American actor, screenwriter, and film director
Nick Vallelonga
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Born
| Nicholas Anthony Vallelonga
(
1959-09-13
)
September 13, 1959
(age 64)
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Occupation(s)
| Actor, filmmaker
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Years active
| 1972?present
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Parent(s)
| Tony Lip
Dolores Venere
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Nicholas Anthony Vallelonga
(born September 13, 1959)
[1]
is an American actor and filmmaker. He is best known for co-writing and producing the film
Green Book
, for which he received two
Academy Awards
for
Best Original Screenplay
and
Best Picture
.
[2]
He also won two
Golden Globes
in the same categories,
[3]
as well as the
PGA Award
for Best Film.
[4]
He has also directed the films
In the Kingdom of the Blind, the Man with One Eye Is King
,
Choker
and
Stiletto
, and co-wrote the screenplay to
Deadfall
.
Life and career
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]
Vallelonga was born in 1959, the son of
Tony
and Dolores Vallelonga.
[5]
[6]
[7]
He had a younger brother, Frank, who died in November 2022.
[8]
He initially followed his father into acting, with minor roles in films including
The Godfather
,
Splash
,
Goodfellas
, and
Prizzi's Honor
. He made his screenwriting debut with
Deadfall
, directed by
Christopher Coppola
.
[9]
While continuing his acting career, he continued to write and direct various independent films, such as
A Brilliant Disguise
,
The Corporate Ladder
,
Choker
,
Stiletto
, and
Yellow Rock
.
Vallelonga achieved prominence with
Green Book
, which he co-wrote and produced. Based on the friendship of his father and
Don Shirley
,
Green Book
was critically praised and received dozens of award nominations, although the film was not without controversy, as Shirley's family accused Vallelonga of falsifying information in the movie. In
Variety
, Vallelonga disputed the allegations: "There's a lot of information [the Shirley family] doesn't have, and they were hurt that I didn't speak to them. But to be quite honest with you, Don Shirley himself told me not to speak to anyone. And he only wanted certain parts of his life … So obviously, to say I didn't contact them, that was hard for me because I didn't want to betray what I promised him."
[10]
[11]
In 2019, Vallelonga apologized for a 2015 tweet that agreed with
Donald Trump
's claim that Muslims in
Jersey City
cheered when the
World Trade Center towers collapsed
.
[12]
[13]
[14]
[15]
[16]
Filmography
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As actor
[
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]
As writer
[
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]
- Deadfall
(1993)
- A Brilliant Disguise
(1994)
- In the Kingdom of the Blind, the Man with One Eye Is King
(1995)
- The Corporate Ladder
(1997)
- Choker
(2005)
- Green Book
(2018)
- That's Amore!
(TBA)
As director
[
edit
]
As producer
[
edit
]
References
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]
- ^
"Vallelonga, Nick 1959?"
.
Encyclopedia.com
.
Cengage
.
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"THE 91ST ACADEMY AWARDS | 2019"
.
Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences
. February 24, 2019
. Retrieved
February 19,
2021
.
- ^
"2019 Golden Globes Winners: Complete List"
.
The Hollywood Reporter
. January 6, 2019
. Retrieved
February 19,
2021
.
- ^
"Producers Guild Awards:
Green Book
Named Outstanding Motion Picture"
.
The Hollywood Reporter
. January 19, 2019
. Retrieved
February 19,
2021
.
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Thomas Riggs (August 2007).
Contemporary Theatre, Film and Television
. Cengage Gale.
ISBN
978-0-7876-9050-2
.
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"Nick Vallelonga Biography (1959-)"
. Filmreference.com. 1959-09-13
. Retrieved
2019-01-23
.
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"Nick Vallelonga Interview: Green Book"
. ScreenRant. 20 November 2018
. Retrieved
2019-01-23
.
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"Body Dumped In The Bronx Identified As 'Green Book' Actor Frank Vallelonga Jr"
.
Deadline Hollywood
. December 2022
. Retrieved
December 2,
2022
.
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Tom Stockman (2012-11-16).
"Wamg Interview: Nick Vallelonga - Director Of Yellow Rock"
. We Are Movie Geeks
. Retrieved
2019-01-23
.
- ^
Wagmeister, Elizabeth (2019-01-09).
"
'Green Book' Writer Nick Vallelonga Defends Film After Family Backlash ? Variety"
. Variety.com
. Retrieved
2019-01-23
.
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Andrew Pulver (2019-01-10).
"Green Book film-makers in line of fire as sexual and religious controversies emerge | Film"
.
The Guardian
. Retrieved
2019-01-23
.
- ^
Beresford, Trilby (10 January 2019).
"
'Green Book' Writer Nick Vallelonga Apologizes for Resurfaced Anti-Muslim Tweet | Hollywood Reporter"
.
www.hollywoodreporter.com
. Retrieved
2020-12-23
.
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Gonzalez, Sandra (2019-01-11).
"
'Green Book' writer apologizes after anti-Muslim tweet surfaces"
.
CNN
. Retrieved
2020-12-23
.
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"Green Book writer apologises for anti-Muslim tweet"
.
the Guardian
. 2019-01-11
. Retrieved
2020-12-23
.
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Deb, Sopan (2019-01-11).
"
'Green Book' Writer Apologizes for Anti-Muslim Twitter Post From 2015"
.
The New York Times
.
ISSN
0362-4331
. Retrieved
2020-12-23
.
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"ATSE Lawsuit Alleges 77 Workers on Nick Vallelonga's 'That's Amore' Film Have Not Been Paid"
. Variety.
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"First Image of James Gandolfini's Son, Michael Gandolfini, as Tony Soprano in HBO's 'Sopranos' Prequel Film 'The Many Saints of Newark'
"
.
Metaflix
. May 14, 2019
. Retrieved
June 11,
2019
.
External links
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Awards for Nick Vallelonga
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1951?1975
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1976?2000
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- Robert Chartoff
and
Irwin Winkler
(1976)
- Charles H. Joffe
(1977)
- Michael Cimino
,
Michael Deeley
, John Peverall and
Barry Spikings
(1978)
- Stanley R. Jaffe
(1979)
- Ronald L. Schwary
(1980)
- David Puttnam
(1981)
- Richard Attenborough
(1982)
- James L. Brooks
(1983)
- Saul Zaentz
(1984)
- Sydney Pollack
(1985)
- Arnold Kopelson
(1986)
- Jeremy Thomas
(1987)
- Mark Johnson
(1988)
- Lili Fini Zanuck
and
Richard D. Zanuck
(1989)
- Kevin Costner
and
Jim Wilson
(1990)
- Ron Bozman
,
Edward Saxon
and
Kenneth Utt
(1991)
- Clint Eastwood
(1992)
- Branko Lustig
,
Gerald R. Molen
and
Steven Spielberg
(1993)
- Wendy Finerman
,
Steve Starkey
and
Steve Tisch
(1994)
- Bruce Davey
,
Mel Gibson
and
Alan Ladd Jr.
(1995)
- Saul Zaentz
(1996)
- James Cameron
and
Jon Landau
(1997)
- Donna Gigliotti
,
Marc Norman
,
David Parfitt
,
Harvey Weinstein
and
Edward Zwick
(1998)
- Bruce Cohen
and
Dan Jinks
(1999)
- David Franzoni
,
Branko Lustig
and
Douglas Wick
(2000)
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2001?present
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- Brian Grazer
and
Ron Howard
(2001)
- Martin Richards
(2002)
- Peter Jackson
,
Barrie M. Osborne
and
Fran Walsh
(2003)
- Clint Eastwood
,
Tom Rosenberg
and
Albert S. Ruddy
(2004)
- Paul Haggis
and
Cathy Schulman
(2005)
- Graham King
(2006)
- Ethan Coen, Joel Coen
and
Scott Rudin
(2007)
- Christian Colson
(2008)
- Kathryn Bigelow
,
Mark Boal
,
Nicolas Chartier
and
Greg Shapiro
(2009)
- Iain Canning
,
Emile Sherman
and
Gareth Unwin
(2010)
- Thomas Langmann
(2011)
- Ben Affleck
,
George Clooney
and
Grant Heslov
(2012)
- Dede Gardner
,
Anthony Katagas
,
Jeremy Kleiner
,
Steve McQueen
and
Brad Pitt
(2013)
- Alejandro G. Inarritu
,
John Lesher
and
James W. Skotchdopole
(2014)
- Blye Pagon Faust
,
Steve Golin
,
Nicole Rocklin
and
Michael Sugar
(2015)
- Dede Gardner
,
Jeremy Kleiner
and
Adele Romanski
(2016)
- J. Miles Dale
and
Guillermo del Toro
(2017)
- Jim Burke
, Brian Currie,
Peter Farrelly
,
Nick Vallelonga
and
Charles B. Wessler
(2018)
- Bong Joon-ho
and
Kwak Sin-ae
(2019)
- Mollye Asher, Dan Janvey,
Frances McDormand
,
Peter Spears
and
Chloe Zhao
(2020)
- Fabrice Gianfermi,
Philippe Rousselet
, Patrick Wachsberger (2021)
- Daniel Kwan, Daniel Scheinert
and
Jonathan Wang
(2022)
- Emma Thomas
,
Charles Roven
, and
Christopher Nolan
(2023)
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1940?1975
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- Preston Sturges
(1940)
- Herman J. Mankiewicz
and
Orson Welles
(1941)
- Michael Kanin
and
Ring Lardner Jr.
(1942)
- Norman Krasna
(1943)
- Lamar Trotti
(1944)
- Richard Schweizer
(1945)
- Muriel Box
and
Sydney Box
(1946)
- Sidney Sheldon
(1947)
- No award (1948)
- Robert Pirosh
(1949)
- Charles Brackett
,
D. M. Marshman Jr.
, and
Billy Wilder
(1950)
- Alan Jay Lerner
(1951)
- T. E. B. Clarke
(1952)
- Charles Brackett
,
Richard L. Breen
, and
Walter Reisch
(1953)
- Budd Schulberg
(1954)
- Sonya Levien
and
William Ludwig
(1955)
- Albert Lamorisse
(1956)
- George Wells
(1957)
- Nathan E. Douglas
and
Harold Jacob Smith
(1958)
- Clarence Greene
,
Maurice Richlin
,
Russell Rouse
, and
Stanley Shapiro
(1959)
- I. A. L. Diamond
and
Billy Wilder
(1960)
- William Inge
(1961)
- Ennio de Concini
,
Pietro Germi
, and
Alfredo Giannetti
(1962)
- James Webb
(1963)
- S. H. Barnett,
Peter Stone
and
Frank Tarloff
(1964)
- Frederic Raphael
(1965)
- Claude Lelouch
and
Pierre Uytterhoeven
(1966)
- William Rose
(1967)
- Mel Brooks
(1968)
- William Goldman
(1969)
- Francis Ford Coppola
and
Edmund H. North
(1970)
- Paddy Chayefsky
(1971)
- Jeremy Larner
(1972)
- David S. Ward
(1973)
- Robert Towne
(1974)
- Frank Pierson
(1975)
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1976?2000
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2001?present
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Screenplay
(2011?2019)
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Original Screenplay
(2020?present)
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Adapted Screenplay
(2020?present)
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1965?1975
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1976?2000
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2001?present
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International
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National
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Other
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