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Anthony Robert Kushner (born July 16, 1956) is an American author, playwright, and screenwriter. Lauded for his work on stage he's most known for his seminal work Angels in America which earned a Pulitzer Prize and a Tony Award. At the turn of the 21st Century he became known for his numerous film collaborations with Steven Spielberg. He received the National Medal of Arts from President Barack Obama in 2013. Kushner made his Broadway debut in 1993 with both Angels in America: Millennium Approaches and Angels in America: Perestroika. He received the Pulitzer Prize for Drama and the Tony Award for Best Play. He then adapted it into a 2003 miniseries directed by Mike Nichols for which Kushner received a Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Writing for a Limited Series or Movie. In 2003 he wrote the lyrics and book to the musical Caroline, or Change which earned Kushner Tony Award nominations for Best Book of a Musical and Best Original Score. The 2021 Broadway revival of Caroline, or Change earned Kushner a nomination for the 2023 Grammy Award for Best Musical Theater Album, making Kushner among the few playwrights in history nominated for all four major American entertainment awards: the Emmy, Grammy, Oscar, and Tony Awards. He has collaborated with director Steven Spielberg on the films Munich (2005), Lincoln (2012), West Side Story (2021), and The Fabelmans (2022), the former two earning him nominations for the Academy Award for Best Adapted Screenplay. Description above from the Wikipedia article Tony Kushner, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
This prestige six-part limited series is a sweeping, unflinching adaptation of Charles Dickens’ classic masterpiece, tracing Oliver Twist’s perilous journey through the starkly divided world of Victorian England. Born in the squalor of a provincial parish workhouse and subjected to the institutional cruelty of the pompous beadle Mr. Bumble, Oliver commits the ultimate act of rebellion by asking for more gruel. Cast out and apprenticed to a grim undertaker, he violently defends his dead mother’s honor before fleeing down a grueling 70-mile road to London. In the city's foggy, labyrinthine underworld, he is taken in by the charismatic Artful Dodger and inducted into a juvenile pickpocket ring run by the enigmatic fence Fagin. When a botched theft exposes Oliver to the gentle aristocracy of Mr. Brownlow and the Maylie family, a deadly tug-of-war begins for the boy’s soul. Unbeknownst to Oliver, a shadowy figure named Monks is conspiring with Fagin to destroy the boy's reputation and steal his rightful inheritance. The stakes escalate into a dark psychological thriller as the tragic Nancy risks her life to expose the plot, igniting a wave of violence from her abusive, terrifying lover Bill Sikes that culminates in a gripping rooftop manhunt. Blending gritty social realism with a high-stakes family mystery, the series exposes the systemic rot of the Victorian class system while charting Oliver's harrowing path toward justice, redemption, and the warmth of a true home.
