About me
The Writer’s Writer Award, introduced in 2023, honors a singular talent already recognized within the industry and by their peers, whose latest project has illustrated their versatility across mediums and elevated the trajectory of their career. The 2024 awardee is screenwriter, showrunner, and Shōgun co-creator, Justin Marks.
Justin Marks is an Oscar-nominated screenwriter, and a television creator and executive producer.
In feature film, Justin Marks was most recently a writer on the worldwide box-office hit film Top Gun: Maverick for producer Jerry Bruckheimer and Paramount with Tom Cruise reprising his iconic role. The film has earned nearly $1.5 billion worldwide. Justin also wrote the Walt Disney Company’s hit film The Jungle Book directed by Jon Favreau and earned nearly $1 billion in worldwide box office. The cast included Scarlett Johansson, Idris Elba, Lupita Nyong’o, Bill Murray, Christopher Walken and Ben Kingsley. A sequel is in development now. Recently, Justin was writing and producing Netflix’s animated musical The Prince of Port-au-Prince based on the life of Wyclef Jean.
In television, Justin is the co-creator and showrunner of the FX epic series Shōgun based on the novel by James Clavell. Previously, Justin was the creator and showrunner of the Starz drama Counterpart that starred JK Simmons and ran for two seasons.