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- Born: 1979
- Raised in San Antonio, Texas
- Spent high school years in Salinas, California
- Education: UCLA's School of Theater, Film and Television, graduated cum laude (with honors)Film In Focus: Dustin Lance Black Biography
- Previously written for the HBO series Big Love
- Nominated for Milk
- Wrote/directed short: The Journey of Jared Price
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Dustin Lance Black is a screenwriter.
Dustin Lance Black, the dreamy Oscar-winning screenwriter of Milk, has just been betrayed by someone he knows. Someone has sold sex pics to a photo agency, and now bad old Perez Hilton has found them.
The photos depict Black in a bed with another gentleman, back in November of 2006 (if the photo timestamps are to be believed). Perez suggests that there may also be video, which of course we would need to see were it to become available, for strictly journalistic purposes.
He has won awards from Critics Choice, the Southeastern Film Critics Association Awards and Hollywood Film Festival screenwriting awards. Black has been nominated for many other awards including from the Writers Guild of America for his work writing Milk. The day before the Oscars, he won a Spirit Award for Best First Screenplay.
In 2009, he won Best Original Screenplay Oscar for his film Milk.
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Background
Dustin Lance Black was raised as a strict Morman near the U.S. Army town of San Antonio, Texas. He found at a young age he was attracted to other men, yet because of his upbringing felt shame, despair and had even pondered suicide. After moving to California Black discovered theater and was amazed that men could leave an openly gay lifestyle. In college, he was affected watching the documentary The Times of Harvey Milk and was inspired by the politician Harvey Milk as a father figure. He adapted the documentary Milk and won numerous screenwriting awards.Ebar: How He Got Milk (February 21, 2008)Quote
"Texas kept me very quiet. I became intensely shy, I had thoughts of suicide. I was a pretty dark kid, because I had an acute awareness of my sexuality, and was absolutely convinced that I was wrong. In his Hope Speech, Harvey Milk says, 'There's that kid in San Antonio, and he heard tonight that a gay man was elected to public office, and that will give him hope.' And when I first heard that speech, it really did that. It really, really gave me hope, for the first time."—On being gayEbar: How He Got Milk (February 21, 2008)Milk | WGA Nominations | Critics Choice Awards Winners | Sean Penn | Milk Movie Reviews | Milk Trailer | Milk Soundtrack | SAG Award Nominations | Harvey Milk | Dustin Lance Black Oscar Speech
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Dustin Lance Black Questions
Write a synopsis of the new book "Behind The Bell" by Screech (Dustin Diamond). 3 Answersbbbbbring... bbbbbring... is that the bell? thank god for that, saved me from the torture of reliving a single moment of the show i had completely eradicated fr... read more
Who was the superior bicycle racer, Lance Armstrong, or Eddy Merckx? 1 AnswerFor me Armstrong is the better, he was committed totally to that one aim of winning the tour every year. Whilst not as versatile it takes so much focus and dete... read more
Who *will* win the best original screenplay Oscar for 2009? Who *should* win? - featured 3 AnswersWill Win: Dustin Lance Black for Milk With Penn and Rourke so close in the Best Actor race, this may be the only shot that voters have to honor the greatly be... read more
Open Thread: Lance Corporal Joshua M. Bernard 3 AnswersI can tell my answer's going to be very unpopular here, but since this is an "Open Thread", I guess I'll go ahead and give you my honest opinion: I think journa... read more
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Just randomly ran into white house reporter helen thomas and then oscar winner dustin lance black. All within two minutes.
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John Struggles With Safe Sex Message: June 15th, 2009 MELBOURNE - American screenwriter Dustin Lance Black has .. http://bit.ly/4n5Ioq
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A Paris não foi a pioneira, mais foi a que mais chocou... Mas agora o Dustin Lance Black fazendo sex tape... O próximo vai ser o jô??
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