theOscarSite Bio: Nancy Oliver studied literature at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst and holds a graduate degree in acting and directing from Florida State University (Tallahassee) where she met Alan Ball, with whom she co-founded the General Nonsense Theater Company. Oliver spent most of her career writing and directing theater in Florida while working day jobs to pay the bills. When the company she was working for relocated to Los Angeles in 1997, she followed. Not much later she accepted a job as a script reader for Ball, joining HBO's acclaimed drama "Six Feet Under". As a writer and co-producer for three seasons on the show, she contributed five episodes including the fourth season finale "Untitled" and the fifth and final season's "Ecotone."

LARS AND THE REAL GIRL (2007), written in a nine-month flurry in 2002, is her first screenplay. The following year, after she had joined the "Six Feet Under" staff, her agent asked if she had any projects to shop around. Not much later, LARS was ranked No. 3 on the 2005 edition of The Black List, a compilation of the Top 90 most-liked unproduced scripts in Hollywood.

· Achievement in Writing - Original Screenplay 2007: LARS AND THE REAL GIRL