Matthew Weiner

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Matthew Hoffman Weiner (born June 29, 1965) is an American writer, producer, actor, and author best known for the television series Mad Men and The Romanoffs.

He has also been praised for his work as a writer and executive producer on The Sopranos as well as his work as a Becker scholar.

Are You Here, a comedy-drama film made in 2013, marking his filmmaking debut.

In 2017, Heather, the Totality, his first book, was published. Weiner has received nine Primetime Emmy Awards, two for The Sopranos and seven for Mad Men, as well as three Golden Globe Awards for Mad Men.

Mad Men received the Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Drama Series for four years in a row (2008, 2009, 2010, 2010); the Sopranos (with Weiner as an executive producer) received the same award twice, both 2004 and 2007.

Weiner was named in Time Magazine's annual Time 100 as one of the world's Most Influential People.

In November 2011, The Atlantic named him one of 21 "Brave Thinkers" in the country.

Early life and education

Weiner was born in Baltimore in 1965 to a Jewish family. He attended The Park School of Baltimore and grew up in Los Angeles, where he attended Harvard School for Boys. His father, a medical researcher and chair of the University of Southern California's neuroscience department, was a professor and chair of the neurology department. His mother graduated from law school but never went back to work. He enrolled at Wesleyan University, studying literature, philosophy, and history, as well as receiving a Master of Film and Television degree from the University of Southern California School of Cinema and Television.

Personal life

In 1991, Weiner married architect Linda Brettler. In July 2019, he applied for divorce. Marten Holden Weiner, one of their four sons, appeared on Mad Men in the role of Glen Bishop.

Former Mad Men writer Kater Gordon accused Weiner of saying that she owes it to him "to see her naked" at the office one night. Weiner denies having any recall of making the alleged remark. "I can't imagine a scenario where I would say that," Weiner said to Vanity Fair, "I can't imagine a situation in which I would say no." It was ten years ago, and I don't remember saying it. I don't remember saying something like the one we just had right now."

He signed an open letter sent by the US to the proposed nuclear agreement between Iran and six world powers in August 2015, as one of 98 members of the Los Angeles Jewish community's "in the best interest of the United States and Israel."

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Career

Weiner referred to the start of his career as a "dark period." The show business appeared to be so impenetrable that I stopped writing." His wife financially aided them during this time by her work as an architect. He began his screenwriting career writing for the short-lived Fox sitcom Party Girl (1996). He worked on The Naked Truth and Andy Richter Controls the Universe as a writer and producer. As a writer on Becker, Weiner wrote the pilot of Mad Men in 1999 as a spec script. After being impressed by the script, Sopranos creator and executive producer David Chase offered Weiner a job as a writer for the series.

Weiner served as a supervising producer for the fifth season of The Sopranos (2004), a co-executive producer for the first half of the sixth season (2005), and an executive producer for the second part of the sixth season (2007). He has sole or joint credit for 12 episodes, including the Primetime Emmy Award-nominated "Unidentified Black Males" (co-written with Terence Winter) and "Kennedy and Heidi" (co-written with David Chase). He received two Primetime Emmy Awards as a producer of The Sopranos, one for the show's fifth season in 2004 and another for the second part of the show's sixth season in 2007.

Manny Safier, the author of "The Wise Guide to Wise Guys," appeared in two episodes, "Two Tonys" and "Stage 5" as a fictional mafia specialist, in addition to writing and producing on television news broadcasts within the program.

Weiner also went on leave between two seasons teaching at his alma mater, the University of Southern California School of Cinema-Television (now School of Cinematic Arts), where he supervised an undergraduate screenwriting class on Feature Rewriting during the Fall 2004 semester.

During his time on The Sopranos Weiner, he began looking for a network that would produce Mad Men. The initiative was supported by HBO, Showtime, and FX. If Chase were to be a writer or producer, HBO offered to produce the series, but Chase ultimately chose to concentrate on making feature films. Weiner sold the series to AMC, but the network had never produced an original dramatic television series. They nabbed the show, securing a full 13-episode season. Mad Men debuted on July 19, 2007, six weeks after The Sopranos had concluded. Throughout Mad Men's seven seasons, Weiner served as showrunner, executive producer, and head writer. As the showrunner, he was heavily involved in the creation and direction of each episode, as well as appraising actors, costumes, hairstyles, and props. He is credited with writing or co-writing seven episodes of the first season's second, twelve episodes of the third season, ten of the sixth, and twelve of the seventh. In addition to the season seven midseason finale and the penultimate episode of the season, he has also produced all seven season finales.

Mad Men has received acclaim, including four Golden Globe Awards and fifteen Primetime Emmy Awards. It is the first basic cable series to win the Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Drama Series, winning the accolade in 2008, 2009, 2010, and 2011. In 2008, Weiner received the Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Writing for a Drama Series for the pilot episode, "Smoke Gets in Your Eyes," as well as being nominated for "The Wheel" (with Robin Veith). In 2009, he won Primetime Emmys for "Meditations in an Emergency" (shared with Kater Gordon) and "Shut the Door" in 2010. Have a seat." Erin Levy's (shared) a video of Erin Levy. In 2009, he was also nominated for "A Night to Remember" (with Andre Jacquemetton and Maria Jacquemetton), "Six Month Leave" (with Andre Jacquemetton), and "The Jet Set"; he was also nominated in 2010 for "Guy Walks into an Advertising Agency (with Veith); and "The Jet Set" (with Veith); and "The Jet Set." In 2011, he was nominated for "The Suitcase." He was nominated for "Far Away Places" and "The Other Woman" in 2012, both with Semi Chellas. He was nominated for "Lost Horizon" with Chellas and "Person to Person" in 2015, the most recent in 2015.

Weiner and his writing staff were also recognized for Best New Series at the Writers Guild of America Awards in February 2008 for their contribution to the first season. For their participation in the second season, they were nominated for the WGA award for Best Dramatic Series for the second time. At the third year awards for their third year (after being nominated for the third year in a row) in February 2010, Weiner and the writing staff received the WGA Best Drama Series (after being recognized for the third year in a row). Weiner was also nominated twice for the WGA award for episodic drama (with co-writer Brett Johnson) and "Guy Walks Into an Advertising Agency" (with Robin Veith).

Are You Here, Weiner's first feature film filmed in North Carolina, premiered at the 2013 Toronto International Film Festival and was released in 2014.

Heather, the Completeness, Weiner's first book, was released in the fall of 2017.

Weiner created The Romanoffs, an Amazon Video anthology collection, in 2018.

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