Jim Taylor

Early years I felt like I was too young, and I didn't have anything to make movies about. So very specifically, I went to Pomona to get a liberal arts education and not do filmmaking, even though I knew that was what I ultimately wanted to do. Taylor, in a 2005 interview for Pomona College Magazine He graduated from Bellevue High School in neighboring Bellevue, and subsequently from Pomona College, a liberal arts school in California that he attended instead of accepting an offer from the USC School of Cinematic Arts.

Career Taylor began working for Cannon Films in 1987.

Taylor met Payne while working temporary jobs in Los Angeles, eventually moving in with him for financial reasons. While roommates the two wrote short films and started writing Citizen Ruth.

Awards and nominations Taylor has received numerous awards and nominations (including an Oscar win for co-writing Sideways, two Golden Globe Award wins for co-writing About Schmidt and Sideways, and additional Oscar nominations for co-writing Election and for producing The Descendants); those listed below are for his work on Sideways (all shared with Alexander Payne): Award Category Recipients and nominees Outcome 77th Academy Awards Best Adapted Screenplay (with Alexander Payne) 58th British Academy Film Awards Best Adapted Screenplay (with Alexander Payne) Writers Guild of America Awards 2004 Best Adapted Screenplay (with Alexander Payne) Boston Society of Film Critics Awards 2004 Best Screenplay (with Alexander Payne) Broadcast Film Critics Association Awards 2004 Best Screenplay (with Alexander Payne) Chicago Film Critics Association Awards 2004 Best Adapted Screenplay (with Alexander Payne) Florida Film Critics Circle Awards 2004 Best Screenplay (with Alexander Payne) 62nd Golden Globe Awards Best Screenplay (with Alexander Payne) 20th Independent Spirit Awards Best Screenplay (with Alexander Payne) Kansas City Film Critics Circle Awards 2004 Best Adapted Screenplay (with Alexander Payne) London Film Critics Circle Awards 2004 Screenwriter of the Year (with Alexander Payne) Los Angeles Film Critics Association Awards 2004 Best Screenplay (with Alexander Payne) National Board of Review Awards 2004 Best Adapted Screenplay (with Alexander Payne) National Society of Film Critics Awards 2004 Best Screenplay (with Alexander Payne) 2004 New York Film Critics Circle Awards Best Screenplay (with Alexander Payne) Online Film Critics Society Awards 2004 Best Adapted Screenplay (with Alexander Payne) Phoenix Film Critics Society Awards 2004 Best Adapted Screenplay (with Alexander Payne) San Diego Film Critics Society Awards 2004 Best Adapted Screenplay (with Alexander Payne) Golden Satellite Awards 2004 Best Adapted Screenplay (with Alexander Payne) Seattle Film Critics Awards Best Adapted Screenplay (with Alexander Payne) Washington D.C. Area Film Critics Association Awards 2004 Best Adapted Screenplay (with Alexander Payne)

Personal life Taylor has been married to fellow screenwriter/director, Tamara Jenkins, since 2002—herself an Academy Award nominee for The Savages (2007). They have one daughter and live in NYC . The couple co-wrote the screenplay for the 2018 film, Juliet, Naked (adapted from Nick Hornby's homonymous novel), along with Evgenia Peretz—sister of the film's director, Jesse Peretz.