Jay Cocks

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Biography

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Jay Cocks (born January 12, 1944) is a film critic and motion picture screenwriter.

He is a graduate of Kenyon College. He was a critic for Time, Newsweek, and Rolling Stone, among other magazines, before moving into film writing.

As a screenwriter, he worked on Martin Scorsese's The Age of Innocence and Gangs of New York -- a screenplay he started working on in 1976 -- as well as Kathryn Bigelow's Strange Days. Cocks also performed an uncredited rewrite of James Cameron's screenplay for Titanic.

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Timeline

2024Aged 80

  • Poster for A Complete Unknown

    Screenplay

2017Aged 73

  • Poster for Martin Scorsese's Journey Into Silence

    Self

2016Aged 72

  • Poster for Silence

    Screenplay

2008Aged 64

  • Poster for The Craft of Dirty Harry

    Self

  • Poster for The Business End: Violence in Cinema

    Self

  • Poster for The Long Shadow of Dirty Harry

    Self

  • Poster for A Moral Right: The Politics of Dirty Harry

    Self

2007Aged 63

  • Poster for Standing on the Shoulders of Kubrick: The Legacy of 2001

    Self

  • Poster for Full Metal Jacket: Between Good and Evil

    Self

2004Aged 60

  • Poster for De-Lovely

    Writer

2002Aged 58

  • Poster for Gangs of New York

    Story

1995Aged 51

  • Poster for Strange Days

    Screenplay

1993Aged 49

  • Poster for Innocence and Experience: The Making of 'The Age of Innocence'

    Self

  • Poster for The Age of Innocence

    Screenplay

1990Aged 46

  • Poster for Martin Scorsese Directs

    Self

  • Poster for The Scorsese Machine

    Self

  • Poster for Made in Milan

    Writer

1988Aged 44

  • Poster for Movies Are My Life

    Self

  • Poster for The Last Temptation of Christ

    Additional Writing

1970Aged 26

  • Poster for Street Scenes 1970

    Self