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Samy Burch is an American screenwriter. She is known for writing May December (2023), which was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Original Screenplay.
In 2009, Burch graduated from the New York University Tisch School of the Arts with a bachelor's degree in Dramatic Writing.
Burch completed the screenplay for May December, her first feature film, in 2019. The script was inspired by recollections of the 1990s tabloid culture of her youth, particularly the case of Mary Kay Letourneau. Director Todd Haynes first read the script in 2020 and the completed film premiered on May 20, 2023, at the 76th Cannes Film Festival.
Burch wrote the screenplay for the Warner Bros. family comedy movie Coyote vs. Acme, based on a 1990 Ian Frazier humor piece that first appeared in The New Yorker. It was shelved by Warner Bros. Discovery in November 2023, who reversed its decision a week later after public backlash, but in February 2024, was expected to be deleted and claimed as a tax write-off. On March 10, 2024, Burch told IndieWire at the 96th Academy Awards that the film might still be released and conversations were still ongoing.
In May 2024, Variety reported that Late Fame, a Kent Jones film starring Willem Dafoe with a screenplay by Burch, would begin shooting that fall in New York City.
| Gotham Awards | Best Screenplay | ||
| Boston Society of Film Critics | Best Screenplay | ||
| Los Angeles Film Critics Association | Best Screenplay | ||
| Chicago Film Critics Association | Best Original Screenplay | ||
| Las Vegas Film Critics Society | Best Original Screenplay | ||
| Boston Online Film Critics Association | Best Screenplay | ||
| Indiana Film Journalists Association | Best Original Screenplay | ||
| Online Association of Female Film Critics | Best Original Screenplay | ||
| Best Female Screenwriter | |||
| Columbus Film Critics Association | Best Original Screenplay | ||
| North Carolina Film Critics Association | |||
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| Greater Western New York Film Critics Association | |||
| National Society of Film Critics | Best Screenplay | ||
| Utah Film Critics Association | Best Original Screenplay | ||
| Seattle Film Critics Society | Best Screenplay | ||
| San Francisco Bay Area Film Critics Circle | Best Original Screenplay | ||
| Austin Film Critics Association | Best Original Screenplay | ||
| Denver Film Critics Society | Best Original Screenplay | ||
| Critics' Choice Awards | Best Original Screenplay | ||
| North Dakota Film Society | Best Screenplay | ||
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| Satellite Awards | Best Original Screenplay | ||
| Independent Spirit Awards | Best First Screenplay | ||
| Academy Awards | Best Original Screenplay | ||
| Writers Guild of America Awards | Best Original Screenplay |
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