Larry Karaszewski: the hometown screenwriter with two Emmys

1961 –

Larry Karaszewski (born 1961): born in South Bend on 20 November 1961 and raised here — his professional biographies, from the Writers Guild Foundation to FX Networks, state both halves of the tie in those words. The raising was a working apprenticeship in this city's own media: while still a local teenager he was writing and directing Beyond Our Control, the satirical weekly on WNDU whose whole record stands in the Producers section, and he worked as a film critic for an NBC affiliate's nightly news in South Bend. At the University of Southern California's film school he roomed with Scott Alexander, and the roommates became the screenwriting team behind a shelf of offbeat true stories: Ed Wood (1994), The People vs. Larry Flynt (1996), Man on the Moon (1999), Big Eyes (2014), and Dolemite Is My Name (2019) — the shelf itself stands whole in the Authors section.

The honors: The People vs. Larry Flynt won Alexander and Karaszewski the Golden Globe for best screenplay in 1997. A decade on, the pair created The People v. O.J. Simpson: American Crime Story (2016), and the Television Academy's own awards record credits Karaszewski with two Emmy Awards — as executive producer of the season that won Outstanding Limited Series, with a writing nomination for its premiere episode besides, and a further nomination as executive producer of The Assassination of Gianni Versace (2018) — and with a second Golden Globe as one of the Simpson season's producers. By 2019 the Writers Guild Foundation's biography lists him as a vice president of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences; he has also served as a governor of its Writers Branch. A living person; the entry states the public record.

Sources:

1. Television Academy (televisionacademy.com), awards record for Larry Karaszewski — three nominations and two Emmy Awards: Outstanding Limited Series, 2016 (executive producer, The People v. O.J. Simpson); the 2016 writing nomination; the 2018 limited-series nomination (The Assassination of Gianni Versace).
2. Writers Guild Foundation (2019) — "born and raised in South Bend, Indiana," the NBC-affiliate film-critic work, Beyond Our Control, the Golden Globes for Larry Flynt and the Simpson season, the Academy vice presidency.
3. Contemporary Authors record, via encyclopedia.com — the South Bend television work, the 1997 Golden Globe and Writers Guild honors for The People vs. Larry Flynt.
4. Authors section and Producers section of this history (banked) — the screenplay shelf whole, and Beyond Our Control whole.