---
name: "Zach Helm"
canonical: "https://film.one/person/zach-helm"
fi1m_id: "zach-helm"
imdb_id: "nm1590998"
tmdb_id: 23539
wikidata_id: "Q139346"
roles: ["Writer"]
born: "21 January 1975"
reviewed_on_fi1m: 1
average_as: "writer"
average_over: 1
updated: "2026-09-17T22:57:43.558074+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."
---

# Zach Helm

## Identity

Zach Helm

- **Canonical:** https://film.one/person/zach-helm
- **Type:** Person
- **Fi1m ID:** zach-helm
- **IMDb ID:** nm1590998
- **TMDB ID:** 23539
- **Wikidata ID:** Q139346
- **Same entity:** https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zach_Helm, https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q139346, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm1590998/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/23539

Writer. Born 21 January 1975 in Santa Clara, California.

## Details

- **Work:** Writer
- **Born:** 21 January 1975, Santa Clara, California
- **Elsewhere:** https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zach_Helm, https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q139346, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm1590998/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/23539

## Streaming the US now

- **Peacock:** [*Stranger Than Fiction*](https://film.one/film/stranger-than-fiction.md) (78)

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

## Biography

Zach Helm is an American screenwriter, film director and producer. He graduated from DePaul University’s Goodman Theatre School in 1996, having trained as an actor, and later entered a writers’ programme with Fox 2000 Pictures.

Helm wrote the screenplay for *Stranger Than Fiction* (2006), for which he received the National Board of Review Award for Best Original Screenplay. He wrote and directed *Mr. Magorium’s Wonder Emporium* (2007) and contributed the screenplay for *Deep Water* (2022). He also wrote the stage play *Good Canary*.

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

## On Fi1m (1)

- *Stranger Than Fiction* (2006), Fi1m 78, Writer — [page](https://film.one/film/stranger-than-fiction.md)

## Complete filmography (7)

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

- *Deep Water* (2022), Screenplay
- *Mr. Magorium's Wonder Emporium* (2007), Director, Screenplay
- *Stranger Than Fiction* (2006), Writer — Fi1m 78, [page](https://film.one/film/stranger-than-fiction.md)
- *Chicago Hope* (1994), series, as Tommy Ramsey
- *The Goxfather*, Writer
- *The Killing Kind*, Writer
- *McQueen*, Screenplay

## Awards

### Other awards — 1 won, 3 nominated

- Critics' Choice Awards 2006: Best Original and Adapted Screenplay (nominated), for *Stranger than Fiction*
- National Board of Review Award for Best Original Screenplay 2006: National Board of Review Award for Best Original Screenplay (won), for *Stranger than Fiction*
- Saturn Awards 2006: Best Writing (nominated), for *Stranger than Fiction*
- Writers Guild of America Award for Best Original Screenplay 2006: Writers Guild of America Award for Best Original Screenplay (nominated), for *Stranger than Fiction*

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

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