Richard Chapman, lecturer in screenwriting in Washington University’s Film & Media Studies Program in Arts & Sciences, has been nominated for a 2003 Emmy Award for the HBO original film Live From Baghdad.
Chapman — along with co-writers Robert Weiner, John Patrick Shanley and Timothy J. Sexton — was nominated for Outstanding Writing for a Miniseries, Movie or a Dramatic Special. In all, Live From Baghdad garnered ten nominations, including Outstanding Made for Television Movie and Best Lead Actress in a Miniseries or a Movie, for Helena Bonham Carter.
The critically acclaimed film, which previously received three Golden Globe nominations, is based on Weiner’s memoir Live from Baghdad: Making Journalism History Behind the Lines. It tells the behind-the-scenes story of how, during the Persian Gulf War, a small team from CNN — led by Weiner and fellow producer Ingrid Formanek (Bonham Carter) – continued reporting live from the Iraqi capital even as hostilities broke out around them.
The 55th Annual Prime Time Emmy Awards, sponsored by the Academy of Television Arts & Sciences, will be telecast on FOX from Los Angeles’ Shrine Auditorium beginning at 7 p.m. Sunday, Sept 21.
Chapman is a veteran screenwriter and producer in film and television with particular interest in the ways journalists report on war. He is currently producing Shooting the Messengers, a feature-length documentary about how war correspondents covered the conflict in Vietnam.