Naomi Foner Gyllenhaal
Naomi Foner Gyllenhaal (née Achs; born March 4, 1946) is an American screenwriter and director.Foner was born in Brooklyn, New York City, the daughter of doctors Ruth (née Silbowitz; 1920–1968) and Samuel Achs (1919–2014).[11][12][13] She attended Barnard College in New York City, graduating with a BA degree in English.She has written the screenplays for several feature films, including Running on Empty (for which she received an Academy Award nomination for Best Original Screenplay and won a Golden Globe Award for the same category), Losing Isaiah, and Bee Season.She collaborated on a script for an American-Chinese co-production titled Moon Flower of Flying Tigers,[14] which was to be co-produced by Ann An and Paula Wagner[15] and based upon the book by Gao Demin.