Alec Sokolow

Alec Sokolow
OccupationScreenwriter
RelativesSam Sokolow (brother)
Writing career
Years active1992–present
Notable worksToy Story
Cheaper by the Dozen
Evan Almighty

Alec Sokolow is an American screenwriter, filmmaker, producer, and educator. He is best known as one of the screenwriters of the animated feature Toy Story (1995), for which he and his co-writers were nominated for the Academy Award for Best Original Screenplay. He has also written or co-written Money Talks[1], Goodbye Lover, Cheaper by the Dozen[2], Garfield: The Movie[3], Garfield: A Tail of Two Kitties, Evan Almighty, and The Inseparables.[4] He frequently works with writing partner Joel Cohen.

Career

In 1995, Sokolow was among the screenwriters of Toy Story, directed by John Lasseter and produced by Pixar. The screenplay was credited to Sokolow, Cohen, Andrew Stanton, and Joss Whedon, with story contributions from Lasseter, Pete Docter, Stanton, and Joe Ranft. The film became the first feature-length computer-animated film and received a nomination for the Academy Award for Best Original Screenplay, making it the first animated film to receive an Academy Award nomination in a writing category.[5][6]

Sokolow and Cohen subsequently worked together on Money Talks (1997), Goodbye Lover (1998), Cheaper by the Dozen (2003), Garfield: The Movie (2004), Garfield: A Tail of Two Kitties (2006), and other projects. Their collaboration on Garfield was discussed in a 2015 interview with Script Magazine, in which the two writers described their approach to writing the film and their broader screenwriting partnership.[7]

In 2009, The Hollywood Reporter reported that Sokolow and Cohen had sold an original animated screenplay titled Q to Starz Media Animation. The project was inspired by Don Quixote and centered on marionettes in Central Park who leave their theater for an adventure.[8]

Sokolow and Cohen later developed the story that became the animated feature The Inseparables (Les Inséparables). The 2023 film, directed by Jérémie Degruson, credits Cohen and Sokolow with the story and writing of the original screenplay. Degruson said in a 2023 interview that the original script had been written by Cohen and Sokolow and was more closely connected to the Don Quixote source material.[9]

Selected writing credits

Movies

Video games

References

  1. ↑ Klady, Leonard (August 15, 1997). "Money Talks". Variety. Retrieved August 29, 2026.
  2. ↑ Holden, Steve (December 25, 2003). "Cheaper by the Dozen – Mining the Sanitized …". The New York Times. Retrieved May 7, 2009.
  3. ↑ Scott, A. O. (June 11, 2004). "A Cat From the Comics, Full of Lasagna". The New York Times. Retrieved May 7, 2009.
  4. ↑ "Toy Story 10th Anniversary Edition - WDSHE". Archived from the original on February 1, 2009. Retrieved December 10, 2011.
  5. ↑ "Academy Awards database". Retrieved December 9, 2011.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: deprecated archival service (link)
  6. ↑ Magazine, Script (September 3, 2015). "INTERVIEW: Alec Sokolow & Joel Cohen Creators of Toy Story & Writers of Garfield Part 2". Script Magazine. Retrieved August 29, 2026.
  7. ↑ Magazine, Script (August 27, 2015). "INTERVIEW: Alec Sokolow & Joel Cohen Creators of Toy Story & Writers of Garfield Part 1". Script Magazine. Retrieved August 29, 2026.
  8. ↑ Fernandez, Jay A. (May 4, 2009). "Scribe team's deal right on 'Q'". The Hollywood Reporter. Retrieved August 29, 2026.
  9. ↑ "Interview de Jérémie Degruson – nWAVE – Les Inséparables". cinergie.


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