Singular filmmaker Terry Zwigoff showed his talent for giving both real life and fictional outsiders their cinematic due in his as yet small but distinguished oeuvre.
A San Francisco resident, Zwigoff held numerous jobs, including musician, shipping clerk, printer, and welfare office worker, before he made his first foray into film in the 1980s with his documentary short Louie Bluie ...more
- 2001
- Los Angeles Film Critics Association
- Best Screenplay
- Ghost World
- win
- 2001
- Independent Spirit Awards
- Best First Screenplay
- Ghost World
- win
- 2001
- Toronto Film Critics Association
- Best Screenplay [Runner-up]
- Ghost World
- win
- 2001
- American Film Institute
- Best Screenplay
- Ghost World
- nom
- 2001
- Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Scie
- Best Adapted Screenplay
- Ghost World
- nom
- 2009
- The $40,000 Man
- Director
- 2009
- The $40,000 Man
- Screenwriter
- 2006
- Art School Confidential
- Director
- 2003
- Bad Santa
- Director
- 2003
- Bad Santa
- Screenwriter











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