Shari Springer Berman and Robert Pulcini
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Shari Springer Berman (born July 13, 1963) and Robert Pulcini (born August 24, 1964) are an American team of filmmakers.
Biographies
Both Springer Berman and Pulcini were born in New York, New York.Script error: No such module "Unsubst". Springer Berman graduated from Wesleyan University (Phi Beta Kappa) and Pulcini graduated from Rutgers University-Camden. Both filmmakers received master's degrees in film from Columbia University.[1] The couple married in 1994. Springer Berman is Jewish, and Pulcini is of Italian descent.[2]
The two have a "rule" in which they often alternate whose name comes first in the credits of their movies, of which Berman says "There’s no meaning behind it. It’s very random!"[3]
Career
They received critical acclaim and an Academy Award nomination for their 2003 film American Splendor.[4]
In 2010, The Extra Man premiered at the Sundance festival.[5] The Emmy-winning Cinema Verite, a 2011 HBO Drama film directed by Berman and Pulcini, premiered on April 23, 2011.[6]
The pair branched out into directing for television in 2019.
Awards and nominations
With their first feature film American Splendor, Springer Berman and Pulcini earned an Academy Award nomination for Best Adapted Screenplay.
Awards won for American Splendor
- Boston Film Critics (Best Screenplay)
- Central Ohio Film Critics (Best Adapted Screenplay)
- Chicago Film Critics (Most Promising Performers)
- Los Angeles Film Critics (Best Screenplay)
- National Society of Film Critics (Best Screenplay)
- New York Film Critics (Best First Film)
- Online Film Critics (Best Breakthrough Filmmakers)
- San Diego Film Critics (Best Adapted Screenplay)
- Sundance Grand Jury Prize (Dramatic)
- Toronto Film Critics (Best First Feature)
- Writers Guild of America (WGA) (Best Adapted Screenplay)
Filmography
Movies
- Off the Menu: The Last Days of Chasen's (1997)
- The Young and the Dead (2000)
- Hello, He Lied & Other Truths from the Hollywood Trenches (2002)
- American Splendor (2003)
- Wanderlust (2006)
- The Nanny Diaries (2007)
- The Extra Man (2010)
- Cinema Verite (2011)
- Girl Most Likely (2012)
- Ten Thousand Saints (2015)
- Things Heard & Seen (2021)
Television
- Shameless season 9, episode 12 "You'll Know the Bottom When You Hit It" (2019)
- Succession:
- season 2, episode 4 "Safe Room" (2019)
- season 3, episode 4 "Lion in the Meadow" (2021)
- season 4, episode 7 "Tailgate Party" (2023)
- Night Sky: season 1, episode 4 "Boilermakers" (2022)
- WeCrashed season 1, episode 8 "The One With all the Money" (2022)
- Only Murders in the Building
- season 3, episode 8 "Sitzprobe" (2023)
- season 4, episode 7 "Valley of the Dolls" (2024)
- season 4, episode 8 "Lifeboat" (2024)
- The Four Seasons
- season 1, episode 1 "Lake House" (2025)
- season 1, episode 2 "Garden Party" (2025)
Actor
- Robert Pulcini
- American Splendor (2003) - "Bob the Director"
References
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- Template:Trim/ Shari Springer Berman at IMDbTemplate:EditAtWikidataScript error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters".
- Template:Trim/ Robert Pulcini at IMDbTemplate:EditAtWikidataScript error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters".
- "Interview: Robert Pulcini and Sheri Springer Berman, Directors of 'The Nanny Diaries'", Cinematical, Ryan Stewart, Aug 23rd 2007
- "Filmmakers Shari Springer Berman and Robert Pulcini", NPR
- "Splendid misery: an interview with Robert Pulcini and Shari Springer Berman." Cineaste, Gilbert, Anne; West, Dennis; West, Joan M., September 22, 2003
- "Shari Springer Berman, Robert Pulcini, Paul Giamatti & Harvey Pekar; Raymond Strother; Eugenia Zuckerman", Charlie Rose, (August 19, 2003)
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- 1963 births
- 1964 births
- Screenwriters from New York (state)
- Columbia University School of the Arts alumni
- American women film directors
- Film directors from New York City
- Filmmaking duos
- Living people
- Married couples
- Wesleyan University alumni
- American women screenwriters
- Writers Guild of America Award winners
- Rutgers University–Camden alumni
- 21st-century American women
- Sundance Film Festival award winners