Nov 11, 2015 · Director Steven Spielberg (C) poses with producer Kathleen Kennedy (L) and screenwriter Melissa Mathison (R) at the 35th Cannes Film Festival, during a photocall for his film 'E.T. the...

Her final film credit was The BFG (2016), which marked her third collaboration with film director Steven Spielberg. Mathison was born on June 3, 1950, in Los Angeles, one of five siblings. Her father, Richard Randolph Mathison, was the Los Angeles bureau chief of Newsweek.

Nov 5, 2015 · The Extra-Terrestrial, Steven Spielberg's amazing sci-fi masterwork about a boy and his pint-sized alien friend. E.T., released on June 11, 1982, was written by Melissa Mathison, who’d previously penned The Black Stallion (1979) for Spielberg's pal Francis Ford Coppola's production studio, American Zoetrope. Together, Spielberg and Mathison ...

Apr 22, 2022 · He didn’t have to search far or wide as his star, Harrison Ford, arrived to set with girlfriend Melissa Mathison, a screenwriter responsible for The Black Stallion, a film Spielberg adored. On...

May 14, 2016 · Just days before the movie had its Cannes Film Festival world premiere Saturday night, Spielberg completed the ending dedication to screenwriter Melissa Mathison, who had collaborated with...

Dec 22, 2015 · Speaking to EW, Steven Spielberg reflected on his relationship with screenwriter Melissa Mathison, who died last month, and whose friendship with Spielberg began when she wrote E.T. the...

Nov 27, 2016 · If you're a fan of Steven Spielberg then you will know how talented Melissa Mathison was having written E.T. The Extra Terrestrial and returning three decades later to write the script for Spielberg's latest, The BFG.

Dec 23, 2015 · Melissa Mathison, the screenwriter of E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial, The Black Stallion, Kundun, and the upcoming adventure fantasy The BFG, died at age 65 on Nov. 4 from neuroendocrine cancer.

Jun 29, 2016 · Steven Spielberg with the screenwriter Melissa Mathison at the Cannes Film Festival, in May, 1982. Photograph by RALPH GATTI / AFP / Getty. In Steven Spielberg’s thirtieth feature, “...

E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial (often referred to simply as E.T.) is a 1982 American science fiction film co-produced and directed by Steven Spielberg, written by Melissa Mathison and starring Henry Thomas, Dee Wallace, Robert MacNaughton, Drew Barrymore, and Peter Coyote.