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David Black is an award-winning journalist, novelist, screenwriter, and producer. His novel Like Father was named a notable book of the year by the New York Times and listed as one of the seven best novels of the year by the Washington Post. The King of Fifth Avenue was named a notable book of the year by the New York Times, New York Magazine, and the A.P.
Mr. Black received the Edgar Allan Poe Award nomination from the Mystery Writers of America for best fact crime book for Murder at the Met. His second Edgar Allan Poe Award nomination was for "Happily Ever After," an episode of Law & Order. His third Edgar Allan Poe Award nomination was for "Carrier," also an episode of Law & Order.
He won the Writers' Guild of America Award for The Confession. He was also nominated for the Writers' Guild of America Award for an episode of Hill Street Blues. He received an American Bar Association Certificate of Merit for "Nullification," a controversial episode of Law & Order about Militia groups, which the Los Angeles Times called an example of "the new Golden Age of television."
Among his other awards, he has received a National Endowment of the Arts grant in fiction, Playboy's Best Article of the Year Award, Best Essays of the Year1986 Honorable Mention, Forward's Book of the Year Special Mention, and an Atlantic Monthly "First" award for fiction. He has also received a Pulitzer Prize nomination for The Plague Years, a book based on a two-part series that he wrote for Rolling Stone and that won a National Magazine Award in Reporting and the National Science Writers Award.
Researching articles, David Black has risked his life a number of times, including being put under house arrest by Baby Doc's secret police in Haiti, infiltrating totalitarian therapy cults, being abandoned on a desert island, and exposing a white slave organization in the East Village.
Among the television shows he has produced and written are the Sidney Lumet series 100 Centre Street, which was listed as one of the 10 best shows of the year, the Richard Dreyfuss series The Education of Max Bickford, Monk, CSI-Miami, Hill Street Blues, Miami Vice, and Law & Order, which received an Emmy nomination for Best Dramatic Show and a Golden Globe nomination. He has also been nominated for the PGA Golden Laurel Award.
His TV movie, Legacy of Lies, a drama about three generations of Jewish gangsters and cops in Chicago, which starred Eli Wallach and Martin Landau, won the Writers Foundation of America Gold Medal for Excellence in Writing. It also received an ACE Award for Martin Landau for Best Actor.
His feature, The Confession, starring Alec Baldwin, Ben Kingsley, and Amy Irving was praised in New York by John Leonard and in The Hollywood Reporter, among other places, and was described in Metroland as "an almost miraculous act of storytelling."
He has published nine books and over 150 articles in magazines, including The Atlantic, The New York Times Magazine, Harper's, and Rolling Stone. His new novel, An Impossible Life, has been praised by, among others, Nobel Prize winning author Czeslaw Milosz, Erica Jong, Bruce Jay Friedman, and Leslie Epstein, who called it the best writing about Jewish gangsters since Isaac Babel.
Contemporary Authors describes Black as "a versatile, multi-media writer who has distinguished himself in both fiction and non-fiction."
He has taught writing at Lehman College, Mt. Holyoke College, and Harvard, where he is a scholar-in-residence at Kirkland House. He is also a former board member of the Mystery Writers of America and a member of the Century Association, the Williams Club, the Columbia Club, PEN, the Explorers' Club, and the Players.- Actor
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David Black, born 29 June 1964 in Adelaide, South Australia, Australia; grew up in Melbourne and lives in Melbourne. He is an actor, writer, producer and director in films. He started off his creative endeavours as a cartoonist by publishing his first underground comic, "Gooby" at the age of 17. As a cartoonist, he had a cartoon strip, "Punkz", run in the national rock weekly magazine "Juke" in 1988 and worked as the editorial cartoonist for the national tabloid "The Truth" in 1989 and 1990. He published a comic book "Punkz In Space" in 1993.
David is also a writer of short stories and his series "Obsessions of a Shattered Psyche" were published in Dark Angel Magazine in the 1990s. He has made 3 of those short stories into short films. His writing has also extended to covering the Australian Indie Movie industry in The Movie Blog and Oz Indie Cinema. He writes for The Australian Short Film Network Journal.
David is also a bass player, singer and songwriter. He played in the theatrical gothic rock band, "Darkness Visible", which gigged across Melbourne from 1994. He has recorded 10 songs in the studio. It was the band that segued him into film making when he started making music videos. Between 2009 - 2017, he produced 10 music videos.
David Black is an all-rounder when it comes to creative pursuits and this has helped his filmmaking immensely. He is involved in every aspect of the process from writing, prop making, costuming, through to editing and even marketing. He works with quite a variety of people and allows them as much creative freedom as possible, while overseeing each film from beginning to end. David has become best known for horror and schlock films, however most have a spiritual and psychological sub narrative, and can often be seen as a commentary on the modern world.- Michael David Black is known for Sweet Dreams (1985).
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David Neil Black is known for Castle Rock (2018), The Prince of Tennis (2001) and Sword Art Online (2012).- Philip David Black is known for Nero Bloom: Private Eye (2009), A Haunting in Cawdor (2015) and What's in the Box (2009).
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David Black is known for Terminator Genisys (2015), Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 3 (2023) and Transformers: Age of Extinction (2014).- Editorial Department
David Black is known for The Majorettes (1986) and FleshEater (1988).- David Black is known for I, Martin Short, Goes Home (2012), 311: Too Much to Think (2017) and Conan (2010).
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David Black is known for Joey & Dad (1975).- David Black is known for The Housesitters (2020).
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David Black is known for USI Basketball with Coach Rick Herdes (2002).- David Black is known for Rookie Blue (2010).
- David Gregory Black is known for Alias Grace (2017).
- David-Ivar Herman Dune Aka Black Yaya is known for Chasing Bonnie & Clyde (2015).
- David Black is known for Seduce: Crash Landing (1988).
- David Black is known for Banana Express (2019).
- David 'Black' Hogan is known for Killer Pad (2008).
- David Black is known for Actress (2015).
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David Black is known for The Impossible Years (1968).- Director
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David Black is known for The Bitcoin Briefing (2021).- Special Effects
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David Black is known for Camp Wheredeheckarewe (2018).- Cinematographer
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David Black is known for Fortune's Cost (2012).- David L. Black is known for Paranormal Adoption (2012).
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David Black was born on 26 May 1941 in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, USA. David is known for The Shape of Things (1982), The Carol Burnett Show (1967) and Barbara Mandrell and the Mandrell Sisters (1980).- Producer
David Black is known for Girl Trip (2018) and De Puta Madre: A Love Story (2014).- Additional Crew
David Black is known for Holiday Hooptie Challenge (2020).- Director
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David Black is known for Shared Coins (2023).- David Black is known for Strike Zone (2003).
- David Black is known for Santa Claus Versus the Zombies (2010).
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David Black is known for One Weekend a Month (2004).- Additional Crew
David Black is known for The Journeyman Project (1993), The Journeyman Project 2: Buried in Time (1995) and The Journeyman Project: Pegasus Prime (1997).- Sound Department
David Black is known for Ayny (2016).