Story – Robert McKee's Creative Storytelling Magazine Issue 005 – Drew Carey | Page 5

ROBERT MCKEE, A FULBRIGHT
SCHOLAR, IS THE MOST SOUGHT
AFTER SCREENWRITING
LECTURER ON THE PLANET.
He has dedicated the last 30 years to educating and mentoring screenwriters,
novelists, playwrights, poets, documentary makers, producers, and directors
internationally. Peter Jackson (writer/director The Lord Of The Rings Trilogy,
The Hobbit) has lauded him as “ The Guru of Gurus.” For the writers of Pixar
(creators of Toy Story 1, 2, & 3, Finding Nemo), McKee’s STORY Seminar
is a rite of passage. Emmy Award-Winner Brian Cox also portrayed McKee
in the Oscar-nominated film Adaptation.

McKee’s former students include
over 60 Academy Award Winners,
250 Academy Award Nominees,
170 Emmy Award Winners, 500+
Emmy Award Nominees, 30 WGA
(Writers Guild of America) Award
Winners, 180+ WGA Award Nominees, and 26 DGA (Directors Guild
of America) Award Winners, 52+
DGA Award Nominees.A winner
and nominee of BAFTA for his
popular Channel Four series REEL
SECRETS, McKee also wrote and
hosted 12 episodes of BBC’s FILMWORKS series.He was profiled
by Bob Simon of 60 Minutes for
CBS news.
McKee’s articles on Story have also
appeared in hundreds of newspapers and magazines around the
world including Harvard Business Review, The Wall Street Journal, Vanity Fair, The New Yorker
Magazine, Swiss Business Magazine, Sueddeutsche Zeitung, CBS

Morning News, BBC, Channel 4 in
UK, RAI (Italy), CBN Weekly News
& Morning Glory (China), MBC
TV, KBS & Arirang TV, Korea Times
(South Korea), Kiev Weekly, Kultura Moscow, all major TV, Radio
and/or newspapers of Argentina,
Australia, Belgium, Brazil, Canada, Chile, Colombia, Germany,
France, India, Israel, Mexico, New
Zealand, Portugal, Russia, Turkey,
Singapore, South Africa, Sweden,
and Switzerland and given seminars in all of the above countries.
Since 1984, more than 100,000
students have taken McKee’s
courses at various cities around
the world: Los Angeles, New
York, London, Paris, Sydney, Toronto, Boston, San Francisco,
Helsinki, Oslo, Munich, Tel Aviv,
Auckland, Singapore, Madrid,
Beijing, Shanghai, Barcelona, Lisbon, Malaga, Hamburg, Berlin,
Johannesburg, Rome, Stockholm,

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São Paulo, Santiago, Buenos Aires, Bogota, Beijing, Brussels, Rio
de Janeiro, Moscow, Seoul, Istanbul, Hyderabad, Mexico City and
many cities regularly. Some notable writers, directors, and actors
such as Peter Jackson, Jane Campion, Andrew Stanton, Geoffrey
Rush, Paul Haggis, Akiva Goldsman, William Goldman, Joan Rivers, Meg Ryan, Rob Row, David
Bowie, Kirk Douglas, John Cleese,
Steve Pressfield, Russell Brand,
and the writers of Pixar to name a
few, have taken his seminar. McKee continues to be a project consultant to major film and television production companies such
as 20th Century Fox, Disney, Paramount, & MTV. In addition, Pixar,
ABC, BBC, Disney, Miramax, PBS,
Nickelodeon, Paramount, GLOBOSAT, MNET and other international TV and Film companies
regularly send their entire creative
and writing staffs to his lectures.