Scott Burns is screenwriter, director and producer. Burns wrote the original screenplay for Contagion, directed by Steven Soderbergh, starring Matt Damon, Kate Winslet, Marion Cotillard and Jude Law. He penned the screen adaptation of Soderbergh's The Informant!, which starred Damon as well. Burns also co-wrote the Academy Award-winning Bourne Ultimatum, directed by Paul Greengrass, and was a producer on An Inconvenient Truth, the Academy Award-winning documentary, for which he received the Humanitas Prize and the Stanley Kramer Award from the Producers Guild of America.
He wrote and directed HBO Films' critically acclaimed PU-239, which was produced by Soderbergh and George Clooney. Burns worked on Side Effects. It stars Jude Law, Rooney Mara, Catherine Zeta Jones and Channing Tatum-- again directed by Steven Soderbergh with Burns writing and producing along with Greg Jacobs and Lorenzo Di Bonaventura.
Burns wrote The Library, a stage play based on the 1999 shootings at Columbine High School with Steven Soderbergh directing and Kennedy/Marshall producing. He also completed his screenplay Deep Water, an adaptation of the documentary by the same name, to be produced by Blue Print Pictures, BBC and Studio Canal.
Burns began his career in advertising, after graduating Summa Cum Laude from the University of Minnesota. He was part of the creative team responsible for the original "Got Milk?" campaign and his advertising work has been recognized by the Clio Awards, the Cannes Film Festival, and the New York Film Festival.
Scott has written for GQ Magazine, Condé Nast Traveler, The Wall Street Journal and the Huffington Post.
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