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- Jim Taylor, Academy Award and Golden Globe-winning screenwriter, has signed with Paradigm for representation.
- Taylor and Alexander Payne won the Academy Award for Best Adapted Screenplay for Sideways (2004, based on Rex Pickett's novel) and earned an Oscar nomination for Election (1999).
- Taylor and Payne won the Golden Globe for Best Screenplay for About Schmidt, whose stars Jack Nicholson and Kathy Bates both received Oscar nominations.
- Taylor produced Payne's The Descendants (2011), starring George Clooney, which earned five Oscar nominations and two Golden Globe wins.
- Taylor and Payne are currently adapting Tom Perrotta's 2022 novel Tracy Flick Can't Win as an Election sequel for Paramount, with Hello Sunshine and Bona Fide producing.
- Taylor also co-adapted Nick Hornby's Juliet, Naked into the 2018 film with his wife, Oscar-nominated filmmaker Tamara Jenkins.
- Taylor continues to be represented by Untitled Entertainment and attorney John Diemer at Goodman, Genow, Schenkman.
Why it matters: Paradigm now represents the writer behind four of Alexander Payne's most acclaimed films — including the Oscar-winning Sideways — giving the agency a stake in the currently in-development Tracy Flick Can't Win sequel for Paramount, one of the few confirmed continuations of a Best Picture-nominated comedy in recent years.
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