Alexander Dinelaris Jr. is a screenwriter. He is one of four who won the

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for

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for the 2014 film '' Birdman'' at the

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in 2015. Dinelaris also wrote the book for the Broadway musical '' On Your Feet'' about the life and career of Gloria Estefan. For this, he was nominated for the Outer Critics Circle Award for Outstanding Book of a Musical. In 2019, he formed his New York-based production company Lexicon and announced that its first feature film will be an adaptation of the Broadway musical '' Jekyll & Hyde'', which Dinelaris will adapt into a screenplay and produce. That same year, he filmed the short film ''In This, Our Time'', which he wrote and directed.
The first workshop of

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's Spiral Bound was conducted by Alexander Dinelaris Jr In February 8, 2023 it was announced that Alexander Dinelaris Jr is working with

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to co-write a new film title ''

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* Living people Best Original Screenplay Academy Award winners American male screenwriters Place of birth missing (living people) Best Screenplay AACTA International Award winners 1968 births {{US-screen-writer-stub