John Gatins was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Original Screenplay for a movie directed by who ?
Robert Zemeckis
Flight (2012 film)
Flight is a 2012 American drama film directed by Robert Zemeckis.
 The film stars Denzel Washington as William "Whip" Whitaker Sr., an airline pilot who miraculously crash-lands his plane after it suffers an in-flight mechanical failure, saving nearly everyone on board.
 Immediately following the crash, he is hailed a hero, but an investigation soon leads to questions that put the captain in a different light.
John Gatins
John Gatins (born April 16, 1968) is an American screenwriter, director, and actor.
 For writing the action-drama film "Flight" (2012), he was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Original Screenplay.
Kenneth Lonergan
Kenneth Lonergan (born October 16, 1962) is an American film director, playwright, and screenwriter.
 He is best known for co-writing "Gangs of New York" (2002), and for writing and directing "You Can Count On Me" (2000), "Margaret" (2011), and "Manchester by the Sea" (2016).
 Lonergan earned an Academy Award for Best Director nomination for "Manchester by the Sea", and was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Original Screenplay for "You Can Count On Me", "Gangs of New York", and "Manchester by the Sea", winning for the latter at the 89th Academy Awards.
 He also won the BAFTA Award for Best Original Screenplay for "Manchester by the Sea" at the 70th British Academy Film Awards. Coppola family tree
The lineal descendants of Carmine Coppola and Italia Pennino have been nominated 23 times for an Academy Award, winning 9 times in categories including Best Picture, Best Director, Best Actor, Best Original Screenplay, Best Adapted Screenplay, and Best Original Score.
 In addition, Talia Shire's ex-husband David Shire, Sofia Coppola's ex-husband Spike Jonze, and Nicolas Cage's ex-wife Patricia Arquette are also Academy Award winners. AACTA Award for Best Original Screenplay
The AACTA Award for Best Original Screenplay is an award presented by the Australian Academy of Cinema and Television Arts (AACTA), for an Australian screenplay "written directly and originally for the screen".
 Prior to the establishment of the Academy in 2011, the award was presented by the Australian Film Institute (AFI) at the annual Australian Film Institute Awards (more commonly known as the AFI Awards).
 It was first handed out in 1978 when the award for Best Screenplay (which was first presented at the 1974-75 awards) was split into two categories: Best Original Screenplay and Best Adapted Screenplay.
 The award has since been presented intermittently from 1978-1979, 1983-1987, 1989, 1993-2006, and then from 2008-present. From a Whisper
From a Whisper is a Kenyan drama film written and directed by African Movie Academy Award winner Wanuri Kahiu.
 The film received 12 nominations and won 5 awards at the African Movie Academy Awards in 2009, including "Best Picture", "Best Original Soundtrack", "Best Director", "Best Original Screenplay" and "AMAA Achievement in Editing".
 The film also won the "Best Feature Narrative" award at the 2010 Pan African Film & Arts Festival, and was honored with the 2010 BAFTA/LA "Festival Choice Prize".
 Although the film commemorates the 10th anniversary of the August 7th terrorist bombing in Kenya in 1998, it is not about the terrorist bombing.
 The movie portrays a realistic story of the aftermath of the bombing, by capturing the lives of the victims and their families who had to pick up the pieces of their lives shredded by the blast. Annie Mumolo
Anne Marie "Annie" Mumolo (born July 10, 1973) is an American actress, screenwriter, comedian and producer, known for co-writing the 2011 film "Bridesmaids", for which she was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Original Screenplay and BAFTA Award for Best Original Screenplay. Guillermo Arriaga
Guillermo Arriaga Jordán (] ; born 13 March 1958) is a Mexican author, screenwriter, director and producer.
 Self-defined as "a hunter who works as a writer," he is best known for his Academy Award for Best Original Screenplay and BAFTA Award for Best Original Screenplay nomination's for "Babel" and his screenplay for "The Three Burials of Melquiades Estrada", which received the 2005 Cannes Best Screenplay Award. Diablo Cody
Brook Busey-Maurio (born June 14, 1978), better known by the pen name Diablo Cody, is an American writer, producer, stripper and exotic dancer.
 She first became known for her candid chronicling of her year as a stripper in her "The Pussy Ranch" blog and in her memoir "" (2005).
 Later, Cody achieved critical acclaim for her debut script "Juno" (2007), winning awards such as the Academy Award for Best Original Screenplay, the BAFTA Award for Best Original Screenplay, the Independent Spirit Award for Best First Screenplay and the Writers Guild of America Award for Best Original Screenplay. Academy Award for Best Original Screenplay
The Academy Award for Best Original Screenplay is the Academy Award for the best screenplay not based upon previously published material.
 It was created for 1940 as a separate writing award from the Academy Award for Best Story.
 Beginning with the Oscars for 1957, the two categories were combined to honor only the screenplay.
 In 2002, the name of the award was changed from Writing (Screenplay Written Directly for the Screen) to Writing (Original Screenplay).