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Tom Fontana

  • Birthday: September 12, 1951

While Tom Fontana was playwright-in-residence at the Williamstown Theatre Festival, Jake and Gwyneth Paltrow saw his play "The Spectre Bridegroom" and insisted their father, producer Bruce Paltrow, give Fontana a job on his new show "St. Elsewhere" (NBC, 1982-88), the perfect prescription for jumping a struggling playwright's yearly income from $5000 to $90,000. As one of the three top writer-producers for that series, he made a name and the beginning of a sizable fortune pioneering the story structure that weaves severa…more

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Career Milestones

  • 2003

    With Levinson, served as executive producer of the HBO series Baseball Wives

  • 2002

    Wrote the teleplay and executive produced the religious-themed TV-movie Judas and Jesus (ABC)

  • 2000

    Executive produced the CBS miniseries An American Tragedy which focused on the murder trial of O.J. Simpson

  • 1999

    Billed as creative concultant on the Showtime series The Hoop Life

  • 1997 to 0000

    Co-creator (with Barry Levinson) and executive producer of HBO s Oz , a gritty dramatic series set in an urban prison

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Awards

  • 2001

    Writers Guild of America Award:

  • 2000

    Golden Satellite Award: Best Television Mini-Series

  • 1998

    Golden Satellite Award: Best Television Series (Drama)

  • 1997

    CableACE Award: Dramatic Series

  • 1993

    Emmy Award: Outstanding Writing in a Drama Series (Single Episode)

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