Nicholas Pileggi
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Nicholas Pileggi (Script error: No such module "IPAc-en"., Script error: No such module "IPA".; born February 22, 1933) is an American author, screenwriter and journalist. He wrote the 1985 non-fiction book Wiseguy and co-wrote the screenplay for Goodfellas, its 1990 film adaptation, for which he received a nomination for the Academy Award for Best Adapted Screenplay.
Early life
Pileggi was born and raised in Brooklyn,[1] the elder son of an Italian immigrant father, Nicola ("Nick") Pileggi from Calabria, a musician who played slide trombone in a cinema orchestra for silent films and subsequently also owned shoe stores, and an American-born mother, Susie.[2]
In the 1950s, he worked as a journalist for the Associated Press and New York magazine, specializing in crime reporting for more than three decades.[2]
Career
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Pileggi began his career as a journalist and had a profound interest in the Mafia.[2] He is best known for writing Wiseguy: Life in a Mafia Family (1985), which he adapted into the movie Goodfellas (1990), and for writing Casino: Love and Honor in Las Vegas and the subsequent screenplay for Casino (1995). The movie versions of both were directed and co-written by Martin Scorsese.[3] Pileggi also co-wrote the screenplay for the film City Hall (1996), starring Al Pacino. He served as an executive producer for American Gangster (2007), a biographical crime film based on the career of drug lord Frank Lucas. He also authored Blye, Private Eye (1987).[4]
Pileggi co-wrote the pilot of the CBS television series Vegas, which first aired in September 2012.[2]
Personal life
Pileggi was married to fellow author, journalist, and filmmaker Nora Ephron from 1987 until her death in 2012.[2] Journalist Gay Talese is his first cousin.[5]
Partial filmography
| Year | Film | Role | Notes / Awards won |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1990 | Goodfellas | Screenwriter | BAFTA – Best Screenplay – Adapted (1991) Chicago Film Critics Association Award for Best Screenplay |
| 1993 | Father Hood | Producer | |
| 1994 | Loyalty & Betrayal: The Story of the American Mob[6] | Screenwriter | – |
| 1995 | Casino | Screenwriter | – |
| 1996 | City Hall | Screenwriter | – |
| 2007 | Kings of South Beach | Screenwriter and Producer | – |
| American Gangster | Executive Producer | – | |
| 2012 | Vegas | Co-Creator and Executive Producer | |
| 2019 | The Irishman | Executive Producer | – |
| 2025 | The Alto Knights | Screenwriter |
Books
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References
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External links
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- Nicholas Pileggi at IMDbTemplate:EditAtWikidataScript error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters".
- Biography at Film Reference.com
- Fleeman, Mike, "Nora Ephron, Writer-Director of Sleepless in Seattle, Dies at Age 71" Script error: No such module "webarchive"., People magazine, Tuesday June 26, 2012
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- 1933 births
- Best Adapted Screenplay BAFTA Award winners
- Living people
- American male screenwriters
- American writers of Italian descent
- Organized crime novelists
- Organized crime memoirists
- Non-fiction writers about organized crime in the United States
- Film producers from New York (state)
- Writers from Brooklyn
- Male novelists
- American male non-fiction writers
- Screenwriters from New York (state)