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Scott Z. Burns (born July 17, 1962) is an American filmmaker and playwright.[1]

Scott Z. Burns
Born	(1962-07-17) July 17, 1962 (age 60) Golden Valley, Minnesota, U.S.
Alma mater	University of Minnesota
Occupation	Screenwriter, director, producer
Notable work	The Bourne Ultimatum The Informant! Contagion Side Effects The Laundromat

Career

After graduating from the University of Minnesota, Burns began his career in advertising and later became a television commercials director. He was part of the team at Goodby, Silverstein & Partners responsible for the original Got Milk? campaign.[2][3]

Burns has written screenplays for The Bourne Ultimatum (2007), The Informant! (2009), and Contagion (2011), all of which feature Matt Damon. His films The Informant!, Contagion, and Side Effects (2013) were directed by Steven Soderbergh.[4] Burns also produced the Academy Award-winning An Inconvenient Truth. Burns wrote and directed the 2019 film The Report, a drama about the secret torture program inside the CIA.[5]

Public interest in Burns' 2011 film Contagion renewed during the COVID-19 pandemic, making it the seventh-most downloaded film on iTunes by March 6, 2020.[6][7] Interviewed by Variety about the film's resurgence and similarities to the active pandemic in March 2020, Burns said:

Every scientist who I spoke to when I worked on the movie said that exact same thing to me: It's not a matter of "if," it's a matter of "when." You can decide that most of the time, firemen are just sitting around. But it's very hard to start a fire department once your house is on fire. And so the notion that we're going to cut these things and we'll just try to rebuild them when we need them is foolish and dangerous. I was very aware that our Department of Homeland Security had a pandemic team standing by because this is a real threat.

Early life and education

Burns was born in Golden Valley, Minnesota[8] and graduated summa cum laude in 1985 with a degree in English from the University of Minnesota.[9] He currently lives in Los Angeles.

Filmography

Films

Year	Title	Director	Writer	Producer
2006	An Inconvenient Truth	No	No	Yes
	Pu-239	Yes	Yes	No
2007	The Bourne Ultimatum	No	Yes	No
2009	The Informant!	No	Yes	No
2011	Contagion	No	Yes	No
2013	Side Effects	No	Yes	Yes
2017	The Mercy[10]	No	Yes	Yes
2019	The Report	Yes	Yes	Yes
	The Laundromat	No	Yes	Yes

Television

Year	Title	Director	Writer	Executive Producer	Notes
2007	Californication	Yes	No	No	Episode "Filthy Lucre"
TBA	Extrapolations	Yes	Yes	Yes	Also showrunner

Play writer

• The Library[11][12][13] (2014)

References

External links

• Scott Z. Burns at IMDb

На других языках

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[ru] Бёрнс, Скотт (кинорежиссёр)

Скотт Бёрнс (англ. Scott Z. Burns, 1962, Голден-Вэлли, штат Миннесота, США) — американский кинорежиссёр, кинопродюсер и сценарист. Известен сценариями к фильмам Ультиматум Борна (2007 год), Информатор (2009 год) и Заражение (2011 год), во всех трёх снимался Мэтт Деймон. Был продюсером фильма Неудобная правда.

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