David Benioff

David Friedman (/ˈfriːdmən/; born September 25, 1970),

David Benioff
known professionally as David Benioff (/ˈbɛniɒf/),[1][2] is an
American writer, director and producer. Along with his
collaborator D. B. Weiss, he is best known as co-creator and
showrunner of Game of Thrones (2011–2019), the HBO
adaptation of George R. R. Martin's series of books A Song of
Ice and Fire.[3] He also wrote 25th Hour (2002), Troy (2004),
City of Thieves (2008) and co-wrote X-Men Origins: Wolverine
(2009).

Early life
Benioff was born David Friedman in New York City, the
youngest of three children in a Jewish family with ancestral
roots in Austria, Romania, Germany, Poland and Russia.[4][5]
He is the son of Barbara (née Benioff) and Stephen Friedman, a
former head of Goldman Sachs.[6] He has two older sisters,
Suzy and Caroline,[7] and grew up in Manhattan, first in Peter
Cooper Village, then on 86th Street where he spent most of his
childhood, before eventually moving near the U.N. Benioff in 2016
headquarters when he was 16.[8] Born David Friedman
September 25, 1970
Benioff is an alumnus of Collegiate School and Dartmouth
College. At Dartmouth he was a member of Phi Delta Alpha New York City, U.S.
Fraternity and the Sphinx Senior Society. After graduating in Education Dartmouth College (BA)
1992, he had a number of jobs: for a time as a club bouncer in Trinity College Dublin
San Francisco, and as a high school English teacher at Poly University of California,
Prep in Brooklyn for two years, where he served as the school's Irvine (MFA)
wrestling coach.[8][9]
Occupations Screenwriter · producer
Benioff became interested in an academic career and went to · director · novelist
Trinity College Dublin in 1995, for a one-year program to study Years active 2002–present
Irish literature. In Dublin he met D. B. Weiss, who later became
Spouse Amanda Peet (m. 2006)
his collaborator.[4] Benioff wrote a thesis on Samuel Beckett at
Trinity College, but decided against a career in academia.[8] He Children 3
worked as a radio DJ in Moose, Wyoming, for a year—mostly Parent Stephen Friedman
as a side job that he accepted mainly to spend a year in the (father)
countryside at a writer's retreat.[10] He then applied to join the
University of California, Irvine's creative writing program after reading The Mysteries of Pittsburgh by
Michael Chabon (an alumnus there),[11] and received a Master of Fine Arts degree in creative writing there
in 1999.[12]

In 2001, People magazine included Benioff on its list of America's Top 50 Most Eligible Bachelors.[13]
As an adult, he began using the pen name Jacqueline Benioff when his first novel was published in 2001.
Benioff is his mother's maiden name. He explained that he did this to avoid confusion with other writers
named David.[14][15] For legal purposes, his copyright filings from the 2010s onward list him as "David
Benioff Friedman".[1]

Career

Writing career

Benioff spent two years writing his first published novel, The 25th Hour,[16][17] originally titled Fireman
Down, and completed the book as his thesis for his master's degree at Irvine.[18][19] He was asked to adapt
the book into a screenplay after Tobey Maguire read a preliminary trade copy and became interested in
making a film of the book.[12] The film adaptation, 25th Hour, starring Edward Norton, was directed by
Spike Lee.[19][20] In 2004 Benioff published a collection of short stories, When the Nines Roll Over (And
Other Stories).[21]

He drafted a screenplay of the mythological epic Troy (2004), for which Warner Bros. pictures paid him
$2.5 million.[22] He also wrote the script for the psychological thriller Stay (2005), directed by Marc Forster
and starring Ewan McGregor and Naomi Watts. His screenplay for The Kite Runner (2007), adapted from
the novel of the same name, marked his second collaboration with Forster.

Benioff was hired in 2004 to write the screenplay for the X-Men spin-off X-Men Origins: Wolverine (2009).
He based his script on Barry Windsor-Smith's "Weapon X" story, Chris Claremont and Frank Miller's 1982
limited series on the character,[23][24] as well as the 2001 limited series Origin.[25] Hugh Jackman
collaborated on the script, which he wanted to be more of a character piece than the previous X-Men
films.[26] Fox later hired Skip Woods to revise and rewrite Benioff's script.[27] Benioff had aimed for a
"darker and a bit more brutal" story, writing it with an R rating in mind, but acknowledged the film's final
tone would rest with the producers and director.[23]

In 2006, Benioff became interested in adapting George R.R. Martin's novel series A Song of Ice and Fire,
and began working with Weiss on a proposed television series, Game of Thrones.[28] The pilot, "Winter Is
Coming", was put into development by HBO in 2007 and the series greenlit in 2010. Benioff and Weiss
acted as the show's executive producers, showrunners, and writers. It began airing on HBO in 2011.
Benioff and Weiss had previously worked together on a script for a horror film titled The Headmaster, but it
was never made.[8]

In October 2007, Universal Pictures hired Benioff to write an adapted screenplay of the Charles R. Cross
biography of Kurt Cobain, but the screenplay was not used.[29]

In 2008, Benioff's second novel, City of Thieves, was published.[30][31]

On April 10, 2014, Benioff announced he and Weiss had taken on their first feature film project to write,
produce, and direct Dirty White Boys, based on a novel by Stephen Hunter.[32][33] 21st Century Fox
greenlit pre-production on the movie even though at the time, both producers had significant contractual
obligations for other projects. Though it was assumed development on Dirty White Boys would proceed
slowly, promotion for the film not only began slow but stopped altogether. According to Kasey Moore, it
has been years since anyone once known to be involved with Dirty White Boys, has given an update on the
project's status.[34]
On July 19, 2017, Benioff announced that he and Weiss would produce another HBO series, Confederate,
after the final season of Game of Thrones. Benioff and Weiss said, "We have discussed Confederate for
years, originally as a concept for a feature film, but our experience on Thrones has convinced us that no one
provides a bigger, better storytelling canvas than HBO."[35] The announcement of Confederate met with
public animosity and as of August 2019 (when Benioff's and Weiss's deal with Netflix was announced) is
not moving forward.[36]

On February 6, 2018, Disney announced that Benioff and Weiss would write and produce a new series of
Star Wars films after the final season of Game of Thrones ended in 2019.[37]

Towards the end of the final season of Game of Thrones, a petition to HBO was started on Change.org. It
called Benioff and Weiss "woefully incompetent writers" and demanded "competent writers" to remake the
eighth season of Game of Thrones in a manner "that makes sense".[38] The petition eventually amassed
over 1.5 million signatures.[39] In the Chicago Sun Times, Richard Roeper, wrote that the backlash to the
eighth season was so great that he doubted he had "ever seen the level of fan (and to a lesser degree,
critical) vitriol leveled at" Game of Thrones.[40]

In early August 2019, Benioff and Weiss negotiated an exclusive multi-year film and television deal with
Netflix worth $200  million.[41][42] Due to their commitments to Netflix, Benioff and Weiss exited their
contract to produce Star Wars films for Disney and Lucasfilm.[43][44][45]

In September 2020, it was announced that Benioff, Weiss and Alexander Woo will write and executive
produce a Netflix series based on The Three-Body Problem trilogy.[46]

Directing career

Benioff and Weiss together directed two episodes of Game of Thrones, flipping a coin to decide who would
get the credit on the show. Benioff was given the credit for season 3 episode 3, "Walk of Punishment",
while Weiss was credited with season 4 episode 1, "Two Swords".[8] Benioff and Weiss co-directed the
series finale.[47]

Benioff's and Weiss's first project on Netflix was to direct the stand-up comedy special Leslie Jones: Time
Machine.[48]

Personal life
On September 30, 2006, Benioff married actress Amanda Peet in a traditional Jewish ceremony in New
York City.[49][4] They have three children.[50] The family divides their time between homes in Manhattan
and Beverly Hills. He is the cousin of software entrepreneur Marc Benioff.

Bibliography
Title Year Type Note

Paperback: 224 pages

Publisher: Plume; Reissue edition (January
The 25th Hour 2001 Novel 29, 2002)
Language: English
ISBN 0-452-28295-0

Hardcover: 223 pages

When the Nines Roll Over (and Other Short story Publisher: Viking Books (August 19, 2004)
2004
Stories) collection Language: English
ISBN 0-670-03339-1
Hardcover: 281 pages
Publisher: Viking Books (May 15, 2008)
City of Thieves 2008 Novel
Language: English
ISBN 0-670-01870-8

Filmography

Film

Year Title Writer Producer Director Notes

Nominated— Boston Society of Film

2002 25th Hour Yes No Spike Lee
Critics Award for Best Screenplay
Wolfgang
2004 Troy Yes No
Petersen

Stay Yes No Marc Forster

2005 When the Nines Short film based on a story from When
Yes Yes Himself
Roll Over the Nines Roll Over
Christopher Award for Best Feature Film
Nominated— Golden Globe Award for
Best Foreign Language Film
2007 The Kite Runner Yes No Marc Forster Nominated— BAFTA Award for Best
Adapted Screenplay
Nominated— Satellite Award for Best
Adapted Screenplay

X-Men Origins:
Yes No Gavin Hood
2009 Wolverine

Brothers Yes No Jim Sheridan

2019 Gemini Man Yes No Ang Lee

2021 Metal Lords No Yes Peter Sollett

Television
 Executive
Year Title Director Writer Notes
Producer

Co-creator
Directed and wrote episodes "Walk
2011–
Game of Thrones Yes Yes Yes of Punishment" and "The Iron
2019
Throne"
Wrote 45 episodes

Wrote episode "Flowers for Charlie"

It's Always Sunny in
2013 No Yes No Cameo as "Bored Lifeguard #1" (In
Philadelphia
episode "The Gang Goes to a Water Park")

Leslie Jones: Time TV special;

2020 Yes No No
Machine Co-directed with D.B. Weiss

2021 The Chair No No Yes

The Three-Body
2023 No Yes Yes
Problem
TBA The Overstory No Yes No

Awards and nominations

Primetime Emmy Award

Year Category Recipient Result

Outstanding Drama Series Nominated
2011
Outstanding Writing for a Drama Series Nominated

2012 Outstanding Drama Series Nominated

Outstanding Drama Series Nominated
2013
Outstanding Writing for a Drama Series Nominated

Outstanding Drama Series Nominated

2014
Outstanding Writing for a Drama Series Nominated

Outstanding Drama Series Game of Thrones Won

2015
Outstanding Writing for a Drama Series Won
Outstanding Drama Series Won
2016
Outstanding Writing for a Drama Series Won

Outstanding Drama Series Won

2018
Outstanding Writing for a Drama Series Nominated

Outstanding Drama Series Won

2019
Outstanding Writing for a Drama Series Nominated

Writers Guild of America Awards

Year Category Recipient Result

 Drama Series Nominated
2012
New Series Nominated

2013 Drama Series Nominated

2015 Drama Series Nominated

Drama Series Game of Thrones Nominated
2016
Episodic Drama Nominated

Drama Series Nominated

2017
Episodic Drama Nominated

2018 Drama Series Nominated

Other awards

Year Title Award/Nomination

Hugo Award for Best Dramatic Presentation, Long Form (2012)[51]

Hugo Award for Best Dramatic Presentation, Short Form (2013-2014)[52][53]
Producers Guild of America Award for Best Episodic Drama (2015)[54]
Golden Nymph Awards for Outstanding International Producer (2012)[55]
Nominated—Producers Guild of America Award for Best Episodic Drama (2011-
2011– Game of 2014, 2016, 2018)[56][57][58][59][60][61]
2019 Thrones Nominated—BAFTA for Best International Programme (2013)[62]
Nominated—Hugo Award for Best Dramatic Presentation, Short Form (2015,
2017)[63][64]
Nominated—USC Scripter Award for Best Adapted Screenplay (2016-2017)[65][66]
Nominated—Humanitas Prize for 60 Minute Network or Syndicated Television
(2017)[67]

See also
biography portal

List of awards and nominations received by Game of Thrones

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External links
David Benioff (https://www.imdb.com/name/nm1125275/) at IMDb
Works by David Benioff (https://openlibrary.org/authors/OL1393226A) at Open Library
"David Benioff" (https://web.archive.org/web/20060113045208/http://www.authortrek.com/da
vid_benioff_page.html). Authortrek.com. Archived from the original (http://www.authortrek.co
m/david_benioff_page.html) on January 13, 2006.
"Excerpts: City of Thieves" (http://www.bookbrowse.com/excerpts/index.cfm?book_number=
2161). bookbrowse.com.

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