Who co-wrote The Fabelmans screenplay with Steven Spielberg?

Tony Kushner co-wrote The Fabelmans screenplay with Steven Spielberg.

The film, released in 2022, is a semi-autobiographical coming-of-age drama inspired by Spielberg's childhood and adolescence in Arizona and California. Spielberg supplied the personal experiences and directed the movie, while Kushner shaped those memories into a screenplay. It was their fourth feature-film collaboration after Munich, Lincoln, and West Side Story.

Kushner is an acclaimed American playwright and screenwriter best known for Angels in America, which won the Pulitzer Prize for Drama. His screenwriting partnership with Spielberg had already produced historically and politically focused films, but The Fabelmans was more intimate, using family life, filmmaking, and adolescence as its central subjects.

The screenplay follows Sammy Fabelman, a fictionalized version of Spielberg, as he discovers filmmaking while navigating his parents' marriage and his own artistic ambitions. Michelle Williams and Paul Dano play characters based partly on Spielberg's parents, while Seth Rogen portrays a fictionalized family friend. The film earned seven Academy Award nominations, including Best Picture, Best Director, and Best Original Screenplay.