Paul Haggis

Canadian filmmaker Paul Haggis is an Emmy and Academy Award winner for multiple hit television shows and films. Haggis attended school in London before moving to Los Angeles in 1975, to pursue a television and film writing career. According to Haggis' father, it was "three years, two months and 10 days" before his son sold his first TV script.

As a television writer/producer Haggis co-created the series Walker, Texas Ranger, Due South, Family Law and EZ Streets. In 1989, he received two Emmy awards for his work on the show Thirtysomething. He returned to television in the spring of 2007, after NBC picked up a 13-episode order for his crime drama, The Black Donnellys.

In the early 2000s Haggis came into his own as both a writer and director in film. As a screenwriter, he received an Oscar nomination for Best Adapted Screenplay for Million Dollar Baby, directed by Clint Eastwood.

His second directorial effort, Crash, which he co-wrote and co-produced, earned six Oscar nominations in 2005, including "Best Picture", "Best Director" and "Best Original Screenplay" categories. The film won the Academy Award for "Best Original Screenplay" for "Best Picture", making Haggis the only person in history to have penned two consecutive "Best Picture" Oscar winners.

• Note: The majority of the links in this timeline are to IMDb, which has pop-ups.

• 1977: The Love Boat

• 1987: Thirtysomething

• 1993: Walker, Texas Ranger

• 1994: Due South

• 1996: EZ Streets

• 1999: Family Law

• 2004: Crash

• 2004: Million Dollar Baby'

• 2006: The Last Kiss

• 2006: Flags of Our Fathers

• 2006: Letters from Iwo Jima

• 2006: Casino Royale

• 2007: The Black Donnellys

• 2007: In the Valley of Elah

• 2008: Bond 22

• 2008: Honeymoon with Harry