Biography
Akiva Goldsman (born July 7, 1962) is an American filmmaker. Goldsman's filmography as a screenwriter includes The Client; Batman Forever and its sequel Batman & Robin; I, Robot; I Am Legend; Cinderella Man; and numerous rewrites (some credited, some uncredited). He wrote over a dozen episodes for the science fiction television series Fringe. In 2002, Goldsman received the Oscar for Best Adapted Screenplay and the Golden Globe Award for Best Screenplay for the 2001 film A Beautiful Mind, which...
Known For
Complete Filmography
Practical Magic 2
2026
Screenplay, Characters
A multi generational family of witches, cursed to be loveless for centuries, attempts to break the spell by confronting dark secrets and sacrificing f...

Star Trek: Picard - The IMAX Live Series Finale Event
2023
Executive Producer
Get ready to send off Jean-Luc Picard and his crew in style! On Wednesday, April 19, experience the last two episodes of Star Trek: Picard in IMAX, fo...

Meet Cute
2022
Producer
A wildly inventive deconstruction of the romantic comedy built around the question: What would you do if you could travel to your loved ones’ past, he...

Firestarter
2022
Producer
For more than a decade, parents Andy and Vicky have been on the run, desperate to hide their daughter Charlie from a shadowy federal agency that wants...

Back to the Outback
2021
Executive Producer
Tired of being locked in a reptile house where humans gawk at them like they are monsters, a ragtag group of Australia’s deadliest creatures plot an e...

Unknown Dimension: The Story of Paranormal Activity
2021
as Self
A deep dive into the making of the Paranormal Activity films with first time ever interviews with cast and crew, never-before-seen footage from the mo...

Tom Clancy's Without Remorse
2021
Producer
An elite Navy SEAL uncovers an international conspiracy while seeking justice for the murder of his pregnant wife.

The Map of Tiny Perfect Things
2021
Producer
Two teenagers trapped in an endless time loop set out to find all the tiny things that make that one day perfect.

Doctor Sleep
2019
Executive Producer
Still scarred by the trauma he endured as a child at the Overlook Hotel, Dan Torrance faces the ghosts of the past when he meets Abra, a courageous te...

The Dark Tower
2017
Screenplay, Producer
A boy haunted by visions of a parallel world aids its disillusioned guardian in preventing the destruction of the nexus of universes known as the Dark...

Transformers: The Last Knight
2017
Story
Humans and Transformers are at war. Optimus Prime is gone. The key to saving our future lies buried in the secrets of the past, in the hidden history ...

King Arthur: Legend of the Sword
2017
Producer
When the child Arthur’s father is murdered, Vortigern, Arthur’s uncle, seizes the crown. Robbed of his birthright and with no idea who he truly is, Ar...

Stephanie
2017
Director
After a mysterious global crisis, a young girl is left alone to hide from a malevolent power that stalks her home. Her parents eventually return and t...

Rings
2017
Screenplay
Julia becomes worried about her boyfriend Holt when he explores the dark urban legend of a mysterious videotape said to kill the watcher seven days af...

The 5th Wave
2016
Screenplay
16-year-old Cassie Sullivan tries to survive in a world devastated by the waves of an alien invasion that has already decimated the population and kno...

Insurgent
2015
Screenplay
Beatrice Prior must confront her inner demons and continue her fight against a powerful alliance which threatens to tear her society apart.

Winter's Tale
2014
Director, Screenplay, Producer
A burglar falls for an heiress as she dies in his arms. When he learns that he has the gift of reincarnation, he sets out to save her.

Lone Survivor
2013
Producer
Four Navy SEALs on a covert mission to neutralize a high-level Taliban operative must make an impossible moral decision in the mountains of Afghanista...

Star Trek Into Darkness
2013
as Starfleet Admiral
When the crew of the Enterprise is called back home, they find an unstoppable force of terror from within their own organization has detonated the fle...

Finding Joe
2011
as Self
Finding Joe is an exploration of the studies of mythologist Joseph Campbell, and of their continuing influence on our culture. Through interviews with...

Paranormal Activity 2
2010
Executive Producer
Just as Daniel and Kristi welcome a newborn baby into their home, a demonic presence begins terrorizing them, tearing apart their perfect world and tu...

Jonah Hex
2010
Producer
Gunslinger Jonah Hex is appointed by President Ulysses Grant to track down terrorist Quentin Turnbull, a former Confederate officer determined on unle...

Fair Game
2010
Producer
A devoted wife and mother leads a secret life as a CIA agent until her husband’s article exposes a scandal, putting her identity and loved ones at ris...

The Losers
2010
Producer
On a mission deep in the Bolivian jungle, a team of elite commandos finds itself on the receiving end of a lethal betrayal. Now presumed dead, the men...

Star Trek
2009
as Vulcan Council Member
The fate of the galaxy rests in the hands of bitter rivals. One, James Kirk, is a delinquent, thrill-seeking Iowa farm boy. The other, Spock, a Vulcan...

Angels & Demons
2009
Screenplay
Harvard symbologist Robert Langdon is recruited by the Vatican to investigate the apparent return of the Illuminati – a secret, underground organizati...

Hancock
2008
as Executive
Hancock is a down-and-out superhero who's forced to employ a PR expert to help repair his image when the public grows weary of all the damage he's inf...

Hancock
2008
Producer
Hancock is a down-and-out superhero who's forced to employ a PR expert to help repair his image when the public grows weary of all the damage he's inf...

I Am Legend
2007
Producer, Screenplay
Robert Neville is a scientist who was unable to stop the spread of the terrible virus that was incurable and man-made. Immune, Neville is now the last...

I'm Reed Fish
2007
Executive Producer
When an old high school crush returns to his small hometown, Reed Fish's once simple, calculated life begins to unravel. A drunken incident prompts Re...

The Da Vinci Code
2006
Screenplay
A murder in Paris’ Louvre Museum and cryptic clues in some of Leonardo da Vinci’s most famous paintings lead to the discovery of a religious mystery. ...

Poseidon
2006
Producer
A packed cruise ship traveling the Atlantic is hit and overturned by a massive wave, compelling the passengers to begin a dramatic fight for their liv...

Mr. & Mrs. Smith
2005
Producer
A husband and wife struggle to keep their marriage alive until they realize they are both secretly working as assassins. Now, their respective assignm...

Cinderella Man
2005
Screenplay
The true story of boxer Jim Braddock who, following his retirement in the 1930s, makes a surprise comeback in order to lift his family out of poverty.

Constantine
2005
Producer
John Constantine has literally been to Hell and back. When he teams up with a policewoman to solve the mysterious suicide of her twin sister, their in...

I, Robot
2004
Screenplay
In 2035, where robots are commonplace and abide by the three laws of robotics, a technophobic cop investigates an apparent suicide. Suspecting that a ...

Mindhunters
2004
Producer
Trainees in the FBI's psychological profiling program must put their training into practice when they discover a killer in their midst. Based very lo...

Starsky & Hutch
2004
Producer
Join uptight David Starsky and laid-back Ken "Hutch" Hutchinson as they're paired for the first time as undercover cops. The new partners must overcom...

Inside a Beautiful Mind
2002
as Self
"Behind-the-scenes" documentary on the making of and public reaction to the Ron Howard/Brian Grazer film "A Beautiful Mind." Featuring rare interviews...

A Beautiful Mind
2001
Writer
From the heights of notoriety to the depths of depravity, John Forbes Nash Jr. experiences it all. As a brilliant but socially awkward mathematician, ...

Deep Blue Sea
1999
Producer
Researchers on the undersea lab Aquatica have genetically altered the brains of captive sharks to develop a cure for Alzheimer's disease. But there's ...

Practical Magic
1998
Screenplay
Sally and Gillian Owens, born into a magical family, have mostly avoided witchcraft themselves. But when Gillian's vicious boyfriend, Jimmy Angelov, d...

Lost in Space
1998
Screenplay, Producer
The prospects for continuing life on Earth in the year 2058 are grim. So the Robinsons are launched into space to colonize Alpha Prime, the only other...

Batman & Robin
1997
Writer
Batman and Robin deal with relationship issues while preventing Mr. Freeze and Poison Ivy from attacking Gotham City.

A Time to Kill
1996
Screenplay
A young lawyer defends a black man accused of murdering two white men who raped his 10-year-old daughter, sparking a rebirth of the KKK.

Batman Forever
1995
Screenplay
In the looming shadows of Gotham City, two villainous souls devise twin schemes of revenge against the city's dark guardian. Two-Face, disfigured by c...

Silent Fall
1994
Writer
Having seen the double murder of his parents, autistic youth Tim Warden is sent to therapy with controversial therapist Dr. Jake Rainer. Jake tries to...

The Client
1994
Screenplay
A street-wise kid, Mark Sway, sees the suicide of Jerome Clifford, a prominent Louisiana lawyer, whose current client is Barry 'The Blade' Muldano, a ...
I Am Legend 2
N/A
Producer
A sequel to the 2007 film. Plot TBA.
Stray
N/A
Producer

Constantine 2
N/A
Screenplay, Producer
The sequel to the 2005 supernatural thriller Constantine.

Seesaw Monster
N/A
Producer
Rainbow Six
N/A
Producer
An adaptation of the Tom Clancy novel. Plot TBA.
Snapshot 1988
N/A
Producer
A teenager looks after an elderly lady who is losing her memories not to dementia, but to a memory thief called The Phoenician.
Major Matt Mason
N/A
Screenplay, Producer
Plot unknown. Based on a Mattel action figure.
Caster
N/A
Producer
Aza Wu, who knows that real magic is dangerous and illegal, as casting killed her sister, Shire. As with all magic, everything comes at a price. For A...

Billion Dollar Spy
N/A
Producer
Set against the high-stakes backdrop of the late Cold War, Adolf Tolkachev, an ordinary man who risks everything to pass thousands of pages of top-sec...
Basketful of Heads
N/A
Producer
June discovers that every bad guy she decapitates leaves a talking head behind. With every kill, June adds a new voice to her twisted Greek chorus — a...
Monster High
N/A
Producer
A live-action film based on the toy line revolving around a high school attended by the teenage children of famous monsters, including Draculaura (dau...