Matt Charman is a British screenwriter, playwright, and producer. He was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Original Screenplay for his 2015 film Bridge of Spies, directed by Steven Spielberg and co-written with Joel and Ethan Coen. Charman started out writing for theatre, making his breakthrough as writer-in-residence at London’s National Theatre, where then director Nicholas Hytner described Charman as having "a priceless nose for a story." He recently wrote the pilot episode of Oasis, a sci-fi drama for Amazon Video adapting Michel Faber's The Book of Strange New Things, and is working on a second movie for Steven Spielberg's Amblin Partners, based on Walter Cronkite’s 1968 visit to Vietnam.