Carolyn Ann "Callie" Khouri (born November 27, 1957) is an American
film and television screenwriter, producer, and director. In 1992 she
won the
Academy Award

Academy Award for Best Screenplay Written Directly for the
Screen for the film Thelma & Louise, which was controversial upon
its release, but which subsequently became a classic. It was inducted
into the Library of Congress National Film Registry in December 2016.
Khouri's most recent movie, Mad Money, was released in 2008. On
October 10, 2012, Khouri's television series, Nashville, premiered on
ABC. The critics awarded it strong reviews. In 2016, Nashville moved
to CMT.
Contents
1 Biography
2 Career
2.1 Thelma and Louise
2.2 Subsequent work
3 Teaching
4 Advocacy
4.1 National Women’s History Museum
5 Filmography
6 Awards and nominations
7 References
8 External links
Biography[edit]
Carolyn Ann (Callie) Khouri was born in San Antonio, Texas, but was
brought up in Kentucky.[2] Her family name is of Christian Lebanese
origin, meaning priest in the Arabic language. Khouri's interest in
theatre arts began when she took part in high school plays. Following
her graduation from St Mary's High School in Paducah, Kentucky, she
studied landscape architecture at
Purdue University

Purdue University before changing
her major to drama. Khouri dropped out of Purdue and moved to Los
Angeles, California where she waited tables [3] and studied at the Lee
Strasberg Theatre and Film Institute and with acting teacher, Peggy
Feury. She soon realized that being an actress was not her destiny: "I
can't stand people looking at me," says Khouri.[4][5]
In 1985, she took her first step toward “film production by pursuing
a position as a commercial and music video production assistant.”[6]
From 1996 to 1998, and from 2000 to 2002, Khouri served on the Writers
Guild of America board of directors; she sat on the board of trustees
of the Writer’s Guild Foundation from 2001 to 2004.[7] She was a
member of Hollywood Women's Political Committee, Fairness and Accuracy
in Reporting Women's Media Watch Project.[8]
On June 2, 1990, she married David Weaver Warfield, a writer and a
producer. She later divorced him, and married musician T Bone Burnett
in 2009.[8]
Career[edit]
Khouri is a screenwriter, director, producer, feminist, lecturer, and
author of non-fiction. She also worked as an actress, lecturer, and
waiter in Nashville. While working for a company that made commercials
and music videos, she began writing Thelma & Louise, her first
produced screenplay. Thelma & Louise won Khouri the Academy Award
for Best Original Screenplay,[9][10] a Golden Globe Award, and a PEN
Literary Award, as well as the
London Film Critics Circle Award for
Film of the Year and a nomination for
Best Original Screenplay

Best Original Screenplay from
the British Academy of Film and Television Arts.[11] According to an
interview done by David Konow, a scholarly author and journalist,
Callie Khouri

Callie Khouri mentioned her experience filming her first major film,
Thelma & Louise. “While I was writing Thelma and Louise, it was
the most fun I had ever had in my life, bar none,” she says. “It
was such a pure experience. There was no self-censorship there, there
was no second guessing. From a creative standpoint, it was the freest
I had ever been in my life. I loved every moment I got to spend time
with those characters. Nothing came close to it, including winning all
the awards and everything else. As much fun as all that was, it
wasn’t as much fun as sitting alone in a crummy office on Vine at 2
in the morning writing that screenplay.”[12] At the Oscar ceremony
she said, "for everyone who wanted to see a happy ending for 'Thelma
and Louise', for me this is it," brandishing the statue high. After
winning the
Academy Awards

Academy Awards for her best screenplay, she felt motivated
enough to continue on with her career and express "her feelings about
the lack of female directors in Hollywood", not to mention that most
of her career began because of her stand on women's rights.[13][14] In
an interview done by The Huffington Post, she addressed that adult
women "are a market that I feel is underserved in the entertainment
population at large. I don’t see the kind of women represented that
I know or that I’m attracted to. I really want to try to write more
nuanced, less simplistic kind of stuff, and its hard to find a place
to do that."[15]
Thelma and Louise[edit]
“At first I had no desire to write screenplays. I kind of wished I
had because I was reaching the end of my time producing music videos.
I was struggling so hard to figure out what it was that I was supposed
to be doing. I kept thinking I’m supposed to be doing something
creative. I can’t believe I have such a knack for the vernacular and
I don’t have anywhere to apply it."[16] “I felt I had not found my
true path. And then a series of events occurred that led me to the
point where I didn’t have anything to lose if I wrote a
screenplay."[17] She began writing sitcoms with a comedian friend but
was plagued by second thoughts about her work. Khouri was frustrated
and kept "contemplating and meditating" until she got this idea of
"two women going on a crime spree."[18] She felt as if a light bulb
had gone on over her head, making her more interested in the idea.
She originally created the character Louise as a woman living in Texas
who works as a communication secretary, "somebody sitting behind one
of those big desks with a headset on directing people and taking calls
and all that stuff."[19] She imagined that Louise considered herself a
liability as an employee, and that women would never be able to
achieve power. This version of Louise would always remain narrow in
her ambitions. someone "who never realized women could be executives
until she saw one come in the front door."[18]
The character Thelma, on the other hand, was first written as a
character who "had kids and stuff like that, but I realized that she
couldn’t have kids. The idea that Darryl wanted her to wait, because
the kids would be a sacrifice for him financially, fit perfectly. And,
of course, she’s really a child herself. I had to set it up that
way. I love to laugh, and I wanted this to be a movie you were
enjoying and having a good time with because you were watching these
women get their lives. Even though they would lose them, they were
becoming more and more themselves. It was a beautiful experience, a
liberating experience to watch that."[20]
Subsequent work[edit]
Her second film as a writer, the romantic comedy-drama Something to
Talk

Talk About (1995),[21] earned mixed reviews from critics.
In June 2002, Khouri made her directorial debut with her adaptation of
Divine Secrets of the Ya-Ya Sisterhood, which grossed a total of
$73,839,240 worldwide.[22] The film opened at number two in the box
office behind The Sum of All Fears's second weekend.[11][23]
In 2006, Khouri created, wrote and directed the pilot for the legal
television series Hollis & Rae that was produced by Steven
Bochco.[24]
Khouri directed Mad Money in 2008, a crime-caper film starring Diane
Keaton, Queen Latifah, and Katie Holmes.[25]
In 2012 she developed ABC’s country music drama series, Nashville,
starring
Connie Britton

Connie Britton and Hayden Panettiere. Khouri's husband T Bone
Burnett was the show's executive music producer and composer for the
first season. Leaving the show shortly after the first season
production wrapped, Burnett later stated that he was upset with
television executives' treatment of his wife.[26] His assistant and
the managing producer
Buddy Miller

Buddy Miller took over for Burnett in season
two.[27] Nashville received positive reviews from critics, and Khouri
continued on the show without Burnett's involvement.[28]
Teaching[edit]
Khouri works as a part-time lecturer of theatre arts. She has taught a
master class on film-making at the
Athena Film Festival

Athena Film Festival at Barnard
College in New York City, as well as a writing and directing course at
the Arts Initiative
Columbia University

Columbia University in New York, featuring Thelma
& Louise.[29][30][31]
Aside from teaching and film-making, Khouri devotes time to feminist
organizations. "Don’t you think talking about it is important,
making the next generation understand that things are still not right
for women?"[32] says Khouri. “I feel like I owe aspiring writers at
least the warning that they are picking maybe the hardest thing there
is to do in the business,” she says. “It doesn’t matter any more
how good you are. In some ways, it never really did. Bad movies get
made as often as good ones, but so few movies get made now, period. If
you write for a studio, you may be one of eight writers, so it’s not
like you can have an artistic vision of your own and achieve it solely
through screenwriting. I was very lucky because Ridley really wanted
to tell Thelma & Louise. He wanted to make the movie I wanted to
make. But often times that’s not the case at all. They think your
script is a good idea and that’s all. So they buy it and then they
hire two or three other people to take a whack at it and it can be a
very disappointing thing."[33]
Advocacy[edit]
According to an interview in Variety[34] Khouri takes an opposing
approach toward guns in social media: "in other countries where they
have violent video games but less access to guns, they have less mass
shootings. I have a really hard time saying, if there were no violent
games, people would stop shooting each other. I think that until they
have no way of shooting each other, they won't stop." says Khouri. "We
have a speed limit. Why can't we have a bullet limit? The idea that we
don't need limits stricter than we have now on guns is absolutely
insane. Because ultimately, people don't kill people — guns kill
people, and people with guns kill people." She also argued that
America has lost its moral compass and that "it's worse than it's its
ever been!" in the matters of gun control. She claimed that there is
no quick route to end gun control because Hollywood actors such as
Sylvester Stallone

Sylvester Stallone "make a fortune from violence. Do you think those
types of movies will stop getting made? I don't," says Khouri.[35]
National Women’s History Museum[edit]
The National Women's History Museum (NWHM) is a non-profit
organization that recognizes powerful women who contribute toward
feminist filmmaking, such as
Callie Khouri

Callie Khouri and Susan Sarandon. It also
receives support, as well as generous donations, from other women such
as Shonda Rhimes, Meryl Streep, and Frances Fisher. On August 23,
2014,
Callie Khouri

Callie Khouri was honored by the National Women’s History
Museum and NWHM Los Angeles Council in "Women Making History Brunch"
at the
Skirball Cultural Center

Skirball Cultural Center in Los Angeles, California, for
winning an Academy Award, Golden Globe, and WGA. “She’s
revolutionary,” said
Geena Davis
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Geena Davis on working with Khouri, who also is
the creator and executive producer of Nashville." “She creates
characters that are in charge of their own fate to the bitter end.
Female characters who are in charge of themselves.”[36]
Filmography[edit]
Year
Title
Credited as
Director
Writer
Producer
1987
Aria
No
No
Yes
1991
Thelma & Louise
No
Yes
Yes
1995
Something to
Talk

Talk About
No
Yes
No
2002
Divine Secrets of the Ya-Ya Sisterhood
Yes
Yes
Yes
2006
Hollis & Rae
Yes
Yes
Yes
2008
Mad Money
Yes
No
No
2012
Nashville
Yes
Yes
Yes
Awards and nominations[edit]
List of awards and nominations
Year
Award
Category
Film
Result
1992
New York Film Critics Circle Award
Best Screenplay
Thelma & Louise
Won
PEN Center USA West Literary Award
Best Screenplay
Won
Chicago Film Critics Association Award
Best Screenplay
Nominated
Writers Guild of America
Best Screenplay
Won
Golden Globe Award
Best Screenplay
Won
BAFTA Award
Best Screenplay
Nominated
Academy Award
Best Original Screenplay
Won
2012
Satellite Award
Best Television Series – Drama
Nashville
Nominated
People's Choice Awards
Favorite New TV Drama
Nominated
Writers Guild of America Award[37]
Best Screenplay – New Series
Nominated
2013
People's Choice Awards
Favorite Network TV Drama
Nominated
Austin Film Festival
Distinguished
Screenwriter

Screenwriter Award[38]
Won
References[edit]
^ The Heartbeat, and the Twang, of a City; New York Times, October 7,
2012; accessed January 23, 2014.
^ Weller, Sheila. "The Ride of a Lifetime: The Making of Thelma &
Louise". Vanity Fair. Retrieved 2016-02-09.
^ "83. Ben Blacker." Fast Company 176 (2013): 138. Interview: Callie
Khouri. Database: Shatford Library - Ebscohost.com Retrieved
2015-04-27.
^ Athena FF:
Callie Khouri

Callie Khouri on the Difference between Women Characters
in Film vs. TV Retrieved 2015-04-27
^ "Callie Khouri,
The New York Times

The New York Times Profile Biography" nytimes.com.
Retrieved 2015-20-04
^ "The Tribute: Callie Khouri,People Biography." Tribute.ca. Retrieved
2015-04-19
^ "
Callie Khouri

Callie Khouri profile at". Filmbug. 2008-05-19. Retrieved
2013-02-12.
^ a b "Database Login Shatford Library at Pasadena City College".
Go.galegroup.com.ezp.pasadena.edu. Retrieved 2013-02-12.
^ Thelma & Louise (1991): box office business
^ Thelma & Louise (1991): awards
^ a b "16th Nashville Annual Screenwriters Conference".
Nashscreen.com. Archived from the original on 2011-11-28. Retrieved
2013-02-12.
^ “I wouldn’t send any impressionable young woman I know to see
Thelma and Louise” CreativeScreenwriting.com Retrieved 2015-04-24.
^ "20th Anniversary Edition:
Callie Khouri

Callie Khouri Looks Back on Thelma &
Louise." Retrieved 2015-04-21
^ JANET MASLINPublished: April 1, 1992 (1992-04-01). "The New York
Times". The New York Times. Retrieved 2013-02-12.
^ Callie Khouri, 'Nashville' Creator, On Taylor Swift, 'Having It All'
& Why TV Beats Film For Women Huffingtonpost.com Retrieved
2015-04-28
^
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Callie Khouri – On Creating Character: Thelma & Louise
SYDField.com-Interview Retrieved 2015-05-02 -
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SYDfield Academy of Screenwriting-Interview Retrieved 2015-05-02.
^
Callie Khouri

Callie Khouri – On Creating Character: Thelma & Louise SYD
Academy of Screenwriting Retrieved 2015-05-02
^ New York Times
^
Divine Secrets of the Ya-Ya Sisterhood

Divine Secrets of the Ya-Ya Sisterhood at Box Office Mojo
^ "Weekend Box Office Results for June 7–9, 2002". Box Office Mojo.
Retrieved 2013-02-12.
^ The New York Times
^ New York Times
^ Willman, Chris (30 October 2013). "
T Bone Burnett

T Bone Burnett on Quitting Wife
Callie Khouri's 'Nashville': It Was a 'Drag-Out Fight'". The Hollywood
Reporter. Retrieved 23 March 2015. Some people were making a drama
about real musicians' lives, and some were making a soap opera, so
there was that confusion. It was a knockdown, bloody, drag-out fight,
every episode.
^ Gold, Adam. "
T Bone Burnett

T Bone Burnett Not Returning to Nashville, Buddy Miller
to Take Over as Show's Music Producer". City Press. Retrieved August
13, 2013.
^ "ABC Gives Drama Pilot Orders To Soaps From Mark Gordon And Callie
Khouri". Retrieved 2012-04-21.
^ Columbia University: 14CU0: AFF Master Class: Writing &
Directing With
Callie Khouri

Callie Khouri Alumniarts.columbia.edu/ Retrieved
2015-04-27
^ "Pop Culture And Feminism: An Interview With Hollywood's Callie
Khouri" Forbes.com Retrieved 2015-04-22
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Master Class Tickets Retrieved 2015-04-26
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Khouri" Forbes.com Retrieved 2015-04-22
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Callie Khouri

Callie Khouri Looks Back on Thelma &
Louise. Retrieved 2015-04-19
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Callie Khouri

Callie Khouri Profile Retrieved 2015-04-30
^ Database Login: "Voices: Callie Khouri." Variety. 429.10 - Shatford
Library Ebscohost.com Retrieved 2015-04-30
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HollywoodReporter.com. Retrieved April 19, 2015
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Deadline.com. Retrieved 2013-02-12.
^ "
Austin Film Festival To Honor Callie Khouri; 2013 Conference Slate
Unveiled". Deadline.com. Retrieved 2013-09-07.
External links[edit]
Callie Khouri

Callie Khouri on IMDb
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Michael Moore (2002)
Sofia Coppola

Sofia Coppola (2003)
Charlie Kaufman
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Charlie Kaufman (2004)
Paul Haggis

Paul Haggis and Bobby Moresco (2005)
Michael Arndt

Michael Arndt (2006)
Diablo Cody

Diablo Cody (2007)
Dustin Lance Black
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Dustin Lance Black (2008)
Mark Boal

Mark Boal (2009)
Christopher Nolan
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Christopher Nolan (2010)
Woody Allen

Woody Allen (2011)
Mark Boal

Mark Boal (2012)
Spike Jonze
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Spike Jonze (2013)
Wes Anderson

Wes Anderson and
Hugo Guinness (2014)
Tom McCarthy and
Josh Singer (2015)
Barry Jenkins
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Barry Jenkins and
Tarell Alvin McCraney
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Tarell Alvin McCraney (2016)
Jordan Peele
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Jordan Peele (2017)
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WorldCat Identities
VIAF: 24737334
LCCN: n93015942
ISNI: 0000 0000 6301 7345
GND: 132753359
SUDOC: 055798373
BNF: cb1306