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Alec Sokolow

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Alec Sokolow
Occupation	Screenwriter
Nationality	American
Years active	1992–present
Notable works	Toy Story Cheaper by the Dozen Evan Almighty
Relatives	Sam Sokolow (brother)

Alec Sokolow is an American screenwriter who has worked on such projects as the films Cheaper by the Dozen,^[1] Toy Story,^[2] Money Talks,^{[citation needed]} and Garfield: The Movie.^[3] He frequently works with writing partner Joel Cohen.

Along with Joss Whedon, Andrew Stanton, John Lasseter, Pete Docter, Joe Ranft, and Cohen, Sokolow was nominated in 1995 for the Academy Award for Best Writing (Original Screenplay) for his work on Toy Story.^[4]

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

Selected writing credits[edit]

Movies[edit]

NBA All-Star Stay in School Jam (1992)
Monster Mash: The Movie (1995)
Toy Story (1995)
Money Talks (1997)
Goodbye Lover (1998)
Cheaper by the Dozen (2003)
Garfield: The Movie (2004)
Garfield: A Tail of Two Kitties (2006)
Evan Almighty (2007)
Daddy Day Camp (2007)
Gnomes and Trolls: The Secret Chamber (2008)
The Last Godfather (2010)
Shooting an Elephant (2015)
I am Jane Doe (2017)
I Am Little Red (2017)
Magic Arch 3D (2020)
Norm of the North: Family Vacation (2020)
Rock Dog 2: Rock Around the Park (2021)

Video games[edit]

Skylanders: Spyro's Adventure (2011)

References[edit]

^ Holden, Steve (December 25, 2003). "Cheaper by the Dozen – Mining the Sanitized …". The New York Times. Retrieved May 7, 2009.

^ "Toy Story 10th Anniversary Edition - WDSHE". Archived from the original on February 1, 2009. Retrieved December 10, 2011.

^ Scott, A. O. (June 11, 2004). "A Cat From the Comics, Full of Lasagna". The New York Times. Retrieved May 7, 2009.

^ "Academy Awards database". Archived from the original on July 7, 2012. Retrieved December 9, 2011.

External links[edit]

Alec SokolowatIMDb

Annie Award for Outstanding Achievement for Writing in a Feature Production

Brenda Chapman (1994)
Andrew Stanton, Joss Whedon, Joel Cohen and Alec Sokolow (1996)
Rita Hsiao, Chris Sanders, Philip LaZebnik, Raymond Singer and Eugenia Bostwick-Singer (1998)
Brad Bird and Tim McCanlies (1999)
John Lasseter, Pete Docter, Ash Brannon, Andrew Stanton, Rita Hsiao, Doug Chamberlin and Chris Webb (2000)
Ted Elliott, Terry Rossio, Joe Stillman and Roger S. H. Schulman (2001)
Hayao Miyazaki (2002)
Andrew Stanton, Bob Peterson and David Reynolds (2003)
Brad Bird (2004)
Steve Box, Nick Park and Mark Burton (2005)
Dick Clement, Ian La Frenais, Christopher Lloyd, Joe Keenan and William Davies (2006)
Brad Bird (2007)
Jonathan Aibel and Glenn Berger (2008)
Wes Anderson and Noah Baumbach (2009)
Chris Sanders, Will Davies and Dean DeBlois (2010)
James Ward Byrkit, John Logan and Gore Verbinski (2011)
Phil Johnston and Jennifer Lee (2012)
Hayao Miyazaki (2013)
Phil Lord and Christopher Miller (2014)
Pete Docter, Meg LeFauve and Josh Cooley (2015)
Jared Bush and Phil Johnston (2016)
Adrian Molina and Matthew Aldrich (2017)
Phil Lord and Rodney Rothman (2018)
Jérémy Clapin and Guillaume Laurant (2019)
Pete Docter, Mike Jones and Kemp Powers (2020)
Mike Rianda and Jeff Rowe (2021)
Dean Fleischer Camp, Jenny Slate, Nick Paley and Elisabeth Holm (2022)
Robert L. Baird and Lloyd Taylor (2023)

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