---
name: "William Monahan"
canonical: "https://film.one/person/william-monahan"
fi1m_id: "william-monahan"
imdb_id: "nm1184258"
tmdb_id: 34510
wikidata_id: "Q611586"
roles: ["Writer"]
born: "3 November 1960"
reviewed_on_fi1m: 2
average_fi1m_score: 72
average_as: "writer"
average_over: 2
updated: "2026-10-05T05:45:25.585419+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."
---

# William Monahan

## Identity

William Monahan

- **Canonical:** https://film.one/person/william-monahan
- **Type:** Person
- **Fi1m ID:** william-monahan
- **IMDb ID:** nm1184258
- **TMDB ID:** 34510
- **Wikidata ID:** Q611586
- **Same entity:** https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Monahan, https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q611586, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm1184258/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/34510

Writer. Born 3 November 1960 in Boston, Massachusetts, USA.

## Details

- **Work:** Writer
- **Born:** 3 November 1960, Boston, Massachusetts, USA
- **Active:** 2005–2008
- **Also known as:** 윌리엄 모나한
- **Frequently works with:** [Leonardo DiCaprio](https://film.one/person/leonardo-dicaprio.md), [Ridley Scott](https://film.one/person/ridley-scott.md)
- **Academy Awards:** 1 Oscar (1 won)
- **Average Fi1m score:** 72, as writer, over 2 titles
- **Elsewhere:** https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Monahan, https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q611586, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm1184258/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/34510

## Biography

William Monahan is an American screenwriter, novelist and film director. Born in Boston, Massachusetts, on 3 November 1960, he studied Elizabethan and Jacobean drama at the University of Massachusetts Amherst. He began his career as a journalist, contributing to publications including Spy, Talk, Maxim and the New York Press, and published the novel Light House: A Trifle in 2000.

Monahan's first produced screenplay was Kingdom of Heaven (2005), directed by Ridley Scott. His second, The Departed (2006), an adaptation of the Hong Kong film Infernal Affairs, earned him the Academy Award and Writers Guild of America Award for Best Adapted Screenplay. He later wrote screenplays for Body of Lies (2008), Edge of Darkness (2010), The Gambler (2014), The Tender Bar (2021) and Marlowe (2023).

Monahan made his directorial debut with London Boulevard (2010), which he also wrote, and directed Mojave (2016).

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

## On Fi1m (2)

- *Body of Lies* (2008), Fi1m 60, Screenplay — [page](https://film.one/film/body-of-lies.md)
- *The Departed* (2006), Fi1m 84, Screenplay — [page](https://film.one/film/the-departed.md)

## Complete filmography (11)

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

- *Marlowe* (2023), Screenplay
- *The Tender Bar* (2021), Screenplay
- *Mojave* (2016), Director, Writer, Producer
- *The Gambler* (2014), Screenplay, Executive Producer
- *London Boulevard* (2010), Director, Screenplay, Producer
- *Edge of Darkness* (2010), Screenplay
- *Body of Lies* (2008), Screenplay — Fi1m 60, [page](https://film.one/film/body-of-lies.md)
- *The Departed* (2006), Screenplay — Fi1m 84, [page](https://film.one/film/the-departed.md)
- *Kingdom of Heaven* (2005), Screenplay
- *Sabaya*, Writer
- *Evel Knievel on Tour*, Writer

## Gallery

- ![William Monahan](https://film.one/media/person/99133/gallery-46c3c5d3cce9.jpg) William Monahan — BrooksieR, CC BY-SA 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons (https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/4/40/WilliamMonahan_at_LowesBostonCommon_cropped_higherquality.jpg?utm_source=commons.wikimedia.org&utm_campaign=imageinfo&utm_content=thumbnail_unscaled)
- ![Screenwriter William Monahan with BMT(www.bostonmovietours.net) founder Rachel Coveney at The Departed Boston Premiere, Lowes Boston Common, on Oct 3, 2006.Scre](https://film.one/media/person/99133/gallery-2ffc8715ec28.jpg) Screenwriter William Monahan with BMT(www.bostonmovietours.net) founder Rachel Coveney at The Departed Boston Premiere, Lowes Boston Common, on Oct 3, 2006.Scre — [www.bostonmovietours.net  ] from Lowes Boston Common, CC BY-SA 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons (https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/6/6b/WilliamMonahan_at_LowesBostonCommon.jpg?utm_source=commons.wikimedia.org&utm_campaign=imageinfo&utm_content=thumbnail_unscaled)
- ![William Monahan](https://film.one/media/person/99133/gallery-d65e31b1af91.jpg) William Monahan — Image via TMDB

## Awards

### Academy Awards — 1 won

- 2007: Best Writing, Adapted Screenplay (won), for *The Departed*

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

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