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  1. Nov 20, 2023 · Screenwriter Samy Burch wrote the “May December” script to attract an agent—now it’s being hailed as one of the best of the year.

    • Lisa Wong Macabasco
  2. Feb 22, 2024 · Samy Burch and Alex Mechanik had a busy 2023. The pair got married, and in May, a film they had plotted together, and which Burch had scripted, premiered at Cannes Film Festival. May...

  3. Feb 7, 2024 · In the spring of 2019, she shut herself in a makeshift office — the coat closet in her apartment— with the goal of writing a script that would get her representation and help her pivot away from her day job in casting. She emerged months later with May December. Now, Burch is an Oscar-nominated screenwriter.

  4. Feb 9, 2024 · May DecemberWriter Samy Burch On Hitting The Zeitgeist With First Produced Script And First Oscar Nomination – Behind The Lens

  5. Dec 1, 2023 · May December, written by Burch with story credit by Burch and Alex Mechanik, follows an actress (Portman) arriving in Georgia to do research for a film about a couple (Julianne Moore, Charles Melton) whose romance sparked a tabloid frenzy 23 years prior.

  6. Nov 29, 2023 · It sounds so simple and commonplace, but it's a lesson in not only great acting but also writing great subtext. Directed by Todd Haynes and starring Julianne Moore and Natalie Portman, May December is about Gracie (Moore), a middle-aged woman who seduced and later married a 13-year-old boy.

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  8. At the 96th Oscars, Burch is a first-time nominee for Best Original Screenplay, of which she is "shocked and deeply moved." Surprising even herself, Burch followed up May December by writing something completely different: Coyote vs. Acme, starring Wile E. Coyote, Roadrunner, and John Cena.

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