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He stayed in Los Angeles for three years till he got his chance to work for the first television job. His father helped him a lot by providing him with the money that Paul Haggis required.The first television work where Paul Haggis took his prominent part were the series like Walker, Texas Ranger, Due South, Family Law and the most famous EZ Streets. Paul Haggis won an Emmy Award for his scriptwriting in for the television show titled as Thirty Something. This happened in the year 1989 and then he also worked for the 13 episode of the crime thriller The Black Donnellys. Apart from his successful works in television Paul Haggis started working for films and the first movie on which he worked as a filmmaker was Red Hot, which had its release in the year 1993. In the year 2004 Paul Haggis worked as a film writer in the Hollywood classic Million Dollar Baby.
This movie won four Oscars and the categories included the Best Picture. His next venture was the film titled as Crash which released in the year 2004 and the most important feature is that Paul Haggis worked as a producer in this movie as well as writing the script. The film was released at Toronto Film Festival and it proved to be a critically highly acclaimed movie. Crash was a film that also got the nomination in six categories that included Best Picture, Best Direction, and Best Original Screenplay. Although he lost the prize for Best Direction to Ang Lee for the movie Broke Back Mountain, the number of Academy Awards won by him is two.
Paul Haggis took the part of a filmmaker in the movie Honeymoon with Harry and this was his third venture in Hollywood. The film released in the year 2006 and Paul Haggis was already a celebrity throughout the world. Paul Haggis revised the screenplay for the classic James Bond film titled as Casino Royal in the year 2006. Now Paul Haggis has indicated that he is interested to do the screen playing for the follow up movie with a predetermined title Bond 22. Paul Haggis another Academy Award for the screen writing for the movie Letters from Iwo Jima. Now Paul Haggis is busy with his next projects. Filmmakers from all round the world respect him for his excellent talent that has produced some of the evergreen movies in Hollywood.
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