Melissa Mathison

  • NewsRyan Leston

    The BFG: Steven Spielberg pays tribute to late screenwriter Melissa Mathison (exclusive)

    Steven Spielberg makes a touching tribute to ‘The BFG’ writer, Melissa Mathison. Screenwriter Melissa Mathison was renowned for writing one of Spielberg’s finest works - ‘E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial’. Over thirty years later, Mathison returned to collaborate with the legendary filmmaker on ‘The BFG’ - the final feature film before her death in 2015.

  • NewsBen Arnold

    Melissa Mathison, Writer of E.T., Dies At 65

    Hollywood screenwriter Melissa Mathison, who penned the Oscar-nominated script for Steven Spielberg’s ‘E.T. The Extra-Terrestrial’, has died at the age of 65. She died yesterday at the UCLA Medical Center in Los Angeles from neuroendocrine cancer, her brother Dirk Mathison confirmed. In a statement, Spielberg said: “Melissa had a heart that shined with generosity and love and burned as bright as the heart she gave E.T.” Mathison’s first credit was for writing the 1979 family adventure, 'The Bl