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Tom Fontana, the Glossary

Tom Fontana (born September 12, 1951) is an American screenwriter, writer, and television producer.^[1]

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Academy of Television Arts & Sciences Foundation

The Academy of Television Arts & Sciences Foundation is the charitable arm of the Academy of Television Arts & Sciences.

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AMC (TV channel)

AMC is an American basic cable television channel that first launched in 1984, and is the namesake flagship property of AMC Networks.

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America: A Tribute to Heroes

America: A Tribute to Heroes was a benefit concert created by the heads of the four major American broadcast networks; Fox, ABC, NBC and CBS.

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American Conservatory Theater

The American Conservatory Theater (ACT) is a nonprofit theater company in San Francisco, California, United States, that offers both classical and contemporary theater productions.

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American Tragedy is a 2000 American television film broadcast on CBS from November 12, 2000, to November 15, 2000, that is based on the O. J. Simpson murder case for the 1994 murder of his ex-wife, Nicole Brown Simpson, and her friend, Ron Goldman.

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Angelus (magazine)

Angelus (also called Angelus News) is a weekly Catholic magazine published jointly by The Tidings Corporation and the Archdiocese of Los Angeles, the most populous diocese in the United States.

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Austin Film Festival

Austin Film Festival (AFF), founded in 1994, is an organization in Austin, Texas, that focuses on writers' creative contributions to film.

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Barry Levinson

Barry Lee Levinson (born April 6, 1942) is an American film director, producer and screenwriter. Tom Fontana and Barry Levinson are writers Guild of America Award winners.

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BBC America

BBC America is an American basic cable network that is jointly owned by BBC Studios and AMC Networks.

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Borgia (TV series)

Borgia is a historical drama television series created by Tom Fontana for Canal+, ZDF, ORF, and Sky Italia.

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Bruce Paltrow

Bruce Weigert Paltrow (November 26, 1943 – October 3, 2002) was an American television and film director and producer. Tom Fontana and Bruce Paltrow are screenwriters from New York (state) and writers Guild of America Award winners.

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Buffalo State University

The State University of New York Buffalo State University (colloquially referred to as Buffalo State University, SUNY Buffalo State, Buffalo State, or simply Buff State) is a public university in Buffalo, New York.

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Buffalo, New York

Buffalo is a city in the U.S. state of New York and the county seat of Erie County.

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Canal+ (French TV channel)

Canal+ (meaning "Channel Plus"), also spelt Canal Plus and sometimes abbreviated C+ or Canal, is a French premium television channel owned by the Groupe Canal+.

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Canisius High School

Canisius High School is a Catholic, private college-preparatory school for young men run by the USA Northeast Province of the Society of Jesus in Buffalo, New York, United States, just north of the Delaware Avenue Historic District.

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Cathedral school

Cathedral schools began in the Early Middle Ages as centers of advanced education, some of them ultimately evolving into medieval universities.

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Cincinnati Playhouse in the Park

The Cincinnati Playhouse in the Park is a regional theatre in the United States.

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City on a Hill (TV series)

City on a Hill is an American crime drama television series created by Charlie MacLean, based on a story by Ben Affleck and MacLean.

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Copper (TV series)

Copper is a television drama series created by Tom Fontana and Will Rokos for BBC America.

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Deadline Hollywood

Deadline Hollywood, commonly known as Deadline and also referred to as Deadline.com, is an online news site founded as the news blog Deadline Hollywood Daily by Nikki Finke in 2006.

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Dennis Farina

Donaldo Gugliermo "Dennis" Farina (February 29, 1944 – July 22, 2013) was an American stage and film actor, who prior to his acting career worked as a Chicago police detective.

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Dick Wolf

Richard Anthony Wolf (born December 20, 1946) is an American film and television producer, best known for his ''Law & Order'' franchise. Tom Fontana and Dick Wolf are American showrunners, Edgar Award winners and screenwriters from New York (state).

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Dramatists Guild of America

The Dramatists Guild of America is a professional organization for playwrights, composers, and lyricists working in the U.S. theatre market.

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Edgar Awards

The Edgar Allan Poe Awards, popularly called the Edgars, are presented every year by the Mystery Writers of America which is based in New York City. Tom Fontana and Edgar Awards are Edgar Award winners.

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Emmy Awards

The Emmy Awards, or Emmys, are an extensive range of awards for artistic and technical merit for the American and international television industry.

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Esquire (magazine)

Esquire is an American men's magazine.

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Firehouse (1997 film)

Firehouse is a 1997 dramatic television film about a firehouse crew who are dealing with fact that the firehouse is being consolidated with an EMS unit, and with a sniper who keeps shooting at them at fire locations.

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Five Points, Manhattan

Five Points (or The Five Points) was a 19th-century neighborhood in Lower Manhattan, New York City.

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Fox Broadcasting Company

Fox Broadcasting Company, LLC, commonly known simply as Fox and stylized in all caps, is an American commercial broadcast television network owned by the Fox Entertainment division of Fox Corporation, headquartered at 1211 Avenue of the Americas in Midtown Manhattan.

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Geneva International Film Festival

The Geneva International Film Festival (GIFF) (Festival international du film de Genève) is an annual film festival founded in 1995.

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HBO

Home Box Office (HBO) is an American pay television network, which is the flagship property of namesake parent-subsidiary Home Box Office, Inc., itself a unit owned by Warner Bros. Discovery.

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HBO Films

HBO Films (formerly called HBO Premiere Films and HBO Pictures) is an American production and distribution company, a division of the cable television network HBO that produces feature films and miniseries.

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Hill Street Blues

Hill Street Blues is an American serial police procedural television series that aired on NBC in prime-time from January 15, 1981, to May 12, 1987, for 146 episodes.

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Homicide: Life on the Street

Homicide: Life on the Street is an American police drama television series chronicling the work of a fictional version of the Baltimore Police Department's Homicide Unit.

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Humanitas Prize

The Humanitas Prize is an award for film and television writing, and is given to writers whose work explores the human condition in a nuanced and meaningful way.

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James Yoshimura

James Yoshimura is an American writer and producer, best known for his screenwriting work on the NBC series Homicide: Life on the Street and the short-lived Fox series The Jury, for which he served as a co-creator.

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John Masius

John Masius (born July 30, 1950) is an American screenwriter. Tom Fontana and John Masius are screenwriters from New York (state) and writers Guild of America Award winners.

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Judas (2004 film)

Judas is a 2004 Biblical television drama film depicting the intertwined lives of Judas Iscariot and Jesus of Nazareth.

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Lagardère Group

Lagardère S.A., Co., Ltd. is an international group with operations in over 40 countries.

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Law & Order

Law & Order is an American police procedural and legal drama television series created by Dick Wolf and produced by Wolf Entertainment and Universal Television, launching the ''Law & Order'' franchise.

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List of Law & Order characters

The American television police procedural and legal drama Law & Order (1990–2010, 2022–present) follows the fictional cases of a group of police detectives and prosecutors who represent the public in the criminal justice system.

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Monsieur Spade

Monsieur Spade is an American neo-noir television miniseries created by Scott Frank and Tom Fontana, and starring Clive Owen as Dashiell Hammett's fictional private detective Sam Spade.

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Montclair Film

Montclair Film is a nonprofit that organizes the annual Montclair Film Festival (MFF).

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NBC

The National Broadcasting Company (NBC) is an American commercial broadcast television and radio network serving as the flagship property of the NBC Entertainment division of NBCUniversal, a subsidiary of Comcast.

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Nielsen Media Research (NMR) is an American firm that measures media audiences, including television, radio, theatre, films (via the AMC Theatres MAP program), and newspapers.

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Oz (TV series)

Oz is an American prison drama television series set at a fictional men's prison created and principally written by Tom Fontana.

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Patti LuPone

Patti Ann LuPone (born April 21, 1949) is an American actress and singer best known for her work in musical theater.

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PBS

The Public Broadcasting Service (PBS) is an American public broadcaster and non-commercial, free-to-air television network based in Crystal City, Virginia.

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Peabody Awards

The George Foster Peabody Awards (or simply Peabody Awards or the Peabodys) program, named for the American businessman and philanthropist George Peabody, honor what are described as the most powerful, enlightening, and invigorating stories in all of television, radio, and online media.

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Producers Guild of America

The Producers Guild of America (PGA) is a 501(c)(6) trade association representing the interests television producers, film producers and emerging media producers in the United States.

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Sagan Lewis

Susan Jane Lewis (November 30, 1952 – August 7, 2016) was an American actress, best known for co-starring as Dr.

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Scott Frank

A. Tom Fontana and Scott Frank are Edgar Award winners and writers Guild of America Award winners.

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Shea's 710 Theatre

The Shea's 710 Theatre (originally known as the Studio Arena Theatre) is a theatre in Buffalo, New York.

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Shot in the Heart

Shot in the Heart is a 1994 memoir written by Mikal Gilmore, then a senior contributing editor at Rolling Stone, about his tumultuous childhood in a dysfunctional family, and his brother Gary Gilmore's eventual execution by firing squad in 1977 for a murder he committed at a motel in Provo, Utah.

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Showtime (TV network)

Showtime, also known as Paramount+ with Showtime (with "Showtime" being the former name of its main channel from 1976 to 2024, but still used for certain marketing and channel branding contexts), is an American premium television network and the flagship property of Showtime Networks, a sub-division of the Paramount Media Networks division of Paramount Global.

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Sidney Lumet

Sidney Arthur Lumet (June 25, 1924 – April 9, 2011) was an American film director. Tom Fontana and Sidney Lumet are screenwriters from New York (state).

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St. Elsewhere

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Strip Search (film)

Strip Search is a drama film made for the HBO network, first aired on April 27, 2004.

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Tattingers

Tattingers (later Tattinger's) is an American comedy-drama television series that aired by the NBC television network from October 26, 1988, to April 26, 1989, as part of its 1988 fall lineup.

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The Beat (TV series)

The Beat is an American drama television series which was produced by Viacom Productions.

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The Fourth Wise Man

The Fourth Wise Man is a 1985 American television film directed by Michael Ray Rhodes and starring Martin Sheen, Eileen Brennan and Alan Arkin.

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The Interviews: An Oral History of Television

The Interviews: An Oral History of Television (formerly titled the Archive of American Television) is a project of the nonprofit Academy of Television Arts & Sciences Foundation in North Hollywood, Los Angeles, that records interviews with notable people from all aspects of the television industry.

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[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tom_Fontana

Also known as Fontana, Tom.

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