Known for Writing
Nicolás Giacobone is an Argentine writer and screenwriter. He won the Academy Award for Best Original Screenplay for the 2014 film Birdman at the 87th Academy Awards in 2015. He wrote a book of short stories, Algún Cristo(2001), and the novels The Crossed-Out Notebook (2018) and Bum Bum Bum (2020). His screenplay for the film John and the Hole was part of the official selection of the 2020 Cannes Film Festival and premiered at the 2021 Sundance Film Festival. Description above from the Wikipedia article Nicolás Giacobone, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
Born
January 1, 1975 (age 51)
Birthplace
Buenos Aires, Argentina
Filmography
16 films


Digger
2026 · 2h 9m
country: United States
The most powerful man in the world embarks on a frantic mission to prove he is humanity's savior before the disaster he's unleashed destroys everything.


Down the Rabbit Hole
2024 · 1h 43m
country: Mexico
Raised in opulence and culture, a boy's life contrasts with the darkness that seeps in from his father's criminal activities in this dark comedy.


John and the Hole
2021 · 1h 43m
country: United States
While exploring the neighboring woods, 13-year-old John discovers an unfinished bunker — a deep hole in the ground. Seemingly without provocation, he drugs his affluent parents and older sister and drags their unconscious bodies into the bunker, where he holds them captive. As they anxiously wait for John to free them from the hole, the boy returns home, where he can finally do what he wants.


Animal
2018 · 1h 52m
country: Argentina
Antonio Decoud is a conservative family man who is forced by destiny to face an unexpected situation that shakes him to the core, scrambling up his life and his priorities, pushing him to forget his beliefs and his way of understanding life and follow the most basic instinct: the animal instinct.


The Last Elvis
2012 · 1h 32m
country: Argentina
In the unique world of the Buenos Aires celebrity-impersonator scene, “Elvis” Gutiérrez is a star. By day, though, he must contend with a dead-end factory job and an ex-wife who worries about how his obsessive behavior affects their young daughter, Lisa Marie. Feeling more connected to his persona as the King than to his own family, Gutiérrez retreats from reality until a tragic accident interrupts his plans and forces him to grapple with his real-world responsibilities.


Océano
2003 · 16m
country: Argentina
This Wednesday at two o'clock in the morning the world will succumb under the waters.