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Billy Ray
American screenwriter, television writer and film director
b. c. 1963Living
A screenwriter and director who adapted The Hunger Games for its first film in 2012 and wrote Captain Phillips (2013), the true story of a cargo ship's hijacking by Somali pirates. His screenplay for Richard Jewell (2019) told the story of the security guard wrongly suspected in the 1996 Atlanta Olympics bombing, and his script for Shattered Glass earned him an earlier Oscar nomination.