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Directors, Screenwriters and Actors on Twitter

Posted on Monday, April 6th, 2009 by Peter Sciretta

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Update: You can read a more updated version of this list here.

In March, we published the first definitive listing of screenwriters, directors and actors on Twitter. But that posting quickly outgrew our original image-based format. With dozens of new additions per week, I thought we’d completely revamp the list.

Directors:

Judd Apatow - 40 Year Old Virgin, Knocked Up, Funny People
Eric Appel - FunnyorDie director: Gobstopper, Bacon’d!
Darren Lynn Bousman - Saw II, Saw III, Saw IV, Repo! The Genetic Opera
David Bruckner - The Signal
Wes Craven - Nightmare on Elm Street, Scream
Fred Durst - The Education of Charlie Banks, The Longshots
Dan Eckman - Mystery Team
Jon Favreau - Iron Man, Made, Zathura, Elf
Paul Feig - Freaks & Geeks, Unaccompanied Minors, I Am David
Ruben Fleischer - Zombieland
Ari Gold - The Adventures of Power
James Gunn - Slither
Jon Hurwitz - Harold & Kumar Go to White Castle
Rian Johnson - Brick, The Brothers Bloom
Duncan Jones - Moon
Robert Luketic - Monster in Law, Legally Blonde, 21
David Lynch - Blue Velvet, Mulholland Dr., Eraserhead, Dune
Joe Lynch - Wrong Turn 2
Jason Matzner - Dreamland
Errol Morris - The Fog of War, The Thin Blue Line
Greg Mottola - The Daytrippers, Superbad, Adventureland
Mark Romanek - One Hour Photo
David Silverman - The Simpsons Movie
David Slade - Hard Candy
Kevin Smith - Clerks, Chasing Amy, Dogma, Jersey Girl, Zack and Miri Make a Porno
Ondi Timoner - DiG!, We Live in Public
Lee Unkrich - Toy Story 3, co-director of Finding Nemo, Monsters, Inc, Toy Story 2

Screenwriters and Actors after the jump.

Screenwriters:

John August - Go, Big Fish, Charlie’s Angels, Corpse Bride, The Nines
Roger Avary - Pulp Fiction, Killing Zoe, The Rules of Attraction, Silent Hill, Beowulf
Greg Behrendt - Author of He’s Just Not That Into You, Consultant for Sex and the City
Diablo Cody - Juno, The United States of Tara, Jennifer’s Body
Paul Cornell - Doctor Who, Robin Hood, Primeval
Mike Dougherty - Superman Returns, X2, Trick ‘r Treat (director)
Neil Gaiman - Mirror Mask, Beowulf, Coraline
Josh Heald - Hot Tub Time Machine
Jonathan King - Black Sheep
Brian Lynch - Big Helium Dog, Puss in Boots, Nightcrawlers
Bryan Lee O’Malley - Scott Pilgrim (comic book writer)
Seth MacFarlane - Family Guy
James Moran - Severance, Primeval
J.R. Orci - Fringe, Journeyman
Nicholas Stoller - Undeclared, Fun with Dick and Jane, Blades of Glory, Forgetting Sarah Marshall

Producers:

Frank Marshall - Indiana Jones, Back to the Future, E.T.

Actors/Actresses:
Aziz Ansari - Funny People, Human Giant
Steve Agee - The Sarah Silverman Program, Sleeping Dogs Lie
Elizabeth Banks - Zack and Miri Make a Porno, The 40 Year Old Virgin, W., Role Models
Todd Barry - The Wrestler, The Sarah Silverman Program
Mischa Barton - The O.C., Assassination of a High School President
Brian Baumgartner - The Office, License To Wed, Four Christmases
Amber Benson - Buffy the Vampire Slayer
Michael Ian Black - Reaper, The State, Run Fatboy Run, Wet Hot American Summer
David Blue - Stargate Universe, Ugly Betty
Russell Brand - Forgetting Sarah Marshall, Get Him to The Greek
LeVar Burton - Star Trek: The Next Generation
Nick Cannon - Bobby, Weapons, Day of the Dead, The Killing Room
John Cleese - A Fish Called Wanda, Monty Python and the Holly Grail, Life of Brian
Dane Cook - My Best Friend’s Girl, Dan in Real Life, Mr. Brooks, Employee of the Month
Rob Corddry - The Daily Show, Harold and Kumar 2, Semi-Pro, Blades of Glory
Miranda Cosgrove - iCarly, Drake & Josh, The School of Rock, Yours Mine Ours
Miley Cyrus - Bolt, Hannah Montana, Big Fish
Kat Dennings - Nick and Norah’s Infinate Playlist, The 40 Year Old Virgin Charlie Bartlett
Dominic Dierkes - Mystery Team
Fran Drescher - The Nanny, Jack, UHF, Saturday Night Fever
Jimmy Fallon - Fever Pitch, Taxi, Almost Famous
Tom Felton - the Harry Potter movies
Sean Patrick Flanery - The Boondock Saints, Powder, Dead Zone
Stephen Fry - V for Vendetta, The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy
Don Glover - Mystery Team
Megan Good - The Unborn, Saw V, Brick, DEBS
Brea Grant - Heroes, Friday Night Lights, H2
Greg Grunberg - Heroes, Mission: Impossible III, Alias, Felicity
Jackie Guerra - Selena, Picking up the Pieces
Mariel Hemingway - Lipstick, Manhattan, Superman IV
David Hewlett - Stargate SG-1, Stargate: Atlantis, Cube
Kate Hewlett - Stargate: Atlantis, Dark Water
Rob Huebel - Human Giant, I Love You Man
Eddie Izzard - Valkyrie, Across The Universe, Chronicles of Narnia, Ocean’s Twelve
Hugh Jackman - X-Men, Wolverine, The Fountain, Australia
Ashton Kutcher - The Butterfly Effect, Dude, Where’s My Car?, What Happens in Vegas
Ricki Lake - Serial Mom, Hairspray, Cry-Baby, Working Girl
James Kyson Lee - Heroes
Samm Levine - Freaks & Geeks, Pulse, Sydney White, Inglourious Basterds
Faizon Love - Elf, Made
Ewan Macintosh - The Office, Little Britain
Danny Masterson - Yes Man, That 70’s Show
Chris Mintz-Plasse - Superbad, Kick-Ass, The Year One, Role Models
Demi Moore - Ghost, A Few Good Men, G.I. Jane, Striptease
Mandy Moore - A Walk To Remember, Saved!, American Dreamz, Southland Tales
D.C. Pierson - Mystery Team
Aubrey Plaza - Funny People, Mystery Team, Scott Pillgrim vs. The World
Kevin Pollak - Ricochet, End of Days, A Few Good Men, The Wedding Planner
Emma Roberts - Wild Child, Hotel for Dogs, The Winning Season, Nancy Drew, Unfabulous
Emmy Rossum - Mystic River, Day After Tomorrow, Phantom of the Opera, Poseidon, Dragonball
Paul Scheer - Human Giant
William Shatner - Star Trek, Boston Legal, Over the Hedge, Free Enterprise
Kevin Spacey - American Beauty, LA Confidential, The Usual Suspects
Brent Spiner - Star Trek: The Next Generation
Martin Starr - Adventureland, Superbad, Knocked Up, Freaks & Geeks
Michael Stephenson - Troll 2, Best Worst Movie
Emma Stone - SuperBad, Zombieland
George Takei - Star Trek, Heroes
Ashley Tisdale - High School Musical
Robin Williams - Good Will Hunting, Dead Poets Society, Aladdin
Rumer Willis - Sorority Row, The House Bunny
Donnie Wahlberg - The Sixth Sense, Band of Brothers, Saw II - V, Righteous Kill
Wil Wheaton - Star Trek: The Next Generation
Rainn Wilson - Juno, The Rocker, The Office

And as always, you can find me at:

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Listing Rules:

I’ve tried to concentrate on working actors over celebrities (for example, I didn’t include Britney Spears). I’ve tried to put everyone in the category that they are best known for. For example, Kevin Smith is better known as a director than actor or writer and Roger Avary is better known as a writer than director (at this point).

So that the list doesn’t get too crowded, I’m only going to include actors, writers and directors that have had a major film released (with a few exceptions). We now have nearly 100 twitter accounts! I’m sure there might be some people I missed (especially in the screenwriter section). If you know of any credited screenwriters, directors or actors that we may have missed, please leave their Twitter names in the comments below.

Updates:

3/6/09: List first published
3/6/09: Donald Glover, Roger Avary, David Hewlett, Kate Hewlett, Brea Grant, Mark Romanek, David Wain, Jon Hurwitz, Joe Lynch, David Bruckner, James Moran, Michael Stephenson, Sean Flanery
3/23/09: Aubrey Plaza, Rian Johnson, Faizon Love, David Blue, James Kyson Lee, Jonathan King, Aziz Ansari, John Cleese, Danny Masterson
4/5/09: D.C. Pierson, J.R. Orci, Eddie Izzard, Ari Gold, Megan Good, Lee Unkrich, Paul Feig, Mandy Moore, Donnie Wahlberg, Brian Baumgartner, Paul Cornell, Eric Appel, Mischa Barton, Kat Dennings, Emma Roberts, Robert Luketic, Miranda Cosgrove, Miley Cyrus, Ashley Tisdale, Kevin Spacey, LeVar Burton, Tom Felton, Jason Matzner, Jackie Guerra, Martin Starr, Judd Apatow, Hugh Jackman, JJ Abrams confirmed fake by greggrunberg, Emma Stone, Ruben Fleischer, Eric Roth, Kathleen Kennedy, Frank Marshall, Errol Morris, Rob Huebel, Dominic Dierkes,
4/8/09: Mike Dougherty, Kathleeen Kennedy and Eric Roth deleted their accounts.

sources: Cinetuyoymio, valebrity.com, ScreenRider, nitroslick, danlight, jasmined , webconnoisseur, Scott Weinberg, hollywoodchain, JoshDaws, Jesse Luna, tursini, Filmstew

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  • Nick
    AAAHHHH

    Twitter is by far the most pathetic, lame ass internet fad ever. Not only do I not give a shit about the random nonsense that everyday users of Twitter feel they need to share (as well as the random nonsense Facebook users display in their "status"), but I care even less about the shit celebrities feel like making public as we continue to shower them with undeserved adulation and praise. All Twitter does is confirm how sadly narcissistic our society has become.
  • not cool
  • Nick
    hahahaha

    "Oh man I wonder what Kevin Smith said today. I haven't checked my Twitter page in like 10 minutes."
  • And yet you read this article any way.
  • Jesse
    do you hate life and/or are you bitter much?
    easy enough for you to say since nobody probably cares about you.
  • Nick
    That's a reasonable response, and although I might be slightly pessimistic, no, I am not bitter. The difference is, I don't feel the need to seek attention and/or sympathy on Twitter. And you nailed it Jesse, no one cares for me.
  • Hahahahahaha! This is one of the best ironic rants I've read in a while. Random person "Nick" could care less about the inane banterings of nobodies on TT and FB, and cares even less of celebrities who update their "statuses" on these services—yet he has the need to share HIS inane banterings on a blog that he didn't create himself. Please, Nick, just sign up for Twitter and join the human race. You have just as much need to share something, anything, as that *sshat, Ashton Kutcher. Just be honest with yourself. .LOLz
  • Nick
    Very true, but you will find very few of my comments on this site or any other. The only reason I comment on sites like these is because I enjoy movies more than most things. Besides, there is a difference between a comment section where you can discuss your opinions and the crap people post on Twitter. I commented on this post and continue to reply to responses because this Twitter thing truly does bother me and I find the negative feedback funny because it proves exactly why I hate Twitter so much. And I'll admit, I gave twitter a try a while back and attempted to "join the human race". But, no surprise, I canceled my account after 2 or 3 weeks because of the reasons I've already explained.
  • Fair enough. Twitter's not for everyone. I do agree with you, that at some level, Twitter, because it's so instantaneous, and sometimes thoughtless, exposes a lot of life's banality and triviality. But, actually, I think this is a good thing--ESPECIALLY--when you see celebrities post their statuses. Here's why: we put celebrities on a pedestal, as if they're better than us, or more interesting than us. But when you see a Tweet from them, "Stuck in traffic, this sucks!" or "Going to the store to get diapers and beer!" they get revealed for being just as normal, and, perhaps boring as we are. And then, for me, I get over my fascination with them -- they're just people whose job happens to be on a stage, under hot lights. Big deal. Generally, btw, I find regular people on Twitter much more intersting to follow than so-called celebrities. This kind of communication has the ability to break down artificial barriers. I think that's good. Tweet on.
  • Twitter is great! Thanks for the list, very helpful.
  • Tursini
    Apparently Hugh Jackman just joined the twitterverse as well...http://twitter.com/RealHughJackman.
  • Phil
    Why no cinematographer love? I'm sure they are out there.
  • No one ever loves the cinematographer. Wasn't the first oscar ever presented by a cinematographer given out this year?
  • GoodChowder
    Thank you for providing access to the lives of people far more interesting than our friends and family.
  • I swore to not give in to Twitter, but this list is not helping!
  • haha i feel your pain.. I caved a looong time ago.
  • mcte
    Not all of these are correct, by the way. Miranda cosgrove's is mirandabuzz, not mcosgrove. If you check out the writer/creator of her show iCarly, (twitter.com/danwarp), you'll see that he clears up that she is definitely mirandabuzz and not mcosgrove.
  • who cares about miranda cosgrove
  • Ah, the only reason why I joined Twitter was (after reading the first of these posts) to just be friends with celebrities so that, every few days, I could go on and feel like they were talking to me personally.
    Thanks for supporting my creepy self-affirmations!
  • I'm so glad you are doing this Peter, because Lord knows I don't want to take the time, and these people are great to follow.
  • You can add @miraclelaurie to that list (from Dollhouse)
  • john holmes
    wait, wil wheaton is still considered an "actor"? he was barely an actor when he WAS an actor!
  • sleepinginflame
    he's still acting though! mostly voice over stuff, but he was also recently on an episode of criminal minds. so yeah, he's an actor.
  • ik_
    Peter you should mention some of your friends and colleagues from other sites too. The conversations and arguements between @firstshowing, @rejects, @devincf, @edouglasww, @latinoreview, @elguapo1, @williambgoss, @ericdsnyder, @erikdavis, @scottbweinberg and others are some of the most entertaining, funniest and sometimes informative things that go down on twitter.
  • Melly
    maybe start a list of actors from tv shows?? @jamesroday and @dulehill from Psych @jerrytrainor and @jennettemccurdy from iCarly @danwarp is Dan Schneider who created/wrote/directed Drake and Josh, iCarly, Zoe 101
  • Thanks for the list Peter.
  • andrewdillaha
    as long as i have peter on my friends list....
  • Mikey
    Uhhh I feel embarassed to tell you this but here's two more.

    @theRobPattinson and @KristenjStewart
  • Troy
    Um, doesn't Roger Avary have more important things to worry about than updating his Twitter, like -- I don't know -- his trial for manslaughter?
  • WOW MAN, this is a great update!

    One little thing though: J.R. Orci is a writer, not an actor, as far as I know...and it's not just FRINGE...also ALIAS & JOURNEYMAN.
  • Dylan
    I think Kevin Smith and Judd Apatow will be fun to follow.

    cinemaspark.blogspot.com
  • BobbyBoo
    Blake synder...Save The Cat!
  • You should make a list of confirmed FAKE Twitter accounts
  • Peter. If you want to add TV people too there is @donttrythis (Adam Savage of Mythbusters)
  • Reggie
    You guys suck for putting Miley Cyrus on this list.

    But thanks for the rest...I guess.....-stews in hatred of little girl-
  • Aaron
    Nicholas Stoller didn't write Forgetting Sarah Marshall, he directed it.
  • Elaine
    Actor/Director Melanie Mayron (thirtysomething) @melaniemayron52 , producer ( Monster) @bradwyman , writer/producer (Heroes) Jesse Alexander @globalcouch , actor (Aaron Stone, The Replacements) J.P. Manoux @JPManoux , actor Jon Hamm @JohHamm
  • Elaine
    Also forgot!!! @janefonda Jane Fonda!
  • Happy_Evil_Dude
    Kristen Stewart: Kbitch
    Vanessa Hudgens: VanessaHudgens
    Sophia Bush: SophiaBush
    Emma Watson: mwtsnx
    Rachel Bilson: rachel_bilson
    Nikki Reed: itsnikkibitch

    And you should be able to find quite a few not featured here: http://www.celebritytweet.com/
  • I'm always disappointed to see @feliciaday snubbed by these lists.
  • Nick
    Did I read the article? Or did I see the post on the main page and head straight to the comments section so I could rant?
  • I'm pretty sure a couple of those are fake. Emma has publicly said that she is not on Twitter.
  • Justin
    You've missed @feliciaday from The Guild and Dr. Horrible and new-to-twitter @grantimahara from Mythbusters
  • Following the celebrities on Twitter is really entertaining. Our society may be narcissistic as the first person commented, but I think that most people just want a release from their daily grind. Even the fake celebrity accounts are entertaining, as most focus their efforts on portraying that celebrity's persona as closely as possible.
  • And there's @John_Schneider TV/Film/Stage actor and the "real" Bo Duke. http://pro.imdb.com/name/nm0773884/
  • Wasabi Steak
    *paitiently waits for Kristin Kreuk to get on twiter*
  • Nice list you have updated. This will be huge by the end of the year.
  • Infrafan
    Thank God you put Fred Durst. We all want to know what he's been up too since his glorious days as a musician. Hold on, my sarcasm detector is going off.
  • Juiceless
    You need a sarcasm detector to detect your own sarcasm?
  • Vlad
    Silly question - but who's to say these are all legit? What keeps a person from just creating a Twitter account using the name of some Hollwood persona? Someone sent me the Twitter address for Christopher Walken. The account was updated 4-5 times a day. Not that I don't think Mr. Walken has better things to do with his time. Okay, actually I do think exactly that.
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