined the writing staff of the HBO series *The Sopranos* for its second season in 2000 and remained through the sixth and final season in 2007, writing or co-writing 25 episodes; he also directed the episode "Walk Like a Man".

Winter created, wrote and executive produced the HBO series *Boardwalk Empire* (2010–2014). He wrote the screenplay for Martin Scorsese's *The Wolf of Wall Street* (2013), earning an Academy Award nomination for Best Adapted Screenplay. His other credits include the screenplay for *Bob Marley: One Love* (2024) and writing for *Tulsa King* (2022).

Earlier in his career he wrote for series including *Xena: Warrior Princess* (1995) and *Sister, Sister* (1994).

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

## On Fi1m (5)

### Directed (1)

- *The Sopranos* (1999), Fi1m 94, Director, Teleplay, Writer, Story, Co-Producer, Executive Producer, Producer, Supervising Producer, Co-Executive Producer — [page](https://film.one/tv/the-sopranos.md)

### Wrote (4) — the average rests on these

- *Bob Marley: One Love* (2024), Fi1m 48, Screenplay — [page](https://film.one/film/bob-marley-one-love.md)
- *The Wolf of Wall Street* (2013), Fi1m 82, Screenplay — [page](https://film.one/film/the-wolf-of-wall-street.md)
- *Boardwalk Empire* (2010), Fi1m 80, Writer, Creator, Executive Producer — [page](https://film.one/tv/boardwalk-empire.md)
- *Xena: Warrior Princess* (1995), Fi1m 74, Writer — [page](https://film.one/tv/xena-warrior-princess.md)

## Complete filmography (19)

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

- *Bob Marley: One Love* (2024), Screenplay — Fi1m 48, [page](https://film.one/film/bob-marley-one-love.md)
- *Shooting Stars* (2023), Producer
- *Tulsa King* (2022), series, Executive Producer, Teleplay, Writer
- *Vinyl* (2016), series, Executive Producer, Writer, Creator
- *The Audition* (2015), Writer
- *The Wolf of Wall Street* (2013), Screenplay — Fi1m 82, [page](https://film.one/film/the-wolf-of-wall-street.md)
- *Boardwalk Empire* (2010), series, Writer, Executive Producer, Creator — Fi1m 80, [page](https://film.one/tv/boardwalk-empire.md)
- *Brooklyn Rules* (2007), Writer, Executive Producer
- *Get Rich or Die Tryin'* (2005), Writer
- *The Sopranos* (1999), series, as Tom Amberson · Writer, Story, Director, Teleplay, Executive Producer, Co-Producer, Producer, Supervising Producer, Co-Executive Producer — Fi1m 94, [page](https://film.one/tv/the-sopranos.md)
- *DiResta* (1998), series, Writer
- *Flipper* (1995), series, Writer
- *Charlie Grace* (1995), series, Writer
- *Xena: Warrior Princess* (1995), series, Writer — Fi1m 74, [page](https://film.one/tv/xena-warrior-princess.md)
- *The Great Defender* (1995), series, Writer
- *Sister, Sister* (1994), series, Writer
- *Diagnosis: Murder* (1993), series, Writer
- *Untitled David Chase/Terence Winter Horror Project*, Executive Producer, Writer
- *Evel Knievel on Tour*, Writer

## Gallery

- ![Terence Winter](https://film.one/media/person/12016/gallery-813c8a0bc5de.jpg) Terence Winter — U.S. National Archives, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons (https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/4/4d/Terence_Winter_2015.jpg?utm_source=commons.wikimedia.org&utm_campaign=imageinfo&utm_content=thumbnail_unscaled)
- ![Stephen Gaghan, Anna Deavere Smith, Andrew Stanton, Terence Winter and Caryn James The Power of Story: In the Beginning at Sundance 2012](https://film.one/media/person/12016/gallery-8f78aca2abd9.jpg) Stephen Gaghan, Anna Deavere Smith, Andrew Stanton, Terence Winter and Caryn James The Power of Story: In the Beginning at Sundance 2012 — PunkToad from oakland, us, CC BY 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons (https://thumb.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/c/c7/Anna_Deavere_Smith_Sundance_2012%282%29.jpg/1280px-Anna_Deavere_Smith_Sundance_2012%282%29.jpg?utm_source=commons.wikimedia.org&utm_campaign=imageinfo&utm_content=thumbnail)
- ![Terence Winter](https://film.one/media/person/12016/gallery-ec72fc44ea73.jpg) Terence Winter — Image via TMDB
- ![Terence Winter](https://film.one/media/person/12016/gallery-6a114cf289cc.jpg) Terence Winter — Image via TMDB

## Awards

### Academy Awards — 0 won, 1 nominated

- 2014: Best Writing, Adapted Screenplay (nominated), for *The Wolf of Wall Street*

### Primetime Emmy Awards — 2 won

- 2006: Outstanding Writing for a Drama Series (won), for *The Sopranos*
- 2004: Outstanding Writing for a Drama Series (won), for *The Sopranos*

### Other awards — 1 won

- Edgar Awards 2022: Edgar Awards (won)

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

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