{"id":1600,"date":"2015-08-13T16:27:27","date_gmt":"2015-08-13T20:27:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bu.edu\/com\/?post_type=profile&#038;p=1600"},"modified":"2025-10-15T16:52:56","modified_gmt":"2025-10-15T20:52:56","slug":"scott-j-thompson","status":"publish","type":"profile","link":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/com\/profile\/scott-j-thompson\/","title":{"rendered":"Scott J. Thompson"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Scott is an award-winning screenwriter, whose work has been recognized by dozens of the top international festivals. He began teaching screenwriting in Los Angeles, while working as a development executive and story consultant for various production companies, including New Line Cinema, MTM Enterprises, and the Fred Silverman Company. He has taught screenwriting for over 25 years and is the current Director of Boston University\u2019s undergraduate and graduate screenwriting programs.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>He has worked as a screenwriter for production companies in Los Angeles, Montreal, Germany, Helsinki, New York and here in Boston. His adaptation of the memoir \u201cBlack Dog of Fate\u201d, by Pulitzer Prize winner Peter Balakian, was nominated for Hollywood\u2019s annual Black List. He was also contracted to write a TV pilot, based upon Morgan Freeman\u2019s experiences in the Delta blues scene.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Scott directed Emerson College\u2019s Screenwriting Certificate Program and served as a Juror for the International Emmy\u2019s Sir Peter Ustinov Award in Screenwriting. In addition to serving as a Narrative Programmer for the Slamdance Film Festival, and a Judge for the Humanitas Prize, he is currently working on his fourth adaptation, while developing a short film with his child. The script for this short film has won 1st place at several international festivals and, on the first day of principal photography, was ranked as the #1 Comedy Short of all-time on Coverfly\u2019s Red List.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9776,"template":"","interest":[],"discipline-type":[1427],"profile-type":[1463],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/profile\/1600"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/profile"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/profile"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/9776"}],"version-history":[{"count":23,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/profile\/1600\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":43918,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/profile\/1600\/revisions\/43918"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1600"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"interest","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/interest?post=1600"},{"taxonomy":"discipline-type","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/discipline-type?post=1600"},{"taxonomy":"profile-type","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/profile-type?post=1600"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}