Dustin Lance Black

Quick Facts

Full Name	Dustin Lance Black
Occupation	Screenwriter
Date Of Birth	Jun 10, 1974(1974-06-10)
Age	50
Birthplace	Sacramento
Country	United States
Birth City	California
Horoscope	Gemini

Dustin Lance Black Biography

Dustin Lance Black is one of the most popular and richest Screenwriter who was born on June 10, 1974 in Sacramento, California, United States. Screenwriter who won an Academy Award for Best Original Screenplay for the 2008 film Milk starring Sean Penn. He also wrote the script for the 2011 film J. Edgar and the 2010 film Virginia, which he also directed.

Director Gus Van Sant took on his screenplay for the 2008 film Milk.

Black had first visited San Francisco in the early 1990s, while AIDS was devastating the city’s gay community. Black said that, “Hearing about Harvey was about the only hopeful story there was at the time.” He had first viewed Rob Epstein’s documentary The Times of Harvey Milk when he was in college, and thought, “I just want to do something with this, why hasn’t someone done something with this?” Researching Milk’s life for three years, Black met with Milk’s former aides Cleve Jones and Anne Kronenberg, as well as former San Francisco Mayor Art Agnos, and began to write a feature film screenplay encompassing the events of Milk’s life. The screenplay was written on spec, but Black showed the script to Jones, who passed it on to his friend Gus Van Sant, who signed on to direct the feature. Black is an old friend of Milk producer Dan Jinks, who signed on to the biopic after he called Black to congratulate him and discovered that the project did not have a confirmed producer.

While attending North Salinas High School, Black began to work in theater at The Western Stage in Salinas and later worked on productions including Bare at Hollywood’s Hudson Main Stage Theater. Black attended the University of California, Los Angeles, School of Theater, Film, and Television (UCLA) while apprenticing with stage directors, taking acting jobs, and working on theater lighting crews. He graduated with honors in 1996.

He started dating Olympic diver Tom Daley in 2013; they tied the knot in May of 2017. In March 2018, they revealed they were expecting a baby boy via surrogacy. They welcomed a son named Robert in June 2018.

Dustin Lance Black Net Worth

Dustin Lance Black is one of the richest Screenwriter from United States. According to our analysis, Wikipedia, Forbes & Business Insider, Dustin Lance Black 's net worth $6 Million. (Last Update: December 11, 2023)

He grew up in a Mormon household and attended film school at UCLA.

He wrote and co-produced five episodes of the HBO series Big Love.

Dustin Lance Black (born June 10, 1974) is an American screenwriter, director, film and television producer, and LGBT rights activist. He won the Academy Award for Best Original Screenplay for the biopic Milk (2008).

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Who is Dustin Lance Black Dating?

According to our records, Dustin Lance Black married to Tom Daley. As of December 1, 2023, Dustin Lance Black’s is not dating anyone.

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On February 22, 2009, Black won the Oscar for Best Original Screenplay for Milk at the 81st Academy Awards. He wore a White Knot to the ceremony as a symbol of solidarity with the marriage equality movement.

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Dustin Ranked on the list of most popular Screenwriter. Also ranked in the elit list of famous people born in United States. Dustin Lance Black celebrates birthday on June 10 of every year.

In 2011, Black wrote the play 8, which portrays the actual events in the Hollingsworth v. Perry trial and the testimony which led to the overturn of California’s Proposition 8. He created the play in response to the federal court’s refusal to allow release of video recordings from the trial and to give the public a true account of what transpired in the courtroom. It is written and performed using original transcripts from the trial and journalist records, along with first-hand interviews of the people involved. 8 first opened at the Eugene O’Neill Theatre in New York City on September 19, 2011, and later broadcast to a worldwide audience on YouTube from the Ebell of Los Angeles Theatre on March 3, 2012.

Is Dustin Lance Black Canadian?

Dustin Lance Black (born June 10, 1974) is an American screenwriter, director, film and television producer, and LGBT rights activist.

Is Dustin Lance Black Rich?

Dustin Lance Black Net Worth: Dustin Lance Black is a renowned American screenwriter, film and television producer as well as a director who has a net worth of $6 million.

Who is Dustin Lance Black's father?

Jeff Bisch

Is Dustin Lance Black in Calgary?

Daley is in town with partner Dustin Lance Black , the Oscar-winning screenwriter who is working on a new project, Under the Banner of Heaven. Calgary is pretty popular with Canadian Olympic athletes, but Monday, an Olympic champion from somewhere else showed up for a workout at the Crescent Heights steps.

Is Lance Black vegan?

She furthermore added: ‘At their New Year’s Eve party, I couldn’t even speculate what time, I remember Lance cooking vegan chicken nuggets for a group of us huddled around the kitchen…’ Courtney has revealed in the past that she identifies as pansexual, polyamorous and genderfluid.