Roger Avary

Roger Roberts Avary (born Franklin Brauner August 23, 1965) is a Canadian film and television director, screenwriter and producer. He worked on Reservoir Dogs and Pulp Fiction, for which he and Quentin Tarantino were awarded the Oscar for Best Original Screenplay at the 67th Academy Awards. He wrote the screenplays for Silent Hill and Beowulf. He also directed Killing Zoe and The Rules of Attraction. 2Career 3Killing Zoe Avary also wrote and directed the neo-noir thriller Killing Zoe (1994) which Quentin Tarantino executive produced. The film was honored with le Prix très spécial à Cannes 1994, the very same year that Pulp Fiction won the Palme d'Or. It continued to win awards worldwide on the festival circuit, including the Grand Prize at Japan's Yubari International Fantastic Film Festival in February 1994 and the Italian Mystfest. 3Pulp Fiction Roger Avary & Quentin Tarantino collaborated on the 1994 film Pulp Fiction for which they won the Academy Award for Best Original Screenplay. He wrote much of the outline for "The Gold Watch" segment in "Pulp Fiction". 3The Rules of Attraction In 2002, Avary directed The Rules of Attraction, an adaptation of the Bret Easton Ellis novel, which he also executive produce