Joel Cohen (writer)

Screenwriter

Birthday August 23, 1963

Birth Sign Virgo

Birthplace Manhattan, New York, U.S.

Age 60 years old

Nationality United States

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1963

Joel Edmund Cohen (born August 23, 1963) is an American screenwriter who has worked on projects such as the movies Cheaper by the Dozen, Toy Story, Money Talks and Garfield: The Movie.

He frequently works with his writing partner Alec Sokolow.

1995

Beyond writing, Cohen and Sokolow jointly directed Monster Mash: The Movie (1995) and executively produced Gnomes and Trolls: The Secret Chamber (2008).

1996

Along with Joss Whedon, Andrew Stanton, John Lasseter, Pete Docter, Joe Ranft, and Sokolow, Cohen was nominated in 1996 for the Academy Award for Best Writing (Original Screenplay) for his work on Toy Story.