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Menno Meyjes (born 1954) is a Dutch screenwriter, film director, and producer. He is an Academy Awards and a BAFTA Award nominee, and a Goya Awards and Hugo Award winner.
Meyjes first gained attention for his spec script The Children's Crusade, which was later produced in 1987 by Francis Ford Coppola as Lionheart. His first produced screenplay was the 1985 film The Color Purple, directed by Steven Spielberg and based on Alice Walker's 1982 novel of the same name. He was nominated for an Academy Award and a BAFTA Award for Best Adapted Screenplay.
Meyjes worked with Steven Spielberg again, when he was a script doctor Empire of the Sun (1987), and then co-wrote the story for Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade in 1989. The same year, he won a Goya Awards for writing the Spanish film Twisted Obsession.
In 2002, Meyjes wrote and directed the film Max.
In 2012, Meyjes adapted the Dutch novel The Dinner into a film.
| + !Year !Title !Director !Writer !Notes | ||||
| 1985 | Amazing Stories | Television series (Episode: "The Mission") | ||
| The Color Purple | ||||
| 1987 | Lionheart | |||
| 1989 | Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade | |||
| 1991 | Ricochet | |||
| 1994 | Foreign Student | Also co-producer | ||
| 1998 | The Siege | |||
| 2002 | Max | Directorial Debut | ||
| 2007 | Martian Child | |||
| 2008 | Manolete | |||
| 2011 | Black Gold | |||
| 2013 | The Dinner | |||
| 2015 | De Reünie | |||
| 2016 | De Held | |||
| TBA | Close Enough |
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