YELLOWSTONE Production Biography
TAYLOR SHERIDAN (Executive Producer/Director/Writer)
An Academy Award-nominated screenwriter, Taylor Sheridan serves as writer, director, and executive producer of the Paramount Network series Yellowstone. A frontier family drama set on the largest contiguous ranch in the U.S., the project stars Kevin Costner, Josh Lucas, Luke Grimes, Gil Birmingham, and Kelly Reilly.
Most recently, Sheridan made his debut as a writer/director with his critically acclaimed film Wind River, the conclusion to his modern frontier trilogy, which was released in August 2017. Starring Jeremy Renner and Elizabeth Olsen, the film premiered at the 2017 Sundance Film Festival and debuted in Un Certain Regard at the 70th Cannes Film Festival, where Sheridan earned Best Director (Prix de la mise en scène) honors. Sheridan also received a nomination for Outstanding Directorial Achievement of a First-Time Feature Film Director at the 2018 Director's Guild Awards.
He previously wrote Hell Or High Water, which was nominated for four Academy Awards®, including Best Picture and Best Original Screenplay. The film, a drama set in the struggling rural areas of West Texas, earned Sheridan additional nominations for Best Screenplay at the Gotham Awards, Critics' Choice Awards, Golden Globe Awards, WGA Awards, and Independent Spirit Awards.
His other credits include Sicario, directed by Denis Villeneuve and starring Benicio Del Toro, Emily Blunt and Josh Brolin, which was released in 2015 to critical and box office acclaim. The film was also nominated for several awards including Best Theatrical Motion Picture by the PGA and Best Original Screenplay by the WGA. A sequel to Sicario, called Sicario 2: Soldado, is currently preparing for release by Sony Pictures on June 29, 2018. Sheridan returned to write the script for the film with Stefano Sollima directing and both Del Toro and Brolin reprising their roles. Furthermore, Sheridan is currently adapting Disorder, based on the French film, for Escape Artists and Sony Pictures.
Sheridan lives in Wyoming with his family.
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