Bruce Joel Rubin won an Academy Award® for his original screenplay for the romantic drama hit "Ghost," which also received BAFTA and Writers Guild of America Award nominations. The film, starring Patrick Swayze, Demi Moore and Whoopi Goldberg, also earned Oscar® and Golden Globe nominations for Best Picture.
Rubin has written a number of other screenplays, including "The Last Mimzy," "Stuart Little 2," "Deep Impact" and "Jacob's Ladder." In addition, he wrote and directed the film "My Life," starring Michael Keaton and Nicole Kidman. Rubin graduated in 1965 from New York University, where he majored in motion picture production and direction. He was an assistant film editor at NBC News in the mid-1960s and, in the spirit of the times, hitchhiked around the world from 1966 to 1967.
In addition, Rubin has served as the curator of film at the Whitney Museum of American Art in New York, where he helped establish a program called The New American Filmmakers Series, an important launching pad for independent filmmakers in the early '70s. Apart from his film career, Rubin has been a student and teacher of meditation for the past 40 years.
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