Paul Haggis, Academy Award Winner, on How Crash Came About

The Hudson Union Society™ www.hudsonunionsociety.com is where todays leaders come to discuss tomorrows ideas. If you live not to far from New York, please join us in person. The legendary Paul Haggis is the award-winning filmmaker who, in 2006, became the first screenwriter, since 1950, to write two Best Film Oscar winners back-to-back - Million Dollar Baby (2004) directed by Clint Eastwood, and Crash (2005) which he himself directed. For Crash, he won Academy Awards for Best Picture and Best Original Screenplay. The film also received an additional four nominations including one for Haggis' direction.In 2006, Haggis' screenplay collaborations included the duo Clint Eastwood productions Flags of our Fathers and Letters from Iwo Jima, the latter earning him his third screenplay Oscar nomination. He also helped pen Casino Royale, which garnered considerable acclaim for reinvigorating the James Bond spy franchise and has written the screenplay for the next Bond production Quantum of Solace. Haggis' directorial follow-up to Crash was In the Valley of Elah which he wrote, directed, and produced. The film, which starred Tommy Lee Jones, Charlize Theron and Susan Sarandon, was a suspense drama. Jones earned a Best Actor Oscar nomination for his performance in the film. Haggis has also won two Emmys for his work on thirtysomething. Haggis later created Walker, Texas Ranger.

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