Joel Cohen (writer)

This article is about comedy film screenwriter. For Joel Coen, see Coen brothers. For the writer for The Simpsons, see Joel H. Cohen. For other people, see Joel Cohen (disambiguation).

Joel Cohen (born August 23, 1963) is an American screenwriter who has worked on projects such as the movies Cheaper by the Dozen, Toy Story,^[1] Money Talks^[2] and Garfield: The Movie.^[3] He frequently works with his writing partner Alec Sokolow.^[4]

Joel Cohen
Born	Joel Cohen (1963-08-23) August 23, 1963 (age 61) Manhattan, New York, U.S.
Alma mater	State University of New York
Occupation	Screenwriter
Years active	1983–present

Along with Joss Whedon, Andrew Stanton, John Lasseter, Pete Docter, Joe Ranft, and Sokolow, Cohen was nominated in 1996 for the Academy Award for Best Writing (Original Screenplay) for his work on Toy Story.^[5] Beyond writing, Cohen and Sokolow jointly directed Monster Mash: The Movie (1995) and executively produced Gnomes and Trolls: The Secret Chamber (2008).

Selected writing credits

Films

• Hot Money (1983)
• Sister, Sister (1987)
• Pass the Ammo (1988)
• Toy Story (1995)
• Monster Mash: The Movie (1995)
• Money Talks (1997)
• Goodbye Lover (1998)
• Cheaper by the Dozen (2003)
• Garfield: The Movie (2004)
• Garfield: A Tail of Two Kitties (2006)
• Evan Almighty (2007)
• Daddy Day Camp (2007)
• Gnomes and Trolls: The Secret Chamber (2008)
• The Inseparables (2023)

Video games

• Freaky Flyers (2003)
• Skylanders: Spyro's Adventure (2011)