{"id":1592,"date":"2022-03-28T10:05:11","date_gmt":"2022-03-28T14:05:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/krieger.jhu.edu\/film-media\/?p=1592"},"modified":"2022-03-28T10:36:18","modified_gmt":"2022-03-28T14:36:18","slug":"fms-alum-zach-baylin-in-attendance-at-2022-oscar-ceremony-nominated-for-best-original-screenplay-for-king-richard","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/krieger.jhu.edu\/film-media\/2022\/03\/28\/fms-alum-zach-baylin-in-attendance-at-2022-oscar-ceremony-nominated-for-best-original-screenplay-for-king-richard\/","title":{"rendered":"FMS Alum Zach Baylin in Attendance at 2022 Oscar Ceremony, Nominated for Best Original Screenplay for KING RICHARD"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Film and Media Studies was thrilled to spot FMS alumnus Zach Baylin (\u201902) in attendance at his first Oscar ceremony last night. Zach penned&nbsp;<em>King Richard<\/em>, nominated for Best Original Screenplay, among many other nominations, including a&nbsp;Writers Guild of America Award, a BAFTA,&nbsp;and the Hollywood Critics Association Award. &nbsp;We\u2019re so proud of you, Zach.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The film was also his first produced script. The Hopkins grad told us last month that, in a letter he wrote to the Academy crediting his influences and inspirations, he cited his teachers in the program as key to sending him on his current path. Zach lost last night to Kenneth Branaugh, writer and director of&nbsp;<em>Belfast<\/em>, but we know he\u2019ll be back.&nbsp;His upcoming screenplay credit is as co-writer of&nbsp;<em>Creed III,<\/em>&nbsp;starring Michael B. Jordan, who will be making his directorial debut. It\u2019s due in theaters on Thanksgiving Day.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>You can read more about Zach\u2019s career in an interview in the latest&nbsp;<em>Hub<\/em>, conducted by FMS alum Judy Berman (\u201905), currently the TV critic for&nbsp;<em>Time Magazine<\/em>:<br><a href=\"https:\/\/hub.jhu.edu\/2022\/03\/24\/zach-baylin-qa\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">https:\/\/hub.jhu.edu\/2022\/03\/24\/zach-baylin-qa\/<\/a>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Film and Media Studies was thrilled to spot FMS alumnus Zach Baylin (\u201902) in attendance at his first Oscar ceremony last night. Zach penned&nbsp;King Richard, nominated for Best Original Screenplay, among many other nominations, including a&nbsp;Writers Guild of America Award, a BAFTA,&nbsp;and the Hollywood Critics Association Award. &nbsp;We\u2019re so proud of you, Zach.&nbsp; The film [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":271,"featured_media":1593,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1592","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/krieger.jhu.edu\/film-media\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1592","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/krieger.jhu.edu\/film-media\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/krieger.jhu.edu\/film-media\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/krieger.jhu.edu\/film-media\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/271"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/krieger.jhu.edu\/film-media\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1592"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/krieger.jhu.edu\/film-media\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1592\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1597,"href":"https:\/\/krieger.jhu.edu\/film-media\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1592\/revisions\/1597"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/krieger.jhu.edu\/film-media\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1593"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/krieger.jhu.edu\/film-media\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1592"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/krieger.jhu.edu\/film-media\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1592"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/krieger.jhu.edu\/film-media\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1592"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}