Talk:Paul Haggis/Archive 1

Heathcliff & Marmaduke
Fix the link to James Bradley. The guy you're linking to has been dead 250 years and is clearly not the director of a movie about World War Two! 151.191.175.233 21:44, 11 October 2007 (UTC)Geoffrey

I was watching this show on Boomerang and found it interesting that Paul Haggis was a writer on this series.

What in the world does the food "haggis" have to do with Paul Haggis?

This article is in need of some sourcing. He is listed as a scientologist, yet his IMDb profile gives no indication of his religion. --Mr. Cool 02:14, 9 March 2006 (UTC)

I second that. There needs to be some fact-checking regarding Haggis and a large number of purported Scientologists. Smokey Russell 21:38, 22 March 2006 (UTC)

His name is listed here: http://www.adherents.com/largecom/fam_scientologist.html74.98.243.253 17:03, 11 January 2007 (UTC)

Paul Haggis recent visit to London
Hello,

During Mr. Haggis recent visit to London and subsequent visit to HB Beal SS, my wife met and talked with Mr. Haggis reflecting on the 'old days' attending Beal. Mr. Haggis provided my wife Joan with his card and email contact information, to keep in touch and forward him some old picture of himself and my wife while attending HB Beal SS. Joan have lost this card and would like to send Paul these photos. Is there any way to receive his email and/or contact information to provide these items?

Thank you for your consideration. I have provided our information below.

Sincerely, David & Joan Fleming 1773 Phillbrook Court London, Ontario n5x2z2 519-660-0882 home 519-668-4327 cell


 * I would suggest contacting his father, Ted. He's in the phone book on Riverside. Barry Wells 00:17, 7 December 2006 (UTC)

Filmography
Why no comprehensive listing of films he's written, and directed? -Werideatdusk33 06:52, 21 May 2007 (UTC)

His father
"Haggis is the son of the late Mary and Ted Haggis, one-time owners of London, Ontario's former Gallery Theatre at 36 York Street". This makes it sound like both parents are deceased but from further down in the article it appears his father is still living. Should this be reworded to something link "son of Teg Haggis and his late wife Mary, one-time owners..."? Sorry if this is good grammar already.... (unsigned added by 172.189.143.238)

Poorly sourced/irrelevant material removed
Over a year and half is long enough for the unsourced material to wait it. Also, removed some pointless section about a photography contest which sounded like it was written by the winner ("Who is still awaiting her prize...")

Started filmography section, but had not intended to actually edit when I came to the article so I must leave off for others to complete and check the wiki links to the articles for those films/shows to make sure they are the intended ones. Thanks SteveCoppock 19:14, 31 August 2007 (UTC)

Scientologist?
There's nothing on the page about him being a scientologist, except the category. Does anyone have a source? -- Scorpion0422 23:20, 19 February 2008 (UTC)

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Scientologists :-)

and

http://www.truthaboutscientology.com/stats/by-name/p/paul-haggis.html —Preceding unsigned comment added by 89.212.192.184 (talk) 01:37, 4 March 2009 (UTC)

Diff'rent Strokes
If I'm correct Paul Haggis was involved in this show too. I just saw the pedophile episode, and saw his name on the end creidts.

Filmography

 * Films

Starting reformatting process for Filmography section. Cirt (talk) 06:11, 26 October 2009 (UTC)
 * Television
 * Added more to films section, in article page. Cirt (talk) 11:14, 26 October 2009 (UTC)

Unsourced, moved from article to talk page
His parents were onetime owners of London, Ontario's former Gallery Theatre at 36 York Street, where the younger Haggis cut his teeth in theater production, directing, and playwriting in the early 1970s. He attended St George's Public School. According to his father, Ted, it was 'three years two months and 10 days' before his son sold his first TV script (Ted had been sending his son $100 a week during these lean years, while Paul landed various jobs, including moving furniture).
 * Personal life

He is the father of four children and resides in Santa Monica, California with his second wife singer/actor Deborah Rennard.

As a television writer/producer, he created or co-created the series Walker, Texas Ranger, Due South, Family Law, and the celebrated, if quickly cancelled EZ Streets. Early in his career, he wrote for sitcoms such as Diff'rent Strokes and Who's the Boss?. While working for Diff'rent Strokes,he shared writing credits on three episodes. In 1989, he received two Emmy awards for his work on the show thirtysomething: one as a writer; and another as a producer. He returned to television in the spring of 2007, after NBC picked up a 13-episode order for his crime drama, The Black Donnellys. The show was canceled by NBC on May 14, 2007. HDNet aired the remaining six episodes.
 * Success and fame years later
 * Television

In addition to directing multiple episodes of the above-mentioned television shows, Haggis has directed several feature films and written several successful screenplays. Red Hot, his directorial debut, had a limited video release in 1993.
 * Film

Around 2000 he came into his own as both a writer and director in films. As a film writer, he received an Oscar nomination for Best Adapted Screenplay for 2004's Million Dollar Baby, directed by Clint Eastwood, which won four Oscars, including Best Picture.

His second directorial effort performed equally well. Crash, which he co-wrote, directed and co-produced debuted in September 2004 at the Toronto Film Festival. Lions Gate Entertainment purchased the distribution rights for $3 million and released it internationally in May 2005 to mostly positive reviews, with film critics Ebert and Roeper giving it a "two thumbs way up" rating and Roger Ebert naming it the best film of the year.

The film was nominated for six Academy Awards, including Best Picture, Best Director and Best Original Screenplay categories. He won an Academy Award for Best Original Screenplay and the film itself received the Academy Award for Best Picture. Overall, he has won two Academy Awards and been nominated for four. He lost the directing prize to Ang Lee for Brokeback Mountain, but he became the only man in history to have penned two consecutive Best Picture Oscar-winners.

Haggis' fourth film as a feature film director, which he also wrote, is entitled Honeymoon with Harry and is scheduled for release in 2008 although production has yet to commence.

Haggis also adapted, for director Eastwood, James Bradley's book Flags of Our Fathers, about the Battle of Iwo Jima. The film was released on October 20, 2006.

Haggis was hired in August 2005 to revise the screenplay for the James Bond film Casino Royale, which was also released late in 2006. The original screenplay had been written by Neal Purvis and Robert Wade, based on the novel by Ian Fleming. Haggis returned to work on the script for the follow-up, Quantum of Solace. He was also invited to direct the film but declined.

He received a fifth Academy Award nomination for his role in writing Letters from Iwo Jima, alongside Japanese writer Iris Yamashita.

Recently, Haggis has partnered with film producer Michael Nozik, to form Highway 61 Films.

Russell Crowe will star in "The Next Three Days," the adaptation of the 2008 French film "Pour Elle" that reunites Lionsgate with its "Crash" director Paul Haggis.

Crowe will play a teacher whose wife (Elizabeth Banks) is arrested and convicted of a murder she says she did not commit. He comes up with a desperate plan to free her.

Haggis, who wrote the script, will begin production in late September in Pittsburgh.

Haggis is also co-founder of Artists for Peace and Justice, a member of the board of directors for the Hollywood Education and Literacy Project, the Environmental Media Association, the President's Council of the Defenders of Wildlife and the advisory board of the Centre for the Advancement of Non-Violence. He donated $2,100 to the Dennis Kucinich campaign.
 * Activism

Apart from the Oscars for Crash, in 2005, the Writers Guild of America awarded Haggis the Valentine Davies Award for "bringing honor and dignity to writers everywhere." Other awards include, six Geminis, the Humanitas Prize, and the TV Critics Association Award.
 * Honors

The city of London, Ontario, declared September 11, 2006 Paul Haggis Day in London, with Haggis, his father and Mayor Anne Marie DeCicco-Best touring three of the schools that Paul Haggis had attended growing up in London in the 1960s and 1970s: Fanshawe College, Catholic Central High School and H.B. Beal Secondary School.

Haggis was featured in The Dialogue interview series. In this 90 minute interview with producer Mike De Luca, Haggis describes his evolution as a writer from TV to film, including the genesis of his Oscar-winning film, Crash.
 * TV appearances

Haggis has also appeared on the HBO series Entourage playing himself, as an intense director brought in to possibly direct the fictional film Medellin.

Unsourced, moved from article to talk page. Cirt (talk) 10:51, 26 October 2009 (UTC)

Lock article, incoming sockpuppets
Given this individual's decision to leave the Church of Scientology, I would recommend that this article be locked before it becomes another ground for a flame war. I recommend that his (verifiable) reasons for leaving scientology be preserved, and any referenceable articles be intact. However, I anticipate both pro and anti-scientologists to flock to this article to sway the public to their view points. I recommend we lock it until the storm over him passing out - has passed. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 78.147.101.15 (talk • contribs)
 * I don't see significant disruption so far, but the proper place for a request is WP:RFPP. Cirt (talk) 04:24, 27 October 2009 (UTC)

Further reading section, deadlinks, moved from article to talk page

 * City of London media release on Paul Haggis Day
 * The Dialogue: Learn from the Masters Interview

Cirt (talk) 05:26, 27 October 2009 (UTC)

Atheist reference
I see that JasonCarswell added a citation on October 22, 2015 stating that Haggis said he is an atheist. And then the citation was removed because a YouTube video is not a good citation. https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Paul_Haggis&oldid=687083050 That isn't true, the video is legit source as it is an interview with Haggis. I don't know what better source could be used than something like this coming straight out of his mouth. It happens at 2:38 So I'm going to add it back in, and also add the atheist cat. If anyone has problems with this, come to talk and lets discuss.Sgerbic (talk) 05:33, 5 February 2016 (UTC)
 * BTW I would prefer the video to be directly from 60 minutes or wherever it came from. If someone wants to look into that I think it would be stronger, but in the meantime this video is enough to confidently quote Haggis.Sgerbic (talk) 05:39, 5 February 2016 (UTC)r

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